truth wears pants.

I oftentimes only like to write when I have something personally profound to write about, or incredibly witty to say. The problem is that when I go back and read these posts it turns out that I pretty much suck and am "behind the curve" to say the least. So I will just write what I have born witness to in the past few days/weeks.

1. Hard times happen...no one is spared.
I have had a few people I know go through some tough stuff recently and it really makes no sense at all. These same people, some of whom have been pillars of faith in my life have had a struggle with God in these events. Solid faith can still be shaken. Our worlds can independently be turned upside down at any moment and I the only thing that I can say about it is that it sucks. It may seem typical or contrived, but God remains the same through it all. It is hard to realize during the bad, but God loves everyone. It would be quite cruel for Him to allow bad things to happen to non-Christians and good things to happen to the Ubber-faithful. Perhaps He is allowing these things to happen so that His children can have the experience, wisdom and love necessary to reach out to the needing world who, in their lack of faith, would find no hope in such similar situations. Bad things suck. There is no getting around it, but it is life.

2. Change is scary, exciting and necessary. One thing that I must say is that when you have geared yourself up to change, planned the transition and have finally broken that apathetic cycle that oftentimes countermands the necessary change, it can take forever. I am on the edge of pretty dramatic changes and am getting really restless. It has gone from, "Okay, in a few months this will happen." to "Any day now the news will come and all will be well." to every moment that passes seems to be a little more of a let down. Nonetheless it is an exciting time and one that I hope will lead to a freedom that I have not felt in a while. Exciting.

3. Americans need to get it together. I was thinking about this push that some political analyst tv guy has out right now for people to be as patriotic as they were on September 12, 2001. What is wrong with Americans. Can we really not get behind our country and stay there unless something bad happens. Lazy.

4. Christians need to dial down the patriotism and focus on the universal family of God. I have more on that but don't want to get into it. Just think about it.

5. This is where we get a little more heavy in topics....Football season rocks. A few years back I had a dicussion with my brother about my excitement over football season increasing as I got older. We both have a similar experience. Whether it is the only way to vicariously live out adventure, or simply just a good time, I am seemingly doubly excited yet again this year. Also, the Steelers are going to rock it this year so I am stoked.

6. It seems my office gets worse every day I go to sit in it. On top of it being a tiny little space with no outside windows, it seems my lights like to phase bright to dim ever so slightly. It makes me feel tired and dizzy all at once. I feel like I am in a trippy mid-seventies sci-fi movie in whcih the special effects are limited to harsh lighting and strobe-like effects. To top office the office love experience, there is no air conditioning vent. Rgardless of how cool it is outside, a human being in a tiny space will make the temperature rise incredibly. I would open my door, but the lobby is right outside and there is a constant stream of people distracting me there. To make that situation worse, the couch in the lobby is right outside the door and people sit there and stare at me when the door is open...epic fail on all accounts.

That is all. Like I said not too much substance, but there it is.

Later.