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When you can’t wait on hope
Don’t you hate that, “We’ve got good news and we’ve got bad news” conversation.
It’s always followed up with the question, “Which one do you want first?”
Neither! Why don’t you go back out the door, fix the bad news and then come back in here with just good news… sound like a plan?
But, it never happens that way. Taking the good with the bad just seems to be one of the natural processes of life:
You get unexpected cash, and the car breaks down
You get some time off, you get a cold
You get married, you… wait, I think you get it
It’s a pattern that plays out almost everyday, but the blessings are hard to see. For example, you would not have had the money to f Continue reading
High Capacity
High Capacity from Andy Addis on Vimeo.
Keeping your tread depth for life
I am not mechanically inclined… at all.
That’s why I am extremely blessed to have friends who can fix stuff. I kind of have an unspoken deal with them; if they fix what’s broken around my place or in my car, I’ll conjugate any Greek verbs they need.
Seems to be working out really well for me so far.
It was even worse when I was younger. I remember being in high school and knowing very little about cars but thinking that they were trying to con me when they said I needed my tires aligned.
Sure, what’s next, am I low on blinker fluid?
Over the years, I’ve decided that a good tire alignment isn’t a bad deal.
In fact, the whole issue of alignment is a fantastic spiritual principle. So much of our lives are close, but just not quite there. You couldn’t see it by looking at it, but the unforeseen wear and tear on our lives and the unexpected reduction in performance let us know something is wrong. Continue reading
An Open letter to Kathy
This is an open letter to my wife on our 15th wedding anniversay. She means more to me than words can say…
Dear Kathy,
On our 15th wedding anniversary, I find that today is an example like so many days in the last 15 years that show an inexplicable love and devotion that I neither deserve nor understand. But, nonetheless, it’s this relationship with you that I treasure more than almost anything in my world.
For the last 15 years I have been a youth pastor and/or camp speaker with a July wedding anniversary. So, only once or twice in our years together have we actually spent these precious camp dates together. When we did, they were days shared with others, like today.
Today, for our 15th wedding anniversary you drove yourself and our boys all the way to central Texas to spend 3 days with me and about 700 third through sixth graders. Then on this big day you celebrated by:
• getting up early
• packing for two boys, a husband and yourself
• doing most of the heavy lifting because my head was hurting again
• listening to me preach for the 1 billionth time
• working the product table and making change out of campers wet lake water money
• driving a second car 8.5 hours home
• making your anniversary dinner a burger, fries and peanut buster parfait from Dairy Queen at a truck stop in nowhere Oklahoma
• finally, making the late night unload at the church of all the tech equipment and junk we’d been hauling
Most impressive of all Mrs. Addis was the fact that everytime I saw you today you smiled and hugged and looked for a kiss. Even though many others would whine and complain about their lot in life, you showed joy and love.
It was a day you could rightfully claim as your own, even if you had given up so many others. Surely, the 15th should be special. But, you put your God, your husband and the cause before yourself.
You’ve never looked more beautiful to me.
CrossEyedLife
My name is Andy Addis and I want to welcome you to the CrossEyedLife. I pastor a multisite church and love to speak and teach around the country and occasionally around the world.
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