6th gear
Never can I remember a weekend of my life passing by with such magnificent speed and brevity that I ask myself when it began. And with that little eloquence, here begins my summary of my last two seconds.
Having my siblings and their counterparts in town is always pleasant, or even when I go to see them, it doesn’t matter. I went shopping with G & M for some clothes. Found some GAP and AE stuff. And Happy Birthday to Garren. Much congrats.
K & M eventually showed up and retold their adventures through the weariness of I95 (pronounced eye-95). And then the meal was good and all that. Then we basically all stayed up pretty darn late doing nothing.
I woke up in great pain. My entire body was just sore muscles that have yet to stop their drudgery. Oh well. After some BRCC with the crew, we stopped by BestBuy to check out the new Macs which are just now being sold at this fine retailer of mine. I hope L-burg becomes a powerhouse of Apple users in the near future, but then again I’m not sure how much I trust the BestBuy salespeople in their attempts to promote something they, themselves, probably don’t want to sell. Because rule #1 of retailing, the best salesperson, advertisement, whatever…is a satisfied customer. And seeing how this town is very much a Windows World, I’m not sure how many BestBuy employees enjoy, love, and cherish the Mac experience as much as I, and even more so my friends, do. I’ll do what I can.
Then I got some college dorm stuff and came home. Our flower rotunda has become a hangout for the local butterflies, so we took some pics (digital and SLR) and that was pleasant enough. I sincerely enjoy watching harmless insects in action, especially when they are so impeccably focused on their objective that their surroundings nearly fade into chaotic nothing. Such focus is to be desired.
And speaking of such. This morning’s BRCC service was just as challenging as Jeremiah had hyped it up to be. In these first stages of heartful growth in my personal relationship with Jesus, I am in dire need of true sustinence in a church. So many Christians in America have no idea how amazing it is to dive head-first into the waters and channels of love-filled life. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote that the worst thing to deal with in the Civil Rights era was neither the Ku Klux Klan nor the Black Panthers, but rather the white moderate - the one who had an opinion but carried around more apathy than action. This is the very same blistering disease that infests the Church today. People herald themselves with hymns on any given Sunday morning but lose thoughts of faith, hope, and love once Sunday lunch comes around (and my apologies to waitresses and waitors who work on Sundays because it is a sadly known fact that the worst tipping day is Sunday at lunch). But why take my time to complain about a problem that has been facing this country for generations? This week has taught me to put my life in perspective. I’m learning such a new value system and order of importance that it seems nearly impossible to put myself last in my own world. In many ways, I’m glad that I’m writing this all down publicly because what better way to be tested by the integrity of my beliefs than let the audience of RyanHarne.com judge for themselves?
This has been a long week, and a short weekend, but it has birthed a new direction of change in my life that it makes me ashamed of the years of denial I entrapped myself in. Yeah, I don’t really have anything else to say. I’ve just kind of used up my soapbox. I think I’ll sit down now 
Health update: getting better. Still coughing a lot and the mucus routine. Not fun. Wonder if the doctor gave me enough medics…
This week has no plans besides work. And the ever-nearing next weekend gets closer day-by-day.
Typing this blog has worn me out. I think that large paragraph really drew away all my mental and physical energy. I’m not very talented at coherently placing my thoughts to paper (pixels) as Ri is. Oh, what I would do for eloquence!
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