I am Jamaica's husband, Foursquare's comm director, Personality's founder, and a catalyst for CFCC.
I'm also blogging at:
Personality™
Church Marketing Sucks
« From Affection to Action | White-Hot and Full of Service »
October 22, 2005
Blow My Freakin' Bubble
Filed under: Rant
I just returned from a trip to the south for a bi-annual meeting with one of the boards I serve on. On my way there, during the first leg to Dallas, I sat next to a guy who was on his way back to New Orleans after being away since he left six days after Hurricane Katrina. Dean was "stuck" in the penthouse suite of the Ritz Carlton for six days as he looked out over the city and saw lives lost and a city destroyed. Dean was friendly and feisty, and very angry at the injustices happening in the aftermath of Katrina. A "manager of hundreds of local bands" (his only family he says), Dean lives in the French Quarter, a reverend on Bourbon Street who also does weddings. He was frustrated primarily at government and aid workers for not doing enough. He wanted these people to pay for the injustices they caused Dean's "family." Dean was going to play his "reverend" card - the universal church licenses him - and he knew things were going to get ugly.
Thanks, Dean, for your authentic attempt to right the wrongs.
On my trip home, I was in the aisle seat. Sarah was in the middle seat. A consultant from Dallas was in the window seat, on her way to Asia.
Sarah is from San Antonio, Texas, en route to Hawaii with her family for their first vacation in six years. She is a Christian from Cornerstone Church. Before they left on this vacation, the family prayed to God that He would surround them with Christians throughout the whole trip. Furthermore, when she heard I was from Los Angeles, she expressed how excited she was that more and more Christian movies were coming out. "TBN is so great - Matt Crouch's production company is going to do so well."
Bless her heart, but people like this bug me.
God, please surround Sarah and her family with people that are not all Christians throughout the rest of their vacation.
Oh yeah, the lady in the window seat? She is a Muslim.
Thanks, Sarah, for reminding me what really matters.