The Best Hey Jude Cover You've Ever Seen

My goodness. This is absolutely insanely cute.

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Hooters

So, I'm on my way to work out this evening and, as I do normally, I'm pondering things as I drive and listen to (as it was THEN) U2. I have a passing thought about the eating establishment known as Hooters, for a functional however morally lacking reason. This is well known. Go to Hooters for "hooters." As I thought of this with my mental hand over my eyes (of course) I remembered that not only do owls "hoot" but that the owl is the disputed mascott of Hooters. THIS IS AN OUTRAGE. I thought over and over in my car "THAT POOR, SEVERELY MISUNDERSTOOD OWL."

Then I realized how rediculous my thought patterns were getting as I arrived at the fitness club.

U2's Famous Joshua Tree has fallen Down [PICS]

The pictures that follow are of the famous tree featured on the sleeve of U2's Joshua Tree album.

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URGENT:Last chance to stop telecom immunity, take action now

Yesterday, the Senate passed a terrible surveillance bill granting immunity to lawbreaking telecoms, putting the House and Senate at the brink of a face-off. Show your support for the House to keep telecom immunity out of the final bill!

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Strike Update: THE OFFICE WILL RETURN!!!

Scroll down the list and you will see that the Office is coming back! Yay for PB&J!

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Cast of Spongebob does old movies

Seriously one of my favorite videos so far this year.

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Obama Talks About Atheism

Obama's speech on atheist and faith may be the most important pronouncement by a Democrat on faith and politics since John F. Kennedy's Houston speech in 1960 declaring his independence from the Vatican. Obama offers the first faith testimony I have heard from any politician that speaks honestly about the uncertainties of belief.

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Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice

Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada found a cheap and easy to produce drug that kills almost all cancers. The drug is dichloroacetate, and since it is already used to treat metabolic disorders, we know it should be no problem to use it for other purposes.

I'm just trying to spread the word.

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Excuse me, have you ever been Whelmed?

Well, after careful scheduling and deliberation I have determined that if not for the Grace of God--by all probability and most likelihood, I am screwed. Got a very busy week coming up. I find myself in a rather overwhelmed state, as I do at least once per school semester. I seem to be in a land of everpresent night, because "it" dawned on me, yet again.

We all have, at some point, been over/underwhelmed. What does the word mean? For my purpose, I chose this definition.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/overwhelm
To cover or bury beneath a mass of something, as floodwaters, debris, or an avalanche; submerge

Let us dig a bit deeper here. The root word, whelm:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/whelmed
To cover with water; submerge.

Well, somehow I am not surprised.

Molded

There is some contstruction work going on around my school. The school decided for some reason that the old lights in the parking lot and on the sidewalks needed to be completely uprooted and replaced. I was walking past one of the areas where a new concrete pedestal was wet and setting within its mold. It was covered in filth and excess concrete and looked so ugly and I thought That's not going to turn out at all. About 40 feet up the sidewalk, I passed by another filthy, concrete-covered mold. This one was different, it was broken and tossed aside from the creation that laid within. It was the concrete base of a light post in pristine condition! Whether this was my own deduction or God speaking to me, (I doubt it as me..) I heard/thought Look what perfect geometry and texture came out of such an ugly mold!

Basically, it dawned on me that we may hate who we are now and disagree with what God is doing with us. But really, we don't see what we're being made into. We just see the mold on the outside and whatever messes goes along with it. When that mold is removed, we can be something beautiful.

Blessings!

Good Dog

As an introductory post, the introduction will be very brief--as will this post--and most other posts. But I hope they can teach you something or make you laugh. Hopefully both.

This weekend I spent some time with the Gateway Worship team. We always have a good time between servicies, laughing together, talking about God and several other things. Praying before service once, Ps. Walker was asking if we had recieved any divine inspiration. Generaly someone to provide a good word, Mr. Ryan Boles provided some theological insight. He explained to us that he had recently been housesitting for an ugly little picanese dog with the classic ugly-dog underbite. One of his analogies escapes me, but the second one struck me as pretty important. He, under some circumstance said he was vacuuming a house with the dog around. The dog was struck with terror from the moment the motor in the vacuum cleaner whirred to its noisy start. Ryan, proceeding to vacuum despite being quite annoyed at the barking animal, thought to himself "Dog, come on, it's just a vacuum. Look at you, you're just a dog afraid of a vacuum." He said that God told him instantly "Ryan, look at you, it's just a vacuum! You are a dog afraid of a silly vacuum!" Sometimes I go through life and fear things that I don't think (and usually, I'm right) I can overcome. We are right! As it was, the dog could not take on the vicious house cleaning monster. But our God is bigger than the vacuum--our problems and can turn them off and stuff them in the closet if we trust in him.

One more thing, Ryan said something to this effect that just warmed my little undeveloped soul: "Ryan, I think it was yesterday that I was looking at you--and you were doing something weird. But at that moment God showed me how much he loves you. He loves you a lot. Like, dang... I was jealous there for a bit." God loves us all the same... so you should feel just as special as I did!

To close, Water Of Life church in Plano is some MESSED UP stuff.