Happy Mac owner that I am, I still found this ad to be pretty funny!
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Monthly Archives: January 2009
Ravens VS Steelers
There’s two NFL games on today. One is must-see TV for this guy.
Ravens VS Steelers. Top two defenses in the league. Division rivals. Nothing friendly about it. This will be a war, and I will be tuned in.
If you need me tonight, don’t call. I’ll be busy teaching my daughter what smash-mouth football looks like.
With Me
This song from Chris Tomlin’s latest album has been stuck in my ears (in a good way) the last few days…
I open my mouth and You speak for me.
You move the mountains and roll back the sea.
I will not afraid.
I will never be ashamed,
For You are with me.
You are with me.
I’ve seen enough to know,
That You’re my only hope.
I don’t want to go,
If You’re not with me.
We open our hands and You reach for us.
You are the motion of the universe.
Bed Battles
I’m fighting a losing battle.
Despite my plans and hopes for early and productive mornings, my bed will not easily release me. Blame it on cold and dark winter mornings (I have), or on a baby in the house (I haven’t so much), or on simply not getting to bed early enough (I’ve done this too). Wherever the blame is placed, it doesn’t change where I am firmly placed most mornings after I intended to be elsewhere. All that said, I suppose there are worse battles to be losing.
While comments on a blog are always nice, I think I’d rather not have all the ones that could be typed when a post like this follows a post on the power of intention! My toes can only take so much pounding.
Intention
Intention is a big deal.
“Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” That another translation of the same sentence.
The Jedi version was, “Do, or do not. There is no try.” So said Master Yoda.
So also said William Law. He wrote a book called “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life”–quickly seen to be a book about intention. His version of Yoda’s thought goes like this…
“It was this… intention that made the primitive Christians such eminent instances of piety, that made the goodly fellowship of the Saints and all the glorious army of martyrs and confessors. And it you will here stop and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own heart will tell you that it is neither through ignorance nor inability, but purely because you never thoroughly intended it.”
I won’t bother debating how today’s “average believer” compares with that of another time and place. I simply want to highlight that whatever we become… it will be because we intended to become just that.
That’s the power of intention.