An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a test that measures and records the electrical activity of your brain. Special sensors (electrodes) are attached to your head and hooked by wires to a computer. The computer records your brain's electrical activity on the screen or on paper as wavy lines. Certain conditions, such as seizures, can be seen by the changes in the normal pattern of the brain's electrical activity.
So, at this moment my wife if up with Joshua and I am on my shift of sleeping. Amazing how I can type while I am asleep….nah, actually my wife has access to my blog and so she is imputing this for me.
Life is such an incredible journey as well as an adventure. Tonight is just another paragraph in this years chapter. Ah, Matt is waking up now…I can hear his feet coming down the hall and Joshua is asking me to do the “tickle hand joke” that makes him laugh.
As our son’s brain is tested this morning with an EEG for seizure activity I cannot help but think that we walk around with a spiritual EEG. That our “brain” activity is an open record to all of how we respond and act to our thoughts and circumstances. (And, if I were not so tired I could come up with a great acronym for EEG…but alas…it is now 3:55am.) And Matt is now back to sleep.
(Joshua just came up to me and said, “MOMMY, GOD LOVES YOU.”)
May each of you have a blessed 1st Day of December!
You can read more about this interesting journey by clicking AUTISM
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
EEG
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
The BIG Gathering.
The BIG Gathering.
What's it all about? What does "break 113" mean? This photo above makes me think of the thousands of people who followed Jesus to just sit and hear the words that would change their lives. They were so thirsty for what He had to offer that the crowds increased in number.
This "break 113" is more than a number. It will not prove that we are successful at "what we do". It's about being willing to be open to share where we found the water we thirsted for and our lives were changed. And maybe, just maybe our stories of transformation and second chances will touch someone's life where they are drawn to HIS WATER for eternity and choose to live life forever changed.
Will you come? Who will you bring?
Saturday, October 10, 2009
UNO SERVICE EAST
Hey ALL!
Today GCC along with other Area Churches did an outreach into our community. To say that I was pumped was an understatement considering what God did this week with my wife. He sent her to the same place that we are reaching out to and she did not even know where we were going today. When she called me the first thing she said was, "Can we have a mobile soup kitchen?" Here is part of her heart she wrote in her blog:
I know that people “use” the system. I know that people buy what they want and beg for what they need. I know people “use others” to gain and remain in their own pit…and yet there is this one phrase within a commission given to all of us who say we are followers of Christ. Not even a phrase but a word…GO! Go therefore into all the world…..
Don’t you find it interesting that He did not say, BRING THEM TO THE CHURCH. WAIT FOR THEM TO COME. HAVE A GREAT PROGRAM AND THEY WILL…..
If my memory serves me…CHRIST WENT TO THEM…He walked right up to the woman at the well. He walked up to the adulterous woman. He walked up to the tax collector. He walked up to the hungry, bleeding, poor, sick, desperate, suicidal, homicidal, lost, in search of meaning, drug addict, alcoholic, user… He walked up to….me and He walked up to you.
Today we GOT GOING and brought chili, hot dogs, beverages, games, prizes of flash lights, batteries, winter items like scarfs, gloves, hats, socks, as well as cleaning supplies, toiletries and more to the families God had called us to join Him today in showing His love in a practical way. The above clip is what our day entailed...it was AMAZING!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
LIFE INSIDE THE BOX OF A JIGSAW PUZZLE
NEW DEVOTIONAL BOOK!
We all have a plan in our heads of how we “think” life ought to be when we marry and have children. When those plans are shattered, it is like someone came up to your card table while you were putting together a jigsaw puzzle and the pieces went everywhere. Yet, your puzzle did not just hit the floor, it scattered to the winds and you now stand there with an empty box.
Life Inside the Box of a Jigsaw Puzzle is a book about finding God’s Grace, Strength, Hope and Understanding inside the Spectrum of Autism. I am a parent who is inspired daily by our son who was born and blessed with Autism. May you find blessing, hope...and a new look within the puzzle of Autism.
You can order a copy today by clicking LIFE INSIDE...
Monday, September 21, 2009
Imagine Your Life Without Fear....
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
smallness = bigness, largeness, magnitude.
As I sit here looking out the window, watching the clouds pass over the lake side of our house...I am in awe again at how small I am in the grand scheme of this world and yet He has called me to do something HUGE in this town, in this state, in this country, in this world.
My wife accepted a position on the 31st of August working at Children Services. So many hurting, angry people who see life as hopeless and that everything is overwhelming. Nothing helps...or they don't know where to go or have refused to go to find HOPE and HELP.
As I think of that, I sit here humbly pondering what is coming this weekend with our leadership retreat. How often times, in our smallness, we feel that everything is either too big, that we cannot possibly meet the needs of a world that is SO huge and...well...dying.
Yet, I know that smallness can have an ENORMOUS impact.
I want to encourage you to come this weekend to "small churches, BIG OPPORTUNITIES." A leadership retreat that will leave you impacted and viewing smallness in a BIG way!
Let's not let our smallness stop us from making an EXTREME, HUGE impact for the kingdom!
See you this Friday and Saturday @ Blue Rock!
To learn more email: matt@genevachurchofchrist.org
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