Comming Soon!

I’ll have another blog ready and published soon. for now feel free to look back at my past stuff.

Twitterpated

After reading through Steph’s blog, i remembered that I have a twitter account. I haven’t accessed it much but its there. I can be such a tool when it comes to this stuff.

Annoying!

A few months ago we held a prayer meeting in the chapel. During the course of the evening words of prophesy started showing up. There were some real inspiring words given as well as some not so inspiring ones. Giving further validation to a silent theory I’ve had that on even the best of days prophesy can be hit or miss. So here’s where things begin to get annoying. One man gets up and points to my wife and I and asks us to stand so that he can give us a word. I begin to prepare myself to hear the usual “God wants to bless you and I’m hearing more of this and more of that, thus sayeth the Lord”. Oh, I wish it had been that generic. This man begins to prophesy that Tara and I are going to have twins (miniature humans that are born on the same date, from the same mother and sometimes even look the same). Ugh! Now before you start judging me for my reaction, hear me out and do so knowing that any comments left to this blog that are meant to “Change my mind” or “Enlighten” me will not only fail but fail miserably.

If you know anything about prophesy, then you know that it is mean to confirm a word that God has already given someone. A word of prophesy will, as they say, bear witness with something God has already warned or spoken to the heart of the person/s receiving the word. This separates it from being a word of knowledge or a word of wisdom. So, now that you and I have our theology straight I can continue. Tara and I have prayed, talked and prayed some more about the issue of us having children. especially since several of our married peers are interested in having kids (which by the way is no sin and I certainly pray that they are successful in that endeavor). But as for Tara and I, we don’t see the need for us to have children at this time. I for one am not too proud to admit that I am too selfish to be trusted with a child. We lead fast paced lives that don’t coincide well with the healthy upbringing of a child. I would imagine that a child would need proper nourishment, adequate sleep, positive reinforcement from a parent ( as opposed to sarcastic abuse). I am simply not prepared to go there. I stay up late, we hang out till all hours with friends, we eat garbage (not literally), and lets face it if the kid poops on the floor, I am more apt to smacking him on the nose with a newspaper.

The other day I led the Tuesday night prayer meeting and after we finished a lady came up to me and said ” I felt the need to pray for you and your wife, the Lord told me that you were going to have a baby before a year”. What year, I don’t know. I can only assume that she meant that before 365 were over Tara and I would have a child. I gave her the most Churchy-political response I could. Well needless to say, God must have changed his mind on the twins thing. Im afraid Im going to have to call this what it is, CRAP. Everyone loves a good romance especially when the story ends something like, and they all lived happily ever after. So you have a young married couple, they are in the ministry, whats next? Kids of course! Either people believe that were in a hurry to fulfill the american dream or they are trying to live vicariously through us. Either way they are wrong. So let it be known, Marc and Tara are NOT trying to get pregnant, they DO NOT want children at this time, Marc DOES pray over the birth control. If God wanted us to have kids, he himself would tell us, probably with a blue plus sign. Anyway, thats whats annoying me this week.

Green thumb

I got the chance to work in the yard today, something I haven’t done in a while. Its actually pretty relaxing. I find that strange considering I’m yanking on a starter cable to get either the weed-eater or lawn-mower going. Other than that though it’s plug in the ipod and go. I pulled some weeds and watered some plants. All in all I came in happy with my work and having spent a couple hours to my thoughts, overall content. What various thoughts did my mind produce you ask? Well, rest assured they will probably find their way into another blog or sermon really soon, otherwise they’re non of your business.