Get to know a side of Christianity you probably never knew existed…
Dec
22
Readers note: I have no stats. I have no polls. I just have raw information and mental notes from my 4+ years of ministry, and what I have witnessed in the lives of youth pastors around me. Take this as you will…
He’s the other guy…
Yeah, he’s a pastor but he’s not “the” pastor…
“Oh, is that your pastor? He’s kinda young.” … “No, he’s the guy that babysits the youth”…
One of the most sought after, yet looked down upon, positions on a church staff is the position of the youth pastor. No one staffer is judged so much on their ability due to sex, age, married status, or culture (music, dress, etc…). No other staffer has a shorter life expectancy within a single church (18 months on average). No other staffer is bogged down by ministry. No other staffer is looked down upon so much because of one word in their title; youth.
If your church doesn’t have a youth pastor, but just someone who takes the teens to camp and on trips then you possibly have no idea what I’m referring to. However, if your church does have a youth pastor, paid or not paid, you may be well aware of the life your youth pastor lives daily. The struggle he/ she lives with daily. But, if you think your youth pastor is happy go lucky all the time, and has no problems either with his/her personal or ministry life then OPEN UP YOUR EYES!!!
More then ever walls are being placed around senior pastors to protect them and their families from the problems that arise personally and ministerially. Deacon and Elder boards stand strong to protect their fearless leader. However, downstairs in the youth room, on his computer alone working on next weeks sermon while hashing out ideas for the great kick off bash to school and the ski trip is youth pastor so and so. Drowning in a world of his own sorrow while no one sees the better.
Why is the job so tough for the youth pastor? It roughly boils down to two factors; relate-ability and performance.
Trying to find a youth pastor can become a long and tiring search finding someone who can “relate” to the teens. This relate-ability factor becomes a puzzle trying to connect four valuable pieces together.
- sex- this generally isn’t a factor, but because in most youth groups the girls outnumber the guys some churches reach out to a female leader in order to have someone who “relates” to the majority of the teen age base. None the less, female youth pastors tend to capture less respect from their and other church leaders. It’s almost as if you can’t be a real youth pastor and be a girl. I think male egos forget the numerous ways God used prophetesses in the OT and deaconesses in the early NT church.
- age- this is one of the many “happy mediums” the church committee will try to address in their search. If the leader is too old, people are afraid he can’t “relate” to the younger generation and their problems. If the leader is too young the fear is the teens will look upon him/her as just another youth and yield them no respect.
- Married status- this was the factor that drove me nuts at a previous church. Even though I dated my wife nearly the whole time there; the question always arose about when we were going to get married. Somehow, single youth pastors (and even senior pastors for the sake of the argument) are seen as incomplete. A wife somehow evolves them into fully developed youth pastor so and so.
- Culture- do you want a youth pastor who knows all about his teens culture (music, clothes, tv, movies, magazines) or do you want a youth pastor who is so heavenly minded their no earthly good? Sure you want the leader who can “relate”, but you also want the leader who can lead by their example as they seek God.
As the youth pastor struggles to find the happy medium within all of these characteristics they can often overwhelm their selves by trying to become too much of one thing or the other. What you end up with is a very unbalanced leader. An unbalanced leader trying to please his congregation and teens by what they think he should be.
However, the biggest headache for youth pastors comes on the heals of how well they’re performing. Their performance generally is based off nothing more then numbers. How many teens are they bringing in on Wednesday night? Are they growing? Are the numbers at least staying consistent? What new thing, band, giveaway is your leader doing to bring up these numbers? The congregation, while they wouldn’t admit it, could are less if the teens are growing in their faith. Most just want a larger group jumping around the strobe light before they eat pizza. On the flip side, while most pastors may like numbers to be up they mostly worry about their Sunday message. That’s a whole other blog…
Currently, some of the biggest books in youth ministry are about growing your numbers. If you go to any number of workshops or conferences you will learn the latest techniques for growing youth groups. Youth pastors know about this performance factor and live with the fear of under performing. If numbers decline or drop, leaders fear how this will look to their pastor, deacon, and elders. Fearing for their job youth pastors will grind their minds endlessly looking for a new way to grow their numbers. The fear of performing may shoot them into under performance unwittingly.
When you combine all these factors it’s no wonder the average youth pastor stays at a church for only 18 months. After a year of initial excitement numbers wane and he/she leaves for their next church just continuing this process over and over until they became a senior pastor and stay at churches for only three years!
Senior pastors, parishioners, and pew warmers take head! Help your youth pastor before he/she burns out from ministry overload!
- don’t just offer help; give it. As a youth pastor I can’t recall the amount of times I was offered help, but never received it. If you tell your leader you will do something for them follow through. Youth pastors need all the spare time they can get.
- acknowledge their hard work. When October rolls around most senior pastors are congratulated on a hard years work with food, gifts, cards, and hugs. Yet, most youth pastors receive nothing more then a handshake. You and your teens see the hard work he does, but you don’t see his/ her behind the scenes work. The stuff they do when no else is working. Often, their hardest work. Congratulate them on the job their doing. It may make it all worth it to them.
- be a shoulder. Youth pastors deal with tons of stress and usually have one of two places to turn; their spouse or themselves. If they are married their spouse may become overloaded with their problems and get burned out before their husband/ wife ever does. If the leader is unmarried he may have no where to go and keeps all their problems to them self. Offer them emotional support so they can openly talk about their trials and tribulations. When youth leaders have no where to go they sadly turn to addictions to heal their wounds.
Now go do something to show your youth pastor you love and support them. They need it!
Dec
10
Has anyone ever asked you guys to do something, and you had no idea how to do it? They just expect you to know how to do it. Perhaps your parents, teachers, friends, bosses, or anyone else. It’s really frustrating when you’re expected to do something you have no idea how to do.
I know I felt this frustration as a young Christian back at the church I attended while in high school… I was expected to study the word of God, but I had no idea how to do so. No one had taught me how to carefully read this word we call the Bible. No one explained to me the purpose to doing so in the first place. I understood I needed to do so, but I had no idea why or how I was going to accomplish this feat.
Perhaps, that may be the reason that some of you don’t pick up your word except on Wednesday nights or Sunday mornings. You hear your pastor tell you to study your word, but you really don’t why you are supposed to or how to. If you follow these notes you should see your time with God grow as you can’t help but dig deeper into the word of God.
When you first look at this thing it kinda looks like something you would be forced to read in a college Literature class. Its long, contains lots of weird concepts, and really doesn’t seem that exciting. I know for about the first 8 months after getting saved that’s the way I looked at the word. However, it wasn’t until I sat down and made a plan on how to attack this thing that I really realized just how amazing God’s word is. Tonight, each of us will hopefully make a plan for ourselves on reading the Word. However, first…
A. Why study the word?
You say, “I’ve got so much else to do. Why do I personally need to read the Bible every day? Besides, isn’t hearing my pastor talk about it good enough?” Well you can settle for the pastors in your life hand feeding you the word like a baby with a bottle, or you can grow up and learn to feed yourself.
- You will be blessed (Psalm 1:1-2) (Revelation 1:3)
- It will guide your life in Godliness (Psalm 119:105, Psalm 119:9, Psalm 119:11) This book will keep you from sin, and sin will keep you from this book.
- It encourages you
- It reveals to you the character of God (You’ll never truly God unless you read about him)
- It makes you stronger in your faith (Matthew 10:20)
Those are 5 short, but good reasons to read the Bible. Now you know why, so how do you do it. To begin with, here’s how not to do it!
- Just randomly selecting texts.
- Skipping entire books or sections
- Reading the Bible like it’s the newspaper ( you don’t read to be informed, but to be transformed)
- Before you go to bed or right after you get up, sleepiness will pull you into bed
Understand, those are all mistakes I made, and I can honestly tell you that whenever I made those mistakes I don’t remember learning anything. So now that we what not to do when studying the word how do we go about doing it?
First, get your supplies. It’s not just you and your Bible.
- You will need a pen or highlighter to highlight certain verses that mean something to you.
- Journal, whether in paper or online. Just reading it isn’t enough. You need to write down what the verses mean to you and how they apply to your life.
- Develop a hit list, a reading plan.
- Figure out what you’re gonna read. The 5 books you want to read the most.
- Figure how much time you’re gonna spend daily reading those selections.
- Figure out what time of day you plan on beginning your studies
- Once you figure out what you’re reading, how much time, and when you’re gonna do it, you will have a few questions to ask and find out about each book you study
- Make a year, 2 year, or however long plan to read the entire Bible from Genesis to Revelation
- You can read around 3 chapters a day (10- 15 minutes a day) and have read the entire Bible in a year.
- Perhaps you want to finish sooner, just decide how many chapters a day you will commit to reading. Whether it’s split up in both Old and New Testaments, or in just one Testament at a time.
Whatever you do, the goal is to get into the word, and not just merely read it but think about it and meditate on it.
Nov
23
If you have never read “Rome Sweet Home” by Scott Hahn, outlining he and his wife’s journeys into the Catholic Church I implore you to do so! It is a great read. He has many other great books but most of all I love to hear him speak. He speaks of his Catholic faith with so much passion its contagious! Watch part 1/6 of his interview on one of my favorite t.v. shows, “The Journey Home”. For the later parts go to youtube.com and search for Scott Hahn. Enjoy!
Nov
10
I was a child of the late eighties and early nineties. By the morning I was going to the land of make believe with Mr. Rogers, and by afternoon I was reading books with Levar Burton. I was a child of PBS, more precisely KCPT – 19 in Kansas City. Being a child of PBS I also grew up with the muppets of Sesame Street.
Sesame Street is celebrating its 40th anniversary and it has caused me to think back to all of my favorite SS memories.
- Burt and Ernie fishing in the lake. Burt can’t catch anything, but every time Ernie yells, “Here fishie, fishie, fishie” mounds of fish flop into the boat.
- Grover working as a waiter and serving the blue bald dude with the brown hair. Grover could never bring him back the right thing.
- Somehow finding a slight attraction to the saltry letter W.
- “Kermit dee frog heeree.”
The memory that comes back most of all was the episode that aired on Thanksgiving Day, in 1988 I believe it was, about the death of Mr. Hooper. What seems so weird is that months previously my uncle died of suicide in the army, but the death of a man, I admired on television daily, meant more to me as a three year old. Even watching this video now brings tears to my eyes.
What’s your favorite Sesame Street moment?
Nov
06
I have often wondered about this and finally wrote it down. Perhaps someone can answer this perplexion of a mystery for me.
If a mother/ father loses a young child to illness, disease, accident, etc… a pastor is quick to assure them that their child is saved because they hadn’t reached the age of accountability (this supposed time where one moment you’re not then the next you are culpable for your sins).
3 questions…
Where is the doctrine of the age of accountability in the Bible?
Also, how can a child go from being saved by Christ because of their ignorance one moment but then become unsaved because of their knowledge the next?
While in their ignorance what were they saved by? If by Christ, how did they lose this salvation or walk away from it when they became accountable?
Nov
06
(This is a post in collection with 100 other posts from Fallibleblogma.com in conjunction with support a Catholic speaker month. For more blogs on some of your favorite Catholic writers and apologists follow this link )
In the summer of 2001 when I was confronted with the Gospel, as a sophomore in High School, I encountered what would become two very important subjects to me; living passionately for Christ and pursuing sexual purity. As my years in High School progressed my fervor for abstinence increased as I became aware of how sexual perversion had flooded the hearts and minds of my friends and classmates. People were throwing away the beauty of their purity for the price of popularity or acceptance. Even sadder, teens from my own church were forsaking their own vows of chastity.
As time grew near for graduation I prepared for another big event in my life; my first time preaching at my church’s youth group. The first topic that came to mind was sexual purity. As I spent weeks preparing for my first sermon I had notes, examples, scriptures, and quotes running through my brain. On the last day at our Vo-tech I knew I had one last opportunity to share the truth about abstinence. In the middle of the lunch room I took my Bible out of my book bag and proclaimed the truth. As I talked about God’s plan for our sexuality the crowd grew until everyone in the vo-tech was there. I spoke for fifteen minutes until the bell rang and continued talking until I reached the High School.
As I look back over those years I remember a handful of us Christians who boldly stood for abstinence and wore our purity rings proudly. Yet, as I think back six years ago my memory of Catholics doing the same was scarce to none. When discussion about divorce, contraceptives, or other doctrine would come up the Catholics were more then willing to talk, however, when asked to be counted upon about sexual purity they were no where to be seen. Even though this was just a tiny percentage of the whole my experience from high school left a lasting effect with me. Years later, as a youth pastor, I could find endless articles and books by Protestant writers; however, no Catholic apologists or authors offered any perspectives on abstinence. Thankfully, in the fall of 2008 this was all changed.
In the midst of testing the claims of the Catholic Church I found myself being drawn to the sacraments, the Fathers, and the Church that Jesus founded. One of the most helpful resources was Catholic Answers and their daily radio show. One of the first episodes I heard was a purity open forum/ question and answer with Jason and Crystalina Evert. The passion Jason spoke with about abstinence and the love Crystalina poured out for young women gave me hope that my new home valued purity as much as I did. I was enthralled as I introduced this Godly couple to my then fiancée. As I looked toward the future I knew the Evert’s would become my go to resource on abstinence and purity.
Jason Evert, born 1976, was raised in a Catholic home. In a 2003 interview with Revolutionoflove.com, Jason states that his spiritual formation took foot his junior/ senior years in high school as he underwent confirmation. His priest and youth leader were major influences in their devotion to the Blessed Lady, the Pope, and the Eucharist. Their own spiritual hunger influenced him to dig more deeply into his own faith. Interviewed by the same website, Crystalina explains that she too was raised Catholic but during her high school years she “decided to do her own thing” and became sexually promiscuous. A torrent that continued for three years until she was forced by her mother to attend a chastity conference and came face to face with the truth of purity.
After graduating from the Franciscan University of Steubenville he spent three months working as an intern for Catholic Answers in San Diego, CA, yet declined a job in order to pursue his Masters Degree in Theology and a minor in philosophy. Upon finishing his degree in 1999 he returned to California for a job as an apologist at Catholic Answers. He has since been working for Catholic Answers speaking to over 100,000 students annually at Colleges, Universities, Junior and High Schools with his wife of six years Crystalina. After meeting at a chastity conference in the Bahamas they began speaking together for a year as an engaged couple. They are regular guests on the radio show Catholic Answers Live and have also appeared on the BBC, FOX News, WGN, and EWTN. Six years ago they were awarded the 2003 Impact Award from the National Abstinence Clearinghouse, with whom they are board members, for their work with teens.
Besides Crystalina and his speaking engagements; Jason is an avid writer. In addition to writing articles for This Rock magazine he has written ten books in all ranging from topics on purity to general apologetics including If You Really Loved Me, Pure Love, Pure Faith, Theology of the Body for Teens, and Answering Jehovah Witnesses.
Today, while working on the speaking route, writing books, and working as full time apologists for Catholic Answers they operate Pureloveclub.com a website devoted to helping interested teens and parents locate information on chastity and other Catholic information.
Sources used:
- http://www.revolutionoflove.com/faith/militant/crystalina.html
- http://www.revolutionoflove.com/faith/militant/jason.html
- http://www.catholic.com/seminars/evert.asp
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Evert
Oct
23
If you have been following the 2009 MLB playoffs, and especially the league championship series, you may have noticed the pairings have put teams on opposite sides of the country against one another. In the National League the Los Angeles Dodgers played against the Philadelphia Phillies; while in the American League the Los Angeles Angels are still playing the New York Yankees.
The National League series was uneventful as the Dodgers lost to Philadelphia in a best 4 out of 7 series in game 5. Thankfully, the AL series has been better as the Angels have forced a game 6 in New York tomorrow, and if the Angels win Saturday’s game a decisive game 7 will be played. The AL series has left an interesting paradox for capitalism and green sustainability to fight out.
Because of the travel from New York to Los Angeles and back to New York, the hotel rooms in each city, tickets at each stadium, food and concessions, souvenirs, television and radio ads, parking, and the subsequent partying after the game; revenue is being made. Both cities of New York City and Los Angeles make money from tourism, the teams make money which pay for salaries and hourly workers (besides the multi-million dollar salaries of the players), and Fox makes money from advertisers while ESPN radio does the same. Money is spent, money is made. The economy wins again.
However, the environment doesn’t. When you figure the emissions from plane flights to New York, Los Angeles, and back to New York, emissions from fans driving to the stadiums, trash produced from the fans at the stadiums, electricity being produced by coal plants to power the stadiums, it amounts to a green nightmare!
The debate becomes which means more to us; money being produced to bolster the economy or the accumulating damage being done to the ozone, flora, and fauna. Here are a few solutions I am suggesting…
- Perhaps the two sides can meet in the middle and the Angels and Yankees can use revenues to buy carbon credits from Al Gore (Unlikely, that’s less money to spend on Joe Mauer or Johnathan Papelbon when they hit the free agent market).
- Both teams can take revenues and buy and plant trees to absorb the carbon they are producing. (This plan will probably take off better in California then New York where people are pushing for mixed marriages with the flora at the state capitol. Being as New York is the concrete jungle I see them planting their trees in other team’s stadiums. Would anyone in Florida really notice the Pines growing out in left field; heck when only 200 people show up to a Marlin’s game I doubt it)
- MLB drop the current League’s as we know them and go to the stylings of the NBA and NHL and have Leagues based on location. If this existed today, with no wild card possibly, both LA teams would have faced one another while NY would have played Philadelphia. While this alleviates the carbon issue it still leaves us with trash.
- Because the best rating MLB can pull during the playoffs recently is a mid 6, the same as a regular season college football game, the games will be simulated using MLB 2K9 on the PS3 and broadcasted on air. People who buy tickets to the real games will be given a voucher for a month’s worth of free travel on the subway. (Some people would notice on Fox, however TBS viewers will notice nothing because of horrible play by play calling. The only thing that may throw TBS viewers off is if the game isn’t cut off short by the Steve Harvey Show)
What do you think the solution is?
Oct
14
Just the facts maam…
Many remember a decade or so ago when the book, Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus was released explaining the differences between the opposite sexes. However, I have a new theory about where men and women really come from. My hypothesis is this:
“Men are from Greece; Women are from Israel”
Even though I have only been married for one month I have learned a lot in this short month. When it comes to relating stories, facts, questions, etc… Jordan and I couldn’t be any more different. The Sunday after we came back home from our honeymoon we sat at dinner with her parents talking about what we did and saw. We both thoroughly enjoyed the Riverwalk and I simply told them the basic facts. However, after twenty seconds of relating what I saw Jordan broke in with her view. She delved into intimate facts about smells, the interaction of people, how food tasted, the sun and moon light, what she wore, and even the parking lot where we parked the Kia.
I had never really noticed this before but as I reflected about it later that evening I thought about the countless interactions with females where we saw or experienced the same thing, yet somehow her experience came off so much more thorough then mine. Funny enough, this is the same quandary that readers of the gospels have had for the last 1900 years. How could this gospel writer see this side of Jesus while this other gospel writer sees a different side of Jesus, yet both of these men experienced the same miracles, and heard the same teachings?
This dilemma is often dealt with when comparing the gospels of Matthew and Mark. Matthew’s gospel, which is the longest, is very detailed listing specifically Jesus Sermon on the Mount, healings, miracles, and other teachings. Yet, when you turn to Mark’s gospel you see the shortest gospel with very few miracles and mostly teachings. Why is this? It’s a matter of who each gospel was being specifically written to. Matthew wrote his gospel to a Jewish audience who wants detailed facts about what happened when Jesus was born, the beginning, middle, and end of his public ministry, and his commissioning of the twelve disciples. However, Mark wrote his gospel to a Hellenic (Greek) audience who didn’t care about the details, but cared more for a broad view of Jesus life. They would want to know more about what he taught then what he did. Jews wanted details; Greeks wanted a wide view.
Thus, after careful consideration it only makes sense that women some time ago migrated from Israel while men spread across the earth from Greece. So the next big theological/ archaeological question is 6,000 years ago were Israel and Greece located next to one another in Pangaea?
Food for thought
Sep
23
While on my Honeymoon the sociologist in me took note of several things in San Antonio and the surrounding regions, at Jordan and my wedding ceremony, and the events leading up to the wedding. Perhaps these are things you have noticed or thought about before. For me, it took a city with more curves than a Billy-goat path carved through the mountains to realize these things. Here’s what I noticed…
- Keep a list. Trying to keep in order who gave what to you will become a menagerie if you don’t.
- You want to know the true way a man thinks take him golfing. What is said on the golf course stays on the golf course. I think I may have lost my innocence that Friday on the links.
- Make sure you have everything you need before you go. Including cell phones. One cell phone cost us an hour in travel time.
- Supposedly if it rains on your wedding day you’re supposed to be blessed. It has rained on us the entire drive from Poteau to San Antonio; are we doubly blessed then?
- How many churches have I passed on this Sunday morning that are closed or have barely any in attendance? Kind of reminds me of Poteau. Forty two churches with only a handful doing anything fruitful.
- Silence is golden. Their becomes a point when even the radio becomes annoying.
- Marriage truly is a sacrament. I have never felt or been so graceful towards Jordan in these last four years we have been together. She has threatened every sort of torture towards TomTom and all I can do is laugh and smile.
- Churches are getting lazy. We just passed a church proudly displaying their “30 minute worship service.” It’s a fairly good sized church though. Perhaps giving God as little as possible of your day so you can go home and watch the Cowboys or Texans is the norm in Texas. Heck, I think it has become the norm for most seeker friendly churches. Keep your thirty minute service. I’ll take an hour and half long mass every time.
- Research where you’re staying. If your hotel room is only $48 a night it probably means you’re somewhere right off the interstate and not in suburbia.
- Denominations are interesting. Behind our hotel is a seventh day Adventist church. Since they meet on Saturdays do they have Saturday school?
- If you’re looking for a nutritious breakfast at a hotel you better be bringing it yourself. My options for breakfast on Monday are sugar coated cereal, starch ridden bagels, sugar rich juices, and sweeten enriched pastries. Yeah, it’s free but my body is telling me too much sugar.
- You’re never too old to enjoy the zoo. Even if the animals don’t amuse you seeing the smile on her face will make it worth while.
- If you’re single waiting until marriage is the single best choice you and your partner can make. We waited and we are both glad. In fact we are blessed because of it.
- The interstate system in San Antonio stinks.
- Even Bobby Flay can be wrong. These puffy tacos he talked about as being the worlds best are good, but not as great as he and food network make them out to be. I mean their good, but not $4 for a single taco good.
- You know all those cool options on your new smart phone? Don’t press them. Especially that big orange icon that says “TV”. Those megas will really byte your wallet.
- Don’t be afraid to rely on technology. I don’t know how I could have ever made it to and around San Antonio without our TomTom.
- Even IMAX has its hand in the liberal lobbying cookie jar. Jordan and I just watched an hour long film on dolphins and whales. Kate Winslett has done her best job to guilt me into feeling like I’m the reason their dying. I am fully expecting Al Gore to speak to us after the film.
- Hooters has gone too far. Putting Hooters on the riverwalk is tacky. I don’t care if you have great wings; I don’t want to see your legs or breasts. Nor do the little children walking with their parents.
- Trash is not inevitable. We have walked the entire length of the riverwalk and I can find not one piece of litter of any graffiti. You only become something when you allow yourself to. San Antonio refuses to allow trash to ruin their beautiful riverwalk therefore it remains beautiful.
- It’s alright to do nothing while on vacation. It’s Wednesday and we’re just going to lie around all day and watch TV and nap. God did create rest.
- Eating breakfast is always a good decision. Something tells me that eating at Denny’s at nine in the morning is going to be my favorite memory of the whole honeymoon. Mmm, turkey bacon…
- It’s shocking what turns life can throw at you. A year ago little did I think that I would be on my honeymoon and preparing for a noon mass at a Catholic Church just off the riverwalk? I actually planned today for us to go to Mass after breakfast at Denny’s!
- Shot glasses make great souvenirs. Heck even people who don’t drink like them.
- Find a place of comfort. Every time we have come down town we have parked in the same pay for parking lot in the same spot. It’s nice to know the Kia is safe.
- Nostalgia is great! Watching transformers brings me back to when I was a kid watching the cartoon at my grandparent’s house. Although I don’t remember yellow Camaros or scandally clad girls working on bikes.
- Over marketing is distracting. The only car brand I see is Chevy. Although for some reason I would really like to have one of those tricked out green Chevy’s. I guess it does work.
- Bless others out of your abundance. We just gave the rest of our pizza to the parking lot attendant. She was surprisingly happy. Heck she even let us park for free. Wasn’t trying for that, but if she wants to bless me so be it!
- Plan accordingly. When you plan to go to Sea World make sure they are open. Nobody likes driving for thirty minutes only to find their open the day you leave for home.
- Don’t get too upset. Yeah, we don’t get to see Shamu, but not spending $100 on two tickets doesn’t ruin my day either. Oh well.
- Don’t take work with you. My Friday has been ruined because all I can think about is getting back to work and reading meters. Bleh…
- When driving out of San Antonio go early. You will miss traffic and road work. Those people heading South bound may be there for a while.
- In Texas people worship God and football. Over 100,000 people are preparing for a football game at the UT football field in Austin as I drive past it on I-35. You’d think something actually important was taking place. Just kidding.
- Don’t take the road less traveled. When the gps says take county road so and so don’t! You may find yourself on the set of Deliverance.
- Home is where the heart is. I never thought I would enjoy seeing the Poteau city limits so much in my life.
Best quote-
Coworker: “Phillip are you staying at a hotel or motel?”
Me: “A hotel. Motels are where you have one night stands.”
