Searching for Meaning and Purpose...

So, how easy is it to drop a habit? Relatively simple! I had been regularly posting and writing up a daily devo for our student ministry, but have since dropped both. Why? I can blame time, with the master's classes causing me to have way too many late nights and not enough sleep. Or I could go with my family and work, both demanding time and effort that I cannot spend elsewhere. The idea of either excuse being written down seems to me to be rather distasteful! But, even with those being true in part, the real answer is priorities. I spend my time fighting for things that are "more urgent" and allow other things to slide into the background... Should this have slid into the background? Probably not! It gives me a place to vent, to put thoughts into cohesive form, and tell people about what matters most to me. So, I realized it was time to get things rolling again and put my thoughts out there for the world to see... With that in mind, I've been jamming the

I've been thinking about the beauty of creation. Whether it's the mountains like out in Glenwood Springs this past weekend or the rolling plains that are slowly becoming green here in KS, God made a really awesome world for us. That's the key though: for us. We may see the beauty, but each grain of sand and blade of grass was made for our pleasure. The flip side is this: we were made as the apple of God's eye. In Genesis, we see God saying that His creation is good until He made mankind, at which point He said it was "very good." If everything until that point it was simply "good" what does that say about us? Many people are stuck in a twisted game trying to measure up to someone else's standards. The truth is that we were made beautiful and looking like God. If we were made to be "very good" why do we let others tell us we're not good enough? The truth is you were made very good and completely perfected like God. What are