today started much like any monday of post-camp trip analysis (note that this is DRIPPING with irony and sarcasm)... drawing on the chalkboard and feeling glee that someone had recognized my statue of liberty, thus realizing that the other lines symbolized the tip of manhattan and the jersey coast (if you really call what lies along the hudson river a "coast") - thankfully, i'd gone to bed WAY early last night and was wide awake for the first period mission trip presentation to the juniors and seniors... just kinda going over some of the basics and whetting their appetites to become involved in the details...
at the office, i started to check the main internetty things which i do and discovered a couple of embedded videos on decapolis which caught my attention... one for the song "closer arrows" by monarch which was cleverly done - the other was a trailer for an upcoming documentary put together by ben stein (yeah, the guy from ferris buhler and win ben stein's money) - intriguingly, it's about how scientists have been ostracized in the scientific community for putting forth the possibility of a Creator God...
meanwhile, i'd left open a tab to northern records (the label for monarch) - and noticed a link for a podcast by the band luxury - so i started listening to it... since luxury is definitely on my list of top 5 favorite acts out of georgia (along with mars ill, joe christmas, dear ephesus and third day)... well, as i listened to the song "shake more hands, give more hugs", i remembered that i had never purchased their album which they put out on northern in 2005 (some 6 years after their previous album)... hmmm - i always loved to sing the falsetto with them and sarah always hated when i did...
anyhow, as i thought about the lyrics and my general proclivity toward introversion, i was reminded once again to thank God for bringing Jon Price and i together at pyn and him asking about snow camp (i probably would have never gotten kids together to go if i wouldn't have known anybody there)... so God's still working to get us where He wants us to be - even those of us too scared for our own good... and yes, He's not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power, of love and self-discipline... so i'll keep working to "shake more hands, give more hugs"
I will try to be more fun
Tell a joke or lie in the sun
Shake more hands and give more hugs
Smile like I did when I was youngFor I don't want to die
Without a smileIt's the little things that make our lives this way
It's the sadness of every day
But I'll try to sing more happily and not ruin your day
...and yes, interestingly enough, i started this blog with the thought that "all the randomness does still come back to a point..."
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Shaking hands and giving hugs. It's amazing what little effort it takes to make people feel loved, or at least noticed, and what a huge difference it can make.
That introvert inside dies hard.
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