Randomness

I’ve been thinking about a few things lately, but don’t feel like I have a good enough handle on them to make a post out of them so I’m just putting some random things up today.

• Will’s with my parents for an overnight stay and it’s quiet this morning.  Michelle’s getting things done off a to-do list (I’m pretty sure that’s therapeutic for her) and I’m doing nothing (I’m absolutely positive that’s therapeutic for me).
• I’m excited and a little nervous for vacation that starts in 5 days.  I’ll sum it up like this: 10 adults, 8 kids (6 age 3 1/2 and under), 2 condos with small living areas, a disproportionate number of type A personalities…..one survivor.  OK, I made that last one up, but if you got a movie trailer voice over reading my previous sentence and some select footage it would be pretty intense.  Nevertheless, I’m really looking forward to it.  I love my family and it’s always great for us to be all together.
• I think the idea of just planting a church is a really small one and I don’t think it’s God-sized.  I’d rather hear about people having a vision for an entire geography or segment of society.  I think we have to start with that end in mind and reverse engineer from there.  That makes way more sense than starting another church.
• I think I’m in denial about how much parenting  two kids will be different than just parenting one.  I’d welcome any advice from those with experience.
• I think it’s hilarious how we even came up with a politically correct term for the swine flu.  After all, pigs are incredibly sensitive and were being offended.  There was even some talk of some legislation being formed to include violent acts against pigs as hate crimes.  Then legislators remembered how good bacon is and it was quickly squashed.  MMMM….bacon.
• I think some wounds never completely heal.
• On that note, I still have a bruise from where I got shot with a paintball from 15 feet away.  It happened over a month ago.  What’s funny is that if  someone asked me to go play right now, I’d go.
• I’ve been on Facebook a lot recently.  I’m totally intrigued by people’s status updates.  Some are profound.  Some are informational.  Some are intentionally funny.  Some are unintentionally funny.  If you’re my friend on Facebook and you’re reading this, keep posting, because I like reading your stuff.  I’ll just leave it up to you to figure out which category yours fits in.
• While we’re on facebook status updates, I find it really interesting that I see a lot of people really excited about “going to church”.  I think it’s great that people are excited about worshipping with other people, but I’m finding that excitement not in proportion to doing other things like: going to work, cooking food, and other everyday things.  I thought all of life was worship.  I’m realizing more and more that we’ve practically separated the sacred from the secular in almost every area of life and nowhere is this more evident than our attitudes about “going to church”.  Hey, I’ve got another post idea!   

Now that I’ve probably offended many of my Facebook friends, I think I’ll quit.