To Borrow a Few Words From "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta"...

Earlier this week I mentioned how I have just felt off lately in terms of my spiritual life, but today things began to click again. Today I felt God answering my prayers. He has been helping me to look beyond the temporary things that I put so much of my stock in and to start seeing all of the great things going on in my life beyond the classroom. My experience has been that I get most down when I have "peep hole vision." I realize that the word "peep" is often associated with lewd shows performed on Bourbon street, but that is not where I am going with this...What I'm trying to say is that when I view the world out of a peep hole I miss 95 percent of what is going on. The 5 percent that I do see is usually extremely temporary circumstances that I make a way bigger deal than I really need to. The 95 percent that I don't see are the people around me and the opportunities that I have to love them in a way that might help them pull their heads out of "peep vision" as well and the chance to point them to the cross.

Following Jesus is backwards, because it is not a checklist, there is no formula and it is totally reversed from anything you have ever heard. By putting all of your energy towards being the hands and feet of Jesus and meeting the needs of others, there is lasting satisfaction that cannot be found within yourself. Frat gear goes out of style (well not really, chino polo shorts and button downs are long lasting, just not eternal), Wranglers rip, houses burn down, GPAs become trivial things of the past, big titles don't go in the coffin with you and even supermodels become old, wrinkly ladies, but Living for the Lord lasts. (pretty sure I jacked that phrase from the song "Damn it feels good to be a gangsta" made popular by the movie "Office Space"...Verse 2 "But this gangtsa here is a smart one Started living for the lord and I last.") Point being that the only things that we can take into eternity with us are the things we do out of our love for Jesus.