Sunday, July 30, 2006

Church

I missed church today. I don't care much for church. Never have. It's a strange organization. I have known some of my closest friends there. And I have known some of the smallest minds there. (Not the same people!)
I have thought a lot about my distaste for the organization called "church". I haven't come up with any good way to handle it. The church I attend does not push me to get involved. That is good. If they did it would probably be counter productive...whatever.
Funny, I think of God everyday and pray though the Lord's Prayer (paraphrase). But church? No.
So am I the same as them?

Are we the same?

How is a rainforest headhunter the same as...them...us...you. He loves his mother. He gets lonely. She is happy and laughs with others. She has weird thoughts...where he thinks "how could I have deamed that up?" We all hope for the future and think about an afterlife. We all like sex. We are that same...connected.

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Same as Them

Same as Them

My teenagers are home from camp. They had fun. The oldest is sick 102 fever. Bummer.

Same as Them

Same as Them

Same as them...or you...whatever
Have you wondered what we have in common? Not just Americans, or 21st century persons. What do you or I have in common with say, a midevil king; or what does an American have in common with a desert nomad? The answer is we are very much the same...as them. Fears, love, weirdness, hope. We are the same.
Have you ever sat down with people and gotten brutally honest? It's amazing how much of our crazy traits and habits, that may not even be visilble are common to everyone....So you and I are the same as them...the deset nomads, the celebrities, kings, servants...the same.

Friday, July 28, 2006

Camp

My older kids are at camp so I am getting to spend extra time with the youngest. He is so into that. I had no idea. I'll keep up the one on one time with him. He is a lot of fun.

The older kids are teenagers and too cool to hang out with me. This is not suprising. I am not that cool. I love them, and I know they love me. I do still get them to have dinner with the family and sit around and talk a few times a week. That is all I expect.

Their distance hurts their mom though.

I really pray they can live in a peaceful world.
Guess I need to pray harder.

Initializing....

Hello. About me. I am the same as them, or you, whatever you like.
Remember that.