Christ Follower, Husband, Father, Writer
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I am not a “heart on his sleeve” kind of guy.
Never have been.
Except during football season when I can – at times – become so animated and so loud that it once prompted the Boy to say “I wish football had never been invented”
Talk about devastated.
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I am always a little scared when I start to write a post.
Will someone agree with it? Will they like it? Will they leave a good comment or tear me to shreds? Will they share it, Face Book it, tweet or Pin it? Will they subscribe to my site? Will they read something I have already written?
Will anyone read it at all? Besides my mom – that is.
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There is not a person my age that is not intimately aware that “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.” I would venture that people of the next generation are only slightly less familiar and the one after that has at least heard the song – it was quite important to our generation and it will be played on radio and live by cover bands for years to come.
From the Movie Turbo
Over the weekend my wife – TL&T – and I took the Boy to see Turbo. As far as super fast snail movies go – it was not bad. In fact it was actually pretty good.
If I did movie reviews – and anyone that knows me knows I critique every movie I see – I would give Turbo four out of five whatever’s.
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In keeping with this week’s theme of how our dreams and our life callings are directly tied to Jesus I was thinking about the story in Exodus chapter 17 where God tells Moses that as long as his staff is raised the Israelites will win the battle against the Amalekites.
By this time God has shown Moses that He is in control – having already demonstrated his power over the staff by turning it into a serpent then back into a staff. As a Sheppard, the staff would have been an important tool in the daily life of Moses – part of his calling.
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How often do we confuse what is important with that which is not?
For me, it’s every day. I am constantly looking for ways to improve my outlook, my situation my job.
My life.
It seems I often do it under the guise of serving God and bringing him glory but it’s not about that. Not in my heart. Not really. It’s about me. It’s what I want to do. It’s how I want to live. It’s how I want to be.
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We’ve all heard the saying “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” I think there is a lot of wisdom here.
Another way of saying that is, “your dream does not matter.”
For several weeks now, I have been limiting my Friday posts to the more intuitive, less structured side of my writing and to be honest today I was dry, done spent.
This week, I have been flat, tired, disinterested and and just plain frustrated with life. Usually I find those times to be a veritable playground for free expression – not so this week.
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In Luke’s gospel, Jesus is quoted saying “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also (Luke 12:34 KJV).” In this verse he’s referring to what we pay attention to or where our priorities lie determines how or where we spend our time and live our lives.
I am not going to argue that – I mean Jesus said it, right?
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Mick Holt 