Our Musicalhouse: Obsession...Apathy...Enough

Monday, September 8, 2008

Obsession...Apathy...Enough

Jana gave me the kick in the booty to post, so here I am! So, if you read my TV on DVD post, you know that I have a problem with addiction. Once I start a TV series - I can't stop. Well, apparently the same goes for a book series. The last time I read a whole series in a matter of weeks, it was the Harry Potter books. For those of you that don't know - I love those books!! So, over Labor Day weekend, I thought I'd try out a new book (recommended to me by Louise). This explains why I haven't posted. In less than a week I have finished the entire Twilight series. It has 4 books: The first book is Twilight (498pages) which I read over a couple days. Next came New Moon (563 pages) that I read in less than 24 hours. Over the next 24 hours I read Eclipse (629 pages). At that point I had to go to work and stuff (darn it!), so it took me a few days last week to finish off Breaking Dawn (768 pages). I don't know if you heard me counting, but that's 2,458 pages in about a week. Don't act like you're not impressed (shout out to Anchor Man). Here's the dilemma of spending a week completely obsessed with reading a book series: it ends. Then, if you're like me, you're thinking, "Now what?" So, last night & today I've been feeling really apathetic & I think I've traced it back to withdrawal. All I really want to do is read...but I'm done...so what now? John suggested reading something that's actually good for me - we just got the book unChristian at a conference we went to this weekend. It basically discusses perceptions of Christians in today's culture...I am excited to read it, but it's just not the same! Anyway, today I've been praying to get over my addiction & the withdrawal/apathy that has followed & I'm pretty sure God shoved this song into my head as a response. Cause it's stuck now & I know I didn't hear it today: Enough by Chris Tomlin: You're my supply My breath of life still more awesome than I know You're my reward Worth living for still more awesome than I know All of You is more than enough for all of me For every thirst and every need You satisfy me with Your love And all I have in You is more than enough You’re my sacrifice Of greatest price and still more awesome than I know You’re my coming King You're my everything and still more awesome than I know More than all I want More than all I need You are more than enough for me More than all I know More than all I can see You are more than enough All of You is more than enough for all of me For every thirst and every need You satisfy me with Your love And all I have in You is more than enough

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Verses from Philippians

1:21: For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
2:1-11: If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
2:14-15: Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.
3:7-8: But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ.
3:12-14:Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.