Played hide-n-seek with my family tonight. It’s pretty fun trying to find hiding places in a small house with a 3-year old and two adults. I did get stuck in a small spot behind our rocking chair – not cool! Our daughter may stump us yet! She keeps getting quieter and quieter as she hides. Sort of frightening if you think about it!

As my wife and I were praying with our daughter before bed I was reminded that God doesn’t play hide-n-seek with us. In everything from creation to the revelation of His son, Jesus Christ, God is revealed. He even tells us to call on him in prayer and he will hear and answer us. And, on top of that, there is no place we can go to hide from him.

That’s pretty comforting if you’ll stop and let yourself think about it.

So stop and think about it…

1. Tennis, youth ministry, and teaching school should not be done at the same time. I absolutely love doing what I do but it is so draining! It also takes its toll on me and my family.

2. Certain kinds of plastics leach harmful chemicals. I guess I knew that but I haven’t started paying attention to that until recently.

3. Chlorine and flouride could also be dangerous to the body.

Disclaimer: there is a lot of information and “research” out there and I am not a scientist. I do not attest to the accuracy of these claims. It has given me something to think about though.

4. The Sermon on the Mount passage in Matthew 5-7 is an amazing passage! We started studying it this summer with our youth group (3-D) and it is powerful. At the heart is the “heart.”

5. Impatience shows a lack of humility. This one has been really difficult for me to learn. It first got my attention as I was listening to a message by C.J. Mahaney. Here is the main idea – I get impatient when things don’t go my way. Selfishness is when I want things my way. Impatience, therefore, is a form of selfishness. When I am being selfish I do not have a proper view of myself. When I have an improper view of myself I do not look at God properly either. In the end it shows that I lack humility and need to re-orient my focus back towards God. “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6).”

6. Life is short. A friend of ours, approximately the same age, is going through the final stages of cancer. It makes you reconsider a lot of things.

7. My thinking goes all over the place and that’s okay!