Suhweeet!

I’m not going to lie, this is one dude who loves him some Coke. I would say it has become an addiction with consuming at least two per day. That’s a good day. I know, it’s not healthy and I don’t think I realized how much sugar I was consuming until I came across SugarStacks.com. This clever little site stacks cubes of sugar as a visual of how much sugar is in your food or drink. Pretty interesting and scary all at the same time. Look at how much sugar is in a McDonald’s milkshake. That’s McNasty!

Confession time. Sugar addict or health freak?

Stephen

Gives You Hell

I believe the title of this post is the motto of my hosting company. After fighting with them for 9 days, I’m finally back up. Though this phrase is a great exaggeration about my experience, I figured I had to grab your attention somehow (though, I did spend a good 7 hours on the phone with tech support…that’s like, pretty close to purgatory right?). But that’s now behind me and I’m back with a new look, new design, new me. So I say hello to you, my blogging friends. Let’s take a walk. It’s about to get real interesting.

peace.

stephen

Nobody Remembers

I’d like to say that I’m a guy that doesn’t embarrass easily. I can let things slide and not really affect me. But I mean, who hasn’t been in situations where they were really embarrassed? I can testify to many awkward and red-faced moments. Sometimes, I find myself thinking back on the moments and getting even more embarrassed and ashamed.

But I’ve discovered something that has (almost) set me free. “Nobody remembers but you.” Life changing, I know. But the one time you DJ’d for your cousins wedding and didn’t know how to control the iPod for the first dance and everyone stood there staring? No one remembers—not even the bride herself. Or the time you were a little sick at the dinner table at your friends house and tried to hide it by taking a drink but your stomach had different plans? Nobody remembers that, either.

Both of those are my real life stories that I’ve asked people about and they don’t remember them happening. Yet, I’ve revisited them over and over in my mind and let them affect me. How daft!

But how true is it with sin? We realize our stupidity, go to God in repentance but then still focus on the one thing that He said He would “remember them no more” (Heb. 8:12)! It hampers our relationship with Him and we don’t experience true freedom. We have put up a wall that God promised to tear down.

What is keeping you from your full potential? Give it to God and then move on to greater things.

Stephen