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So, Pastor Bryan came by my office today and we were talking about blogging… what all he was reading and people who are reading him and I was talking about the things I had read and who was not reading me… because I consistently pass up all the cool things in my brain and head straight for the frivolous.

I said, “I wish they would come up with a machine that would just transcribe my thoughts.”  Then PB proceeded to say tell me about Jott.com.

This is how it goes.  You dial the number, tell them who you want to send a message to, say all you have to say, it goes to these people in remote areas in the far corners of the earth.  They type it all up and e-mail it to you – or whoever you want it to go to.  The site right now is free,  but I am certain after transcribing this message they will start charging.  We’ll see how it goes.  This is the first of hopefully many.

Now I just have to learn to talk outside my head.  So if you see me driving down the road, moving my mouth but obviously not singing, and happen to notice that there is no one else in the car.  No need to call the psychiatric on call… I’m just practicing.  This has been a, “jott to self”…got it.

I didn’t do anything!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s only 2 weeks old and I haven’t dropped, drowned it or dried it once!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, anyway – it won’t turn on.  It is undoubtedly my magnetic personality that is the dread of my phones.  If you have to get up with me call Ern…or shoot me an email.

I am extremely difficult to impress. I like a lot of things, but few things really wow me. This fact, combined with my insatiable appetite for the fabulous, creates quite a conundrum in my life. Ok, examples. My favorite invention? The one coming out next; I love art – can’t love one long enough to hang it on my wall; I have artwork on my computer I was very proud of creating a week ago that I am already tired of; and, I have hundreds of fonts and somehow always need the one I don’t have; And so it goes…

So, lately I’ve had that, that’s so 20 minutes ago, feeling about quite a few things. Not bad things mind you. Important things, cool things, relevant things. Yeah, there’s one – RELEVANT. I’m completely on board with the concept – despise the word.

I’m sure my case is extreme and I so work diligently at balancing my quest for creative genius and with good old fashioned effectiveness. But, at the same time, I believe it is a highly important practice to frequently ask God, what next?

Here’s a reminder to post on your bathroom mirror. He is the creator of the universe in all it’s extravagance, in it’s impossibly perfect rhythms and mind numbing complexities. He is in possession of an endless supply of next, a definite idea of when and all the how we’ll ever need. And He patiently waits… and He waits… for us to just say the words.

Anoint us with creativity, Lord ! Fill us with Your ideas !

And He waits… And, we wonder what’s taking Him so long. And, we ask ourselves what’s wrong with us that He won’t answer? He said all we have to do is ask. We did that, didn’t we? Oh, no – wait… those are exclamation points, aren’t they? – not question marks. Hmmm.

A technicality you say? He knows what we mean – what we really want. He knows our heart. Maybe that’s the problem. Our heart. I mean, by demanding rather than asking what are we really communicating? Is it possible our heart is suggesting He just do it Himself rather than bothering to instruct us how we can serve Him? When I asked myself that question I was surprised by the truth in it for me.

How is this for a technicality? Our heart gets it all wrong and we forget to ask – - and move on to the next before He says go. Our message (our lives, even) become in peril of lacking the substance necessary to be effective, reducing us to a life of (dare I say) flakey faith? Ouch! Or, maybe He was ready to move on but we missed the when (um….waiting on the Lord?). Don’t look now but we just became, once again – - irrelevant. And, if we fail to ask, and miss that all important, infinitely illusive… how? – - what then? I have a whole list of scenarios – but I’ll let you think of your own. C’mon – don’t wimp out on me I wanted to write them really bad. Think… what damage can we little humans create by not getting the how? Go ahead – give it to me in your comments.

“So, God – - What next?” I can’t wait. I’m absolutely, positively – - giddy.

I’ve been talking about these two posts all day so I thought I’d share.    Unlimited Creativity is a free download from Willow Creek – really great stuff…

Get Rid of Church Members – Time to change our perspective people!
Unlimited Creativity – If you have ever had to be creative you need to hear this