Wow, everytime I post I write this--but it's true: it's been FOREVER since I last posted (not including the poem I wrote a few days ago).
Met with my bro a few days ago. We are crazy different. It's always interesting to be with him but afterwards I am always pretty ponderous.
I purchased John Mayer's "Continuum" (his latest cd) on Itunes. I LOVE it! The first 7 songs are all really good. I especially like "Heart of Life." It sounds different, even Beatle-esque.
I usually reflect and reminesce on either time, people, life or God in my posts but, hmm, in this one I have just written about none of that "deep" stuff.
"Life is in Christ and nothing else really matters...Everything is an opportunity in Christ to grow." I'd like to make this my mantra. It is such a great saying and it sort of reminds me of Ephesians 3:19: "that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God" in that you can get so much out of the words if you emphasize them at different points. Let me explain...
Ephesians 3:19 is FILLED with numerous emphatic words like FILLED, MEASURE< ALL, GOD, FULLNESS. All these words are used in a single sentence and all of them are used to emphasize the unfathomable DEPTH and BREADTH that GOD encompasses. Trying saying the sentence and emphasizing a different emphatic word each time (i.e. FILLED to the measure of all the fullness of God...filled to the MEASURE of all the fullness of God...filled to the measure of ALL the fullness of God...filled to the measure of all the FULLNESS of God...filled to the measure of all the fullness of GOD).
Fun huh? Now try reading through Ephesians 3:19 and emphasizing all the emphatic words (i.e. FILLED to the MEASURE of ALL the FULLNESS of GOD).
Now lets try this little ditty using my mantra: "LIFE is in Christ and nothing else really matters...everything is an opportunity in Christ to grow; Life is in CHRIST and nothing else really matters...everything is an opportunity in CHRIST to grow; Life is in Christ and NOTHING else really matters...everything is an opportunity in Christ to grow; Life is in Christ and nothing else REALLY matters...everything is an opportunity in Christ to grow; Life is in Christ and nothing else really matters...EVERYTHING is an opportunity in Christ to grow; Life is in Christ and nothing else really matters...everything is an OPPORTUNITY in Christ to grow;
Life is in Christ and nothing else really matters...everything is an opportunity in Christ to GROW.
Finally here's the mantra with all the emphatic words emphasized (LIFE is in CHRIST and NOTHING else REALLY matters...EVERYTHING is an OPPORTUNITY in CHRIST to GROW).
Don't you get a lot more out of the words after going through that exercise?
Speaking of exercise I haven't done any in the last 10 days. Plus, I've been eating a lot of crap When I don't exercise and eat lots of crap instead of gaining weight I tend to lose it. Crazy.
On that note I'm going to stop procrastinating and mow the lawn and then shoot some hoops mos def.
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