My ‘Blurple’ Heaven

17 04 2008

Meet \'Blurple\'

The post title is a take off on the old Steve Martin movie, “My Blue Heaven”. I try to remember that so I can find the humor and strength to press on. So, what is ‘Blurple’? You’re looking at it. It’s my wife’s 1999 Dodge Neon that looks dark blue at night, but unfortunately, more purple-ish during the day. I coined ‘blurple’ to best describe it. Oh, and this picture doesn’t show it well, but it has a nice, big ol’ dent right behind the driver’s door to really set it off from all the other blurple Neons out there.

Well, with our new child my wife inherited my beloved Toyota Land Cruiser. (Nice move, honey, nice move :-) Oh, how I miss my Land Cruiser! I can’t wait to get it back in a few years. But, driving Blurple around the Atlanta area has been a great lesson in humility.

And I hate it! Yep, I don’t like forced humility. I’d rather choose to come down a level or two. So, I think God is really using Blurple to show me things in my heart that He wants to work on. Can you make it fast, Lord? :-)

We are going to replace Blurple soon enough. I don’t have the gumption of those guys in the Junky Car Club. Besides, I’ve hung on to each of my cars longer than 10 years. In some ways, you could call me a supplier to the Junky Car Club ;-). Actually, our mechanic told us Neons don’t usually make it much longer than 100,000 miles and this puppy’s got 130,000 on it, so we know we’re on borrowed time. I remember when my wife and I first started dating. She already had the car, but I’d remind her of the Neon’s original ad campaign with the simplistic “Hi” introducing the car, all cutesy and stuff - the perfect girl car. And now it’s mine… :-( Boy, I’m having fun. Please, please send me your reminders of even girlier cars, you know like a Volkswagen Rabbit Convertible (sorry to all you guys driving one of those).

If you see me rolling around in Blurple, please don’t honk. Just ignore me. Thanks.





Oh yes, I’m still alive, just extremely sleepy at times

13 04 2008

It’s almost 11:00 pm on Sunday night. I’ve barely posted in 6 weeks, but this whole parenting thing is like a full-time gig or something ;-). We’re having a blast being mom and dad, but the blogging for me has definitely been on hiatus.

A quick note and then off to bed:

Great blog my friend, David, pointed me to: http://stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com I love it when we Christians can be healthily self-aware. And boy that reveals a lot to laugh about! :-) Thanks for this effort John. Maybe I’ll run into you one day

Okay, got to go put my boy in bed. Hopefully, more posts coming soon.





The Peer Pressure Post :-)

28 11 2007

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve posted anything, and amazingly, there’s a few of you out there who are actually reading this blog (thank you tremendously, by the way!), so I was feeling the pressure to throw something out there. Now, that we’re past Thanksgiving, I’m sure your calendars are starting to fill up with office parties, fundraisers, dinners with friends and a myriad other commitments along with the requisite shopping trips, traffic snarls, unleashing the decorations, etc. Is it any wonder that in the midst of all the “urgencies” of the season that overwhelm us that we frequently miss what we know is most important - the Son of God entered the world and began the mission to restore us relationally to our Heavenly Father.

Here’s wishing you the best of the Christmas season and much success in being mindful of what’s important. I will have to re-read this post several times just to remind myself. :-)