The Sushi post has been corrected and updated.....

My Sushi guide blog post has recently had a visitor that corrected a few mistakes I made in the post (thank you very much anonymous commenter..please, lets go eat some Sushi sometime!!!), and so I made the corrections that needed to be made, and I just wanted to throw it at yall again one more time.... man I love sushi, and seriously if anyone wants to go get some just let me know.

Sushi...."thannnnkkyouverymuuuuch"

so every now and then I head over to the Quicktime website...

I love movies and I love movie trailers, it started with the ones before the movies, and now of course it is either through HDNETs "Nothing but Trailers" show, or the ever greatest, "Apple QuickTime website for trailers" And so here are a list of movies that I am looking forward to watching:

Beowulf

Horton Hears a Who

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

The Seeker: The Dark is Rising

Lars and the Real Girl

The apple Site has HD trailers for your viewing, if you have a computer that can handle them... Way to go Brad!

The Last Legion

Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer...

I am reading this classic right now by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and here is a thoughtful quote that I mentioned in my own way yesterday in church during the announcements, but I think he says it better:

"Only he who gives things for little things receives the big things. We prevent God from giving us the great spiritual gifts He has in store for us, because we do not give things for daily gifts. We think we dare not be satisfied with the small measure of Spiritual knowledge, experience, and love that has been given to us, and that we must constantly be looking forward eagerly for the highest good.....How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?" Bonhoeffer, "Life Together:The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community", page 29

This reminds me of Brother Lawrence's "Practicing The Presence of God", as well, being so thankful in the little things in life, and while the rest of the world may not think that he received great things, I have a feeling that in his life he received GREAT things.

I know that for Bonhoeffer, when he wrote Life Together he was a part of a underground Seminary training young Pastors (or I would say, "desiring to go deeper disciples") right in the middle of the Nazis. I can only imagine how thankful he was for his community, and the little things, and later one it served him well to be thankful for the small things, because that might have been what kept him going while serving God in the prisons in Germany. I know it looks to be that way for John in Revelation, and Paul when they were in prisons.

Sometimes it is in the difficulties in life and especially in the difficulties in community/church in which when we live into the thanksgiving of the small that God shows us the great right in front of us!

Thank you God for the little things, clothes, health, community, and even disagreements when ever they arise, for it is in our thanks you can work in and through us!

My life is yours, and so is the life of community and relationships you have placed me a part of!

BTW: my own way of saying "be thankful in the little things" was my request for the church to take tie out of their lives this week, look up @ the clouds and tell God what they look like and thank Him for them!...here is something to get you started:

Playing around on the Simpson's movie Website...

Here is Tiffany and I "Simpsonized"

No one can ever get my hair, but it will have to do. And even though I know I am fatter than that, Tiffany would not let me put the fat one up, because, "your sholders are still wider than the rest of your body." heh heh

Oh and guess what? I will be on vacation with my parents the week Halo 3 comes out and the first episode of Heroes (and that new show called Chuck that looks good) comes on!!!! I can not believe it! I will have to play the game for the first time while my friends are playing it the second and third...on line together with them. Oh well, Life goes on! Vacation should be fun still none-the-less, heh.

Love yall and as always..... KUTPs!!!

Don't mess with Texas!!!!

In the last game the picture (12 years old) threw a 100 mile an hour pitch!

So I was reading another blog....

My friend Alan had a Myers-Briggs kind of assessment on his blog, and so knowing that they change all the time in one's life, I decided to go ahead and see what I was now-a-days. here it is:



And here is the description...yall tell me if it is right or wrong....(sometimes I wonder if my wife should fill this out fro me instead of me, heh.)

Here is the website's description:

ENTP - The "Originator"

ENTPs are logical, innovative, curious and downright inventive. They see possibilities for improvement everywhere and possess the ability to understand complex concepts. ENTPs are introspective and carefree nonconformists. They often neglect the more common areas of life while pursuing new solutions. ENTPs can be good conversationalists and exciting company.

If you want to know uch more about this personality type just go here.

funny video from my friend Eric...

I was reading Eric's blog today and if any of yall know me you know that I really love Revelation (the last book in the bible) and of course you know that I am not a freak when it comes to reading it, but it is just cool, well here is a video that I thought was cute enough for yall to see about one man's challenges with all the interpretations, thanks Eric!



Oh, and Happy Anniversary (yesterday) Tiffany! 9 years and counting! Woo hoo! Love you girl!

Interesting article...

Here is an article/blog post by Aaron Flores:

The New Big. Small's In.

So what do yall think?more needs to be fleshed out, but it is worth thinking about deeply.

Hey everyone I have a new saying for yall to use.......

Blend it up......I'd drink it!

While gone to Guatemala, me and the guys came up with a saying that I think has the potential to catch on and who knows maybe someday we will be hearing it in movies, etc... so here it is...simple easy and fun...

if you see something you like you just say, "I'd drink it". Or if your really adventurous, "Blend it up...I'd drink it"...................

So lets try it out......lets say you just saw a sexy picture of me, you would say, "Blend him up, I drink it"...ha ha ha ha......

It is much better if you say it like you saw it first on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour (similar to, "Here's your sign", or "Git eR Done"...say it with a little hick and it works. Well, OK thanks and let's see if it catches on.

Oh and you can also join the facebook group I created too, called yep you guessed it, "I'd drink it"

Life is so crazy...

Well, go on a Mission Trip for 10 days and all hell breaks loose. Please pray for me, Th3 Waters, Tiffany's hip, and just life in general. It is nothing that can not be fixed or dealt with, but it is just overwhelming and frustrating.

Oh and here is a little something for yall to chew on:

"What is common to Christianity is more like an immune system than a one-size-fits-all set of beliefs and practices. like an immune system, Christian doctrine and practice grows over time and develops through both internal and external challenges. Without challenges an immune system does not grow, but remains weak and cannot adapt to new challenges. An immune system sometimes rejects and sometimes incorporates elements of those viruses and diseases it confronts.............
We ouirselves, and those born again, we live on the fault line of the now and not yet kingdom of God. this kingdom of God or new creation is not something that is completely different from what we know or an alternative universe but our creation transfigured."

--From the book "Remembering our Future: Explorations in Deep Church (this chapter is by Luke Bretherton, pages 50 and 51.

So what do you think about the quote? like it? Hate it?