Facebook, Doppelganger and Honesty

So for a while now there has been a viral thread that has been posing the challenge to post your “Doppelganger” picture. The qualification to this is it should be someone famous that you have been told that you look like. It has been interesting to see who people equate themselves to. In my friends list it seem that there are more ladies participating than guys so that is where my perspective is, here it goes. So my thought to ponder is this…

There are several friends that I have who have participated in this thread and I am suprised at the profile picture they have chosen. It is supposed to be who they “have been told they look like”. So think about what do you tell these people, as they are your friends and you are supposed to be honest with your friends and to offer them council. I look at the picture and think really? Someone told you that you look like her? Are you sure that you don’t just wish that you were that actress? Because really you look nothing like that person.

Prayer

Ponder this thought for the day,

Prayer is not always about the answers we seek, but more about the process that twists us together in God.

Thanks to Mark for the quote.

Just for fun

I got this link in an email from my pal “D”. Looks like there is a lot of potential fun to be had:

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/magazine/17-10/st_miniweapons

D was a huge supplier of commentary about the last Indiana Jones movie. Both of us were very underimpressed with that waste of celluloid.

Enjoy the link, try not to get into too much troubles, ok.

Interesting Perspective as a Parent

Preschooler Stress

You think your life is hard? Imagine being plunked down in a foreign land where you’re not fluent in the language, you have to figure out how everything from a doorknob to a toilet works, and you’re one-third the height of everyone else. Being a preschooler has its stresses. When your child seems overwhelmed, it’s a good idea to look at what’s going on in his world, slow the pace, and provide extra TLC — the same things you like when you’re overwhelmed!

In this time

In our current state I think these are values that need to be thought about and taken to heart. I think we as a people are missing the mark and straying from our roots by our lack of care. Think about this…

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

Love yourself

God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do. I think we tend to forget this fact. I feel that if we were to apply this to life we would all feel better about ourselves.

Funny thought for the day

So on facebook this morning I read a great post by a pastor friend of mine, I thought I would pass it along so that all may enjoy.

Ben Binger: “Haha. I never thought of this b4.Nice. “…the entertaining Bible stories are God’s way of apologizing for Leviticus. (via @stevenfurtick)”

Thank you @BernieBing I love that thought, it makes the whole Leviticus section tolerable.

Different flavor potato, couch potato that is…

“Through modern invention and outright apathy, our present Western world has grown more and more passive. We have developed a TV-obsessed, entertainment-prone, and spectator-minded generation which seems to be largely content to watch life rather than live it” (Wilson, p. 136).

This is not only an apt description of American cultural life, but of the American Christian church, as well, which, sadly, has, to a large degree, become a mirror image of the surrounding secular culture. The typical church service in the First American Church, in Anytown, America has become a spectator sport with chairs (or pews) arranged theater-style facing a stage where often paid professional performers titillate emotions and the tickle ears of their fans for an hour or two on Sunday morning.

The churchgoers, on having received their weekly dose or fix of religio-entertainment return afterwards to their secular prayerless, biblically illiterate and evangelizingless lives to exist, by in large, as spiritual “couch potatoes.”

Good thought for the day

I found this blog to be very relevent to me today, I hope that it is something you can grab on to as well. I think Henrik has some good points, his blog is always a good read.

http://www.positivityblog.com/index.php/2009/05/08/where-is-your-precious-focus-going-today/

Historic Landmarks

In a time where so much is being made about our first black president, Ann Coulter made the following observation in her column of 2/25/2009:

“But as long as the nation is obsessed with historic milestones, is no one going to remark on what a great country it is when a mentally retarded woman can become speaker of the house?”