Miscellaneous Debris

So I have started a bunch of blog posts lately, and none of them went anywhere. But since I am way into being eco-friendly, I didn't want to waste them. So, I've decided to post them all together in a kind of blog-gumbo for your reading enjoyment. Remember, these are all the beginnings of blog posts that I didn't have the time/energy/kiwis to finish. They are random and unrelated. Enjoy...or not. Whatever.

- I don't understand what the big deal about Obama is, do you? So far the only things I have heard with any sort of consistency are that he is our first African-American president and he can deliver a heluva speech. I looked into his voting record while he was still a U.S. senator. He tended NOT to vote. It is hard to determine just what is so special about the guy, in terms of political prowess at least. Don’t get me wrong, I am not a disgruntled Republican. I think McCain/Palin were the greater of the two evils.

- I opted not to attend our most recent district ministerium (a kind of get together of regional pastors). Why? Because the main event at this months gathering was a tour of one pastor’s gargantuan church facility. It is hard for me to get excited about that kind of thing when I am unable to provide adequate dental care for my family (as a small church pastor) and this guy is deciding how many plasma screen TVs to put in his new 40,000 sq facility. Who needs it? Not me. I wonder how many starving children you could feed with the kind of money it takes to build a place like that?

- Do you ever get the feeling that you are absolutely not cut out for what it is you are supposed to be doing for a living? I sure do. I am a pastor and I would like to say that I do what I do because of some lofty spiritual ideal. The reality is that, most days, I do what I do so I can afford to care for my family.

- Mega-churches suck. They keep luring away my people! WTF, mate?!?

- Have you ever wondered why the Bible is so hard to understand sometimes? I do. The bummer is my job depends on me understanding it. Good Greif!

- My wife is expecting our fourth Child. I really don’t know what else to say.

- If I had the opportunity to choose the way I was going to die, I think I would be tempted to choose to die while having sex. Except that would probably be embarrassing for my wife. So I think I would have to choose to spontaneously explode. While visiting a mega-church. I would just want to absolutely explode into a million gooey pieces right in the middle of some multi-million dollar church building. That way, no matter what happened during the Sunday morning service, there would always be at least one guy elbowing his buddy and whispering, “Hey, did you know some dude exploded in here one day…he just blew up man, seriuously.”