The Progression of a Relationship...

Old Testament:
Love - Marraige - Live Together - Sex (based off of a few stories)

New Testament:
?????? - (not too much on anything)

Friends TV Show:
Date - Sex - Babies - Love - Live Together - Engaged - Marriage

MCC:
Gossip - Date - Love - Engaged - Marriage - Live Together - Sex - Babies

Worship Allah...

I was invited to attend an Islamic mosque today.

At first I thought it was moving. The paintings in the lobby area, the reverence that people shared by takin off their shoes, the visualizations involved in each prayer. It was inspiring.

I've always wanted to be a disciplined person. And I'm not. The disciplined involved in the Islamic religion is so attractive. It makes me want to follow the practice of daily prayers. That at 5 certain times throughout the day I stop whatever my life is doing and pray.

Throughout the message I was my normal analytical self, trying to find similarities and differences in the phrases and thoughts. This particular speaker (I don't know the proper title) used a lot of the same phrases that I hear from Joel Osteen. A lot of spirituality, but not much message. But overall it was a good lesson.

At the end of the message there was a time of prayer with the entire group. I had to make a split decision whether to head for the lobby or move to the front with everyone else to pray. I decided to participate. This is where I start to get a little uneasy. Was that a poor decision? I am not a practicing Muslim, but there I was, standing and sitting, knealing and prayer, with everyone else. Was this the wrong thing to do? A good translation would be if a practicing Muslim came to a worship service and partook in the Lord's Supper. Is that ok?

I believe there is a lot of truth in the Islamic religion. Especially in their practices and disciplines. But I'm trying to decipher my uneasiness right now. Is it the stigma against other religions that I was brought up on, or is it my conscience telling me I did something wrong? Maybe both?

Found Wanting...

I want to be known as a man who does what he says he's going to do.

I want to be known as a man who is authentic.

I want to be known as a man who will put your needs above his own.

I want to be known as a man who you can call to ask a favor, and he'll do it. No Questions.

I want to be known as a man who is doing what he thinks is right.

I want to be known as a man who doesn't slide his way through.



But more than being known as the man who does all these things:

I want to BE all of these things. Because I'm not. And I feel like I'm faking my way through it all. So I will now get up, away from this computer. And start doing them.

-kHub