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I realize it's about time I update this. So much going on, it's hard to know where to start.

I went to my first business meeting two weeks ago. It was so intimidating. It was something like a chamber of commerce meeting, but there are all these small business owners that get together and have lunch and promote themselves. Having never been to anything like that before, and the fact that the business I'm helping my dad with hasn't even had it's first customer yet, it was really hard to do this. The business is my dad's brain child, so he would've been a better spoke person, but apparently I didn't do so awful bad. My mom was there also, since she is technically the business owner. I half expected to let her do the speaking, but she was extremely nervous, so I took it.

I was asked to write a weeks worth of study guide on the last half of James chapter 4. God has been stretching me so much lately, definitely outside my comfort zone. I started in verse 10 and ran the theme of humility all the way down to the end of the chapter. I came up with this weird metaphor with the one James used using vapor to describe us.

Think of a vapor floating in the wind upwards, but for some reason, that vapor gets the idea that if it continues going up it will dissipate even further, so it must go back down some, or at least sideways. The air keeps prodding it upwards but it fights as though it thinks it knows best.  It gets caught in a down draft, and the thunderstorm dissipates it faster than if it had continued up towards the Sun. If it had continued up, it would have filled the spot it could’ve had in the ozone layer. As it was, it dissipated lower and it will take its broken leftover molecules that much longer to reach the top.

I don't know that the science makes sense, but I tried. :-) It kinda just came to me.

I got another marriage proposal. Haha. Gosh, the weird ones come out of the woodwork for me, I don't know what the deal is. I was kind of mean in my letter in response. I take that back, not in response the first time. First time I just said I didn't think we were actually a match because theologically I am no longer anywhere near him. So good luck on the wife search. Then he wrote back to ask how I felt about the age of the earth, God's sovereignty, predestination and the "church". Then I was mean.  I said, "See, that's just the thing. Things like the age of the earth, God's sovereignty, Predestination, and "church"... I don't care. Who cares about how old the earth is? Does it make a difference in my walk with God, and if it does, WHY?! God's Sovereignty, what does that even mean?! God is God, God is in all and through all things. He IS. Predestination- whatever. God being beyond time, of course he knows all things before they happen. It's like the chicken and the egg question. And the "church"? the church is the body and the body is every christian out there. so what about the church? It's people.

By not normal, I don't mean I have different arrangement of theological boxes that I fit into. I mean, I try to not have boxes, at all.


I have no desire to debate/argue about any of this, I'm just letting you know where I stand."

Too mean? It's honest at least. More than a little sarcastic. Oh well.


There is more to share, but it will have to wait for another time. I have work to do.