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The way things fall

It’s been a busy week. I’ve been churning out cut after cut at work and giving my evenings away to a couple different projects.
At Praxis we have these groups called Missional Communities, most would refer to them as small groups, but anymore that term has a pretty lame connotation.
This is a promo video I edited for my church that helps to educated our congregation about the groups and hopefully will get some more people involved.

Praxis Church Missional Community Promo from Praxis Church on Vimeo.

Following this link will take you to the videos mentioned in the promo. There is a great explanation about the groups and then a few interviews about what being a part of them has done for some people.
My church runs over a 1,000 people on a Sunday divided into two missions and three services. An optimistic estimate would be to say that a fifth of those people are in a MC, so there is a lot of room for improvement.

The situation I wrote about in my last post is still on my mind all too often. I had a big paragraph written out about it and then decided that it’s exactly the sort of thing that didn’t need to be written… so I un-wrote it.
It’s about 95 degrees here, which means it’s “fall”. It also means that I’m not confined to an air conditioned box all day.
I’m going for a walk, take it easy.

Too much in one week

Friday before last I was driving down Pecos Road away from work and I looked down to see my car had just passed a little landmark. My reliable yet loathed Oldsmobile Alero had just reached 100,000 miles. “Good little car” I thought as I pulled out my phone and carefully snapped a picture. I pushed down Pecos and got on i10 towards Tempe. A little bit after the Warner Road exit I changed into the middle lane and just as I settled in the lane a huge grey truck to my left decided he too wanted in the middle lane. I swerved right and then left, became perpendicular to traffic and I clearly remember saying “Oh God, help.” I kid you not, those could have been my last words. If I had been t boned that would have been it for me. I really believe that I was protected… my luck just isn’t that good on its own. :)
I hit the center divider almost head on. The scrapes and paint would later show that my car’s front end almost crested the k-rail. I was tossed around a bit, but I had my seatbelt on and thankfully the airbags didn’t deploy. I was pretty shook up, I think three cops asked me if were sure I was ok even half an hour after it happened.

So the Alero was done. My insurance offered me a good amount for it. Truthfully it was more than I could have ever hoped to sell the thing for. I spent the last half of my week looking and found a nice car for a good price.

It’s a 2008 Dodge Avenger, low miles and a lot of great features. Even if it’s just another vanilla American used car it does at least look more aggressive than the Alero. I don’t buy into the “American car” myth, the parts on any car are just as likely to be made in Elkhorn as they are in Harbin. My car was assembled in Michigan though, which I like… that plant is scheduled to close sometime next year.
The car’s also got an AUX port for my iPod, that’s worth $12,000 by itself right?

I lost a friend this week. No one died, no one moved. Nothing was decided, nothing was changed. It seems things just came to their logical end. I cut ties and almost immediately felt lonely. It was a great friendship… a year and a half ago. It’s done now and I’d love to just get to a point where I really only remember the first two years I knew her. Before I screwed all this up.
I’ve really let her down, that’s by far the worst part.
Urban Outfitters announced last week that they would make available some Polaroid instant cameras in their stores. These are literally the last ones made… the first thing that came to my mind was how much I wanted to buy one for Andy. :/

Take it easy, I’m off for a nice drive in my new car. :)

No more time for thought.

I’ve joined a group of artists at my church who are trying to get more media into our services. This is a little promo video we did for a new location our church is opening. I certainly don’t mind donating my time, so much of this industry works like that anyway. However it’s always better when you’re donating your time to a project that has a lot of talented people working on it. I edited and did the title work for the video, but it was written, directed and shot by some other talented church members.

Praxis Arcadia Launch Promo from Praxis Church on Vimeo.

At work my project just keeps getting longer. Color correction that should have gotten started this week is now slated for early September. This delay, like most thankfully, are not my fault, but it’s sorta at my expense. I’ll take the next month to work on the later stages of the project so it’s not like I’m left without. I really just want to be done with this DVD though, it was originally going to be done in June.

I’ve had a rude realization about my own stubbornness this weekend. It seems someone can tell me something very true and rather detrimental right to my face and I still won’t accept it. I like to think that I can follow through on things, especially matters of the heart. I really want to believe I am doing what I think is right. Maybe I just want my way for the sake of getting my way, I hope not. If this is a hill I’m willing to die on, I hope it’s at least the right hill.

All in all, I’ve decided that I don’t have time to dwell on things I’ve rehashed in my mind hundreds of times. I have a good week ahead of me. :)

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