High King of Heaven

I was reading today in Celtic Daily Prayer about Jesus being our High King of Heaven. It realy struck me that so many times in my life He is not king, He is just there. I would never say that out loud, even though I just did, but in my actions so many times I show that is how I feel. Today it really frightened me. If He is not my King then why am I serving Him and if He is then I need to serve Him like a King.
Last night I prayed that Jesus would take me out of the season that I am in. It has been a season of disobedience and apathy. I just haven't been taking Him seriously, but I want Him to bless me and help me to feel close to Him all the same. I have been a real hypocrite. Today as I read and prayed "High King of Heaven" I had a brain numbing idea, why don't I make Him my High King instead of just screwing around.
This may seem simple to you, but I usually have to come to this humbling realization at least once a year. It is not that I backslide, it is just that I get lazy. I don't want to be lazy in my faith. God forbid I would just live out this life in a la ti da way and just get through it. I don't want to be legalistic either, I just want to walk with Jesus. How can I expect to walk with Him if I don't take Him seriously? How can I expect to get to know Him and His heart if I don't spend time with Him? And how can I expect to lead anyone else if I am not even letting Jesus lead me?
I know that this is a lot of stuff and I am just ranting a little bit, but someone has to.

Ch Ch Ch Chia Pet Gone Punk Rock

On Christmas Emma got this kid's Chia Pet We were totally excited about it. We were also a bit skeptical, but hopeful. Anyway, so we packed it in the car and drove the 2000 miles from Saskatchewan to Seattle and started our Chia adventure. When we got home we unpacked the car and the Chia Pet. We found the perfect place for it to sit in the house so it would get just the right amount of sun. Then we got our tablespoon and filled it with water and poured in over the Chia pets head. To our dismay nothing happened. After reading the directions we realized that we needed to repeat this process for 10 day's.
After a couple of days we saw some action happening. We were all getting very excited about this new pet in our house that was very low maintenance and slowly growing hair. Today, I looked at the Chia Pet and saw that it's personality was very Punk Rock. I am proud of our accomplishment with the Chia and I am excited for next Christmas when we can do it all over again. For more Chia fun check out this link.

Addicted to myspace

This morning I was reading an article in Relevant Magazine about myspace. It was one guys opinion of the world that myspace has created for many people. In the article he talks about how we have replaced our actual, physical community with a cyber community. How so many people display their biggest secrets and most intimate things to the world via myspace, but many of them, or us do not have an actual live person that we can share with, cry with, laugh with or pray with. I do not feel that this is to condemn myspace, but to help people think about their and our lives a bit and what is missing it them. I am attaching the link here. Have a great day.

Canada Gone Conservative

Today, Monday Jan. 23. 2006 Canada anounced that it has a new Prime Minister. Stephen Harper is Canada's 1st Conservative leader in 12 years. Jesus, I pray for my country. I pray that you would lead Stephen Harper in leading Canada. I pray that he would make decisions based on what is best for the Canadian people, not based on what makes him look good. I pray that he would have a fear of God and not a fear of man. I ask for his family, that you would protect them in this crazy transition. I ask you to help our country be kept in your hands and control. Bring Canada back to you Jesus. I ask you to put Stephen Harper on the hearts of many Canadians so that they can pray for him. Thank you Lord.
-AMEN-
Read more on the CBC

Support?

Recently I have been thinking about my involvement with YWAM and the whole area of raising and receiving support. This is actually a topic that a bunch of my friends and I have been thinking about lately. I have been working with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) for over 11 years now. YWAM requires all it's full time staff to raise their own support, or finances. This has been a blessing and a struggle for the last 11 years. Questions have come up like How much do I raise? Should I always live below the poverty line? Who do I ask for support? Is there another way of finding support besides newsletters, family and friends? It has been an interesting journey to say the least.
I am fully convinced that God has called me to this life, but I am really looking for a way to do it differently. Some of my friends have tried to become self supportive by getting part time/full time jobs, investing, buying bike parts and building bikes or painting pictures and selling them. All these are great ideas and have worked well, but what about the person who God calls to totally depend on Him and not seek outside work?
I feel that for now this is the call of God on my life. To be honest it is hard. In that though, I can tell you that not a day has passed where God has not kept His end of this deal and been our provider. He is faithful and I don't doubt Him for one second. This is not about God keeping His end, it is about me, and all those other people out there who are in the same boat (tug boat or cruise boat, depending on how you look at it) with raising finances. I don't realy have any answers, just wanted to throw it out there to help others think or let others know that they are not alone.

Tonight I got together with some of the bro's and watched our Seahawks dominate the NFC championship game for the 1st time ever. Way to go boy's. We will be hopin for the best when we see you in two weeks in the Motor City for the big game.

Feeling Young

I cut my hair today and trimmed up my beard. What is it about a hair cut that makes you feel and look young and insecure? Maybe it is just me, but I don't think so. It is not as though long hair makes you look old and short hair makes you look young. It seems as thought it is the opposite. All the old people that I know (except Ozzy) have short hair and most people whom I know who have long hair are young (except Ozzy)


Anyway, it has alway's been this weird thing with me ever since I can remember. I hated getting my hair cut because it would totally depress me. Maybe that is why I had a mullet for so long growing up. Well, it is getting better, but today when I got my hair cut I felt young and insecure again. I am so vain, pray for me.