Sunday, November 01, 2009

something to consider

Yes, i know my recent rash of blogs have been shallow and meaningless. I haven't had many deep or important thoughts worth sharing of recent, and so in some ways i have treated my blog as an in depth twitter account - puking out whatever worthless meanderings spill forth from my noggin to my fingertips to your eyes. That is assuming anyone reads this, but at this point - i hardly care. But i do apologize. I think back to when blogging was new, and it felt like everything was new and brilliant, and there was a community of other bloggers to confirm those feelings. Now, i am a lonely blogger, who doesn't find profundity as often i as i percieve i used to. Profundidty is now the word of the day.

Speaking of profundities - i was in church today. Ok, that in of itself is not the profunditity. The Pastor was speaking from the book of Nehimiah, explaining to us how Nehemiah took a good look at the broken, destroyed wall of Jerusalem, and how even though he saw it for what it was - he was also able to have a God-perspective - and was somehow able to see the hope and potential that existed in the rebuilding of the wall.
Later on, Pastor connected his message to Jesus, and told the story of when Jesus healed a blind man by rubbing mud in his eyes. The connection was about our blindness, and our inability to see the potential that God sees in our world, in ourselves, in circumstances, and in other people. As i listened to the story, it was like i was hearing it for the first time (though i promise it wasn't). It just struck me that Jesus used the very thing that we are trying to get out of our eyes to heal. The problems with our eyes usually involve something being in them that shouldn't be. Take mud for instance; it doesn't belong in your eyes. It will impair your vision. But it's that foriegn object that Jesus uses to clear out the blindness of that man in Mark 8. Jesus is so cool. I'm aware of the counter cultural lifestyle he calls his followers to - i preach it to my youth - Jesus does not equal an easy life - he does things differently - and through the message today - and as an ordained minister of the Gospel - i should say through the illuminating work of the Holy Spirit, i saw Jesus clearly today and was blown away by the irony and profundity of his work. it may not sound like a big deal to you - which i can understand. Often i can't find the words to explain the things that blow my mind (see any of my musings on music). Most times i can just barely explain that something did deeply affect me - but explaining why or how - good luck - especially at 11:27pm the night before Prayer Retreat.

Basically - the point is - Jesus is so cool.