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How Do You Choose a Title When You’re Going to Write About Many Things?
I like to start these things off with something disappointing so that way I have something to work up from. Disappointment du jour: Tonight we were watching “Annie Hall” in my independent film class. I was really enjoying it, getting into it (I thought it was hilarious) and then suddenly the screen was full of artifacts (the picture sucked, in layman’s terms). Class was dismissed early and now I’ve yet to see “Annie Hall” in its entirety. It’s the small injustices that really get to me…
My knee is killing me. Today, for the fifth time in two days, my right knee buckled as I was walking. Inconveniently enough, it happened as I was descending three flights of stairs…had I not been clamped onto the railing, I would have had a much quicker, albeit much more painful trip down the stairs. I shambled my way to class, looking like some mobility-impaired denizen of “Night of the Living Dead”. The crappy thing is that this weekend I’m going on one long mug of a hike and I’m afraid that I’m going to have to be airlifted out. I can see it now:
Paramedic: “So, were you experiencing symptoms before you had the horrific knee blowout while hiking?”
Steve: “Well actually it’s been hurting for a few days…giving out on me on a regular basis.”
Paramedic: “What? And you decided to go on a 15 mile hike? You moron…”
–insert Steve’s muffled whimper as paramedic mercilessly punches him in the kidney–
Sorry…back to reality. I thought it would be wrong to post without mentioning last night’s incredible second preview service. Everything went really well; it started out with great music, Ben’s teaching was spot on (except for that part dissing ASU…watch your back Ben), and even the video from Highway was moving and thought provoking. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want it to be about the outward appearance…everything was great, but I think the real sweetness behind the experience was knowing what kind of people are behind it and knowing that they’re throwing everything they have into serving God. As much as all the new people liked the service (and from what I heard, they did), their excitement will be tenfold when the get to know everyone, get involved, and see that things are as they appear. God’s definitely working and it’s stinkin’ exciting. This week the onecommunities (small groups) start and I’m definitely excited to see how all the energy will filter down into that part of oneplace. As usual, I’ll throw in my two cents after it all goes down…
On the side, I’d like to apologize to everyone at the service last night who I feel I didn’t spend enough time with. A lot of my great friends were there and I feel like I wasn’t with them much. All I can do is offer up my explanation: I just wanted to make sure new people felt welcome and got hooked up. I know how much it sucks to come into church and have no one talk to you. If that happens it’s a terrible thing and certainly I need to do my part to show everyone that people at oneplace care about them and want to know them. So, for everyone I know, I dig you already and I’m always available to you and if it doesn’t look like that at service, it’s because I want to bring others into the circle. Maybe it wasn’t a big deal to anyone, but it was on my mind, so please forgive me.
Peace out…