An Imitation of Robert

I am taking a bunch of sixth through twelfth graders and adults to San Antonio tomorrow to see the Polar Express on the IMAX in 3D tomorrow and we are going to spend the day at Rivercenter Mall and the Riverwalk it's going to be so much fun to be out for a day trip! I hope. To watch a movie like that with snowflakes falling all around you and with the feeling that a train is coming right at you. Could be fun man just like when Robert the Bruce betrayed William Wallace and Wallace didn't know at first that it was him but when he found out he was like whoa man and his eyes glazed over and he just stumbled and gave up but the Bruce made sure that the other guy got him on his horse and took him to safety.

New paragraph bet you didn't see it coming... just like I didn't see it coming when Third Day came out with the song "Sky falls down, it crumbles into the sea, Sun goes out, You're comin' back for me." So tomorrow I'll be hanging out with all these students that I'm getting to know more and more all the time. Despite the awkwardness of them looking up to me and expecting things from me and me just wanting to have a good job and enjoy my life and maybe make some friends in the process, even if they are younger and know less. I'll talk to them about how you don't have to understand grace to experience it and live it and how Christ is present with us and loves us and desires for us to become more like him. And I won't say a word about how they should get saved or about how they should witness for his Name or Renown and I won't say "Father, Lord, Jesus will you God today just bless these students Lord God for your Glory because you are Mighty and Jesus Christ you just rock God and will you help us now to not drive by but park in your holy lot... for you are God, God" when I pray because I don't pray like that anymore.

Well, Karla gets out of school in a bit, and I pick her up at 4:10 in an illegal spot because it's more convenient even though I have to watch out for the Texas State security trucks because one guy came really close to ticketing me one day when I parked there for a second so that I wouldn't have to find a spot in that God-forsaken commuter lot, which is not, by the way, holy ground. So I spoke to Chi last night for 47 minutes and 26 seconds, and he helped me understand that when you make sushi you don't just need sticky rice, which is what we call medium grain rice that Asians use a lot, but specifically you need Glutinous rice which is extra-sticky. He knows this not because he makes sushi... he doesn't. He's Asian, but he's not Japanese you sillies! He is from Taiwan. So, he uses the regular stuff... regular ol' medium grain... not Glutinous. The only reason he knows about the Glutinous stuff is because Mariko is one of his best friends, and she lives in Japan and so he knows this somehow. He also has another Japanese girl who happens to be his friend (yes, that's right... Chi Chi is still his girl back in Taiwan but they are "laying low" for awhile in their relationship)...[which, by the way, is funny if you think about it because what the hell is laying high when you're on the other side of the globe]...this other girl is just his friend in Tampa Florida. He goes to the University of South Florida there but will try to get into either the University of Washington or Seattle Pacific University for a M.B.A. when he graduates this coming Spring.

Aye, aye ye landlubbers and don't forget to remember that line from Braveheart when William Wallace says, "Every man dies, but not every man truly lives."