Heeeess BACK!

That's right every-old-body I'm back.

I know, I know, I've been gone a while. Got bogged down in last semester's mound-o-work and this semester's excitement. That, and just the fact that since I'm technically "too old" for the youth group there wasn't that little bit to hold me there. *shrugs* seems a tad artificial to me but I dunno, I suppose you have to go sometime.

Anyway, that was then, this is now. I might not be comin' to Wednesday night class anymore but I don't remember seeing a "If you are taller than this you can't ride" sign at the door of the blog :-) .

I was hoping to have some spiritually deep comments to throw on here, and I had quite a few ideas earlier, but now I'm drawing a total blank. I suppose if God wants me to post something He'll bring it back to mind. As for an update on just what in the world has been going on with me in the past... Oh... how long has it been? (looks up last post in the archives... Keeps looking... Keeps looking some more...) A YEAR!?!?! IT'S BEEN A YEAR!?!?!?! No, certainly not... Man. Well then I suppose I have some posting to do ;-) .

The Recent and Exciting:

Well let's see here... I'm trying to get a job up at the college as a work study. Looks pretty hopeful if I can just wade through the heaps of paperwork involved. This Friday I'm hoping to head up to Texarkana to get some more of this paperwork I have to fill out. Yes, I am a glutton for punishment. Dave Phillips will be one of my bosses. Just in case any of you don't know who that is (which is probably all of you lol) he mans the soundboard some Sundays. Wears a nice hat and whatnot. He works up at the college and is actually taking some of the classes I am. Thus a workstudy was born :-) .

As a side note, on one of my quests for paperwork in town Sarah actually passed me while I was walking up to the workforce center. Gave me a quizzical look as I sat there dumbfounded at just how small the world really is lol.

Meh, other than that nothing really "exciting" as you would define it. I'm all worked up about the next version of Ubuntu Linux coming out this month but you guys would probably find that a yawnfest.

Greg's weird idea of the month:

Yea that's right. I have weird ideas. They hit me fairly often. I'll just be sitting there filling out paperwork (blah paperwork) and BOOM! out from nowhere this silly idea leaps on my brain because nobody else would take it in. I'm a sucker I know.

Anyhoo it occurred to me the other day that though I'm not particularly good at the normal churchy evangelizationizing (R) things, something I am reasonably good at is fixing computers. Not real spiritual, not something you can take to to some sort of ministering activity, but a talent I have been entrusted with none the less.

So it then occurred to me that there are probably a lot of other members who are just like me; also not very good at the standard goyeeforths and comeyeehithers, but ARE good at practical things. Things like fixing cars, haying a field, digging a ditch, working a camera, etc. I'm not just talking youth here but the whole church.

Now most of the time, in my humble experience, God might direct someone into your path that you can help and you pipe up and say "hey! I'm actually fairly handy with so-and-so, maybe I could help." Well that's all fine and dandy, dandy and fine but you will probably miss a lot of people that you could otherwise help.

So here's my idea in the long and short: those of us who are skillful in some manner or other could put our name, number, ability and availability on a sheet of paper on a bulletin board. Then, if someone in the church needs something done, they can go and look at the board to see if there is someone who can help instead of having to go and pay someone to do it. Call it a "talent bank" from that parable Jesus taught.

You know, that one where a master leaves a few servants at a house and he gives them each a certain amount of money (called talents oddly enough.) When the master comes back the good servants have invested the talents and made the master some money. But, the not so great servant had his little talent and buried it the ground, not making any interest on it. Well the moral of the parable is that God made us all with certain abilities and He expects us to use those gifts, talents and whatnot to help out down here. I dunno about you but I'm ready to dig my little old coin out of the dirt and put it to some use.

Again that's just my li'll ole idea but I just think it would be cool. And again, I'm not so much directing this at the youth as everybody. I don't know about you but when I was, oh, 13-16 my "talent" was a warm body who could do manual labor. Though there probably is a need for some leaf rakers and siding painters most of those areas are covered by youth activities and youth auctions anyway.

I'm trying to target the "talent bank" or whatever you want to call it to those of us who have abilities that could be used on a fairly regular basis in fields that currently kinda get ignored. You catch my drift here? Anyway that's that. Just looking for some sounding boards to bounce that idea off of, maybe polish the rough edges off of it.

The Random and Silly:

Well I... Aww never mind :-) . This post is too long already and I'm sure you want to go back to having fun. Get to it! Stop reading! Go! Lol.