“People love God, but hate church.”

Big suits draped over even bigger egos. Frilly dresses. Lace socks. Bible toting and scripture quoting. Emphatic, energetic commands spewed from a stage. Seems to me that we make it real easy for “outsiders” to hate what we do and who we are.

Aren’t we MUCH more that these images? Would you agree that life as a Believer is hardly summed up by preaching, teaching, and attending church service? If you agree—then WHY is this all what we choose to emphasize?

Rather than billboards that doom passersby to hell if they don’t “turn from their wicked ways”; shouldn’t we share boldly the benefits of our personal relationship with Christ?

Personally, I love THE church. My life has been enriched and enhanced through my relationships, the many lessons taught, the opportunity to express freely my love for God and His people—I could go on.

Rarely, do we see these images as the center of our communications. How unfortunate it is that we daily deny others these liberties because our focus is flawed.

I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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I absolutely love what I do. I LOVE who I am! Though my list is encompassing it is not overwhelming because, to me, it’s fun!

I am reminded of a night my daughter and I shared last week. She came up to my office to ask me some ridiculous question, it was bedtime. All sorts of random questions are asked when it’s bedtime. While this night her motives were no different, my response was. I turned in my chair, looked her dead in her eyes and with a stern face said “do you wanna see something?” Intrigued and confused and more than likely thinking “is this a TRICK? Am I about to learn another lesson?” She hesitantly said, “Yes”. I whipped my chair back around, typed in my web brower’s search bar the letters Y-O-U-T-U-B-E. Jasmine started smiling.

“I found this cool song that I really like, do you wanna hear it?”

“Mom, really? cool? please, don’t use those types of words.” Jasmine has a way of reminding me that I am not hip. Lol! As I typed “the climb” in the search field, I could feel my heart pounding through my chest. I really like this song and I knew Jasmine did as well. I picked up a highlighter and a pen from my desk, swiveled my chair around and said to my dear Jasmine “you wanna join me in concert?” She was thrilled. With the lyrics on one monitor and the video on the other we grasp tightly to our makeshift mics and bellowed the song from some place deep within our non-singing souls. I know we screamed that song at least 7 times consecutively. OMG! We sounded AWFUL! (sorry Miley) Our voices cracked, we over sang the music, at one point I got so excited that I decided to jump out of my chair and act out the guitar solo. It was AMAZING! We laughed so hard that night. I am sure it is one we will never forget. As we both recollect the moment our joint description of the evening was: F-U-N!

When was the last time you had fun? Genuine, gut-busting, tear streaming, fun? Are you living out your dreams? Is fun apart of your daily routine? If not, what are you going to do to increase your “fun-factor”? I want to hear from you, please share.

I absolutely love what I do. I LOVE who I am! Though my list is encompassing it     is not overwhelming because, to me, it’s fun!

I am reminded of a night my daughter and I shared last week. She came up to my  office to ask me some ridiculous question, it was bedtime. All sorts of random     questions are asked when it’s bedtime. While this night her motives were no different, my response was. I turned in my chair, looked her dead in her eyes and with a stern face said “do you wanna see something?” Intrigued and confused and more than likely thinking “is this a TRICK? Am I about to learn another lesson?” She hesitantly said, “Yes”. I whipped my chair back around, typed in my web brower’s search bar the letters Y-O-U-T-U-B-E. Jasmine started smiling.

“I found this cool song that I really like, do you wanna hear it?”

“Mom, really? cool? please, don’t use those types of words.” Jasmine has a way of reminding me that I am not hip. Lol! As I typed “the climb” in the search field, I could feel my heart pounding through my chest. I really like this song and I knew Jasmine did as well. I picked up a highlighter and a pen from my desk, swiveled my chair around and said to my dear Jasmine “you wanna join me in concert?” She was thrilled. With the lyrics on one monitor and the video on the other we grasp tightly to our makeshift mics and bellowed the song from some place deep within our non-singing souls. I know we screamed that song at least 7 times consecutively. OMG! We sounded AWFUL! (sorry Miley) Our voices cracked, we over sang the music, at one point I got so excited that I decided to jump out of my chair and act out the guitar solo. It was AMAZING! We laughed so hard that night. I am sure it is one we will never forget. As we both recollect the moment our joint description of the evening was: F-U-N!

When was the last time you had fun? Genuine, gut-busting, tear streaming, fun? Are you living out your dreams? Is fun apart of your daily routine? If not, what are you going to do to increase your “fun-factor”? I want to hear from you, please share.