Thanks Don.

In my new favorite book, Blue Like Jazz, Don Miller makes a good point:

"I think every conscience person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his (her) reality, has a moment where he (she) stops blaming the problem in the world on group think, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself (herself). I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within Christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing that lives in my chest.

I spend 95% of my life thinking about myself anyway. I don't have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, I only have to look at myself. I am not browbeating myself here; I am only saying that true change, true life-giving, God-honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem I had been protesting. I wanted to make a big sign that read 'I AM THE PROBLEM!'"

It is time for me to realize this and accept it on a daily basis. Time to quit blaming others, my circumstance, and my personality for things that are affecting my life. This is going to be a hard process. I desire nothing more than a God-honoring change that will affect my life and my relationship with Christ.

One of the kids at church took this picture a while back, I am not sure how I found it. Stumbling through my photos I guess.