A trip back in time

One of the great things about growing up in the eighties, we had awesome books as a kid. Some of my favorites (in no particular order) are as follows:

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And the great thing is; two of these have been made into big screen movies that come out this year, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs and Where The Wild Things Are. I went to the 3D version of Monsters Versus Aliens this last weekend and saw previews for both of them. 

My heart welled up with nostalgia. I was grinning like I was 6 again and replaying the stories in my mind as if I were reading them again for the first time. Schucks. I's getting tears in my eyes.

Transient

The last few weeks I've been thinking about...well...lots of things.

1)Church
2)God
3)Job change
4)The Wife Hunt *
5)Dots (of course)
6)My physical health and well-being
7)The importance of showering
8)If moving out of my parent's house was a good move.

All of these things I have been concerned about. Did I make a right move here? Could have I spent more time saving money? Is my health directly connected to my stress level? Are Dots really worthy of being on a list of things heavy on my heart?

I don't really know. All I know, is that for me, they all point at something within me. It is an intense desire to be the best person I can (Damn it Joel Osteen. Ruined the whole franchise of golden-tongued cliches. And maybe not so much the Dots).

I have been attending church all of my life. I have been encouraged to do more within the church; that there is always something to do within the church. I have sat through roughly (i even did some rough math on this one) 1400 sermons in my life. Each of them pointing towards God. Promising (or not) that God will be the answer to all my problems, I am left with a single problem.

My problems are still there.

I've been learning that my life is not a tightly wrapped, deliciously sweet piece of Dubble Bubble. The answers and the things that we want to be are wrapped up in a cacophony of my thoughts, her thoughts, his thoughts, their actions, his actions, my actions, God's thoughts, history, culture, guilt and so much more.

Cut right through it, I've heard it said. God is all you need. My pastor asked a question to me that I constantly pore over:

Is Jesus all I need?

This question will lead me to where I need to go in this life. And that's another thing.

Not making this life about the next one.

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*Not a Reality TV show