Archive for December, 2005
December 31st, 2005
Hello Dear One. I mean not to pause in posts a whole week, and give you nothing new to consider from my posts. The last week has been incredible and busy, and I hope yours has been also incredible and less on the busy as busy doesn’t allow for the complete “surrender-ness” to the season. Christmas doesn’t simply mean rush-rush-rush and get-get-get (as far as gifts exchanging), but it’s a time to reflect on the Gift of Christ, and the blessings that follow when we adhere to his teachings.
Blessings? Sure! If nothing else you easily can realize your sight would not be possible to read this line if not for His work in you! This line of thinking/writing has a whole sermon or two in it, so I’ll not sermonize here.
For your reading/consideration I’ll try to post every day or so and not give such pause as I’ve done this past week. As you have maybe had a week off ‘tween these two holidays, you can probably understand how my neglect was possible with posts. Knowing there are THOUSANDS (hee-hee) that read this daily, I’m sorry to let ya down, and promise to do a better job next time.
December 23rd, 2005
If you’ve never sampled the art of “touch” beyond the standard buff-and-fluff massage, you don’t know what’s good for you. Today was a therapy day with the better-half (my sweetie-wife), and boy don’t it hurt so good! Massage in a therapeudic application can do wonders, much like a chiropractor’s adjustment. If you don’t already subscribe to the notion, and are often muscle/structurally achy from sports, or suffer something as mundane as sitting/walking with poor-posture, massage therapy is your fix, especially trigger-point work. When your therapist is knowledgeable about essential-oils, and uses them in conjunction with the rub, then you’ve really scored! If our therapist wasn’t slammed with clients, I’d hook you up if you were in Abq and interested. Otherwise, here is a place that is very reasonably-priced for a professional. We used to be clients of theirs, but when our therapist left we followed her. I do know of a few still there though, if you want a reference.
December 22nd, 2005
It’s amazing what purchasing-fervor the holidays induce. I just left the mall happy to get in and out without a huge-chunk of time taken, like a seek-and-purchase “mission” where time was precious. There were lines out the proverbial “window” and amazing some of the clerks were amazingly accomodating, and no fights were breaking out.
The whole morning I’ve been thinking about what Pastor Coy said in this morning’s broadcast.
He began his message by describing how a mouse can run himself on a wheel in his cage. He can run, and run, and run some more, going increasingly faster, until he finds himself rotating with the wheel. Have you ever felt that way? I know it’s particularily unwelcome as the frenzy of shopping comes to a climax in the few-days before Christmas. I know I’ve felt it. What Pastor Bob continues into is what has been cycling around in my brain since I heard him this morning (6:30am in Albq 107.1 fm). With this intro to his message he hints at the truth to the date of Christ’s birth, but more importantly how we view our Savior and the God we serve the other 364 days of the year. “…Seek first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33) Pastor Coy went on to get to the nuts ‘n bolts and in the basis of “seek first” of that verse, and it meant with out any equal or competition of any kind. Totally devoted to the objective of seeking His all for us, IN HIM.
“How many observe Christ’s birthday!
How Few His precepts!
Tis easier to keep holidays than commandments”
~ Benjamin Franklin
December 21st, 2005
Hello Dear one, Thanks for stopping by. I’m in the midst of installing the surround speakers into my living room, and glad to be at least 1/2 way there, and as my cheap cordless drill needed to recharge it’s battery I figured I’d post something. It’ll be nice when I’m done with this task, and the wiring isn’t as obvious as it is now. 7.1 is nice, with the size of the task I’m still paying for it.
Today is Winter Solstice, the shortest “day” of the year. The kind of day we all seem to wish for when everthing seems to be going wrong and we wish the day would simply end or start over. Where ever you are as you read, I wish you a pleasant winter. I feel for those who cannot depend on the mass-transit system in NY with Christmas right around the corner. I can’t take sides on the strike, but what a bummer, as their winter has definately begun.
December 19th, 2005
Being a Media Arts Grad I’ve seen a lot of films. With that (somewhat) useless B.A. Degree comes an appreciation for what works on the “silver-screen” and critical eye towards what fails horribly. From time to time I’ll relate my two-cents about stuff I’ve recently viewed, and (hopefully) give you some helpful knowledge before adding to your netflix queue or marching down to your favorite rental facility.
As the weekend of Dec. 9th firmly established, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe rocks the house. Some variations on the book to improve character development, but nothing significant to be really bothered about. Definately top-shelf, and worth owning when it comes available.
Netflix delivered Elvis Has Left the Building over the weekend, rate it 1.5 stars out of 5. I had to see the finished work. No wonder it didn’t get released (to my knowledge) even in a small market, that movie hoover’ed. Some nice work by the real star of the show, ALBUQUERQUE posing as various locales, but the script really didn’t get helped at all by John Corbett, Kim Basinger, et. all. I worked on this film a few years back when it was being shot, and even then I had an idea it wasn’t going to work. I love Joel Zwick’s directing method, he’s really cool, Corbett’s kinda strange, and Denise Richards was hot, but it didn’t look like a winner after a sneak-peak at some of the script while on set. Suspect Zero Was also a movie I worked on, but it wasn’t this bad. as for EHLTB, skip it, unless you must see Corbett in an Elvis suit for a split-second.
I’m eager to finish La Dolce Vita Found this 1960 Federico Fellini “masterpiece” (so said the box) at the local library for check-out. DVD’s at the library rock. Can’t beat it, (free!) and they often have classics that’d be hard to find at Block-and-a-half-of-old-”new”-releases-party. The library even have my favorite of the Italian Neo-Realism genre The Bicycle Thief. I highly reccommend it, simply beautiful, but be prepared for a tear or two during the course of viewing.
December 18th, 2005
It’s really amazing to look into scripture and feel it’s speaking right into you. We finished up our study in the book of Romans today with the last half of chapter 16. Of today’s study verses 18, 19, 20 were intriguing. To think that our obedience to scripture would make Paul proud of us is very humbling, and convicting at the same time. Do you feel he’d be proud of you? Then as the verse continues, the striking part about being wise in what is good, and innocent in what is evil really cause me to think of how I used to (and still catch myself doing it from time to time) brag about the evil I know, the evil I should be innocent of. Troubling thoughts arise when one contemplates how much one wishes they didn’t know, as they strive to live and be pure as He is pure, and truly obedient to His calling.
Verse 18 puts it in the clear for me, and to you I simply ask: whose slave are you? Dylan wrote/sang about what I’m thinking about. This interpretation or direction I’ve taken here with regards to this verse is quite different from the passage context, and is another totally-different line of thinking. Impressed on me sometimes is the overwhelming desire to ask just that, “where you at?” in a sense, and the lines sometimes blur between different ideas I’m currently divulging. (sorry ’bout that!)
Getting back to the passage then, to think it’s OUR feet that our enemy will be under, as 20 states. Interesting, very much so. That verse is something that needs more “chewing”.
December 16th, 2005
I was perusing my usual suspects this morning, prior to getting it together for the rest of the day and found a few posts that really made an impact on me. George is a long-time close-friend and far superior bloggista than I, and posted some links very recent that you should see, HERE is a click-able for your to get there by (quick there by).
~e
December 16th, 2005
Evening approaching at the Grand Canyon 9/29/05
The next post down is from afte hiking the trail way
down below me there. Incredible His handywork.
December 16th, 2005
After a morning of upwardness, GC 10/05
December 15th, 2005
Who’dathunkit. Coding was ne’er my specialty, but looky thare, I done added my links section. Whoopie! It’s starting to make sense! And below - the meaning of my site’s name… impressing myself is so much fun! Why I chose it is all about something very important God built into all of us, whether we know Him as he would like or not. Conscience, the internal warning system that tells us we’ve all been built with. Don’t neglect to heed it’s warning, neglecting it can lead to heavy guilt, and worse.
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