Who Is He To You?

I heard this at a young adult retreat a few years ago, and I'm still quite found of it, so I thought I would share it will you all (or should that be y'all).

Let us call the roll of some of the professions:
To artists, He is the One altogether lovely.
To architects, He is the Chief Cornerstone.
To physicians, He is the Great Physician.
To preachers, He is the Word of God.
To philosophers, He is the Wisdom of God.
To the dying, He is the Resurrection and the Life.
To geologists, He is the Rock of ages.
To farmers, He is the Lord of the harvest.
To professors, He is the Master Teacher.
To prodigals, He is the forgiving Father.
To the lost sheep, He is the Good Shepherd.
To thirsty souls, He is the Water of life.
To the hungry, He is the Bread of life.
To philanthropists, He is God's Unspeakable Gift.
Nineteen centuries after His sojourn on earth, His shadow is larger and
growing larger than ever before. No one can measure His height or His
influence.

(Herbert Gabhart in a message given at the Union University in Jackson, TN, January 1952 as cited in The Book of Jesus, Calvin Miller, ed., p. 43).

The Chicagoist

I changed up the links in the sidebar a bit tonight, and I added a few new one, including my new favorite The Chicagoist. It has all kind of fun little chicago happenings and stories and I enjoyed reading it's stories. It's part of a serise of sites including The Gothamist (but who would want to read about NYC? I mean if it was so cool, the would have made Gotham City based on NY and not Chicago in the new Christian Bale movie, Right?!?), The Londonist, The Seattlest, The Shanghaist amd my favorite sounding one, The Austinist (becasue it sounds like the awesomist).

New Look!

So you pulled up this site and now you are thinking, "Patrick, Whatever did you do to your site? It use to be boring, but nice. Now it's kind of a train wreck."

I'm playing around with the layout and colors of the page a bit. I had been using just the old Template that blogger gives you, and wanted to make it something that is just my own. So you may see some changes in the color and the layout over the next few days as I have time to play.

Please leave me a comment with any suggestions on colors, layouts, or whatever else pops into your brains. Feedback is most welcome.

You might have noticed I haven't been around...

Sorry it's been a little while since I wrote an update on this old blog of mine. I started to write a little review of a Chris Rice concert that I attended at my church a couple of weeks ago, but never finished it. The time hasn't been there.

Trying to find the time to write lately has been hard. There is work and driving back and forth to work (Ug commuting!), Church things (Sunday mornings- Small groups preparations, ect). But I just finished a wonderful weekend with my favorite distraction, Amy. A wonderful woman from Indianapolis that I have been having the greatest time getting to know for the past couple of months.

Amy came up to Chicago this weekend, and it was great touring around Chicago over the weekend acting like a tourist. Went up on the Sears Tower for the first time since I was in grade school, and for the first time ever at night, saw the city by boat on the Chicago River, dined at Hard Rock Cafe and Dick's Last Resort, walked along the lake-front, and learned that Chicago had a Tiffany's. Somewhere in there we also squeezed in a VERY bad David Cassidy concert, but we greatly enjoyed sitting in the back and making fun of his awesome badness. Thankfully the township that was sponsoring the performance ended it with one of the best Firework shows I have seen in the burbs in a while (The photo above is not from this weekend, but a photo I took on the 4th). Of course, none of these things would have been 1/2 as fun without the company I had for the weekend. It will be tough waiting until I get to see Amy again, but at least I have something to look forward to soon.

Short update:

Life is good. I am happy. Bummed I missed my family reunion this weekend due to my messing up the dates, but still had a great weekend.

Short and sweet today.

Give me my props!

My pal Heidi (link to the right of the screen) gave me some kind words on her blog a few days ago.

Heidi- You didn't need to say anything. But thanks.

Never know- I may need your encourgement soon. ;)

And we are off

Using a vacation day yestdsday, I began my job hunt, and was offered a job I'll be begining in about 2 hours or so. Thanks all that prayed. I'll give you more details later.

Time to pound the pavement again..... *sigh*

I thought going to work for a company that had been around for 130 odd years would be safe, but today Rhodes Furinture, the parent company of John M Smyth Homemakers, annouced they are closing 15 stores- including all 5 in the greater Chicago area. So- once again, I am updating my resume and getting ready for the job hunt again! joy. So I ask you all to lift me up in prayer.

1) Pray for me as I am homemakers, as it may become a depressing place to be. I am the only Chistian in my office, so pray that I will be salt and light in the dark time for all of us.

2) Pray the I will find something else quickly. We are still running the store as normal for the rest of the month, but August 1st the liquddater will be in change, and should be staying open for 60-120 days. It would be nice to have a job before then.

Thanks everyone. Talk to you soon

Love Life

No, this is not a post about the train wreck that is my history of romantic entanglements, but rather my rediscovery a couple of days ago at a used CD store of one of my favorite albums that I had not been able to listen to in years: Charlie Peacock's "Love Life."

I have not heard this album in close to 10 years. The last time I owned it was before I was homeless, so it has been quite a while since I had heard it. I was a bit worried it would not live up to my memories, but I need not have worried. It was as great as I remembered it. The orginal cylpiso influnced "In The Light is still way way better then the more well know DC Talk version. A have spend quite a few hours reenjoying this one of the past few days.

Down Time

I just thought I would let the four of you that read this not to expect to see much in the way of posting for the next week or two. According to the geeks at Best Buy, my motherboard has blown its compresser, so it has a hard time staying on for more then a few minutes at a time. It gets a bit aggravating to spend 10 minutes working on a post, only to have your computer crash and lose everything. I should be replacing it in the next week or two. So if you want to know whats going on in my life for the next week or two- you may have to give me a call.