Huckabees

I read a quote a couple days ago from the movie, "I (heart) Huckabees". It went something like this:

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Lilly Tomlin asks Jason Schwartzman, "Have you ever transcended space and time?" (That reminds me, I wrote a post titled Space and Time last fall. Check it out if you have a lot of time.)

Jason answers, "Yes. No. Well... space, but not time. Actually I don't know what you're talking about."
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Heh-heh. I have no idea what a Huckabee is or what the movie is about, but just that quote is enough that I think I'll rent it this weekend.

Pontiac GTO Discontinued (Again)

According to GMPlanet, this will be the last year for GTO's. I say not a moment too soon. Maybe even a couple years too late. Sometimes, you just gotta leave well enough alone.

But also according to GMPlanet, someone at General Motors doesn't know what that means, as plans are already in the works for the next generation of GTO's. Let it go boys, just let it go.

Bird Flu

Today at work I learned that my boss has ordered 1000 of those masks you've seen people wearing in China and around the far east. He's planning to pass them out next week to us employees in two sizes, so that our kids can wear them too. His thinking is that if the Bird Flu makes it here there will be a run on the masks and you won't be able to find them. While I'm thankful for his concern, I just don't see myself wearing a mask around town. (Insert joke here.)

I'm not planning to go out looking for the virus, but I'm not going to live in a bubble either. I figure life is to be lived, and I don't plan on spending the rest of my days trying not to die. That'll happen soon enough due to cancer, a heart attack, a stroke, a car accident, or whatever. I think freaking out about dying would suck the life right out of living. It's funny though, how hearing about the Bird Flu in Asia and Europe seems like just another story on the news, but my boss ordering masks brings it right home. On a lighter note, can you imagine what a bird with the flu could do to your just-washed car? Now THAT'S scary!

A Little Here, A Little There

My sister asked me a few days ago why, if Jesus was born in Israel, ministered there and the early church was based there and everything, why is it that Israel isn't a Christian nation?


Hmmm. I had never wondered that before. After pondering it a little, I think it's conceiveable that it's linked to Isaiah 28:9-13, though I have a hard time grasping the context of those verses. I'm not standing too firm on that, it's only a theory. Maybe one of you more intelligent folks can explain that...

Another thought I had, and I'm a little more confident about this one, is a thought that grew out of a post I saw on JLF81's blog. (I needed binoculars to see it, of course, since his blog is way up in Canada). Could it be that the authentic early church ("C"hurch) started getting bogged down in legalism and became the "c"hurch? Or diluted or misled or lured back into Judaism, while those who dispersed kept a keener ear to the Spirit and their eyes on the prize, thereby taking the truth and life of the gospel to foreign lands where it flourished even as the Church in Israel faded into a church with a small "c"? I think I still see the connection to the Isaiah passage even in this theory, but I need to give it more thought. Anybody else?