The age of the internet, botox, tanning beds, makeup, credit, loans, spandex, it is the age of pretending to be something we are not. To be richer, look younger, and feel better. There is something in our kool-aid these days that tells us we have to be a certain person to be perfect, adventurous, acceptable, and happy. I don’t like that flavor. First, because 100% of the people I know lead typical lives, and usually have at least ten lame things about them. Second, because if I am held to perfection, I suck. And the most exciting thing I did yesterday was clean my carpets. I believe that life happens in the most normal ways with the most lame people, and it is completely amazing. The Lancaster Mall is a prime example. It is a place for elderly mall-walkers, troubled youth, and Salem tourists. It is also my sanctuary. This is my secret, so please do not steal it, but an abandoned and pathetic mall is the best place to get work done. Home-work, mind-work, heart-work, you name it, I have done it at the Lancaster Mall. It is painfully regular, lame, and completely amazing. There is always good background music, air-conditioning, free samples, and I never run into anyone I know. Life is happening at the Lancaster Mall, and not because it’s anything better than an abandoned mall. Jesus was not Tim Tebow. He was not beautiful. He did not make millions of dollars. He did not have a pimped-out donkey. He did not have the hottest wife. He was a dude, and His life has a legacy bigger than anything I could dream of. He was perfect, he loved people, he was God, and he was ordinary. I think God works in life, real, bonified, every-day life, and makes it so big and crazy we can barely hold on for the ride. Look at who Jesus picked to be his disciples, fishermen! Fishermen did not lead glamorous lives. Throw-out the nets, catch the fish, kill the fish, sell the fish. Every day, all day. They probably had weird farmer’s tans, said a lot of curse words, and smelled like fish guts. God is not out looking for the hottest, richest, smartest, most-interesting people to change the world. First, because those people do not exist. Second, because what better way to show the love and glory of God than to use the lamest people in the most normal ways to accomplish amazing things? Right now, I am friends with the Mattress World guy that is always holding up a sign on the corner, I love my job, I have great calves, and I am obsessed with the tv show GREEK. I am lame, and it is amazing because God always takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary.
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