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This is Strange

May 25, 2008 in Personal with 0 Comments

This weekend I took the family to Tulsa to witness in person my little brother’s Graduation from High School. With it being a holiday weekend it made a good weekend to get out of Lubbock. Monday also happens to be Ryan’s 6th Birthday, so it really worked out perfect to have a Grandparents, Aunt, & Uncle birthday party.

I don’t miss many weekends at the church, but when I do it just feels so strange. It’s good to ‘be away’ every once in a while, and I have an awesome team of staff and volunteers that will have it running perfectly in my absence. But it just feels so weird. Here’s a glimpse into how different this is for me.

I actually went to a late movie last night. A Saturday Night. The night before a Sunday. This is strange.
I slept til 8:15am on a Sunday morning. I’m usually at the church before 7:00am. Trust me, sleeping til 8:15am an a Sunday only happens once or twice a year. This is strange.
It’s 9am, and I’m sitting in the living room watching Mythbusters and blogging, while I wait for my wife to finish getting dressed for going to Lifechurch.tv (Tulsa) this morning. This is strange.
We will go to church as a family this morning. All of us in the car. Three kids, my wife, and me. All together driving to a church. This is strange.
I get to go to a church this morning and sit on my butt. I don’t have a job, and I get to park in visitor parking. This is strange.
I’m just Jonathan this morning. I’m not Pastor Jonathan. Nobody will complain about something that is wrong, and nobody will ask for my keys. I’m just Jonathan, and this is strange.

I miss my church, and can’t wait to get back at it next Sunday. But I’m really going to work on just enjoying myself this morning. It’ll be strange, but it’ll be great!

30 Years is Nothing!

March 28, 2008 in Personal with 0 Comments

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday dear Starr,

Happy Birthday to you!

March 18

March 18, 2008 in Personal with 4 Comments

This Day in History….

1766 – American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, which had been very unpopular in the British colonies.
1874 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
1974 – Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
1976 - Jonathan Cliff born in Tulsa, OK at Hillcrest Medical Center. He would later start a rarely read blog at http://littlepastor.blogspot.com
2003 – The Iraq War begins. Just hours before the United States begins bombing Iraq, about $1 billion is taken from Iraq’s Central Bank by Saddam Hussein and his family, possibly causing the biggest bank robbery in history.[1]

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Georgey Smorgey

March 7, 2008 in Personal with 0 Comments

This weekend your sure to find some live-blogging from SXSW, but only with the littlepastor will you get live blogging from George Strait’s visit to West Texas. That’s right, George Strait. I’ve spent hours in a ticket line (details here), and tonight I’ll find out if it’s worth the wait.

Stay tuned as we experience my wife’s early birthday present at the United Spirit Arena….

Whoa!! Slow Down Time Machine

October 29, 2007 in Personal with 1 Comment

I’ve discovered the only fool-proof way to make time pass by faster than you ever thought humanly possible. I’m talking the “wake up and 4 years have passed” kind of speed. The type of time bending only seen in grossly over budgeted sci-fi movies. It’s really very easy to make time pass; Have Kids!

Today is Dylan’s 4th birthday, and it has been met by me with disbelief. As I am prone to do on occasion, I sat in his bed watching him sleep last night and could not believe that my second born little boy is already 4 years old. 4 YEARS! Only those with children can truly understand how fast time flies by when you start having kids. I can’t explain it, but I feel like we had his 3rd Birthday party just last month, and his 2nd Birthday party was a few weeks before that. He can’t possibly be 4 years old, can he?

There is a great balancing act happening in our home, where I want time to slow down; but my kids are racing through life on a collision course towards adulthood. As a perfect example; Dylan told me yesterday that he didn’t want to be 4, but wanted to go ahead and be 5 this year. Of course I want him to stay 3 for as long as possible, and cringe at the thought of my baby boy being 4 years old. I know that soon enough time will swallow us all whole, and I’ll look back and think that 4 years isn’t much of a milestone. However on this 29th day of October in the year 2007; I take some solace that I do have 365 days until I have to let him turn 5. Hopefully it will be a slow year.

Happy Birthday Dylan Joel!

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