Doing a caption Thursday because tomorrow I’m giving away some tunes. Maybe you should get this photo done with your spouse soon.

i’m not gonna lie. That’s a great way to start off a blog post, huh? Every time I read my Bible it’s not to get out of it what I need. Sometimes I read my Bible because I need my Christian gold stars for the week so I can make God happy. Sometimes I do nice things for people because I want to make God happy, not because it’s the right thing to do. The thing is that no matter what I do, God loves me the same. Get that through your head, Adam. If I start trying to do all these things to get my allotment of Christian points, this whole Christian walk thing becomes work-based and all messed up. You can’t do enough works to buy God’s love.

I pray because I need to. I don’t really pray to make God happy. I do it to make my life easier. Talking to God can almost be awkward for me sometimes, though. You would think that having a relationship with God after all of these years it would just come natural every time.

How do I start today? How do I end this? “Amen”?

Then there’s those days I just don’t feel like talking at all. Maybe you feel like this sometimes.

I want everything in life to be tangible. So, naturally I want God to always be tangible. But, when I talk and prayers aren’t answered immediately, I get angry… Really angry. I think God has left me and then I don’t want anything to do with Him. I do this with even knowing in the back of mind that He’s never left me. That’s the thing. He is always listening.

Well, I haven’t done this in a while. I want to know how you are really doing. You talk and I’m listening. Of course God is listening.

What’s a prayer you need an answer to? Let’s pray for each other. Also, what are some blessings you’ve had in your life lately? I want to hear some good stuff.

I am busy. You are busy. This has me thinking of what I can hand off to other folks. I’m asking myself, “Adam, what are the things only you can do?” Yes, when I talk to myself I include my name. The hard part seems to be knowing what I need to keep and what I can hand off. This will most likely keep me sane. Maybe we all need personal assistants or maids. I know I was thinking it, but that probably won’t happen. Right now my iPhone is the thing that keeps me in the right place at the right time.

What are some things in your life that you could delegate to other people? How do you stay organized right now?

Yep, I was in church from day one. While growing up in the church I heard the message of, “Everyone should sell everything and follow Jesus”. That’s what was holy. Most Christians even frowned upon folks having nice stuff. That nice, new house could be sold and the money could be given to missionaries actually doing something of eternal worth. If we sold everything while on Earth, we would get gold streets and mansions when in Heaven. At least that’s what I thought. Then one day I heard a new message. It turned to one of prosperity for Christians. I remember that first message where the preacher changed his tune. The guy said we could have nice cars and mansions here on earth as well. He told us that God wanted nice things for us here on earth. I want to believe what that guy is saying. I believe that God wants us to be able to bless others and also live comfortably. Whether that means blessing others monetarily, emotionally, physically or whatever other way you could bless someone else. Even though God doesn’t need to know what time it is, I am convinced He would wear a Rolex, not a Timex.

Sometimes I still want to frown on Christians having nice things. I guess growing up in church left me feeling that way. There’s definitely a balance to it all. I’m not saying to go out and buy Rolls Royces and helicopters, but I do believe He wants his people to be blessed.

What’s the biggest blessing you’ve ever experienced?

Meet Duncan. We found out that this dog likes ice.

Caption please…

This post comes from something I heard a few days ago that didn’t really settle well with me. This person said that God gave them a certain disease so they could now minister to those with that same illness. What? God gives diseases to bring folks to Him now? That’s a new one. Let’s discuss this.

What’s a topic/statement you’ve heard someone say lately that you don’t exactly agree with?

the more i try to fix people, the more i realize they’re better off than me.
the more i try to be like someone else, the more i realize we have to be different to make this all work.
the more i try to be healthy, the more unhealthy things keep getting in my way.
the more i try to be a better person, the more i realize i can’t do it by myself.
the more i try to get things that i think i need, the more i realize that the work that goes into getting them is the hardest part.

hopefully it’s worth it.

the more i try…

I tweeted the other day that I’m not a “Jesus fish” or a Christian bumper sticker kind of guy. I got a couple of questions on that comment, so I wanted to go in a bit more detail. Well, it’s because I’m probably not the best example all of the time and I doubt anyone reads “Jesus is Lord” on the back of a car and says to themselves, “You know what, they’re right!!!!!!!!” I guess we can do a trial run here with sticker conviction. Do the bumper stickers make you love Jesus (more)?

Well, I took the whole week off from writing last week because of a few reasons. One, my computer came from Apple with a failed hard drive. So, I took the computer to The Mac Shack to get it fixed. They said this happens every once in a while. Oh, “The Mac Shack” is a terrible knock off from the Apple Store, but it’s all Fort Collins has. It did feel nice that nerds would sympathize with me, though. They cried with me that I couldn’t open up the box and play with my new 17″ macbook pro. Yes, the 17″ is a lot different than the 15″ that I sold. Size does matter. Don’t worry about it. I finally got the computer back on Friday and it runs as good as new. The second reason is that last week was crazy busy in every way. It has been the most news filled action packed week of my life. The third and final reason is that writing started feeling like a job. This is when I hate writing. It just flows better when it feels like a hobby. Here’s to finding more things that feel like hobbies.

What hobbies do you have besides blog reading and all this social media junk?