I don't log out of my plog so my work friends hijack it on my day off...

There is a valuable lesson to be learned here: log off your plog!

We love you "New Guy"!
:)

That Just Happened! Vol. #1

Taladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.  It's a stupid movie, but it has it's moments.  The main character and his partner have a saying that they think is the most amazing thing in the world.  They say it to their opponent, and Ricky Bobby gets so excited that he exclaims,

"Does that blow your mind!?  That just happened!"

God's been doing small things in and around my life lately, but just to know that it was God, I can't help but to get that excited.  I want to tell someone and then go "Does that blow your mind!?"  But I want these stories to last.  It's one thing when you hear of a miracle happening to other people, but it's a whole different experience when it happens to you.

So I'm starting a mini-series that I intend to weave in and out of my regular blog posts, for whenever God does something awesome.  It will be entitled "That Just Happened" and will just be small stories of things that God did that were cool.

I have two today.

Lucky Number Eleven?

My brother got married this weekend.  After the ceremony, a few of us were hanging out by our truck, talking in the rather large parking lot.  We were talking about swing dancing downtown that night, but we were 11 dollars short on cash.  I sat in the passenger's seat because I was ready to go.  I'm a watcher.  I'll sit there and watch a scene, even if nothing is happening.  I was staring across the street, out the windshield.  I glanced down at my phone, then looked up and saw an old man wearing a red shirt, kneeling down to pick something up off the ground.  He went over to everyone who was still standing around talking, and asked if it belonged to any of them.  My wife said it wasn't hers, but she'd take it.  The man began to walk away.  I got out of the truck and went around to meet them, and in her hand I saw a ten and a one.  The man was nowhere to be found.

God vs. Tape

About half a year ago, the driver's side window of our truck fell into the door, somehow having freed itself from the track it is supposed to slide on.  We haven't been able to afford getting it fixed, so we've been using duct tape to hold it closed.  Today I was taking a nap in the car during my lunch hour at work, and the heat from the sun had melted the tape and the window fell half-way down.  I took off the useless melted tape and pulled the window back up.  Holding it there, I asked God to please hold the window up until I could tape it again.  I let go, and it stayed.  Tapeless.  When I got off work, I went out to the car and the window was still completely up.  Here's the kicker: on the way home, I prayed the simple prayer, "thanks God, you can let go now," and instantly it began to fall until I braced it with my arm.  I held it up the rest of the way home and re-taped it when I got there.

This is what I'm talking about.  I plan on putting out more posts like this, as often as this kind of thing happens.

Ask, and you shall receive.

Today, I felt God.

I asked him to touch me with his Spirit.

I felt that my heart was hardened.

I asked him to soften my heart and touch me.

And He did.

When I started this blog, I had this clever "line theory" that I used to describe how we live our lives. A while ago, I realized how stupid that "theory" is, if that's what you want to call it. I have been collecting a set of principles to help me live the best life I can, but all it's turning out to be is a list of rules to follow when dealing with other people.

I once met a man who in the story of my life plays the oracle. He is always there if you know where to look, and he only tells you what you need to hear to get where you need to go. He has a saying, which I have adopted as my new life motto:

I will never quit.
I will never give up.
And when I fall, I will fall forward
And pause on my knees to pray
Before I get back up again.

This saying doesn't have a cool name like the 'line theory,' but it is a step in the right direction. I am looking for the answer to a huge question in my life, and now I know exactly what I need to do to find it. It starts with God.

Today, I asked God to touch me, and He did. And there is a pool of tears on my bedroom floor to prove it.