Raking in the Wind

First off, I need to say that I've been the biggest Raptor fan for three years now, and I've never been as upset with them as I am now after that game in Chicago. I will also follow that up with the acknowledgement that very few of you care about the Raptors or are aware of how important that game was.. I just needed to let you know. I am a broken man today :(


So I just got off my radio interview with life and I didn't say anything that could be misinterpreted or possibly offensive, so that in itself is a victory. I have a disease called "footinyomouth-anitus" and it leads me to say some pretty amazing things, but today it was on vacation, and I'm thanking God for that.


This brings me to my epiphany. The other day my mom asks me to rake the lawn, and being the wonderful son that I am, I got right on out there and started raking. But as I'm raking I notice that it's actually ridiculously windy outside. So I'm moving the leaves from where they were, but the wind is just scooping them up and putting them somewhere else.
"This looks a lot like my life" I thought to myself. And seriously, it does. Life is like raking in the wind. You see this chaos you've got going on in your life, and you think, "I'm going to make this into a neat little pile here, and make this into a neat little pile here.." But the wind will have none of that. If you want to move some stuff around than that's fine, but don't think for a second that you're going to decide how this will look in the end. And so God starts blowing on my plans, and starts making them look a little more like the plans that He had for me in the beginning.


So for this reason I will never rake a lawn again. Too much thinking.. I'm downright exhausted.. Also, does anyone know when the next season of the Office will be out on dvd? I'm starving here.
Obey your parents. This is my lesson for the day ;) Also, One Tribe is this Thursday (the 15th) at 7 pm @ Clearview Community Church in Stayner. Check it out.

Levi

Todays Adventure

Wow, I feel like I just put a blog up yesterday..
I think sometimes you just need to take a look at what your intentions were to decide whether something was a good idea or not. These are the latest words of wisdom that my wonderful girlfriend has taught me. As it turns out, sometimes I'm quick to speak and slow to contemplate. I'm gonna work on that.


So I've been drinking a tonne of coffee lately, (and if you know me than you know this is weird because I hate the stuff) just because the world is making me drink it. McDonalds was offering it for free, and it's not as if I'm going to walk into a restaurant and say no to something that doesn't cost me a penny.. and now Tim's is dishing out free cars so what am I going to do? Sip my iced cap while Matt, Drew and Trevor are zipping around in their free cars with their free donuts? I doubt it.
The thing is, I can't for the life of me seem to win anything.. Which brings me to my story.

Once upon a time I was picking a girl up from work. We'll call her Amanda. So I thought it would be sweet to pick her up a coffee on my way in. (also if I buy her a coffee I can justify buying two coffees thus multiplying my chances of winning by two) So I'm in the store and I think to myself, "Self, I never win with the larges." and I envisioned the Tim Hortons winning cup guy picking the winning cups and laughing, "I'll put it on a medium cup! They'll never buy the medium cup!"
"He thinks he's so smart.." I murmered to myself before proceeding to buy two medium coffees. That'll show him...

As we're leaving she has to shuffle the seat before entering because I just spent TWO and a HALF HOURS getting my tires changed and they were now taking up all the space in the car. We take off down the street and I hear something fall on my car.
"Ohh man!" I hear her exclaim. "I left my coffee on the car!" I give her mine, because she likes coffee, I hate coffee, and all I want is a free car. It's a loser, and now I'm going crazy, because I was so sure I had bought a winner and we had left that cup just sitting on the street..

We go through our night as usual, help with the youth group, watch the marriage ref (Jimmy Falon was hilarious!), and then I proceed to take her home. But as if through some kind of mind reading power she could sense my uneasiness with leaving that cup behind. My motto, "No cup left behind." So she turns to me and sais ever so sweetly, "Would you like to go back and find that cup?"

We pulled back into the parking lot and retraced our steps. I backed out, pulled onto the street, but we just couldn't see it. Amanda happened to notice a car parked on the side of the road that wasn't there earlier. Low and behold, behind the right rear tire there was a medium Tim Horton's coffee cup. The rim was still unrrrrolled. Surely any passerby would have seen the cup and thought, "It's already been rolled up." 99 times out of 100 they would have been right. But not this fateful night. They had walked right past this potential goldmine all day long.. If only they knew that that cup they had walked by was in tact and ready for rrrolling.

Needless to say after all of that it was a loser..

I'll see you in line tommorow at Tim's. This time I'm buying a large

-Levi