Sadducees and Pharisees
So, I purchased my flight home for Christmas today...I will be home in K-town for a little over 10 days. It is going to be nice to spend time with everyone during the holidays. This will be my first Christmas on my own. I was invited to a few different places for Christmas day, so I guess I will have to make the rounds and eat all of their food....mhhmm Christmas!
I finally got my Wisconsin driver's liscence today. Its pink. It only took like 20 minutes for me to get in and out. There was this huge 7' tall black man yelling at the DMV lady while I was there. I was going to step in and handle the situation, but then I realized that this is the US and he probably would shoot me...or sue me for coming to a lady's defense. Man I am hungry. I skipped dinner tonight to watch one of my teens sing in a concert. It was very nice, and I even got to go down and sing along with the choir during Handel's Messiah (don't worry we were invited to join). I had a nice time singing, and I even cut with everyone else right before the big finale. That would have been really funny if i sang something when everyone else stopped. But thankfully, I learned to follow a conducter (thanks to Mrs. Weatherby!).
I had lunch today at Ol' Country Buffet. You can eat all you want there, and then some. After looking around at all the overweight people eating there, I decided to stick with my two servings. Supersize me? No thanks. I can put on weight now like crazy. Its a good thing I am lifting 4 days a week. Maybe its all the frozen pizzas that I have been eating, or all the times that I have eaten at Applebees in the past week (three times in three days, a new record!). I need to be able to fit in the new suit that I got for Christmas. Yes, I have a new suit and I even wore it to church. The more that you dress up for church, the more religious that makes you...right? Well, I sure hope so because I just got like 4 new ties as presents and two new pairs of dress pants, and I need to impress the more seasoned crowd in first service. Heaven help me if I don't "look" like a pastor. Every culture is different, and in this culture you need to dress to the nines every Sunday.
One time I wore flip flops for one of our services for missions week. It was a Thursday night service and it was suppossed to be more casual. One lady saw my bare toes and commented on it, and I said "Jesus wore sandals". She laughed. I was serious. Whats the big deal? Its a good thing that she didn't see the back of the pants that I was wearing. I totally ripped my pants right before service, and its a good thing Pastor Rob mentioned it to me or else the church would have seen a whole new side of me. Its a good thing that my shirt covered my backside, but I probably lost points for having my shirt untucked. Oh well, sometimes you just can't win...right Stevan?
posted by chrisatkins @ 8:26 PM
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5 Comments:
Chris,
That would of been hilarious if you would have sang when everyone else stopped, but hey you have an amazing voice so it would of not been that bad. You make me laugh everytime I talk to you. You also make my day.
Thanks
Arnell
If I ever want to feel skinny, I go eat at the Old Country Buffet. I look around at all the people that can't fit into a booth anymore because they are so big, and then I feel really good about myself! I do like to eat there occasionally though, sometimes you just gotta stuff yourself with foods high in sodium and fried in grease..mmmm, grease.
I do enjoy eating out, and I love all you can eat buffets...however, I think what our culture needs to learn is balance. We need to understand that it is okay to have the chicken fried chicken...once in a while in conjunction with some sort of an active lifestyle and a moderately healthy diet. Its sad really. If I wasn't a pastor, I would have been a healthy lifestyle consultant, or a personal trainer.
I know that healthy is better, but I want you to know that being a large person does not make you a bad person.
We have feelings just like the rest of the world.
There is no doubt in my mind that overweight people have feelings. I think that it is a cultural mindset that needs to change. It is difficult being different in any way in the world that we live in.
However, I think that, as a whole, America (Canada too) needs a wake up call. We need to start caring for ourselves. Some people struggle with always putting others first, and neglect their own health as a result.
Lifestyle changes do not have to be drastic in order to be effective. You can be overweight and still healthy, if you exercise and eat a balanced diet and get lots of sleep (I love sleep). Some of us are genetically dispositioned to be big, and there is nothing wrong with having "big bones" in my opinion. I know that if I stop working out, I can put on weight like its going out of style.
I think that our countries leaders need to step in and stress the importance of a balanced lifestyle, and make support available for those who struggle with this issue.
The second greatest commandment tells us to "love your neighbor as yourself". We are all God's children, and we need to treat one another with love and respect...and we should treat ourselves no differently.
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