POSER

I love Television.
One of my Favorite shows is DEXTER. If you haven't seen it, put it in your NETFLIX cue after you smack yourself in the side of the head. It's a show about a blood splatter analysis expert who works for the Miami PD. Here's the catch. He's a serial killer. I know, how awesome is that? My favorite season guest starred John Lithgow as the nemesis of DEXTER. He killed people as well, and DEXTER wanted to kill him because he kept getting away with it. The best part was when DEXTER followed him home and he found out that....

wait for it...
wait for it...

The Guy was a Christian.
OF COURSE.

I'm a Christian too, but I haven't got to the part in my Men's Bible Study where they teach us to impale people with metal spikes. Must be late in the Old Testament.

The real funny thing to me is how little this bothers me. I didn't even notice until my Brother In Law (Non-Believer Atheist, but Good Guy nonetheless) pointed it out to me. We were watching some show where there was a psycho religious guy running around being a jerk. He than so eloquently said, "See, that's what Hollywood thinks of YOU."

Wow, very poignant when you think about it.

My relationship with Christ has become extremely important to me over the last year. I take time throughout the week to INTENTIONALLY fill my spiritual bucket. This is not a casual relationship that I'm working on here. I'm not taking Jesus out for a couple of drinks every other week when all of my other plans fall through. Jesus is #1 on my speed dial, I take a lot of time cultivating this relationship.

It is my new mission in life to make God my number one priority. I am NOT there yet. I have many moments throughout EVERY day that this truth is made abundantly clear to me. Jesus got NAILED TO A CROSS and died for me. He was MURDERED and BETRAYED by people he trusted..... FOR ME.....If somebody portrayed my Wife as a slut on national television, I would be PISSED. Members of my Church are being portrayed as MURDERERS, and I pause it so I can take a leak and not miss anything. I get REALLY MAD when I see somebody wearing a San Francisco Giants hat, but being portrayed as a psychotic zealot is cool with me....APPARENTLY.....

What does this mean?

It means I'm a religious POSER.
It means I'm a WANNA-BE.
I should start a blog and name it that.

What do you do when you choose a new lifestyle that uses the greatest man of all time as it's example?
Well, you fail a lot I guess. I know I do.

But what an amazing challenge! This life in Christ is so daunting, but so exciting at the same time.

I'm the type of person that needs some sort of outlet to get through tough times. This is what I'll be rambling about in this blog.


God Bless You all.