Road-Remorse

This weekend I was asked by Danny Vincent from Dwelling Place (Zion Bible College in Haverhill, MA) to play guitar with them at a youth leader’s summit called “Pillars Conference.” After the Saturday morning session I had to head back to Agawam to get ready for our Saturday night service. On the way home while driving through Worcester on I-290, I accidentally took the slower of two ways to get to the Mass Pike because I was distracted while tweeting (#dangerousThingsIshouldntDo) a good line I had just heard in a Gary Go song (#lameThingsIshouldntDo). FYI, the “#” is called a Twitter “hashtag,” and I don’t really know what they do either.

Since I was slightly detoured, I found myself in somewhat unfamiliar territory. The only thing I could do was drive very slow while frantically looking for “I-90″ signs. When I finally found my access point to the Pike, I had to cut across four lanes and

Some Stupid Punk-Kid’s Shoulder

Last night a few other leaders and I took a pack of kids from our youth to go see Hillsong United’s “The I-Heart Film,” which was a one-time event, broadcast via satellite from Australia to North America. Since we have youth group every Wednesday night, we couldn’t take everyone (potentially 200 kids), so we made it optional for whoever wanted to come along. If you’re a follower of Christ and don’t know what this film is, first, emerge from the cave in which you dwell (take no offense, I’m kidding, sort of), then do a Google search with terms like “The I-Heart Revolution” or “we’re all in this together” and read up on this movement. Or just go to I-Heart.org and get involved.

I could talk all about the injustices and horrible atrocities that we were made privy to through this film, but I won’t. I could talk about how I have been given a kick in the butt to start reaching out to the people around me, but I won’t. I could talk about a lot of the things this film was mostly intended to get us talking and thinking