Ramblings…and an MJ thought

• Starting a four week series this week we’re calling “15 Minutes”.  In the context of this series, I’m going to be looking again at some biblical characters and their unique moment that speaks to our life experience as well.  Should be fun.
• Feel very bad for Steve McNair’s family.  The real tragedy is another guy who is living a double life outside of his family.  He was a great competitor, football player, and contributor to his community.  However, come on guys, we can’t reap all the accolades while spending time with a 20 yr old in another apartment.  If I do that… I’m not a great man.
• REALLY looking forward to the baseball All-Star game next week…
• Really grateful I got to connect with some of our neighbors whose son played on my baseball team this past Spring.  I gotta tell you… anybody who does what I do for a living has to stay connected to just regular people.  That’s where life really takes place.
• I think I am a closet pyromaniac.
• Here’s the audio of a recent interview I got to do with Blair over at Mix 94.1 in Las Vegas.  It was an awesome opportunity to spend a half hour talking about what is happening at The Crossing to a wide audience in Vegas.  Check it out.
• Read way too many book all ready this summer… I’m a bit burned out.
• Anybody else rent movie with every good intention of watching them… only to see them sit and build of late fees.  I bet “Defiance” is a great movie… maybe I should open the case and give it a watch.
• Had a little health scare this past week so I’m headed in for the whole series of cardio tests this week.  Gotta run on the treadmill, etc.  So looking forward to it.
• This week I was really craving Captain Crunch with Crunch Berries.
• We got our 10 yr. old his first phone this week in prep for 5th grade.  He has discovered texting.  The only problem is that he has no one to text besides our family so I get random texts from him on a regular basis like “hi”.  Kids.
• I mentioned to someone yesterday, “Whatever happened to Waterbeds?”  They had no reasonable response.  We had one.  Got extremely tiresome to pump the water out of the thing every time you had to move it.   Do they still sell them?
• The next six weeks is the time you DO NOT want to be in Vegas as we experience 100+ temps.  Gotta love the dry heat though.
• Turned off my XM radio today.  With my Iphone (pandora, etc.) there is really no need for it anymore.  Goodbye $22.00 a month.
• Finally, thoughts on MJ:  He was an extremely flawed and disturbed individual who made incredible music and was magnificiently gifted by God.  I remember standing in a locker room in 1983 getting ready for BB practice and the boom box (that’s right, I said Boom box) was playing Billy Jean.  As the years went by, the stories got crazier, his behavior more bizarre, and the accusations more serious.   He is an easy target for our desire to feel better about ourselves, our own flaws, and the disgusting part of each of us.  It is not for us to make final calls on a person’s life and legacy.   Be careful (see Matt. 7:3-5)  If my life (and yours) were to be fully on display would reveal deep issues as well, perhaps of a different nature, but unpleasant and unpopular all the same.  For more great thoughts on this, Click here.

Have a great week!

~ by Lee Coate on July 7, 2009.