remember: you can't spell "conviction" without "fun"...(sortof)

Oh yeah, by the way, after writing that last post I have come to realize that I actually do the very thing that I was talking about. It has happened several times in the past couple of weeks.

(1) The guy at the rental car store asked me what I was doing for Thanksgiving. I'm not proud to admit that all I remember thinking at the time was, "why does this guy care?" and "when is he going to stop talking to me". I was not interested in real conversation because I knew that I would get nothing out of it. I couldn't wait to get home to my "real friends" on Facebook. Ha!

(2) The guy at the video store asking what we did for Thanksgiving...same story really. I just wanted to rent "The Holiday" and get out of the store before I had to have real face-to-face interaction with someone... It turned out to be a very long movie about love and stuff; not Jack Black's best...

(3) The guy at Guitar Center who wanted to talk to me after I had demoed a guitar. (It was a really cheap G&L Legacy, but turned out to be a fake...) He wanted to talk about guitars and I just remember trying my hardest to get away from the conversation...he had funny glasses too.

So anywho; the bottom line: Any time I try and comment on someone else's actions, always put it into the context of my own life...always. I am trying to just love whomever God puts in front of me...absolutely anyone...

We live in a world where people are freaked out if you take an interest in them for no reason. It is absurd for someone to take an interest in another just because they want to get to know them for no reason. I think that's why the gospel is so hard to grasp, because I don't do anything to become a child of God...nothing. We prefer to interaction via some sort of impersonal device (text message, Facebook, blogging, email)...absolutely ANYTHING but actually talking to a person face-to-face. That's just crazy talk really. We're a very funny people group.

Pieces. GO STUFF!