I have been working on the Catalyst conference almost every day for maybe close to 37 1/2 hours per day for the last three weeks. Lots of filming, thinking, writing, memorizing, coming up with ideas, shutting down ideas….emailing, etc. Then i remembered we have our Night for Africa the same night as Catalyst. This was either a brilliant idea or a dumb one. Either way…what a week it will be.
It brought to mind some stuff. A bunch of people sit in a room for many days during many months to talk about ideas. What an important thing to do. THINK. We have been programmed and we often stop learning after college. CANT DO THAT! Thinking and coming up with ideas and seeing other ideas and putting them together with the ideas of people around you….that creates New Stuf. I am just gonna ramble here. To tell you to get together with people and talk about what you think about Sarah Palin, and Barack Obama, and what you would do if you had control of 700 billion dollars. and what did CS Lewis do in his free time. And how did you feel the first time you went to see the blue man group and how does that compare with your church and do you like donald miller any less because he says how he is voting, and is the song Healer any less powerful because the writer was a liar. Talk about what you can do with your kids to help them bond with you more, and go home and talk to your kids and see if they know how you feel about their friends. Do you know their friends names? Why would you like Don Miller less. Are you narrow minded and don’t know it?
Why does inhaled helium make your voice higher…do any of these thoughts make you think other thoughts. Are you a writer or a speaker. Are you stuck. If God created us in his image and he is unfathomably creative, does that not mean that you are too, and someone or some culture just ripped it out of you and you have an empty spot where it used to be and there are ways to fill it back up.
Why do we have the “oooh” sound in these words all spelled differently. To, Too, Two, Glue, Flu, shoe, Bleue, who, jew, coo coo, lieu, you ….that is twelve different ways to make the short “u” sound.
Probably because most of them are from an etymological background evolved from a different culture. Why would the word phonics not be spelled fawniks?
this is just a rant.
I like Don Miller. I like Sarah Palin. I know Don better than Sarah.
Here is the thing to end with. Let’s keep reading. Keep learning. Keep having new ideas. Stay open minded. Remember that we might not be as open as we think. We might be wrong. We can be 50 and change our minds about things. Young people need to hear our thoughts. We might be wiser than we think. Love and truth are always the things that win. You may be great at some things you haven’t even tried yet.
Life is short. 95% of the rest of the world don’t have as much as you do. You can make a difference in the world. Maybe one that no one else can make. You’re not using as much of your brain …or your heart…as you can. When your voice mail doesn’t work and you are frustrated with customer service at At&t because they can’t seem to figure it out….and it’s wasting your time as they try….that is not as big a deal as you not doing anything for the people who are starving or hurting who need hope.
Use your head and your heart and your connections…do something GREAT.
No i am not on some strange drug. now and then i just wanna let my brain free flow. so i did.