Garfeild minus garfeild

I have been reading the comics of Garfield, but without Garfield in them. Someone took out Garfield and left only John. The results are hilarious!

Here is a taste. Here is the link
HT: Marko

Quote of the Day:

"There are two ways of being a prophet. One is to tell the enslaved that they can be free. It is the difficult path of Moses. The second is to tell those who thinkk they are free that they are in fact enslaved. This is the even more difficult path of Jesus."

Richard Rohr: Wild Man to Wise Man, Reflections on Male Spirituality

More to come from this book.

Nice Sign

Seriously, some churches should have their church sign privileges taken away. We should organize a church sign police and hand out fines for this stuff.

HT: crummy church signs

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Bon Fire!

We built a fire pit and burnt our Christmas tree! It was amazing, and I am so proud of the way this turned out. A big thank you to Tom and Lance for helping me dig and gather rocks. Us guys had a bon fire and the gals went good will shopping, then we ate greasy hamburgers and chips. It was a blast!

Amazing Article

My friend Lance sent this article to me. It is about a girl who was allegedly raped, and having no one to turn to, she posted a video on youtube to find someone to listen to her and help her.

My friend Pam is an adult leader in our ministry and a Jr. High teacher in the public school system. She and our adult leaders are the greatest asset our ministry has. She met a gal who went through some hard times and they happened to share the same birthday so Pam would always wish her a happy birthday and give her something to let her know that she was special and loved. Fast forward a few years, and tat gal is going through some hard times again, and she contacted Pam for help. Pam was there to listen and affirm her and love her.

Two stories that show me that the vision of this student ministry, "To connect students to adults who are connected to God" is one that works. We may not get a large number to show up every week, we may not have a fancy light show or videos to show every week, we may not even have a funny engaging teaching time every week, but what we do have, are students who KNOW that they are loved, and can come to any one of our adults in our ministry in a hard time and find some guidance, find some love, find some needed affirmation, to find Christ incarnate in our adults.

There is a parable here somewhere

HT: Zach

I'll let you find the parable here. I got mine.

Parachutes Fail -

A friend of mine showed me this video. I am a total music snob, and I am very picky about what I listen to. I listened to this song multiple times today. It is amazing lyrically and musically.

The Story of Stuff

HT: MarkO

I spent 20 minutes watching this video [click here]. It was worth every second. I highly advise anyone to watch it and then watch it with your kids.

This video takes you into the system we call consumerism, and how it is destroying us and our world. Wow, really eye opening. Watch it, you won't regret it.