So does your head want to explode right now or what? Please...discuss...NOW!!! … [Read more...]
THE QUIET CHAOS OF A MID-AFTERNOON COFFEE SHOP
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Here I sit again. Instead of my old friend the table and chair welcoming me today, they have met some new friends that have now replaced me. They look like nice people, but I really miss my chair friend and my table companion. Today I notice an old acquaintance just behind my friends of old. This one is red and soft. No arms and just a simple table with a lamp next to it. Today...I am drawn to this one night stand of a chair and return to see if I really want it to be my next coffee house pleasure. I sit in its lap and remember why I loved it so the first time I sat down. I now have a new friend in this red lap of luxury. I peruse the menu board in hopes of something new. Something that will awaken my pallet from normalcy. However, I see Mr. Yirgachaffe again and remember how good he has been to me. So he is what I choose once again. Unlike the morning, the chaos welcomes me in today. It has been here since the wee hours of the morning and it smiles at me gently as I walk into its … [Read more...]
HE LOOKS AT PORN, BUT YOU’R FAT
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Right now some of you just said, "WOW!!!" Is Trevor bitter? Is he enraged? The answer to both of those is no. However, I am concerned with the state of ministry and those that minister in the worlds of church around me in the past few years. Now I preface this entire post by giving you my history from the past few years. A little over three years ago I was doing full time ministry here in the Dallas area (which I still am). Life was moving along and marriage and ministry were going great. However there was something going on in my life and ministry that no one seemed to care about even though I was living in a manner that was destructive. In the two years I had lived here I had gone from 200lbs to 240lbs. Now 40lbs is a lot...but I was already 40lbs overweight. I was slowly killing myself. I did not have a disease. I was not having any medical issues that would cause me to gain weight. I was not dealing with depression. I was pretty happy. However, I was addicted to eating food...and … [Read more...]
38 DEGREES AND CRACK FOR MY SOUL
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So here I am sitting in the middle of St. Arbucks in Bloomington/Normal, Illinois. It finally feels like winter here. It is 38 degrees right now. It is freezing in here, but I have my crack for my soul in a Venti, quad shot, Americano. I am a little jittery and feeling shaky. Oddly enough, like a crack addict...it feels right. I just pounded out the last message in our giving series and I am pumped to communicate it this weekend. Back to Texas tomorrow and back to the mild summer that we call fall there. However, my crack for my soul will still be indulged when I get there. So not all is lost. … [Read more...]
TSA AGENTS MAKE ME FEEL BETTER WHEN THEY TOUCH ME WEARING BLUE SHIRTS!!!
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This afternoon I find myself sitting in the Tulsa, OK airport. I was here two and a half hours early for my flight and thought that I would catch up on some reading and writing. As I walked into the airport there was nobody. The only person in the room was the ticket agent behind the counter. He did not even ask for my license to prove I was who I said I was. I came up to security and again...it was silent. Nobody but me and 25 TSA guys standing around in their nice new blue shirts (which makes me feel better when one of them wants to touch me in places I would only let my wife touch...but it is supposedly for the sake of security). I got through the check point with no issues and began the long walk down the concourse to my gate. The only people that I saw were people working in the bars and one lady waiting for a flight for another airline. I thought that surely there would be people waiting for the plane at my gate...however...when I got there...NO ONE!!! I began to feel as if … [Read more...]
THE BEAR ATE THE MONKEY!!!
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So tonight I was in the car with my wife and two girls. Ella my four year old says these phrases from the backseat: Ella: Mommy and Daddy you want to hear a joke? Me: Sure baby...let me hear it. Ella: The Bear Ate The Monkey!!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Me and My Wife: ....ummm...what? Fast forward to an hour later with us returning home: Wife: I have to tell you this Joke from work the other day!!! Me: The Bear Ate The Monkey!!!! Us: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Fast Forward Later in the day once again: Ella: Daddy...why did the bear cross the road? Me: To Eat The Monkey Ella: ummm...what Daddy.... Me: Nevermind... And that is the funniest joke ever. Why you may ask? Because after you read it...you will laugh to yourself later and think...holy crap that is funny....ahahahahahahaha!!!! … [Read more...]
BITE MARKS ON NIPPLES AND WHISKERS ON KITTENS
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Let me start this by telling you a couple of things about me. I have two little girls that I absolutely and utterly adore. Ella is four and Natalie is almost 2. For the most part they get along great. They don't really fight, they play well together, they are great sisters and really love each other. Now there are many things that I as a dad have prayed for long before my kids were born. I prayed for things like a good spouse for my children. I prayed that they would find their own faith in God not just live out my wife and I's faith. However, the one thing I prayed for that one might not suspect is that my kid would not be the kid that bites other kids. You know the one I am talking about. The kid at church that is always biting the other kids in nursery. Or the one that bites kids at school, or home, or out at a restaurant, or walking through the mall. You know the one...the little T-Rex carnivor kid. I prayed hard that that would not be my kid. For awhile I thought God might spite … [Read more...]
MY FOUR YEAR OLD HEARS VOICES
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For the most part my little girls Ella sleeps quite well at night. However, she does sleep walk and never remembers it. This very incident happend about two weeks ago. I was gonna write about it then, but I have been marinating on it every since. So here it goes: 2:30am I hear the door to our bedroom open and see four year old shadowy figure pitter patter across our floor to the other side of the bed. I hear a little voice say, "mommy I had a bad dream." I hear another voice that sounds remarkably like my wife...if she were drunk say, "it is ok, just go back to bed." Surprisingly the little four year old shadowy figure took that as enough and scampered back out of the room and shut the door. End of situation and sleep was again being had. Now fast forward to dinner the next night. We are sitting at the table eating our five star meal of KRAFT macaronni and cheese with cut up hot dogs (a true delicacy in our house) and I asked Ella if she remembered coming into our room the night … [Read more...]
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