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I cherish Sunday nights with my friends. Every Sunday night for the last 16 months or so, I play basketball with a group of guys that are my friends. I say friends with the deepest level of love and respect.
We come and sweat and trash talk like nobody's business (if an outsider were to come, they would think we really didn't like each other), but we truly love being together and playing bball. After our games are finished we go out to BJ's every week and have some cold beers and some late night greasy food. We continue the trash talking about our fantasy basketball league that we are all in.
Even on nights like tonight I come and hang out. I am out for at least a month with a hamstring issue, but I still come to be apart of the group. OH, and I also have the keys to the gym, but that is besides the point.
If you find something in life that is truly good and involves good people, cherish that and hold on to that for as long as you can.
Had to post this one.... I saw this on Tony Jones's blog
I want to be careful here, but I have to say that sometimes I become so fed up with our, Americans, egocentric attitudes that are so Self-rightous. I can often forget that other people in the world exist. That is not entirely true, because we can often hear political leaders referring to the "evil" people that they promise to save us from, and of course they live somewhere other than America. I have often seen the bumper sticker "God Bless America", and it seemed appropriate immediately following September 11th, but anymore I am turned off by the phrase. I had a friend show me a t-shirt that he recently purchased that makes my heart warm. The shirt says... well take a look for yourself.
This idea makes me think that there are people in this world that get it.
Let me clarify somethings. I love America, I live here, I plan on raising a family here, I love the people here. BUT, the thought that we become so consumed with our own needs, our own agendas, our own problems that we so easily forget about others. What about the thought of God Blessing Darfur? This is going to be our nastiest mark that this generatoin leaves on the world. We have allowed an ethnic cleansing to go down in our time.
What about "God Bless Uganda?", or "God Bless Iraq?" I have yet to see those bumper stickers. I love the idea though, so if anyone makes a bumper sticker with any of those then let me know I will buy one for sure.
Also, what kind of blessing are we asking for? I immedialty think that we are asking for prosperity, or security, or power. I know that not all people think of those things, but it seems that in the scope of that saying these are some of the things that we are speaking of. Funny that we should ask for those things, since we are the richest country in the world, the most powerful, and the strongest.
I can agree with some ideas though. God will you bless our families? We need a ressurgence of the idea of family in this country. We need help with materialism, so maybe we can be blessed with the ability to not need things. Bless us in wisdom so we can see how dead we truly are spiritually.
Maybe I am crazy, and maybe this post will upset some people, but I can't help but feel this way. We don't need more money, we don't need bigger houses, we don't need faster cars. We need help spirituallly, we need God.
So let us pray that God blesses EVERYONE.
Beauty. What is beautiful to you?
This is what if beautiful to me:
a smile
a latte
music
a hug
an honest conversation
a laugh
driving in the mountains
the story of Susana
The Gospel of John
the song "Over my Head"
truth
a good book
an upset in sports
a Suns victory
Scotland
Windsor Castle
my wife
love
babies
stonehenge
yankee stadium
family
central park
the English countryside
these things are beautiful to me, I hope that I will chase after them, and I hope that you will chase after what is beautiful to you.
