i just spent a week in san diego visiting 3 friends. one is from middle school in pennsylvania. one is from high school in arizona. and one is from study abroad in spain. and they are all great in different ways. i am so blessed to have so many quality friends from all the different parts of my life. it just sucks that one best friend is in cali and the other in kansas. with no hope of reuniting for a permanent amount of time. guess thats what happens when you get "old."
so i laid by the beach every day, got nice and tan, drank a lot of beer and wine, wake-boarded, swam in the ocean, finished one great book and started another, saw shamu (while drunk), and just had a great time. a much needed vacation.
now i'm back to work. i feel re-energized to get back and do my job. summer was just overwhelming. i'm sure once school starts (in a week and a half) i will be so incredibly overloaded that i'll be singing a different tune but for now, i'm okay.
i was wondering, hypothetical situation: you are a great preacher, missionary, whatever. you can spit the best gospel game even in your sleep. you preach biblical truths but in your personal life you aren't living them. doesn't this discredit you? or say all of the above but a lot of people don't really like you. not dislike you because of what you preach but because of who you are. what good is it to be a great "preacher" but have no one like you? or to be a great christian but be an inconsiderate, inconsistent, crazy person?
i'm stuck. because i know that i'm living my life inconsistently and i'm not following the path god would probably want for me, but does that mean i can't guide people in biblical truths? take the plank out of your own eye before taking the speck out of your brothers... but the truth is that he probably has a plank just like me. is it humble to think you are the only one with the plank and everyone else has a minor wood chip? am i making any sense?
i'm a little off-centered because i haven't been to yoga in awhile. i went to pilates and while it was a great workout, it wasn't relaxing enough for me. damn work for making me have to give up yoga. bagh.
oh now i remember why i haven't blogged-- i have nothing to say. sorry.
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forgot you had this--so glad to have found it again :) i'm not a best friend but looks like you've got lots of friends all across the US--me too, boo to that! i want you all close and for myself.
sometimes, honestly, i pray/day dream that i win the lottery...one of the things i'd buy is a pretty/cute little subdivision with houses for all of my friends :) and maybe some mail order husbands. but definitely the houses.
:) miss you.
Post. more. Please :)
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