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Acadamy Awards and Heaven

Last night, my wife and I sat down and watched the 79th Annual Academy Awards. First of all, let me say Thank You to whoever invented DVR. We were able to skip right over (Insert Name of Foreign Guy) thank (Insert Names of other Foreign people) for their help editing the sound of (Insert Name of Foreign Film) that no one in my family can even pronounce much less see. We're so sophisticated, we basically just watched Will Ferrill/Jack Black and Ellen and then called it a night.

But I was thinking today, the Academy Awards kind of remind me maybe of heaven. (Not in a sound theological sense, b/c basically I think heaven is going to be an eternity of Praising God forever) But more in a different kind of sense. At the Academy Awards, you think it would be about the big guns: the Pitts, the Julia Roberts, etc. But when it is all said and done, the night is more about the no names that support and make the big guns what they are. And it is a night to go "Well done, guy I have never heard of" "Well done!!" I think sometimes we think heaven is going to be some type of pecking order in which the Brad Pitt's and Julia Roberts ie: Billy Graham, Charles Spurgeon will be getting all the praise and accolades. But I think we will be surprised to see it be more about the teachers, janitors, engineers, mothers etc. who 1) Faithfully loved and served the Lord 2) Pursued their lives with the excellence of Christ and 3) Loved and lead their families with dignity and integrity. We will be looking and thinking "Why is God taking time with Earl the Janitor. Meanwhile God may be going "Well done guy I have known for eternity! Well done!!

What Qualifies Me

Well here I am. I finally broke down. About 8 years ago I started eating bagels, then about 4 years ago I started drinking grossly overpriced coffee that contained words like "latte" and "venti". Now I have joined the ranks of the bloggers. The 16 year old me would seriously beat the crap out of the current me. I mean I have gone so soft.

I mean I have thought about doing one of these for a long time. But I have always had two hesitations. 1) Isn't it kind of prideful to assume that anyone would want read what I have to say. 2) What qualifies me? In response to the latter, I realized "What qualifies anyone?" These are new times when anyone can be heard and express their opinion. We don't have to wait to push a script and an idea through Hollywood, just throw it on Youtube for millions to see. We don't have to go to Pendant Publishing (Seinfeld) to get "published", just throw your pseudo-insightful crap on the internet. I mean any and everyone can and does have a blog and therefore has a forum and a voice. I mean check out Kevin Barbieux, and his "Homeless Blog" http://thehomelessguy.blogspot.com/. By the way I think this is awesome, and offers great insight. Housewives, prisoners, CEO's, pastors, lumberjacks, handicapped, all have created blogs and have a voice. So, What qualifies me? The same thing that qualifies any of us. The fact that we all have a unique story to tell, and that story needs to be heard. No matter how much pseudo-crap it is filled with.