I thought about starting this thread as an opportunity once and only once a year for us to sound off and respond to whatever we want on the day of our remembrance of birth. What better day for me to start:
Happy Birthday to Me.
It seems to me that the past year has been a year of treading water. I began the year by making promises to myself regarding how I should live and what I should be doing. I begin this year with the realization that while I have cut some habits out of my life, I am much the same as one year ago. My apartment is a complete mess, I spend alot of money constantly eating out, I procrastinate with my projects at work, I try to do as little as possible to get by with success, I don’t get up early and read God’s word every day, I lust after women.
And yet, while it seems like I am a complete mess, I believe that God, who began something good in me, however small it seems, will be faithful to bring it to completion while I am on this journey of being and trying to be His new creation.
I have much to be thankful for: unbelievable recognition and success at work, a loving family, a faithful God, and in the context of this discussion group, I am particularly thankful for my friends. None of them are quite so close as I would have them be. Friends at the church where I grew up in Arizona, friends at my church here in San Francisco which I am recently getting to know and those from all the churches in between, friends from the construction industry, friends from college, friends I made in Peru, and lastly friends from CINO.
This last group brings a smile because some I have spent time with in person arguing over politics or theology or music, others I have never met nor will I ever, but it brings some sense of connectedness across the continent as work takes me from city to city from month to month. It is a small sense of ongoing community.
So I thank God today, after a quarter century of trying at life, for something as simple as a website, an imaginary place that brings us together to talk about how to bring His kingdom here and every day take out a little bit of the “not yet.”
Dave
Oct 01 2003
04:50 pm
I thought about starting this thread as an opportunity once and only once a year for us to sound off and respond to whatever we want on the day of our remembrance of birth. What better day for me to start:
Happy Birthday to Me.
It seems to me that the past year has been a year of treading water. I began the year by making promises to myself regarding how I should live and what I should be doing. I begin this year with the realization that while I have cut some habits out of my life, I am much the same as one year ago. My apartment is a complete mess, I spend alot of money constantly eating out, I procrastinate with my projects at work, I try to do as little as possible to get by with success, I don’t get up early and read God’s word every day, I lust after women.
And yet, while it seems like I am a complete mess, I believe that God, who began something good in me, however small it seems, will be faithful to bring it to completion while I am on this journey of being and trying to be His new creation.
I have much to be thankful for: unbelievable recognition and success at work, a loving family, a faithful God, and in the context of this discussion group, I am particularly thankful for my friends. None of them are quite so close as I would have them be. Friends at the church where I grew up in Arizona, friends at my church here in San Francisco which I am recently getting to know and those from all the churches in between, friends from the construction industry, friends from college, friends I made in Peru, and lastly friends from CINO.
This last group brings a smile because some I have spent time with in person arguing over politics or theology or music, others I have never met nor will I ever, but it brings some sense of connectedness across the continent as work takes me from city to city from month to month. It is a small sense of ongoing community.
So I thank God today, after a quarter century of trying at life, for something as simple as a website, an imaginary place that brings us together to talk about how to bring His kingdom here and every day take out a little bit of the “not yet.”