This weekend we had a bout of simultaneous puberty with our boys. It was the darnedest thing. One morning they woke up and were changed. It’s like living with Wookies. Hairy chests, aggression, deeper voices, disregard for authority… My only explanation is possibly the new Balco Barry Bonds gummy vitamins or it could simply be heredity (I blame the genes on my wife’s side of the family).

Either way, keep Sasquach and little Yedi in your prayers… we’ve already run out of razors and red meat. If this keeps up, I’ll have to ship them off to live with the Power Team.

Agree with Eldredge or not?

[thanks for pointing out this video - AC180]

If you live in the Northwest, you should really sign up for this. I’ve been before and it’s a great event. Don’t worry if you’re not a baptist… you can hang with me (remember, I’m a DB after all). This year’s speaker is Donald Miller (Blue like Jazz) and I’m so excited. Miller is great and it’s going to make this year’s Men’s Round up amazing. It’s a weekend full of sports, worship, speakers and man food (steak and portions you can’t finish). $90 before mid-August and $100 afterward.

Either email me or go to www.mensroundup.com if you’re interested.

I meet every Tuesday morning at 6am with 3 other guys for breakfast and Bible study. We always sit in the same booth at Don’s diner. I’m always half awake till I dive into my bottomless cup of diner coffee. So, I drug in this morning and walked over to our regular booth and was about to sit down till I noticed that there was someone else in my booth. From behind (and through my bleary eyes) it looked just like one of my breakfast mates. But upon closer look, it sure wasn’t Alan. It was the wrong guy. Luckily, I stopped just before sliding into the booth with a chipper”Good morning!” I’m sure the guy would have appreciated the greeting, but he wasn’t who I was looking for. The other guys laughed at me from across the room as they watched this unfold.

How often do we get caught up in routines and regularity of life and miss where we are going? I was pointed in the right direction. I was walking towards what I though was my destination. And when I arrived there it wasn’t where I wanted to be. I was led more by routine than vision.

I find myself doing this more than I like to believe. I get on cruise control and take my eyes off the road. It says in Lamentations 3:40, “let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.”

So is it just me? Or do you find yourself speeding though the day, simply trying to get to the end, but not looking where you are going? And at the end of the day, I look in the mirror and find myself not being the man I set out to be. My vision has been lost. I’ve become busy. I’ve become stressed. I’ve become tired. I’ve become the wrong guy.

For tomorrow’s post, I give you this to prepare you.