6.2.06

"Singles Ministry" According to Belle and Sebastian


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If You Find Yourself Caught In Love

If you find yourself caught in love
Say a prayer to the man above
Thank him for everything you know
You should thank him for every breath you blow

If you find yourself caught in love
Say a prayer to the man above
You should thank him for every day you pass
Thank him for saving your sorry ass

If you’re single, but looking out
You must raise your prayer to a shout
Another partner must be found
Someone to take your life beyond
Another TV “I Love 1999”
Just one more box of cheapo wine

If you find yourself caught in love
You should say a prayer to the man above

If you don’t listen to the voices then my friend
You’ll soon run out of choices
What a pity it would be
You talk of freedom don’t you see
The only freedom that you’ll ever really know
Is written in books from long ago
Give up your will to Him that loves you
Things will change, I’m not saying overnight
But something has to give
You’re too good looking not to live

Fighting Entropy

Over the past couple of months I have implemented the following systems to help hold back the ever present onslaught of entropy in my vocational life. It's helping.

1. Man Bag- As you know, I bought a man bag... a murse... a satchel. Whatever. It helps because it holds my planner. It is really just a way of physically attaching my calendar to myself at all times. So I can schedule and check my schedule and store important papers and receipts, etc at all times.
2. Drugs- I went to the Dr and was diagnosed with narcolepsy and add. The drugs are helping somewhat. Now I can concentrate for more than 15 minutes at a time. Which is part of the reason my blog posts are fewer and farther between.
3. Admin Assitant- I hired my wife to be my admin assistant, even though every body said not to. It was the best decision I've made since I married her. I should have hired her two years ago. She does three times the work in half the time.
4. Cell phone clip- Every three weeks I lose my cell phone for ten days. I recently spent twenty bucks on a crappy little cell phone holder that clips to the strap of my man bag (see item 1). Well worth the money, even if the design of the holder totally throws off the aesthetic of the bag. I've not lost my cell phone since I purchased it! I'm going to get another clip to attach my keys to my bag. I think my entire life should be held together with little clips like that. Maybe I'll create a clip system and write a book with a an accomanying work book and journal and go on the motivational speaking circuit. Nobody would come of course, unless a charged 25k per session and called it a "workshop".

Other things I am excited to implement: A prayer system I found out about that helps to organize prayer requests in a systematic manner so you can pray through them in a way that makes some sense. Now when I say I'll pray for somebody there's about a 40% chance I'll either forget, or only pray for them once and then forget. This new system should help greatly. I'll keep you updated. Also, a strategic planning system for the church that will help us align what we do with what we say wwe want to do. I kind of had something like this in effect already, but this system I learned about is much more thorough, yet simple and has less holes in it. It will help keep me and GC on task.