Hunger is Good and Bad

Hunger drives us to eat... to be satisfied, to be filled.  Too much hunger drives us to eat anything... to be satisfied, to be filled.  Yet to be filled and satisfied with just anything is dangerous.  *Therein lies the beauty and the problem of hunger... Without it you don't eat.  Too much of it and you'll eat anything.  A man starving will attempt to be satisfied with "food" that he wouldn't normally consider;  grass, grubs, bark, etc...  (I haven't tried this myself but I have watched several episodes of Man vs Wild.)  

Our society has a  spiritual hunger.  Which is good because it drives people to connect and yet many are spiritually starving.  And a society spiritually starving will consider "food" they wouldn't normally consider; sexual perversion, materialism, rampant voyeurism, humanistic religions, etc..  

Hunger is good and bad.  

But our issues go deeper.  Because we don't want to admit we're starving.  You would never find a man starving for food who would try and deny it.  Presented with any kind of food he would, without apology eat it.  But in the face of spiritual starvation we react differently.  We turn away, deny, mask and hide.  These two issues, starvation and denial, deeply frustrate our attempts at finding sustenance.  

*N.T. Wright writes about some of this in "Simply Christian".  

5 Rules for Guys at the Gym

OK, I've put this off long enough. If you're a male and you plan to exercise you need help. You need rules. I've conveniently listed them for you here. For the sake of all the rest of us who have to work out with you in our local gym please do not violate what follows.

1) You can't wear tights. (At least not without shorts over them) I know they call them "action leggings" or "compression pants". Whatever. They're tights. You don't look good in them. If you think you look good in them you have deeper needs that exercising cannot meet.

2) You don't go to the gym to make friends. You go to work out. I don't need to talk to you.

3) Seriously, never, never stare at your muscles while you're working out. It means you're going to dislocate a neck muscle or something. More importantly it means you look like an idiot.

4) You get one semi-audible grunt every 15 minutes. No yelling, screaming and/or dramatic audible noises.

5 ) Do NOT wear matching, color-coordinated work out clothes. Women can get away with this but guys... please... stop. Matching your headband to your tights (see #1) to your shoes to your shorts not only looks ridiculous it reflects poorly on the entire male gender.

There. Got that off my chest.

School Prayer

Pretty interesting take on school prayer.

Patience

Psalm 27:4 - Wait for the Lord; Be strong and take heart. Wait for the Lord.

”The artist’s life is frustrating not because the passage is slow, but because he imagines it to be fast.” Art and Fear

What are you imagining?

Are you more patient or less than you used to be?

What would others say about your "pace of life"?