I am sitting here tonight and trying to focus on the week. There are so many things I need to do and I am trying not to get ahead of myself. Also I have fun stuff and thoughts of future things. So to help get these thoughts out of my head….

Doctor Who

I have to admit I am super excited. For valentines I got season 1-4 of Doctor Who as a gift and then bought the complete specials for myself. I have fallen in love with this show and can’t wait to see season 5. I will miss David Tennant but will give Matt Smith a chance to prove himself as my doctor.

Travel

Watching Doctor Who has made me want to head oversees. I have been in London for a few hours on a layover to Germany so I never got to experience it. I have always wanted to go to France (Paris in particular) but now I would love to go to England and Wales (not to mention Ireland and Scotland). My brain is trying to come up with ways that I can gather enough money to go before my passport expires again. I have a few years since I just had my passport renewed last year when I went to Jamaica and the Caymans.

Picture Taking

Winter has not been kind to be as far as picture taking is concerned. I have not been able to get out much (I don’t do cold) and I have not been going to as many shows since the good tours are largely in the spring and summer. I feel somewhat lost without taking pictures every week so I need to urge myself to become more creative in shooting indoors.

Gym

The gym has been another area I have been neglecting since winter set it. I just have not been feeling the gym love and I know it is one of those things that once I go it is awesome. How can I get myself motived to do things I don’t feel like doing.

40 days

Blood Water Mission is the one organization that I help support right now and they are getting ready to launch their 40 days campaign. Which is drinking water for 40 days and whatever money you would have spent on coffee, soda, etc goes to them. I think I could kick soda for 40 days (I don’t drink coffee) but I am having a hard time with giving up tea. I love tea. It makes me happy. So I am contemplating doing the 40 days but not cutting tea. If I could cut my Diet Dr. Pepper habit and give the money to a good cause…win win! Check out 40 days

Rocketown Branding

This week is going to be about Rocketown Branding. Rocketown is an organization that I work for part time doing their web stuff and graphics. Because Nashville is building a convention center downtown Rocketown is moving later this year to a new building…so with that move comes updated branding. Update the logo, mailing pieces, marketing materials, site, social media, etc… that is my week. My brain is pulsing around this and what it will look like.

Cindy Morgan – Hymns Album

This is a fun one but the timing with Rocketown will make this an interesting week. I have been working on the artwork for Cindy Morgan’s new hymn album (see left pic for cover) and also working on  her new site. I switched the site to a wordpress backend and have been busy customizing the theme with the new album and loading new information into the site. This week the new site is being launched with pre-orders and more madness. It is super awesome and this album is a great album. Just a fun project to work on.

These are just a few things on my mind as I gear up for the week. Hopefully your week will be as awesome as I think mine is going to be! It is funny just getting these thoughts out helps so much!

Yesterday in church my lines got blurred. Normally I think blurring the lines is a bad thing…things are not clear, there is no perspective, everything melds into one big pot of confusion. But something clicked yesterday for me. All my clear cut lines of faith were questioned. In some ways I am very open to different aspects of faith. I see Jesus as a sort of rebel who stood up to the religious figures of the day — someone who stood with the broken — someone who comforted the ones in despair — but that is where my image of Jesus stopped. I never once thought of Jesus as ’supernatural’. I am a big sci-fi person…if it deals with ghosts, aliens, paranormal, mythical, etc…I am in! The supernatural is fictional something that makes great stories but is not real.

Sunday siting in church my perception of supernatural was changed. In Acts 23 (and a few other places but for this sake I am keeping it to Acts 23) Jesus stands next to Paul. What is so strange about this? Well besides the fact that Jesus had already been crucified, buried AND rose from the dead the man, the Son of God had ascended into heaven. So despite all this Jesus stands next to Paul…now if that is not something right out of a Stephen King novel I am not sure what it.

The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said, “Take courage! As you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.” Acts 23:11

In the moment that Jesus came to Paul he told him to take courage that his future is set. At this time Paul was in prison and the Jews were out to kill him. Jesus comes in and says you will go on — you have work yet to do. I wonder what Paul was thinking…something along the lines of Now I know this guy has done all kinds of crazy things but I know he flew into Heaven but here He is standing next to me…standing next to me and telling me that I am going to live. That would have been amazingly awesome. Jesus standing there in his supernatural self.

My eyes were opened to the story in Acts 23 in a new way. I read it now and see scenes from the Matrix pop in my head. It makes me excited to re-read the gospels to look at them as a sci-fi movie and see all the wonders.

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Last night I  finished watching all nine season and two movies in the X-Files library. When the show was first on I never saw it. I was in high school and only watched a small handful of shows. When I saw the preview for the movie ‘I Want To Believe’ last year I wanted to see it, but forgot about it while it was in theaters. The movie caught my eye because the phrase ‘I Want To Believe’ has always been something I was drawn to — in fact the word believe is my “life word” (if there is such a cheesy thing). When the movie came out on video I rented it from the redbox and brought it home, oh so little did I know that would be the point where my thoughts on tv and media would completely change.

From the first time I saw “I Want To Believe’ I was hooked and did not even know it. I posted on twitter how much I loved the movie and wondered if the show was as good. Many people spoke up and told me to get the show on netflix that I would love it. So I added season 1 to my cue and from the first episode I knew I loved this show.