You give God a bad name

I was in the shower humming the ole Bon Jovi "classic" - ' you give love a bad name', when I was thinking about a particularly galling person who tends to invoke his relationship with God when it seems convenient or advantageous. I ended up singing, "You give GOD a bad name" which was very fun and funny to sing as I thought about this person who I really have a hard time taking seriously.

What wasn't funny, was when I was pretty convicted that I could so easily sing that about myself and my life. OUCH!

is 46 the new 33?

I feel so young still. I listen to louder and cooler music than any of my peers (Cactus's, Minus the Bear, Coheed and Cambria, Wilco etc. etc.) and still feel completely viable. I am so much wiser than I was when I was younger. Like Tullula Bankhead said she would not do anything different if she had to do it over, she would simply hope to make the mistakes sooner, I feel the same.
You learn so much from mistakes that you cannot from successes.

Anyway, I may not look 33, but I feel it, vital, potent and with a lot to share with the world still.

so from my perspective on the back nine of life... I feel like 46 is the new 33

When your off course late in the game

A funny thing happened to me this morning on my drive to play some golf with friends. Instead of just blasting tunes or talk radio, I decided to meditate quietly in the car in the early morning on this holiday. I was praying about how off course I was feeling in a couple of my latest business ventures when I glanced down at the GPS in the car and saw that my vehicle appeared several hundred feet off the the road I was actually on. It caught my attention because I am a pretty consistently OCD about the GPS tracker.

As I was glancing at this the system just suddenly self corrected and the icon representing my car was perfectly on track. Almost instantly I found myself realizing that with God, this can happen in our lives. We can be way off course and without actually having to do anything, but fix your will to hear and follow God your life path can be instantly reset and on course.

God doesn't have a plan A then B then C. All plans A to Z are in play at all times depending on where he wants to move you. I was greatly encouraged to realize its all going to be ok.