Kairos Chaos

Look at what type of warning our friends in Britian are putting on their “cig” packages, beginning today…

Do you think it will be effective?

I will not pretend to understand why some say this is fashionable.
Maybe someone could explain it to me??

I do not know if I’d be happy with this thing on my head either.  Even if I was visiting Tiananmen Square for the first time….

Logan\’s Wisdom

In  your high school youth group,  did you ever play the “big, bigger, best” game?  This is the game where you were given a penny and went door to door in the neighborhood to get something bigger or better and whoever got back to the church with the biggest or best item won.  Did you ever play that game?  No, ok, it was just us mid-westerners then.
Anyway,  freecycle is a website that helps you trade what you have something else.  Its not a garage sale or craigslist, but you can post items that you have to give away and/or something you need to obtain and people will post if they have said item.  It’s pretty cool.  Check it out: http://my.freecycle.org/

Wouldn’t this hurt your head??  Weren’t we always told as children to not do these things?  And now it’s “magic” or an “illusion” or, maybe more appropriate a publicity stunt?

Teen-pop-phenomenon Miley and her boyfriend are doing it, and the world (aka Hollywood) is shocked.

But why?  Are tank tops a “no-no” in church?  Should they be?

Supporters want to save this giant oak chair in Dartmoor, England, which is under threat of demolition.

This headline caught my attention and makes me wonder, what makes these people want to save this chair?  Why do they consider it worth saving?  And how do they differ from the people who want it demolished? 

There are so many incredible causes in the world to fight for; we can stand with Bono and fight against ending poverty in Africa or Blood Water Mission to help bring fresh water to Africa.  We can stand partner with those who picked up where Mother Teresa left off and continue to minister to the poor in Calcutta. We could stand with the International Justice Mission, World Vision or Compassion International, Habitat for Humanity, or join a Kairos Roadtrip.  There are ungodly amounts of opportunity to be involved in “saving” something or someone.

But we don’t.  We continue to sit in the wealthiest country in the world, in one of the wealthiest counties in that country, and complain about our discontent.  We complain that we do not have “enough” of whatever it is we are adding to our lives. 

Meanwhile, our friends across the pond find a giant oak chair a worthy item that needs saving.  

Vince Young—he’s had a rough go as of late, hasn’t he?    His “fans” booed him off the field. Then he goes “missing” and his co-workers are concerned enough to ask the police to help find him and his mom tells the press she thinks he is tired of being in the NFL spotlight.

I couldn’t blame him for being “emotionally down”.  I wouldn’t want my every move recorded for fans, who apparently do not like me, to scruntize.  And it would be just plain ol’ frustrating to want to be healthy and injuries keep happening.  We’ve been there haven’t we? 

You just want to get over this one itty-bitty struggle, or just want to move past the “what ifs” of the past and they keep coming back over an over again.  You just want to have straight hair instead of curly, or be married instead of single or be single instead of married.  Maybe you would just like some type of direction for your life.  All of these things can contribute to being emotionally “down” or “off”.  So the question is:  who do you talk to?  Does Vince have someone he confides in, someone he can trust enough not to talk to press?  We think we know him because we see pictures of him or see him on T.V. or, for us Nashvillians, we see him around town.  But we do not know him.  We know about him.

Nashville is a transplant city…people end up here from all over the globe trying to find a community of people they have something in common with and hopefully to share life with.  How did you find your community?  How did you find those people who know you, not about you, but know you?  

Maybe you saw this article or saw the interview on the Today show.  Little Rowan’s mom, Megan, was told Rowan may have a dangerous eye cancer by her friend, Madeleine Robb.  Madeleine just happens to live in London. 

 Megan took her daughter to the doctor where she found out that it was cancer and that after some chemo treatments, little Rowan will lose her eye…but she will live. 

 All this makes me wonder; what would have happened if Madeleine did not get involved in her friends life?  What happens when we do not get involved in each others life?  When we continually let our friends behave in a self-destructive manner?  Is the phrase “it’s none of your business” used too loosely?  Do we need to retort with “you’re my friend that makes it my business”?  Where are the boundaries?  What are practical steps that show we do not agree with the destructive behavior, but still love the person behind the behavior?