momentum and blessing

i find, that i am really blessed. friday was great. we had DFC and i showed the movie that Mike showed on Sunday, and i was even late (which meant i had full demand). i came back home around 5 and went running - for like an hour, which is amazing. six or seven miles, and i am pretty sure i got the last half mile totally locked on to something like a six minute pace. more amazing is that the same night, i was getting so much air. like in my jumps. only a couple inches from touching the basketball rim. and i got to go running today as well - like five miles, and it was fun because i went with my friend and it started snowing and we went to Rhema.

i used to be part of a coffeeshop culture. part of a Renaissance Man culture, a runner culture, even a church culture, and all of these other things. mike said once that culture is an enemy of God. now, i want to be..God's. mike was talking about yesterday how his old roommate in college had one desire and that was to plainly do whatever God told him to do - and the byproduct, the result of this, was that absolutely whatever he did, he was super cool, and he ended up with a high GPA and married right out of college. and i kind of want that - kind of like i used to want to be in all these different cultures. but not for the prime product, or the main reason to be helplessly cool. i want God, and for Him to work in me. i think i might be able to tell when i stop caring about being cool and i just keep going on with this single desire to follow God.

ruth called this morning and got me excited cause she said she could totally see me touring with something like ATF nationally to do tech work or being a youth pastor, once i got over the whole shifty eyes thing. (ATF is in Houston this weekend and ruth went last night). that got me excited, that people think i am capable of great things. but you know what God said? the same thing. "I know the plans i have for you. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you." and how He knows the great things He wants you to do - He knows how He wants to work in us, the things He will have us do for His glory. and i think that's cool because not only does He think i am capable of these things, He choses to trust me with them.

and finally - weekend. (though for Billy, that means SAT. i think you did well)