My Epic Journey

We are a family of sleep-walkers.  I won’t always remember it but my wife says I will talk and sit-up in my sleep.  She will talk and has been known to pet invisible dogs in her sleep.  But our middle child is probably the worst.  Noah will carry on a conversation and will also walk aimlessly around the house–all while being dead asleep.  Speaking of aimlessly–we have caught him a couple of times using the restroom while asleep.  The problem is he doesn’t aim for the toilet but the trash can!!!!  Makes for fun clean-up.  We usually have a lot of fun with him.

But sleepwalking can be dangerous.  Here are signs of sleepwalking:

• eyes open during sleep
• may have blank facial expression
• may sit up and appear awake during sleep
• walking during sleep
• other detailed activity during sleep, any sort
• no recall of the event upon awaking
• confusion, disorientation on awakening
• sleep talking is incomprehensible and non-purposeful

Spiritually speaking, there are also sleepwalkers.  People who walk through life as if they are spiritually alive and yet are still spiritually asleep.

Here are the signs to look for to see if you are a SPIRITUAL sleepwalker:

• you HEAR the Word but don’t DO what is says. (James 1.22-24)
• you sit in church service yet never look engaged to what is going on.
• you come to worship service hoping to be fed because you haven’t fed yourself any time during the week.
• you don’t recall any spiritually impacting moment in your life.
• when it comes to spiritual things, you are confused and disoriented.
• your spiritual life is incomprehensible and non-purposeful.
• your spiritual talk is incoherent and doesn’t match your lifestyle

As you read down this list does any of them point to you?  If so, you need to take a spiritual inventory of your life and ask the question, “Am I a spiritual sleepwalker?”

I work with an AMAZING group of guys!!!  Really.  I LOVE to come to office everyday because I know that I will be loved, pushed, cared for, challenged and stretched and will be encouraged to do the same to the other staff.

At Grace Point, Terry stresses the importance of TEAMWORK.  Whether it is our Pastor Pow-Wows, or staff meetings, base coach (ministry team) meetings or elder’s meetings, the word “TEAMWORK” seems to always come up.  But not only does Terry stress the word, he practices it as well and that makes all the difference. 

But it doesn’t stop there!  I have an AMAZING group of EPIC leaders who I LOVE more than they will ever know.  I love them because we work well as a team because we are friends working toward a common goal–changing the lives of students!!!

So in honor of Terry and as a thanks for being such GREAT team leader and to show my appreciate to my EPIC leaders, I thought I would post this video I found on TEAMWORK.  Hope you enjoy!!!

I was on Math Cats this afternoon just running my age and here is what I found:

I am 33 years old . . .

     or 396 months old
     or 1722 weeks old
     or 12054 days old
     or 289296 hours old
     or 17357770 minutes old
     or 1041466224 seconds old

Pretty cool to see the numbers.