bearing fruit and dumb facial expressions

Good Morning.

I'm starting my day at Caribou.  Dunn Bros is shut down.  SHUT DOWN??!! When did this happen?  It's OK though, I hadn't been going to Dunn Bros in quite a while... Actually... maybe that's why they shut down.  Sorry Dunn Bros, You were the topic of many a blog a couple years ago and now I've let you down.

I have caught a cold.  It's a bad one.  Total and complete head congestion.  I hate that. When you have total head congestion, I've found its impossible to not look dumb.  With total head congestion, you always have a slight neanderthol, head-forward, mouth breathing, eyes glazed look that makes people think "That there is not an intelligent person".  Anyway, I have a bad cold... it's a swine cold.

I spent some caribou time catching up with Facebook.  "Why am I looking at this?" I wonder to myself.  Facebook has become the best way to find out about all the parties that you weren't invited to.  I was looking at pictures this morning on facebook saying to myself... "hey, there is all my friends hanging out... I wonder why I'm not in any of these pictures... I must have been the one taking the pictures... but I don't remember this party at all......" 

The rest of my time at Caribou was spent catching up on SOAP.  I'm trying to stay caught up on soap... both the shower kind and the bible kind.  SOAP is the bible reading plan that our church is going through this year.  If you are an RVC'er and you have stopped soap-ing... spare me your excuses and start reading your bible.  If you've stopped using the other kind of soap... that's another issue.

This morning I was reading the first few chapters in Matthew.  Here are the two things that hit me.

Matt 5:43.  Love Your Enemies.  Everyone can love those who treat them nice.  How are we doing at loving those that don't treat us well?  Ouch.  We are a people/culture that has gotten used to being nice when we've been treated nice.  The bible says that's not that impressive.

Matt 7:17-20.  Good Trees bear Good Fruit.  Bad Trees bear Bad Fruit.  By our fruit we will be recognized as bad or good trees.  So the obvious question we must ask ourselves today is How's My Fruit?  When people see the fruit in my life, are they thinking "Hey, that fruit reminds me a lot of Jesus".  or are they not.  My prayer today for my life is that people would see my fruit and say "In spite of his neanderthol facial expression... the fruit there reminds me of Jesus."

Lord, Help us be people that bear Jesus-like fruit.

Comments

[Jacob]

Pastor Jeff,
In case you are talking about the Dunn Bros in Apple Valley, it had closed, but has now reopened, and is back in business.

[Crysta]

I came back to visit...and wanted an iced mocha steamer...i crave them since there is no dunn bros that is close to my new home in WI. Boy was I surprised to find not only had my fav. d-bros...my work for a few years...but the owners never told me they closed. Boo. Maybe its because I was not around to help supply them business during my off hours.
Sorry you had to Caribou...it's so not the same!

[Brenda]

Jacob is right, it has reopened. New owners. Maybe they will fix the things that made you leave! Hope you feel better soon.

[Jennifer Powers-Brekke]

I've seriously never read a blog before this morning, b/c I was signing up for small groups (can't sleep) and Pastor Rob referred to yours in church-thought I'd check you out, Jeff. You are, indeed, hilarious. It's like reading a comedic book...hey, maybe you can just publish your blogs and have a book like Kristie!

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