The Divine In The Ordinary (Jesus Car)

This car was parked outside of the coffeeshop this past week:

its decorated with slogans like "come lord jesus." the license plate says "worship." i certainly saw the divine, but not in this "out of the ordinary" car. it was in peoples reaction. basically they were laughing, mocking, and making light of this car. i was right there with them (on the inside of course).

i know it may be harsh, i just dont see the sense in something like this. first, what does that even mean? when we say "come lord jesus"? does it mean you hate this world so much your ready for it to be over? if so, is that a biblical view of creation?

"Jesus is coming soon"? how does she know? The apostles certainly didnt. 

I saw the divine in peoples reaction. they were not upset because someone believed in God, or Jesus. They were upset because they, just as i with a different perspective, could see the nonsense in decorating your vehicle in such a way. 

now i know that she has as sincere heart in what she is doing....at least i hope she does. 

but the sincere heart does not justify the damage things like this does to the movement. 

i think we forget that a lot....that its a movement. its not an established institute, but a movement that has not reached its destination. 

should our message be "come lord Jesus"? at least in the sense its meant here? if it is "come lord Jesus" into the hearts and minds of people to transform our world...then yeah. but if its come back so we can all get off this shitty earth....then no. thats not what we represent. thats no more love than those who quickly jumped on the life raft to escape the titanic leaving women and children behind. 

but as i said, i saw the divine in the reactions of the people. i saw a people that God is so reaching out to, and i saw their minds revert further away from him because of this visual obtrusion. 

The Divine In The Ordinary (Spiders)

so....i found the most fascinating facts the other day about spiders.

some of them have warning colors. they mean that they are poison and over time other species have learned to stay the heck away from these colors.

but there are also others spiders who are not poisonous, but over time they have evolved to become these colors so that predators leave them alone as well.

well done evolution, well done spider.

so after finding out about spiders....i found this great one in my yard.

so he is that big blurry spot in the middle. the iphone (RIP Steve Jobs) doesnt take the best pictures. here is another one: 

he is in the yellow circle. anyway, what was so awesome about this spider, wasnt himself, but this amazing huge web that he created. it was gigantic. and overnight.

so i learned more about spiders and their webs.

this spider makes a big web, sits in the middle of it, and when things get stuck in it, it vibrates and he is immediately aware something is there and he goes and eats it.

other spiders leave little webs everywhere, then go back and periodically check them for prey.

and still other spiders pounce on prey and use their web to wrap it up (see the Shelob for details).

i cant believe i havent thought of this before...but as christians, we should be just like spiders. we should be....spidermen?

only in my dreams. 

are we not supposed to ensnare people with who we are. the path of our life should be this sticky presence that, no matter how hard people try, they cant escape what they have experienced through you. is this not what we are supposed to do with love? 

weather or not we are conscience of all that is around us and can sense when people are in need around us....or we leave signs of love all over the place just hoping someone will get trapped in it, or perhaps we just tackle people around us with who we are. 

i think about this when i want to be cool. when i want to be rude or say just the right smart-assed thing, or talk back to someone who is rude....i should just be shooting lovewebs at people. i know...lamesauce...but how could would it be to really have love webs?