Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: flat tire, right place, right skills, right time, the dark knight
I went to see The Dark Knight last night with Ken Perruquet and John Barnes last night. It was a good movie. The only problem with the movie was the same thing that made it a good movie… There was no lull.
Normally I would only rejoice in this, but you try to hold it for 2 1/2 hours after drinking 54 ounces of Diet Coke. I considered using the cup, but Ken wouldn’t anty up any dare money; and with no cash award, the risk of imprisonment was too great.
But that is beside the point. What I wanted to talk about was after the movie. We were headed for our vehicular transportation when a woman with two children stopped us. The right place. She asked if her tire was too flat to drive on. The right time. And she had no idea what to do and couldn’t reach her husband. And we had the right skills to help.
I can’t explain why I cherished this so much, it was a just flat tire. It was in the rain, t kids were scared and she didn’t have a jack and thus no way of releasing the spare, but still it was just a flat tire.
Here’s the thing though, I’ve spent my life searching for the right place at the right time with the right skills. There always seems to be one or more missing. As silly and small as it was, it was 45 minutes (Ken plugged it and we had to go fill it with air, did I mention that it was in the rain) that I absolutely knew that I was where God wanted me to be.
I have discovered a whole new way to annoy Judy… And its all thanks to technology.
I have an iPod Touch that now allows me to add applications to it. Applications such as Apples Remote for iTunes. This combined with my 6 year old laptop (well actually we just celebrated its 7th birthday) opens all sorts of possible ways to annoy.
My Favorite: waiting in the car for my lovely wife, open up Remote, select Jack Johnson’s “Sitting, Waiting, Wishing” and repeatedly click it to 26 seconds where we hear the line “Must I always be waiting, waiting on you?” (And she couldn’t understand why I was so excited about getting this application.)
The first time this made her laugh so hard that she had to run to the bathroom before peeing her pants. Each consecutive time
resulted in getting a sterner version of the “look” that most men are all too familiar with.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Abortion, Baby, Divorce, Emotions, Empathy, Imagine, Marriage, pregnant
I don’t have much. I have a vivid imagination, but I can’t get my emotions to follow very well. When something bad or good happens to someone, I can imagine how I would react to the emotions I would be having but I just can’t seem to imagine the actual emotions.
When people used to tell me they were getting married or divorced, I knew how to react appropriately, but I couldn’t imagine how they were feeling. Then I got married, and the joy and pain of marriage became very personal. I could imagine how a coupe could get to the point of wanting a divorce (not that I’ve ever felt that way, darling). I could understand their pain, but I could also realized the great damage it would cause to get divorced.
Its been much the same with abortion. I knew that it was wrong; I could make the logical connections why it was life inside the womb, but I couldn’t begin to imagine what it felt like to be the protector of an unborn child. Then Judy got herself pregnant. Well, I may have helped… And now I would lay my life down to protect that tiny little life that so many say has none.
Every week I read about the new amazing things that are happening to my unborn child. Miraculous things like eyelids fingernails and hiccups. I even read that it actually looks like a human being now, just really, really, small.
So any of you who didn’t know, Judy and I are having a baby. Right now its 12 weeks and has a beautiful 160bpm heartbeat.
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I was just reading in Matthew 19 when I came to verse 10 and something stuck me (not physically).
Jesus was teaching on marriage and divorce while being tested by the Pharisees. Nothing struck me as out of the ordinary, I’ve read these verses before, the story was familiar. But then right after Jesus said, except for unfaithfulness divorce was wrong. the disciples chime in with “If this is the situation between a husband and wife, it is better not to marry.” I couldn’t help but think of our societies current attitude on marriage. Now, back then disciples were dealing with arranged marriages and such… But isn’t it just like a man to say, well I’m not getting married if I can’t just send her to the curb when I feel like it? Jesus’ response: “The one who can accept this should accept it.”
If you can’t accept the commitment of marriage, then don’t do it. I can’t speak to everyone situations, but I truly believe that God can make our marriages Holy despite the circumstances they were born from. Judy is, after-all, still married to me.
