Ok I am asking for your help and participation on this!
I realize that I am not very down, or hip I should say, with being up to date on what’s new and fresh and cool. So I am in dire need of some support. I manage the playlist that plays music while people are walking in to church and leaving. Also I usually pick the songs for the sermon series. So here is my request, comment or email me at jamisoncsmith@gmail.com, and let me know what you guys are listening to. It can be christian, not christian, rap, blue grass, country ( i need help there because I don’t like country but I do understand we are in auburndale) whatever.
Now please try to make it clean stuff, not eff this and efff that or any of that I want to sex your body stuff. Let me know what you want playing and what you like singing along to.
I already know Michael wants me to put “all the single ladies” on there.
For the 3 of you die hard fans who have not completely given up on me ever blogging again.
This one’s for you!
For those of you who have been going to RPC pretty regularly lately, please raise your hands……… I’m sorry little japanese guy could you raise it a little hig…… oh sorry that’s as far as you can go.
Anyway, for those of you who were around for translate, Timm talked about some really intense stuff (I’m sure your asking, when isn’t Timm talking about intense stuff but go with me here) mainly translate was about translating the word and lessons we hear into our every day lives. ( I am sure those of you who were there are all hurry up already… well please stop being rude and I will) Then today Chris was talking about differences decisions. To water that down for ya, he was talking about how life is full of decisions and usually the easy choice is the wrong decision.
So I wrote all that to say butterflies and fairy farts…………
or what I really wanted to say was, I know how much Timm and Chris have tried to convince you that applying this to your life is well worth the trouble. What I have wrote all this today to tell you is, it seriously is. It is really easy to hear that you need to apply these lessons, and let that go in one ear and out the other. Yet when you get on the other side and actually begin to see them take affect, you experience a life that is full. This is the part of being a christian that a lot of people miss. The part where you grow closer to the maker, which I don’t know about you, but I am pretty sure that’s better than any home run, hole in one, or prize catch I could ever imagine!
This may not be as big a deal as it is to you, but knowing the choices I have and making the hard but right decision, is a really big deal for me.
As most of you already know, I now have an iphone. I know I know it’s like the time Jim and Pam finally got together. We have always meant to be and now we finally are.
So for those of you out there that have had iphones and have had a lot of time to play with them, I would like to get some input from you.
What applications have you found that you just can’t live without? Are there any out there that you recommend I get?
Also if you know of any cool tricks or interesting things that you have discoverd you can do with your iphone, lemme know.
I know I am not very good at this and that I should do it more often. I know you deserve better and a lot more time than I give you. I am really excited about what our church is doing to show your love to the world. What they have planned to help those that are hurting and in desperate need of you. That’s why, when I do come to you, I find it difficult to tell you how I feel. Too many people die everyday because they don’t have what I use to keep my lawn looking nice. Too many kids start out life without a chance.
I’m spoiled rotten.
I don’t appreciate what you have given to me. I take for granted everyday that I’m not getting what I deserve. When there are people out there who don’t even know what you did for them. Yet I let my insecurities be my downfall. I let my selfish ME attitude keep me from showing people that
You.
Are.
Love.
A love I don’t deserve. A love I can’t comprehend. So when I come to you God, and I say that I am hurting and that I feel lonely. I love the fact that You love me. Amongst all the BS I bring to the table. You still love me.
I know I don’t put my faith in you enough. I know how tiny I make you out to be.
Thank you for being bigger than I am.
I pray tomorrow my actions and the actions of your church will make you smile.
I pray we can put our faith in you and stop trying to fit you in the little god box we made for you, your one massive God…. no that wasn’t a fat joke…. ok now it was. But seriously I pray we can collectively share Your love with those who need it most.
I guess I need to sleep now.
Good night God. I wasn’t serious about the fat joke, I guess I will answer for that one day.
nor did I cry when I saw his body in the hospital.
almost but not when I saw my mother break down in the hospital.
Yet when I got my cell phone finally working and listened to the barrage of voice-mails and texts to see how I was doing and if I needed anything… I just couldn’t hold it back any longer.
It is 12:30 and I can’t sleep. I have been lying in bed trying to shutdown the race track that is my head. I have been in constant prayer. I can’t stop praying. I can’t stop praying for RPC. I can’t stop praying for God’s will for this church. I can’t stop praying and thanking God for the staff at RPC and the people who make up the church. I can’t stop praying because I think the publix building is too small a prayer, God is too big for that to be it. I can’t stop praying because there is a God sized plan, there is a God sized plan that is happening and I don’t want to miss it.
So lets do this thing, lets break this bread and start this party. I want so badly to see the works of God being done in this city, I want so badly to be doing the works of God in this city. As peter said “You are the Christ the son of the Living God!” as someone I once knew would say “If that doesn’t light your fire then your woods wet!”
