No I didn't give up blogging for lent, but often times it is a struggle to blog...It is a time thing, a who reads this thing, what do I have to say, and a Looking for my audience thing. One thing I have come to realize in the many years I have been blogging is that I am not "famous", this isn't about me, and God is my guide...
I want to address each of these things I have learned (in a 2 part series):
1. I am not always the most humble person, I try to be. And I know this is never about me, it is about Christ. But some times I tend to think, wouldn't it be great to be "famous" speaking at Stuby, being a youth minister other y.m.'s look up to, and Getting paid the "Big Bucks"....My whole life I have dreamed about being famous in some way whether it was as a athletics star, video game champ., speaker, rock star, or Analyst...I think we all dream about that. What are we though we are creatures born to die, it is a simple fact. I think the reason we all want to be "famous" is because then we don't think we will be forgotten. Look at the so called famous who have died. No one remembers them for that long, in 2009 there were a lot of "famous" deaths. Micheal Jackson, Farrah Fawecett, Patrick Swayze, Bea Arthur, Les Paul, Edward Kennedy... the list goes on and on. But how long did Hollywood or the main stream mourn the deaths a week, 10 days at the most...Back at the 2010 Oscars they forgot to put Farrah Fawecett in the montage that they do of all the people who had passed in that year. I also think how long did the familes mourn or did they use it for a publistiy stunt. How long did the family mourn the death some of them 10 mins, the funeral, some maybe still might be mourning the death. But When I heard MJ died I was on my way back from stuby thought WOW, the world has lost a great musician, producer, dancer, singer...But all in all I didn't cry, it didn't effected me as a person. I probably thought it was a publicity stunt and he would come back in a year. Now this isn't the main stream I should make that clear I personally think the Jackson family is very misguided, but I am sure it has happened more.
Life would be great to be a speaker, it would...BUT I am much happier in a parish doing the ministry I am called to do, and if I ever get a chance to be THE guy...I will be grateful and if I am just on CORE for a long time I will be grateful as well. If youth Ministry ever becomes about you in my opinion it is best to leave it for awhile. That is also my philosophy on blogging, music, anything you do...if it gets to be about your personal gain then it is time to step away, or maybe "take one of the team." I think as people we get rapped up in ourselves way too much, what about me, me, and me...I think that is why we have so many men addicted to pornography, so many women worried about vanity to the point of plastic surgery , so many kids that don't know how to share...I could go on and on about all of those things, but I won't. I will say what would our great grandparents/grandparents say a perfect example is that Michelle's mom got a new Rolex "time piece" I call them watches. Now personally I think it is a nice watch, and Michelle's grandma look at her and just scoffed. Michelle's grandma is 88 years old, she grew up during the depression, WWII and was a parent in the late 50's...So we are talking about some one who was taught to conserve and not spend a bunch of money. That generation wasn't worried about being famous, having a lot of money, or having a big house. They just wanted to live in a small house, have money for the simple things, and be remembered by their family.
two is a lot like one; therefore I am going to jump to three in the next blog
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