Wednesday, December 10, 2008

An Abrupt Consciousness

I woke up this morning with quite a piercing first thought: I'm only praising God because I want something from Him.

Woah. That's not usually how I start most days, but I'm really thankful for such a blunt awareness as that. I've really been praying for a job, but lately I've been so focused on the job part that I've been trying to "use" God. I need to change that because that's a really crooked way to treat Jesus. He is worthy of praise no matter what I go through, no matter what I have, no matter what I lose. Always. And today has been different, and I'm really glad that God showed me that so that I could change it.

I went skating today, and landed a new trick... well, I landed a fakie heelflip--a familiar trick--over the largest flat gap I've ever tried it over (around three feet). It doesn't sound like much, but I cleared it completely and rolled away smooth. It was definitely a highlight of today. Here's a sequence of the very talented Kellen James doing a fakie heel down a more sizable gap:

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I really admire you for accepting the gentle criticism from God and for being willing to change because you love God so much. You are a godly man chasing after holiness and I love that about you :)