Today at transparent we were going through Philippians 3:1-11. It was pretty challenging trying to figure out how I really want to live my life. Thinking about what my current goals in my life, and are they really oriented toward pursuing God, or just a random pursuit that I love but will be frivolious.
It does make sense when I think about why pursuing things on earth will be futile. Because I will eventually die, and I can’t really keep all those things I do. Like doing a backflip, I won’t be able to do it when I am 70 years old. =)
But I guess it is really the end goal of what I do that really matters. And these skills, stuff, talents that I have, are like tools God gives me to play with and to use to learn how to love and have more faith in him.
Am I right? I’m not sure because I am kind of tired right now.
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On a sidenote, I was at the batting cages with Paula today. I had her in the cage and I used around 6 tokens, so she tried to hit around 108 balls. I hit around 72.
When I was talking to Paula, she was asking me about “why am I hitting these balls, won’t a pitcher be different than a machine and throwing it inside, outside, and all around? This won’t be like a real game”.
I came back telling her that “You are really working on trying to get a feel for the ball and how it is hitting off the bat. Mostly about learning to recognize where you should move and controlling your swing. It is all about learning consistency in how you approach and hit”
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So that little blurb above kind of made me think about my dating life. I was talking to one of the guys and he was talking about how he wanted to date in such a way that the Girl knew “he loved God first, and wanted her to really love God, and him second and that is how the relationship would be” That is how he said it.
Durning bible study, one of my friends asked about do I talk about my religious resume on date (teach children sunday school etc) . I really try not too, I might make a comment on a date if they ask me about kids, but it comes out saying I help out with 6th graders at church. Why do I not talk about it that much, well I think number one, if I am living out a life for Christ, it should be evident in how I treat my date. She doesn’t need to hear it from me, if she can experience it with the way I treat her. That is mostly the big reason.
Okay, todays random spill of words is over. I’ll try again tomorrow.
