BENGAY



All day long I've been smelling Bengay. I keep turning around looking for my old lady stalker and she is no where to be found. But then I remembered something - earlier today I hugged a woman who was probably wearing Bengay and it must have gotten on my clothes.

THE MYSTERY IS SOLVED!

Now I'm going home to take a shower.

THUMPING IN MY EAR

Ok - this is really weird... I'm sitting on my couch in my office right now doing some writing for a message and I notice that as I'm typing on my laptop there is a thumping type sound in my right eardrum. When I stop typing the thumping noise stops. Plus, I type really fast so it's like a constant thumping. It's driving me nuts and I think I'm going to go crazy. It's like Chinese torture. It almost sound like something moving around in my ear. Somehow the movement of my fingers is reverberating in my ear canal or something. I've never noticed this before - probably because I usually have music on or something.

Any ear doctors out there who can offer a good explanation or theory?

AHHHHH!!!!

My VCR jacked up tonight and I missed FRIENDS & THE APPRENTICE. SO - if you live somewhere in the vicinity and you recorded it - LET ME KNOW!!

THANKS!

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST - TAKE TWO

I’ve had a lot of people email me asking me my feelings about The Passion of The Christ. As most of you know, this is the 2nd time I’ve seen it. The first time was at Willow Creek Community Church for the private showing. Mel Gibson was there and was interviewed live. You can read my review of that experience by clicking here.

Yesterday, I attended the movie with most of our staff and a few friends. The question that everyone asked me was, “Did the movie impact you differently the second time around?” The answer to that question is yes. And I say yes for a few reasons.

For one, seeing the movie in wide screen format was very moving (the premier was not on “film” – it was on “video” – big difference in quality.). The sound effects, music, etc… was much louder and clearer. The first “version” of the movie that I saw was a much rougher cut with not as good of effects. BUT – it still impacted me greatly.

I was moved emotionally quite a bit more yesterday than the first time I saw it, but in a different way. I cried more. My stomach was tied in knots during the entire second half of the film. I felt a slew of emotions: anger, sadness, guilt, love, joy, perplexity.

I was perplexed. Mainly because of the unbelievable amount of love seen in His (Jesus) eyes. Even in the midst of being tortured, beat and killed, he still loved. It is an amazing thing and so beyond my “human” ability to love.

Someone asked about the “ugly baby” scene. Mel explained that scene when he was interviewed at Willow Creek.

**WARNING: This is a semi-spoiler coming up!**

In one scene where Jesus is being fiercely beaten (with the cat of nine tails), he is lying on the ground and it shows Satan walking around with a little baby in her arms. When the baby turns its head, you see the ugliest looking baby you can imagine – with an old man’s face and horrible teeth. (Plus, even before the baby turns around, the hair on the back gives you the hint that something isn’t quite right here…)

Mel Gibson explained this scene as his attempt to portray evil. On the surface, evil can look pretty good and even innocent, but when you look at it straight in the face for what it is worth, it is ugly as hell.

That’s the creative artistry that is seen over and over again in this movie.

Here's a link with more info on this specific scene

Gotta go – more later…

CALGON TAKE ME AWAY....

I am beat and absolutely exhausted tonight.

My day today:

6:30am - woke up (physically awake anyway)

8:30am - arrived @ Starbucks for staff mtg (field trip today...)

11:00am - lunch @ Red Robin w/ staff & a few friends

12:15pm - drove across the street to the movie theatre to get a good seats (with the staff...) for the new movie, The Passion of The Christ

1:00 - 3:15pm - subjected myself to over 2 hours of absolutely gruesome and shocking film footage about a man who displayed the most unbelievable love ever known to mankind(Note - this was my 2nd time seeing it - first time was @ the private showing @ Willow Creek about a month ago - I'm still asking myself why I went again today...)

4:00 - 6:00pm - charted out some new songs for our worship team, got really frustrated.

6:00 - 6:45pm - quick breakaway to Starbucks for a caffeine injection & a little work

7:00 - 9:30pm - music rehearsal

9:30 - 10:15 - phone call to my dad to vent, cry and complain.

11:30pm - 12:00am - talk w/ amanda to vent, cry and complain.

12:00am - 1:00am - return emails

1:00 - 1:06am - blog (good therapy)

1:30 - 7:00am - sleep

And then a new day.

Whew.

WHAT SEX IS YOUR WRITING?

Click here to find out if you write like a man or woman.

I write like a man. (Not sure if that's good or bad...)

(Thanks Viral Marketing Blog)

THE DEATH OF A MOLE



Friend & fellow blogger, Troy Hatfield, had a run in with his mole. Read all the details here. (See 2/23 post)

God bless the mole.

WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM...



A few weeks ago, I linked a story about someone from Harlem who had a tiger and a giant lizard living with them in their apartment. Oh yeah - and they had a couple of kids living there for a while too.

Well here's a guy in Canada who shares his home with his wife and buffalo. This is true.