The Search for the Job Continues

I have filled out over 25 applications with no job in sight.  People keep asking "What kind of job are you looking for?" For that answer I must refer to the great Lloyd Dobler.

"I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that."

So, I want a career that impacts mankind.  Is that too much to ask?  I mean, am I wanting too much out of something that you do from 8-5?  I guess I am looking for that "dare to be great" situation.

Why is it so difficult for me to figure out what I want to do with my life?  I mean for most people that I talk to it isn't this difficult.

The Conversation

I am one to question things.  I am the type of person that asks "why?"

I sometimes forget that others don't think this way.  I know I can blame it on the "Y Generation", but I know that is not true because my wife doesn't think this way.  Not that she accepts things as they are, but she isn't always questioning the way I do. And there are people like McLaren who are doing this as well and he was born in 1956 (I didn't just know that I looked it up on wikipedia).  So I know that I am not alone in think that questions are as important as the answer.  I recently read in Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell that followers of well known rabbis wouldn't answer the questions give to them, but would reply with a question of their own.  It was a sign that they understood the topic well enough to have a question of their own.

I wonder sometimes if I get caught up in questioning and don't ever have time to just sit and listen.  

Here is my mantra, "The point of the conversation is not to come to a conclusion, but to further the conversation."  Man that is just confusing to type.  But allow me to expand.  I know Christ and I know the message that he brought (at least I think I do), but do I really know the message.  Meaning, I will never understand all the pieces of the puzzle but that doesn't stop me from working on it.  We can't expect to put limits on God when he created the limits that we apply to him. 

This post has turned into rambling but I hope that somewhere you realize that "life is not about where you go, but about the people you meet along the way" Eddie James, skit guys.  This man changed my idea of ministry.

What I have learned being unemployed

Since I have had some time on my hands to watch day time television I tend to watch Dharma and Greg.  Great show.  Allow me to share with you a truly great truth that Dharma has taught me.  Let me setup the scene. Dharma mom just got put into the hospital for some reason (I tuned in late). Dharma somehow stumbles into the chapel and sits down and begins talking to God.  Then George, her spirit guide, shows up and says some meaningful things, just as he is about to leave he asked "Oh by the way, Dharma who were you talking to when before I showed up?"  Dharma replied, "I was trying to talk to the God." Here is the truth that we need to think about. George replies with, "You were talking to the Creator of Everything and you were doing the talking".

Bam!! Think about it.  I am still amazed at the way that God reveals truth.

This World of Hate

I just got done watching Crash and I am stunned.  I can't tell you the last time I saw a film that made me this mad, sad, worried and redeemed all within 2 hours.  Let me explain my emotions.

Mad--  This one is pretty easy.  Seeing the cop treat black women the way that he did made me want to get out of my seat and find a way to do something about it. The way that people can hate someone just because of the color of their skin, is frightening.   That we are more worried about self preservation and climbing the corporate ladder ( what my dad would call "the golden hand cuffs") than doing what is right, what we are called to do.

Sad-- Sad that we live in world with so much hate that, we only make worse by hating.  It makes my soul hurt when I think of raising a child in a place that they have to worry about gun shots coming through the windows at all time of the night.  That we still have avenues for human trafficking.  Not only do we have the ability, but that we still have the desire to buy people.

Worried--  That if we, as a global community, don't see the problem of racism and hate then we can never begin to change. I was pointed to a clip today of woman whose church is actually glad for 9/11, AIDS, and soldiers coming home in coffins.  It opened a new light as to why the world is afraid of the word "church".  I know that this movie and this clip are taking to things to the extreme, but we have to realize that we are part of the problems.  I know that when Don Cheadle walked into his mother's house and picked up the spoon I thought, "bet that is for heroin".  Please make a point to examine what part and role you play in this.

Redeemed--  When Michael Peña told the story of the invisible cloak to his baby girl it made we want to cry.  When she ran out to save her father I did cry.  The love the he showed for her is how we can turn this world around.  This is the type of love that Christ teaches.  When Ludacris does the right thing in the end is how we can turn this world around. Whether or not you agree with a person's opinions or beliefs you have no right to treat him as less than you.  If anything you should learn his beliefs, understand his beliefs and then examine his beliefs for yourself.  Help us set this world back to the way that it was designed.  Help us bring the loving nature and compassionate touch of Christ.

If you haven't seen this movie, buy it!