I think I just wasted three hours of my life on one of the dumbest movies ever made… Stephen King’s “it.” Wow… we just laughed through the whole thing it was so cheesy.
It has been kind of a quiet weekend. Last night, I went to see the production of 1940’s Radio Hour, a musical performed by the Grace Drama department. I had several friends acting and singing in it so I figured I would go down and check it out. The show was good – a little rough for opening night, but they will have that polished up by next weekend.
This morning began with a loud clap of thunder which woke me from my pleasant sleep at 8am. It then started to pour down rain for about an hour or so. I am not sure, because I fell asleep again, and when I woke back up at 10:30 it was bright and sunny. Needless to say, Blitz and I enjoyed a nice walk around campus, and even got to visit with my friend Stephanie, a graphic designer/missionary extraordinaire. She got some new furniture for her office, and also a nice new G-4 Mac and for some reason, was sitting inside on a warm sunny day doing work, which in my opinion is a travesty. Then again, I did the same thing earlier as I had to post a bunch of photos to the Grace website . Blitz was so patient to bear with me as I did this during the middle of her morning walk.
In the middle of the day I ended up having a discussion with Dave Carey about a variety of things. Work, life, music, choices… stuff like that. One of the things that struck me the other day, and we also talked about it today, was that life in the Christian bubble is so ludicrous sometimes. People judge you by such surface and inconsistent standards. For example, if I were to walk through the campus smoking a cigarette, people who be all shocked because I was smoking. “How shocking that he would do something like that,” they would think. “He must have a sin problem to be addicted like that.” However, if I were to walk around drinking a Coke (a toxic substance whose effects on the human body have yet to be determined) no one would think poorly of me because it is an acceptable thing. Obesity in Christian circles is not considered to be a sin problem, although gluttony is mentioned in the Bible. Dave and I both commented on how Christians have zeroed in on certain things that they find to be distasteful, and have elevated them to the level of “it is a sin if you do these following things – smoking, drinking, dancing, etc.” People become so focused on externals that the miss the part that God looks at – the heart of a person.
Anyway, I am not sure where I was going with this… still in the learning process. I just don’t want to be a surface Christian with a critical / religious spirit. If I do… call me on it!