It’s funny how life gets so crazy sometimes.  Sometimes we just feel like we are going crazy…like homeboy here.  We have literally been on the go for days on end now.  There is so much going it’s not even funny.  But!  I think we are about to turn the corner for some peace and quiet (ish…I can only stand so much) soon.  My wonderful wife and I just returned from Oklahoma where we had a big event for LifeChurch.tv staff and my sister’s wedding!  So we spent most of last week running back and forth like chickens with our heads cut off!  It was fun though.  Getting to see EVERYONE, and I do mean literally everyone, was absolutely great!  We saw and talked to so many LifeChurch.tv staffers as well as several younger cousins of mine that I haven’t seen in 10 years!  They are so grown up now.  It’s scary.

But even amid all the craziness, I believe we have still found some of that peace in the Lord.  That no matter what is going on in our lives and no matter what life throws at us, we can find peace in Him.  That is what we are learning right now.  If you are ready for the next step or not, you can always lean more into Him and He helps/saves/holds/calms/directs.  We have heard it all our lives that He has a better plan for us that we could ever imagine.  I believe this is true with everything that I am.  He keeps showing me that.  There is more for me through Him than the apparently lame plans that I come up with.  

Please keep praying for us.  There is a lot going on.  Life is still craziness.  But even in the midst of all the struggles, hard times, changes, problems, issues, craziness, busyness, pain, hurt, and questions He is still in control and has something much better planned!  I just wanna be a part of that.  That’s what I’m looking forward to.

As I have talked about before, I have a one year Bible that I have been reading through.  Just recently I started reading through David’s psalms.  I have read these tons of times, but something hit me this time a little different.  As you read through them, its great to see that even David had major ups and downs and to see how he handled them.  We all go through those times in life but we don’t all handle it the way he did.  He would talk with God.  Not just praying like we tend to do.  I think in our culture we have trained ourselves to pray (and sometimes rather often) but when we do we are mostly praying the basics (forgive me, thank you, can this happen, prayer request).  I don’t believe that there is anything wrong with that at all, but what I am seeing from the way David prayed was that it was pretty much a constant conversation with God.  It wasn’t just the “ok we just sat down to dinner so we have to pray” prayer.  He prayed all the time.  When I say he prayed I mean prayed, sang, talked, yelled, cried, begged, etc.  

This was kinda a wake up call to me.  I mean, he when from times that he was expressing thanks to expressing grief or pain.  The one that hit me the hardest was one that he was demanding God hold up His end of the bargain.  I’m not saying we should constantly demand things of God, but that maybe David was on to something with this “talk to God no matter what is going on” thing.  I don’t pray like that.  It isn’t a lifestyle like that to me and I think it should be.  Sometimes I do great, but generally I get so caught up in my life and what is going on around me, I forget that God is really the center of it all.  When I don’t realize that, I get onto the detour that takes me in a different direction away from Him.

I want a prayer life not just a prayer time.