1. my office at fusion church is purple…not a dark, rich, regal purple, but more of a faded pottery barn “disney princess” purple… i looks nice. don’t get me wrong. (and really i don’t mind it that much.) but i think there are other colors that would better match the raw masculinity exuded from my pores while working in that room. that’s all.
2. the cleveland indians are up three games to one over the boston redsox. it would be great for this ohio boy to see them finally make it to the world series. all they have to do is win tonight.
3. i’m real excited about working with the fusion church students. they’re going to rock. hopefully i can convince them that i’m cool, so that they’ll listen to me.
4. i ate lunch with the staff at taxco on tuesday. until then i thought it was a tax place every time i drove by…but i was wrong. they are a mexican restaurant with decent salsa.
5. it’s late. i’m going home. maybe my wife will play guitar hero with me tonight. (no that’s not code…but maybe she’ll do the thing that guitar hero might be code for, too.)

anyway, i took this kid out to dinner the other day. we went to the best mexican place in buford, ga, restaurante calvillo. sopes asada con sour cream and other cosas. so we’re talking about music and sound and this and that, and he says, “so seriously what’s the deal with catholics being obsessed with the virgin mary and stuff?” a little bit out of the blue, but to the point. we talked about some of the possibilities, including what rd saunders said in his message on sunday. that led us into a more broad sweeping discussion of religion, church, spirituality, etc. how do you keep doing the good of the church without having it resemble business? and how can you do church without all the business…and still be able to afford (in money, people, etc.) what goodness of serving others costs… i don’t know that we really came to any conclusions, except that we both really still dislike the word “religion.” anyway, these college kids really do challenge me. i think that’s the point of all this. a little bit of deep thinking with your flavored agua and guacamole.