What you are about to read is a series of half written posts that have been in draft status for awhile.  It is time for me to clean house with them and get them out of the way.  So enjoy my incomplete thoughts….

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(From Jan 10th 2011)

92000 miles…  Around 950 miles a month since the summer of 2003.  If I have the math correct my car will turn or be close to 100,000 miles on my 40th birthday.   Of the 92000 miles I have been in the drivers seat for 95% or more of them.   There is a well worn spot on the steering wheel, a warn spot on the door window sill trim, and the shifter is worn smooth on top.   I know how the car will react in almost every situation, how fast it will accelerate, handle certain turns and curves, and how quick it will stop.   After almost 8 years I hardly notice the hail damage that the car has, and had when I bought it.   What else do I remember..

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(From Dec 11th, 2010)

OK with my imperfection…  (Yeah the title is as far as I got with that one)

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(From Aug 17th 2010.  This is the one that will be completed sooner than later)

I sat across from one of the ministers from my church. Here are two quotes from the conversation.

“I don’t want another system.” “I don’t either.”

I sat in church the other day and listened to a preacher talk about making the choice for ministry, specifically to the ministry of preaching the Gospel. As I have processed through the sermon, I realized God does not want just another preacher.

I don’t want to be just another preacher.

Well over 20 years ago I walked away from the institutional church because I was fed up with not finding the answers I was seeking about my faith and was frustrated with the lack of focus on the teachings of Christ. The church was more focused on it’s systems of belief and theology, they were forgetting how to live as the Church and how to live the Church through Christ.

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(From Feb 25th, 2010.  The task of this book still lingers in God’s timing)

The first part of this book will focus on worship.

So I want to know a couple things if you are willing.

What is your worship style?

How do you get focused on worship?

Do you or can you worship with out Music?

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It is interesting  looking back at those disconnect thoughts.  I can’t tell you the number of times I think of something to write about, an experience with my faith or a clarification  God has given me from scripture, that remain unwritten.   Or how many times I have sat down to write a post and gotten 3/4 of the way through and hit the delete key.   God reminds me often that I am tasked to do things that are within His will, and that not everything he teaches me  is meant to be blogged to the world.  Maybe it is because what God is teaching me is not what the reader needs, maybe what God is teaching me needs to remain between me and Him. My prayers, writing and thoughts may be incomplete, but no teaching with God is incomplete or without purpose.

Being complete in His purpose means to completely seek him…

Jer 29:13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.