Papa Palpatine

"YOU mean you have been flying around for two weeks just to find a signal?-Ugghh you must smell like feet wrapped in burnt leathery bacon..."

-Palpatine in his discourse to Darth Vader after the Death Star explosion-ala "Robot Chicken"

CLONE WARS !

We went to see "Clone Wars" last night and I must say it was AWESOME!
Once again,Lucasfilm has done it again.
The animation was good-some of it at certain frame shots gave the character or the object a"paint-brushed"appeal which was nice-digital is awesome!
The battle droids had more funny lines -like in EP.3-that was fun!
The action like a good Star Wars book, was fast paced.
All in all, the movie regained confidence that Star Wars is still fun and fun to watch.

GRRRRRRRRRRR....

A slight mishap occured last night at church.You see,we are having special services with an evangelist.He's cool .He's been here before.Probally the best around at least I know because he is so down to earth and laid back.I think his one flaw is that since he has been back so many times, you can almost anticipate what he is going to preach about the next three days he's here.Don't get me wrong-what he preaches on is awesome -this is the guy that left a cushy job as theologan/professor to become a evangelist to India and Tanzania. God has done some mighty things through him.He's the real deal.But it can get boring when you know what he's going to preach about.I would have rather expected a fresh revelation from the Lord but anyhow that is not why I was p.o.'ed last night.
Now everybody turn to your neughbor and say what is he so pissed about?
I got at church five minutes before service started.I helped with worship on our "team" so i could gear up with my bass.
As I was approaching the sanctuary,a deacon,with good intentions came up to me and promptly said that we were going to have the youth group drummer play with us tonight since Jim our current percussionist couldn't make it.
Fine,I know Brandon I know he could pull it off-but it was last minute,thrown together as usual and unrehearsed and said deacon asked me if it was okay.
Flustered at what was thrown at me, i told them that it was up to pastor and my father in law who is "in charge" of the worship team ministry.
Then two minutes before the meeting,our pastor tried to contact our drummer to see if it was okay for this person to play on HIS set-I know Brandon would not have trashed it-okay.
No answer.He was at work.Brandon didn't play cuz we couldn't obtain permission to play on Jim's kit.
All of this two minutes before service.
What riles me is that there is and always been a meddling around and disrespect for other peoples equipment in our church.
I was shocked they didn't let Brandon play and that pastor actually tried to call Jim to get his okay-but it is the principle of the matter that has really torked me.

Life is a Barnyard

Another cg movie I like is Barnyard.Okay if you have seen it, try to overlook the fact that the male cows have udders.I don't know why but there are weirder things in this world to ponder.
Otis,has issues of growing up and leading the barnyard after his dad is killed by coyotes.He would rather play and goof off than take up his father's example.Out of fear,he is forced to lead and then realizes he can do it-then with the help of all of his barnyard friends he triumphs over the coyotes.
Sometimes I feel like Otis.There are days I would rather goof off than step up to the plate.
God has given me three reasons to not back down-Leah, Keller,and Ikey.
No matter how sorry i feel for myself,God always has my back and He has given me family to support me.
I think we all go through this dilemma.The cares of this world and all of the stress keeps us down and then instead of looking up,we look down and pity ourselves and not consider others as well.
I am always reminded that someone out there has it worse than I do.
I don't face my coyote's alone I have God and my family.
Philipians 4:13

One old cartoon I adore is "RoadRunner vs Wile E.Coyoye".
An endless quest of one beast seeking after a road runner for dinner.
I think sometimes in life we pursue elusive "roadrunners".
We use all of the latest "Acme gadgets" to help us achieve the goal.
What are they ? self help, attitude, or faith?
We usually end up like the coyote falling headlong down the cliff-and we never accomplish our goal.
Trust in the Lord and lean not on your own understanding...
Commit your ways unto the Lord and He will direct your paths...
Acme can't guarantee that.

Backtracking...

Now with the deck finished and Leah wrapping school up I want to try to get back into a positive regime in life.
In this house you have to be FLEXABLE.
It's time to catch up on things that I have kept on the backburner.
It's easy to say it,it's easy to point out those things that have been neglected.
It's another to put feet to flight.
That is my challenge.
God help me do it.