my daddy rich.

my daddy rich.

(it just doesn’t seem like thats the way I prefer to describe it)

We all claim the verse, “My God owns the cattle on a thousand hills.” Once we really think about what we are saying, I think we can find better ways of saying God has everything.

Cattle on a thousand hills
$1000.00 per cow
800 cows on a ranch
That equals $800,000.00. nice but not the end of the equation.

Each 500 acre ranch has 70 hills (lets assume1 hill every 7 acres)
One cow per every 1.5 acres (average, but depending on vegetation and precipitation)
1.5 x 7 = 10.5 (you cannot count the cows not on the hills)
So 7 hills = 10.5 cows x 1000 hills = 10,500 cows. Impressive.
However 10,500 x 1000.00 per cow is only $1,050,000.00

Sure, that makes God a millionaire, but not that rich. Let’s choose another way of saying abundance. The above is nice metaphor but there are better ways to say this.

I encourage you, my readers to contribute with your very own ways of stating the abundance of God. Please contribute below by clicking on the comment button.

blake lewis - ep.

i bought blake's new ep tonight from itunes. below is the review i left on itunes.


ok, so, my expectations were normal; we've seen, heard and loved all these blake tunes in the past twelve weeks. so i thought, great, i can get 'em on my ipod. wrong. they are produced, polished, professional and pointless. where is the emotion? where is blake taking the lp from the shelf, placing it on the turntable, the turntable noise and the raw shot to the heart? nowhere. they went to the studio and tried to give it a spit shine and there is way too much spit here.

even though my expectations were average when considering blake, i guess i should have lowered them considering the production and producing. maybe i'm just expecting too much musicallhy from american idol. they say it is a singing competition, but it is not (www.votefortheworst.com). maybe they need to have different expectations for the american public.

back to blake. good ep, just not great. also, congratulations on winning american idol. how did you win? by getting to make your record without all the "i won american idol drama". we all know second place it the winner (or fourth if you ask chris daughtry).

Hillcrest Church - Pastor Mark's Blog: King Herod's Tomb

Hillcrest Church - Pastor Mark's Blog: King Herod's Tomb

interesting stuff. this is my church and my pastor's blog.

nostalgic music.

bought some cool retro music tonight. let the covers speak for themselves.

mc hammer was so good, i had to add two pics.

movement.

In the May 14 issue of People Magazine, there is an interview with Russell Simmons a rap music industry pioneer and media mogul. The interview covers everything from the Imus flap to his plea to remove three offensive words from hip hip music. The last question asked of him was in reference to his new book (Do You! 12 Laws to Access the Power in You) and he was asked to state the one law to achieve success and happiness. His response was interesting. 'Get your mind right. That speaks to meditation and prayer. All of our movements are prayers. Every statement we make and every thought we have is a prayer. And what are we praying for?'

Interesting. It got me thinking. What was my prayer to my wife before she left for work? What was my prayer to the girl that made my venti, half caf, dry, two pump, sugar free, cinnamon dolce, latte wrong? What is my nonverbal prayer to the guy who cut me off or the bum I snubbed? What is my prayer to those with aids in Africa or the poor in east Dallas?

If my every movement is a prayer…
I need to move less
and act more.
I need to be more deliberate
and less selfish.
I need to Love more and
waist less,
Be less frantic and
more determined,
Listen more,
talk less
Hate less, and
pray more positive prayers.

My friend Shawn told me a story about a boy that asked a traveling missionary a question about prayer. The small boy who looked up to this missionary with hero status asked, “how long do you pray each day?” To which the missionary replied, “I haven't prayed in forty years.”

I think Mr. Simmons and Mr. Missionary were speaking the same language.

snack culture

i love a good meal. i love to take my time and order everything. last summer i met some french friends for lunch in paris. they requested we have a good french meal. michelle explained that meant, no rush, plenty of courses and most importantly, plenty of good conversation.

after navigating my way through a menu of goose liver pate, frog legs and escargot (snails), i found course after course of the most incredible food being brought to the table, each entree good for the body and the pallet, each plate better than the one before. the food enriched the conversation and vice versa. truly one of the best meals ever.

meanwhile back in the states we chow down on fast 'food' and faster conversation. we seldom emerse ourselves in culinary courage or cleaver conversation. we don't digest, we conquest. and although we think we get more, we wind up empty; malnourished, lacking necessary substance but looking acceptable and pretending we feel good. we don't need more snacks of substance but meals of significance.

make exchanges count.
* eat a good meal and enjoy it.
* spend time with a friend and talk about nothing important but everything substantial.
* go without instead of settling for.
* journal anything of value and keep it alive longer.
* value today and all its wonder

stop nibbling and start digesting.

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