Staying Sane is Crazy Hard!

"I don't know karate, but I know karazy!" - James Brown


Sometimes, we just have to make a way for our own minds to be released from the burdens of an insane life. So, here goes nothing! I've wanted to try to start a blog for a while, but I just never pulled that trigger. Now, I feel like I gotta get what's in my head out in the open. If for no other reason than my own mental well being. 
Thanks to Philip Helms (http://commonsenseinanonsensicalworld.blogspot.com/) for beating me to the punch and making me feel like I need to do this thing! I hope you enjoy/relate/don't think I'm an absolute wacko. 


It seems that many people are feeling a certain positive vibe in the air about 2011. Last year was apparently challenging for many. I know that for my part there were unforeseen hurdles and at times an utterly shocking feeling of abandonment. There were times that I thought I understood how Urriah felt when David commanded Joab to have his men withdraw from him in the thick of the battle. Thanks be to God that by His Grace and Mercy we were able to make it this far. In my limited experience, it occurs to me that many of the most prominent and outstanding people I know went through something like a purging prior to their ultimate breakthrough of "success". We can only hope that pattern stays true in our lives. 2011 is marked as a year of new beginnings, more so than any other in my life. 


I kind of needed the awful year that I just had, in order to finally be moved into a place of alteration and repentance. My wife and I have determined to take stock of every practice and habit and to do our best to remedy the inconsistencies that we let hang on for too long. It is a time to purge ourselves of unhealthy friends (I use the term loosely) and relationships. Some of this has been done for us. But yet others still need to be axed from the social interaction database. I find myself coming to the conclusion of a philosophical journey that has taken several years to accomplish, as well (more on that in later posts).


All in all, I am more optimistic and focused than I have been in previous times. My faith is reinforced by experiences now. And I know that whoever the Lord calls, He will equip. I was missing some faith, so I had to need some miracles in order to get some answers. That has provided me with a renewed passion to see the Church become what it can be (both locally and generally). I am also less fearful of rejection. If people rejected me when I was holding back and trying to play nice, then as Jack Nicholson once famously stated: "Wait'll they get a load of me!"


Stay tuned and buckle your seat belts, we may be headed for turbulent skies!!