Hope

I watched Apollo 13 this weekend. It is a great movie. I have seen it many times before so i knew what was going to happen. I knew that the astronauts were going to make it. I knew that they were going to land safe and live. If only life could be like a movie you have seen before.

When all hope seemed lost. Most people thought that the astronauts wouldn't make it. They had every reason to doubt. They thought that the batteries wouldn't last, the heat shield was cracked, and the parachutes wouldn't launch. The striking part was when the doubters were talking about all of this they said, "this is NASA's darkest time." The hopeful man though, my hero, who still believed and had hope said, "with all do respect gentleman, I think this will be our finest hour."

That shut them up.

The truth is that amazing happens all the time. Some people never realize this. I never realize this. Waking up every day is amazing. Walking is amazing. Sunshine is amazing. It's the little things every day that I take for granted. I am out there looking for too much. I am looking for something so amazing that even I can't believe it.

Hopefully, when times get hard and we want to give up we will remember Apollo 13, the "successful failure." That it is the hopeful one who prevails and it is not our darkest time, but will be our finest hour.

What I Learn From Scrubs

I like the show Scrubs. I watch it online when I get the chance. I like it because it is a brilliant and masterfully shown. I learned a lesson from one episode about never being too old to learn what a child can learn. I forget sometimes the basic things that I learned as a child. To always play nice, to try my hardest, and that it's alright to cry. Because as I grow up I am not always nice, I am kind of a meanie. I don't try my hardest all the time, because I'm lazy. I am always afraid to cry, because showing my feelings isn't manly. It's a show like Scrubs that gets me to think. It teaches me lessons that I would never come up with myself. It always makes the simplest of things so apparent, yet I never realize them. My professors and teachers only teach me what they're supposed too. They never teach life. I like having a constant reminder of the simple things that I need to study every day. I like going back to Sesame Street.
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Feet Love

I read awhile ago that a large percentage of people do not wash their feet in the shower, causing them to get their bath mat even dirtier.

Someone once asked me what was the greatest example of love I ever experienced. I told them in 5th Grade my teacher washed my feet. She had a bucket of water and some nice soap. It was slightly awkward for me being in 5th Grade and not a lot of people volunteered to do it. I think I did it only from peer pressure. As she was drying my feet off she asked me some questions.

"Matt, do you know Jesus loves you?"

"Yes," I said rolling my eyes cause I've heard this a bazillion times.

"Do you know that He died for you because he loves you?"

"Yes I do," I replied more seriously this time because I saw that she was serious.

I remember her eyes. Tired from washing so many feet but so enlightened from washing so many feet. It didn't mean much to me back then but I remember it being a pleasant moment in my life. More so because my feet were super clean rather than knowing that Jesus loved me. As time passed I have never forgotten that moment. I realized that it spoke volumes in my life. That moment of my teacher on her knees exhausted and washing my feet was a true example of the Kingdom. A Kingdom not of Kings and Queens, but of servants of the Lord.

Happy Valentines Day, V-day, or Single Awareness Day. May you experience Kingdom love from your significant other, your friend, or just a random person, and may you know of the true love of the Kingdom of God.