This past week has been nice... I was able to have a week away from church, which as we all know, is sometimes needed. It just so happened that SWARM was cancelled and I didnt have to be on for Sunday morning in the same week.

With that being said I feel somewhat refreshed and I was able to spend time with my family this past week. Sometimes not being involved in services forces me to be involved in other ways. What I mean is that I often find myself as using worship, SWARM, and small group as a false sense of entitlement to "Christianity." As in "if I do these things I am holy" sort of mentality. When I am stripped of those things I find myself without my "Jesus security blanket" and I am vulnerable, stripped down to what it is I really am which is one disgusting creature. Being without my blanket this week has forced me to find other means of "coping" for lack of a better term. I was forced to find God elsewhere this past week and once I began looking... I can't help but laugh. How often I put God in my "church" box. Like Sarah said in the previous post God is in everything and cares about everything we do. Obviously when I say God is in "everything" I am not talking about some hoky spiritual religion. I mean if we just take off our blinders for a hot second we can see His hand at work in every situation.

I have a story about NASCAR for later but I need to work...