The whole time I sat watching the taping and work ran about two hours.
They had three places where they had to stop the taping and re-set because of a camera glitch.
So out of that two hours, how long do you think Jim spent pitching the food products and talking about giving to the ministry?
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In 2007 and 2008, I took July 7th and dedicated the day to God. The first year was because I couldn’t come to Nashville for an event called The Call; the second year was because the ministry I had been working with at the time was having everyone take part in it. Well, that ministry’s apparently still doing it so a lot of folks were out on July 7th walking around seeking God.
I didn’t have the opportunity to do something on July 7th due to my wife needing me around all day (the last two years involved us driving from Missouri to Nashville, so I had no chance to walk.) I hadn’t really planned to walk but it kept being placed in front of me over the last few weeks…to the point that my wife actually suggested I go on July 8 after she said she needed me home on July 7.
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I had the honor tonight of driving to Franklin for the CD release party and concert by Eowyn celebrating her new CD “Beautiful Ashes.” I took my camera along in case we were allowed to snap pics…and while I never really had anyone give me “permission” there were other folks doing it and no one arrested us. 
Now, there’s an awesome story behind what happened tonight and I wrote about it on Mustard Seed Year in a post subtitled “Witness to a resurrection.” I hope after you look at these pictures from the show you’ll click over to MSY and read more about Eowyn and what’s so special about “Beautiful Ashes.” READ MORE »
I’m back home in Nashville and honestly…I’m exhausted. So there won’t be many captions to the pictures. As with the previous four entries, if you want to see a larger photo right click and view it in a new tab. All these pictures were taken on my second day in town.
The first set of photos are folks from my home church working on a house that was crushed under trees. READ MORE »
If you haven’t subscribed or visited my other blog, Mustard Seed Year, I have a large post with an update on where I’m at in regarding my job loss and looking forward.
I watch the “reboot” of Hawaii Five-O when I have some time to kill unwinding after work. I’ve been rather impressed with the way the show has been reworked to bring something new out of something that has been long since dormant.
And Scott Caan is just awesome as Dan-o.
But I’m not here to write about a TV show based on an island where I’ll only visit if God somehow moves in mighty ways. The reboot of the show, while good, can’t match God rebooting something. He decided to do that with me. READ MORE »
I know there hasn’t been as much posting here since January 1…that’s because I’ve committed to daily blogging at Mustard Seed Year. Some days..there’s not enough time to post in both places. So make sure to add READ MORE »
“What do you want Me to give you for your 40th birthday?”
I’d been asked that question many times over the last few months but this time it was unlike any other time.
You see, I think I was dreaming at the time.
The person asking me was God.
(This is a companion piece to what I posted last night about my 40th birthday on my year long project’s website, Mustard Seed Year. I’m posting a “teaser” here for those of you that read this blog who haven’t seen Mustard Seed Year yet. Check out the rest of the post by clicking here.)
When I started Mustard Seed Year, I had planned to operate with a focus forward. Leave the feelings and wounds of the past behind me because they were most of the sources of fear of failure. Then the year began and MSY didn’t start the way I thought things would go. I found myself fighting feelings of insecurity because of something that Alece Ronzino had been doing on her blog with “One Word 2011.”
“One Word 2011″ is a community of people who are doing what I had done the previous three years…get a one word theme you feel God impressing on you and live it out in the next year. Be open to how God is working that theme into your daily life.
I have nothing against the idea or how God used Alece to blow up the idea to a bigger scale. Over 150 people rushed to join the community and more were joining every day. Twitter blew up with people linking their “one word” posts and retweeting fellow OneWordians.
My issue seemed to be that I was feeling left behind. Left out. The kid who stopped being into a certain band just before the “cool kids” started listening to them. The kid who wasn’t invited to the cool kid’s party across the street and having to sit in his room and watch the joyful celebrations.
If I had just picked one word and chased it, I could fit in. If I hadn’t done this Mustard Seed thing I felt God telling me to do then I’d have all kinds of people supporting and cheering me on. I wouldn’t feel like an outcast.
Then early this morning, as I stood in the shower thinking about all of it and trying to let the warm water wash the blues away, I realized that I was having the same feelings as my teen years. The same hurts. The same wounds. I realized what God was allowing to feel these things as a way to bring them to the surface and recognize why I reacted in the manner I did when I saw everything flowing for One Word. It was a foundation that needed to be torn down like He had done with so many things last year when He stretched my faith to the limit.
The moment I realized that, God whispered to me.
“You’re not that kid in high school ignored by the popular kids anymore,” He said. ”You’re not being left out because you refuse to compromise what you felt me telling you. You’re a man obeying what I said to do even if it means doing something no one else seems to be doing. This is the path for you. This is what it means when it’s just you and me.”
Yeah…that’s a powerful word from Dad. But He wasn’t done. The kicker brought me to tears.
“And you’re ready for this.”
The Mustard Seed Year has begun.
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