Bones and Ally

So it's been bugging me. First of all, you should go see the movie "Mom's night out", fantastic and funny movie. If you've seen it yay for you. There's a scene in the movie where Bones (Trace Adkins) and the main character, Allyson, (can't remember the actor's name) are sitting at a bench in the police station in the middle of the night. It's been a long day: car stolen, baby missing, nobody knows where anyone else is, phones missing, a baby in a tattoo parlor (?), and now these two are sitting on this bench. Bones is this big biker dude, tats all up his arms and neck, and the main character, Allyson, is this crazy hectic mom who is disappointed in herself for not being the wife/mom/friend/whatever she wants to be. She feels like she just messes everything up and is just not enough. So Bones drops one of the biggest nuggets of wisdom I've ever heard in a movie. Here's the quote: "I was raised in church, this might surprise you but I have since drifted from the faith. My momma worked three jobs, never met my daddy, I had to get up early and walk to school but I'd wait up for her coming home from the diner, waited up every night. cause she'd come home, she'd put me to bed, then she'd tell me something, she'd tell me the same thing every night. 'he loves you Charles, no matter who you are, no matter what you do, or how far you run, Jesus will always be lovin you with his arms open wide, just for being you.'" Yup, blew my mind too, I mean how often do we remind ourselves of this fact? How much simpler could life be if we abided in this truth?
He goes on to say this too: y'all spend so much time beating yourselves up, must be exhausting, let me tell you something, I doubt the good Lord made a mistake, giving those kiddos the momma he did (her), so you just be you, He'll take care of the rest"

I mean, how much more simple can you get? Jesus loves you for being you, rest in that. There's no other you out there, not one other person on earth like you, and Jesus loves every hair on your arm, every wrinkle on your face, every freckle, eyelash, toenail, he loves you. Rest in that.
Here's the scene:
http://youtu.be/DluOhc9ZD6w

The post that should be named "first post", but instead it's this... FWA (first world anarchists)

So I'm not sure how to do this whole blog thing but here goes anyway. It'd be good to start at the beginning and talk randomly about myself for eleventeen pages but you and I would get bored. So I'll just insert random things that are relevant about myself into the stories and thoughts that I conjure up/are revealed to me through this little adventure/experiment.

REAL TITLE: Thanks, Dad, for Teaching me Hard Work

So I'm working over the summer with my buddy, Michael, doing landscaping (mowing yards) for a small business he and his dad run. Long story short we work, on average, 10-14 hours 6 days a week, pretty intense I know. I've gained quite a bit of weight at college, forget freshman 15, try sophomore 30... yeah I hate it but if you're not careful college will do that kind of thing to you. So as you can imagine I struggled with the long hours and rigorous work (though I know my limitations, but we'll get there). This little epiphany came to me (I think the Holy Spirit just puts these little nuggets of truth in my head, that's part of the reason I wanted to start a blog. See, you're learning more about me and I haven't even written over a page, yay for you) while I was edging this sidewalk, just another yard, and I saw these kids, a little younger than me (ok I'm not a kid... wish I was, if you are STAY THAT WAY... if you can but you can't so nevermind... anyway I'm like.... 22.... OLD) playing basketball down the street. Also, the son of the person we did the yard for just got home earlier. So this is a common theme that I see a lot of other places, kids not working... and I thought to myself, "man, these kids are going to have it hard, I mean I don't know them or if they really do work, but God made man for work, Ecclesiastes says that man is to be content in his work. So how can these guys... survive without knowing hard work?" I thought a lot of other stuff but I'll end the quotations, it got a little out of hand there, don't want like a run on quote... hate those so much. Another thought I had was that my dad had taught me what hard work was, and he did a darn good job too. I remember working on the house, mowing the yard, clearing a creek bed, raking leaves, plumbing, changing toilets, working on cars, changing siding on the house, installing windows, snow blowing and plowing in MN, I mean the list is almost endless. What does that end up being? A lot of quality (probably unappreciated at the time but appreciated now) time with my dad, leaning a lot of skills, knowing how a lot things work, and, you guessed it, knowing what hard work is. A lot of people in my generation won't know that... they'll miss out on the blessings that come with hard work. I know this was awful scatterbrained but it's at the end of a long day of work so sue me. What are the blessings of hard work? Sheesh, tough question there. Ecclesiastes 3:9-13 (New English Translation). Also I googled it and this page came up, I didn't have time to see if he was using everything in context but I'll let you do that. I will try and answer this question in more detail next time, but don't count on it. Until then I'm going to sleeeeeeeppp 

http://christianity.about.com/od/Bible-Verses/a/Work-Bible-Verses.htm

Man is Ignorant of God’s Timing

9 What benefit can a worker gain from his toil?

10 I have observed the burden

that God has given to people to keep them occupied.

11 God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time,

but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart

so that people cannot discover what God has ordained,

from the beginning to the end of their lives.

Enjoy Life in the Present

12 I have concluded that there is nothing better for people

than to be happy and to enjoy

themselves as long as they live,

13 and also that everyone should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in all his toil,for these things are a gift from God.