moving upstream

Today in church, while sipping on my Sumatra Blend, I had a thought. When you cut plywood, raw lumber, really anything with a natural grain, it spits shards of wood everywhere, and the risk of your saw kicking back is magnified which makes it pretty dangerous. In like matter, when something or someone swims upstream, it churns up water. If you brush a cat against the natural direction of the fur, it gets pissed. The point is this; anything that moves against the natural order of things is by nature going to be destructive, disturb the order. In a world where the "norms" are so skewed and far from the beliefs that we hold, should we not naturally, as Christians, disturb the natural order of things? I thought a lot about it and I really feel like if theres not a wake of shards and churned water behind us, perhaps we arent making a big enough impact.

Movin' on Up...

Okay, so if youre a fan of 70's sit-coms, you know what this will be about. Mel and I are moving!!! Six days from now, we will be arranging our furniture in our FIRST place we've had to ourselves since we've been married. I know, its totally bonkers. So, needless to say, we're excited. As if that werent enough, Mel got a job that starts this week! Seriously, I havent been a party to this many answered prayers in my life. Its awesome. God is awesome. We have been blessed...and I cant wait to have my own house!!!! Thats all. As a sidenote, the new Underoath is SO amazing. Buy it if you like awesome stuff.