questioning complacency
tonight was the kick-off rally for the student group and man it was stinkin awesome (as turtle would say). the difference between that and church is that they let us turn all the sound up like 10 times as loud during praise and worship so we can get up there and just jam it. paul and charlie and i have been leading worship together at these things for as long as i can remember, and then the rest of the band always changes, between people moving in and people moving out and graduating and whatever. tonight andrew was mixing the sound i think and he had everything so loud in the fullbacks that danielle and i were screaming to hear each other but she was like, this is awesome! actually it was more like, THIS IS AWESOME!... david grotheim and a bunch of people put on this skit that was so funny i was almost crying -- something based around that song about the devil going down to georgia -- and chris flores was the devil and he...man he totally cracks me up. he was all dancing around the stage and junk and everyone was on the floor, they were laughing so hard. anyway i don't know what the skit had to do with the rally but no one else did either so that was ok.so yeah the rally was awesome and there were a bunch of new people there i think, considering the amount of postcards we sent out afterwards to people who were interested. praise goes to God for that because i know there were so many of us who were praying for those new students to come. the meat of the whole thing though, was the stuff my dad shared, about purpose in life. that made me think hard man. i mean my dad's stuff always makes me think but especially that because lately i feel so wasted and empty. often i'm thinking, what the heck am i doing here? and it all comes down to this -- your purpose in life. two things matter: loving God and loving people. what else really counts in the end? i know we all know that but it doesn't hurt to be reminded. when you look around at other christian's lives, a lot of times you see lives that aren't based upon those purposes. and i'm including my own life in that.
it turns everything upside down if you really open your eyes to see when you're looking.