chang|e one’s mind

this entry might be a little cliche, but bear with me.

last week i had the fortuitous chance to fill up on gas for 2.27/gal while everywhere else were selling for 2.47 and up.  i was soooooo excited.  i twittered, which gets sent to my facebook as well, i bust out my camera phone and took pictures of the gas price tower thing where the gas station sign is.  i mean, i was going crazy.  i was ecstatic.  i was really running low on gas and was waiting an extra day or so to fill up on gas hoping it would go down and then i run into this.  it was as if fate had drawn my gas-guzzling suv into this shell gas station at that moment to quench it’s insatiable and expensive thirst for this liquid gold.

as i’m driving out of the gas station an on my way home with a smug, content, “take that, world!” look on my face, it hits me.  am i that excited to save 20 cents per gallon on some gas?  (YES!!!!)  ok, i am.  dude, i saved at least 3 bucks and some change on that one gas trip.  but then i thought about it.  why aren’t i that excited about Jesus?  He’s definitely worth more than the 3 bucks i saved right then.  doesn’t He deserve a twitter update?  (and an excited one at that).  and if i could take a pic of Jesus with my camera phone, i definitely would’ve posted it up on facebook in a heartbeat.  why am i not as excited about this person who is way bigger than discount gas?  that kind of put me in my place.  really put things into perspective.

excitement.  pwned.

so i was coming out of church this past sunday and i see that one of my windshield wipers was up.  the other had a piece of paper stuck in it like one of those flyers people stick on your car.  but i was at church.  what could this be?  sometimes there are these korean businesses that like to stick things in your windshield wiper so that’s what i thought it was.  it’s funny because our pastor just gave a sermon about turning God’s house of prayer for all nations into a den of thieves and here someone put a flyer on my car windshield for advertising their business at church.  how ironic i thought.  until i saw what it was.

it was a sunday bulletin from another church.  i thought, “how jacked up is it if this church is advertising their church on the windshields of cars parked at another church?”  i looked around to see if other cars had it on their windshields too.  they didn’t.  which made me think someone was just putting the bulletin on my windshield to play a joke on me.  but it made me think about if churches were so desperate to gain new members that they would advertise in the parking lots of other churches.  man.  whoever did that, you don’t know this, but you could’ve started an inter-church war.  wow, it would’ve been pretty bad if i went up and talked to one of the pastors at that other church and started accusing them of advertising their church at our church.  dirty joke my friend.  dirty joke.

<- i saw this on the road a couple weeks ago.  i thought it was funny how a tae kwon do school is available for birthday parties.  i wondered what kind of birthday party that would be.  “hey son!  for your 25th birthday, we signed you up for tae kwon do!” or “we bringing tae kwon do to you for your baby’s first birthday!!”  interesting…

k, this next one i -> took in  decatur.  today.  i couldn’t believe it!  2.27/gal!!!  plus i was running low on gas.  how fortunate!!  while all other gas stations around me were 2.47-2.55/gal, i see this miraculous gas station.  i thought for sure it was one of those old, run down gas stations that still have prices from like 3 years ago on it, but then i saw that it was open.  freaking awesome!!

<- this is my school hallway.  nothing really interesting about it.  i just wanted to take a picture of my school hallway.  that’s actually how i found the mysterious 2.27 gas station.  it was on the way to school.  i sat here waiting for one of the student services workers for a couple minutes.

here’s my spin on what’s in the news this week:

favre signs with minnesota vikings – wow, are you serious?  honestly, i used to have respect for you brett.  i had a lot of respect when you retired the first time.  i had a little less respect, but still some respect when you retired the second time thinking you had learned your lesson.  but now…  what the crap has happened to you?  you re-came out of retirement.  really?  i mean, really?  brett?  c’mon.  you’re cray-see.

kim dae-jung died – you are kind of like the korean equivalent to john mccain, except everyone in the country likes you instead of just one political party.  escaping death a couple times and fighting for democracy in korea has earned you a permanent spot in the hall-of-respect.  oh yeah, and you won the freaking nobel peace prize.

vick signs with eagles – you know what?  i really like you michael vick.  i don’t care what everyone else says.  i think you learned your lesson, even though it was a really stupid and costly lesson to learn.  your crime goes up there with winona ryder shoplifting from saks.  i mean, why?  but still, if strong christians like donovan mcnabb and tony dungy have faith in you, i do too.  i hope you do really well to show everyone you really deserved a second chance.

tiger beaten in a major – go y.e. yang!  wow, amazing.  tiger said he played well, but just couldn’t finish his putts.  way to take advantage yang!!  it’s funny how you have only appeared on the pro tour 8 times and have won only 2 asian cup matches and yet you took down THE TIGER.  haha, he said he doesn’t look forward to a rematch.

lutherans to vote on ordaining sexually active homosexuals – martin luther would be spinning in his grave if he knew this was happening in his namesake’s denomination.  the pc(usa), the episcopals, and now the lutherans are having a vote.  i find it kinda sad that people are arguing about how to interpret the scripture on this.  people pro-gay are saying that their interpretation of Scripture is correct and is being attacked, while the pro-straight are saying that it’s all about the authority of Scripture.  if only you were alive martin luther…