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Transylvania vacation

Bob Hill and his new wife Betty were vacationing in Europe, as it happens, near Transylvania. They were driving in a rental car along a rather deserted highway. It was late, and raining very hard. Bob could barely see 20 feet in front of the car.

Suddenly the car skids out of control! Bob attempts to control the car, but to no avail! The car swerves and smashes into a tree.

Moments later, Bob shakes his head to clear the fog. Dazed, he looks over at the passenger seat and sees his wife unconscious, with her head bleeding! Despite the rain and unfamiliar countryside, Bob knows he has to carry her to the nearest phone.

Bob carefully picks his wife up and begins trudging down the road. After a short while, he sees a light. He heads towards the light, which is coming from an old, large house. He approaches the door and knocks.

A minute passes. A small, hunched man opens the door. Bob immediately blurts, “Hello, my name is Bob Hill, and this is my wife Betty. We’ve been in a terrible accident, and my wife has been seriously hurt. Can I please use your phone??”

“I’m sorry,” replied the hunchback, “but we don’t have a phone. My master is a Doctor; come in and I will get him!”

Bob brings his wife in. An elegant man comes down the stairs. “I’m afraid my assistant may have misled you. I am not a medical doctor; I am a scientist. However, it is many miles to the nearest clinic, and I have had a basic medical training. I will see what I can do. Igor, bring them down to the laboratory.”

With that, Igor picks up Betty and carries her downstairs, with Bob following closely. Igor places Betty on a table in the lab. Bob collapses from exhaustion and his own injuries, so Igor places Bob on an adjoining table.

After a brief examination, Igor’s master looks worried. “Things are serious, Igor. Prepare a transfusion.” Igor and his master work feverishly, but to no avail. Bob and Betty Hill are no more.

The Hills’ deaths upset Igor’s master greatly. Wearily, he climbs the steps to his conservatory, which houses his grand piano. For it is here that he has always found solace. He begins to play, and a stirring, almost haunting, melody fills the house.

Meanwhile, Igor is still in the lab tidying up. His eyes catch movement, and he notices the fingers on Betty’s hand twitch. Stunned, he watches as Bob’s arm begins to rise! He is further amazed as Betty sits straight up!

Unable to contain himself, he dashes up the stairs to the conservatory. He bursts in and shouts to his master:

“Master, Master! … The Hills are alive with the sound of music!

You are more

I was driving into work this morning listening to KSBJ out of Houston…  and Tenth Avenue North was on.  They played a song live that is coming out on their next album, the song is called You Are More. What a wonderful way to start off the day! Here is a link to a video on YouTube of Mike Donehey talking about the song.

The song talks about how “we are more than the choices that we make, we are more than the sum of our past mistakes, we are more than the problems we create, you’ve been remade!”  It is not about who we are or were, it is about what Christ did for us, for me, for you.  That is what defines us.

Mike Donehey this morning on the radio said “to quote Batman, ‘it is not who I am, but what I do that defines me.’ and for the Christian it is exactly the oposite, it is not what I do that defines me, but who I am in Christ.”

If we could all understand this, image the impact we would have on the world, because we are called to be his hands and feet and in order to be able to do something for Christ, we have to know who we are in Christ. When God looks at us he sees Jesus! Always remember you are more – you’ve been remade!

Cowboy’s Ten Commandments

Cowboy’s Ten Commandments posted on the wall at Cross Trails Church in Fairlie , Texas :
(1) Just one God.
(2) Honor yer Ma & Pa.
(3) No telling tales or gossipin’.
(4) Git yourself to Sunday meeting.
(5) Put nothin’ before God.
(6) No foolin’ around with another fellow’s gal.
(7) No killin’.
(8) Watch yer mouth.
(9) Don’t take what ain’t yers.
(10) Don’t be hankerin’ for yer buddy’s stuff.

Where is the spice?

How many of you have ever had a meal and something was missing?  Like the food was all there, but when you tasted, say the meatloaf, that it just was not quite right…  Something was missing.  Some ingredient was not there to make it all pop and make your mouth water…

Or maybe you don’t like meatloaf, so I lost you on that.  But think of your favorite food, and how sometimes you want it so bad, and you go out to eat and find it on the menu and you order and you know in your mind what it will taste like when it gets to you.  The waiter or waitress brings it to you and you look at and have the taste in your mind and when you taste it, it is just wrong!  That is not how it is suppose to taste…

Isn’t this how we as Christians are to the world?  We are told by God to be Salt and Light.  We are told to be the flavor they grave so that they might come to know God.  But do our lives provide the flavor they need?  Do we focus on him or on our selves and thus remove the wonderful flavor of God from the mix?  If we are not drawing people to God by the very actions we do, are we allowing God to make our mouths water and thus causing those around us to be curious about what we’ve got that they don’t.

True spirituality is mouth watering it is so good, and makes people wonder what you got, and how they can get some of that.  Are our lives salt and light to draw people to God, or are we making God to be bland and yesterdays news.

If the spice is gone, reconnect with God and allow him to spice up your life!