Musings of a Small Town Christian

David Hardesty is a Christian, a musician, a husband, an East Coaster who grew up in the West, a Southerner now living in the North. He's been on 5 continents, in all 50 States, and in plenty of places that blessed, scared or taught him something. Ambitions? To walk like Noah, play like Carlos, and drive like a Congo Cabbie. These are his thoughts...

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Love God, my wife, the kids, my church, and Arizona Wildcats Basketball.

Friday, June 09, 2006

Puzzle Corners

This world is made of an almost infinite number of puzzle pieces, and there's always another corner or edge to pay attention to.

That means we can get busy at a moment's notice. We can drop one thing and pick up another without missing a beat. Then, after a while, we think "Whatever happened to that thing I dropped? Hmmmmmmm..........."

In my case, I got busy before Easter and had to neglect the Musings blog. A month later, when I was about to post again, I realized no one had asked where it was, why I hadn't been posting, "WHERE'S MY DAILY DOSE OF DAVID??" or whatever. Since I have plenty of other things to do I decided I wouldn't bother being a blessing if no one was being blessed! And that's been... months.

But in the past two weeks 4 people have referenced Musings of a Smalltown Christian, so I thought I should at least let people know what's going on:

I've been working hard and practicing humility.

Since I went on blog-hiatus I've been doing my usual thing (pastoring Crane Creek Baptist Church); auditioning drummers for my band, Bright Red Tie; dealing with selling some property for our church; putting in some extra time digging through historical documents for the Treasure Valley Southern Baptist Association; shopping for a new washing machine; organizing a Congo Team reunion party; and mowing my lawn. All of those things are going well, some are done, and I'd be mowing RIGHT NOW if it hadn't rained last night and made the grass soggy.

Instead, I'm blogging.

And watching the French Open.

As for the humility, my friend Steve points out that we're all about as irreplaceable as a hole in water. If we think the world revolves around us, well, that world has plenty of edges and corners to work on, and won't worry about our departure much (pass that piece of blue, will ya? it might fit in this patch of sky). If we think no one else can do what we do, there are over 6,000,000,000 people out there willing to prove us wrong. And if one blogger goes, another will take his place. Or not.

So, if you have enough puzzle pieces to occupy your time, and the loss of these Musings wouldn't negatively impact your life, God bless ya and carry on. If, however, you'd like to keep reading the odd little things that come out of my brain, drop me a line or leave a comment on the blogsite.

OK, back to Roger Federer, the GREATEST tennis player in history. Who replaces Pete Sampras as the GREATEST tennis player in history. Who replaced ol' what'shisface as the GREATEST tennis player in history.........

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