If you have 8 minutes and need a good laugh… then enjoy the crib video one of our high school students made of my casa for a series on defeating the comparison game we all get stuck playing called “compareanoia”. Anyway…it’s good times.

If I was God, I’d smite some people. I know that sounds judgemental but God is our judge and judgemental is part of his job and maybe I should have been smited a long time ago… but here’s my top two lowly suggestions for today.

1. Smite the entire Westboro Baptist Church who plan to protest the funerals of the little girls killed in Amish Country and who claim that they brought it on themselves by denying God and living Amish. I really want to start cussing now. Instead, I think God should smite those who, in my humble opinion, falsely represent him. I mean these are the poeple who sponsor godhatesfags.com. AHHHHHHH!

2. The clowns that decided to market a statue of St. Joseph as a means to sell homes. Yes, believe it or not, you can pay 10 bucks and buy a 4″ figurine, complete with burying bag and then when you claim your property by the spirit of the saints, your house will sell… and lots and lots of people do this! Yippee for free market, the web, and stupidity.

I’m stuck in a room in downtown El Cajon waiting for my name to be called. Believe it or not, they have wireless in this small room with a plug and a wobbly table we can sit at. I’m supposed to feel honored that I’m keeping our freedoms strong and doing my part to uphold the greatest justice system in the world… I think I’d rather be a cop.

Well,

We started landscaping our front yard last week. Something I’ve been wanting to do since we moved in. The front of our property has looked kinda nasty for a while and we began the process of moving our fence out to the front and building some retaining walls and planters and such. Diego and his friend Samuel have been doing most of the concrete. I do the sprinklers and electrical and whatever else Diego tells me to… He’s the man. I’m enjoying working with him and practicing my Spanish.

Here’s some photos of the work so far… I’ll keep you posted as progress continues.. but it’s a side job for Diego so he only works weekends on it. Looks like it will be another month or so before we’re “done”.

This morning Jake and I washed my truck. In the process, he got to thinking and asked…

“Dad, who is stronger? God or Jesus?”

I said, “Neither. Jesus is God. They are both the same.”

Long pause.

Jake: “Oh, so some people just call him Jesus and some people call him God.”

Dad: “Yes.”

If only the incarnation was so simple, then I wouldn’t be feeling so stupid after trying to explain it to my 4 year old.

I wonder how my son is going to feel when he is old enough to understand that Jesus prayed to God (or Himself) and it is not considered schizophrenic.

I wonder if Jesus ever asked God Jake’s question? Like do the Holy Spirit and Jesus and God ever talk about who could take who in a fight? Here’s the conversation:

• Holy Spirit- I move like the wind. I’ll take you out when you can’t see me.
• Jesus- the waves obey me, no matter how powerful your wind is.
• God- they don’t call me God for nothing. Sit down before I make a universe without you in it.

Ok… maybe I need to go back to Theology class again. I think I missed something. Or maybe they missed it.