Feeling Constrained?

There was so much great stuff last week at Unplugged that it was like drinking from a firehouse (this is an outside view of Ebenezer's Coffee House where we met --- and then inside, Jud Wilhite on the left and Mark Batterson on the right -- and the back of some dude's head!)

One of the nuggets we talked about was the Blessing of Living under Constraint.
Jud called it the Houdini principle . . .Houdini performed his greatest feats under the greatest pressure. He actually wanted the feats to threaten his life because under that kind of pressure he concentrated with every ounce of energy he had.

In the same way it's under great constraint that we are forced to be totally dependent on God! When we're in a situation be it with our finances, or a relationship, or job, or school, or a physical limitation, whatever - where we are at the end of our resources - the blessing is that we MUST trust God.

And constraint not only makes us dependent on God but it unleashes our God-given creativity.

So, if you're feeling constrained today, praise God for a new opportunity to trust Him!

Car-Jet-Car Lag!

I left Corpus yesterday (Tue) morn a little before 7am . . . drove to San Antonio . . . waited . . . flew to Newark (5 1/2 hour flight after the extra hour of circling waiting to land) . . . delayed, delayed, delayed . . . finally flew out of Newark at 10:30 pm, arrived in Baltimore at 11:45 where Matt & Lindsay Rerecich (Audie's daughter & son-in-law who it was great to see . . . it's always great to see couple's who you married, who are flourishing!)

We drove to their apartment just across the Potomac from DC and got their at 1am!

But hey it's a heck of a lot faster than driving! And I got to talk to a lot of people and do a lot of reading!

I'm in DC sitting in Ebenezers Coffee Shop (planted here by National Community Church) right now (Unplugged starts tomorrow) . . . gonna go running later down in the mall - that'll be kind of cool . . . thinking about going to the Nationals game tonight :)