So after a party at our house the other day Katie and I were “cleaning” up from our 25 guests, and some how CMT was on the TV. Now I have to say that Country Music TV doesn’t frequent the Bishop house, but when it is pushing 1:15 in the morning and you are trying to put up the show of cleaning up CMT is attractive to me as a bug light is to a moth.
On the boob tube was the CMT version of True Hollywood Story about Larry the Cable Guy. Larry’s real name is Daniel Lawrence Witney. During the show Daniel talked about some of the things that he did early in his career. He said that when he was in college every day he would call into radio stations and talk about some of the things that happened in the news the day before. He said that it would take a couple of hours each day to write the material, and he would have to be funny for 3 minutes a day. Everyday he has new material. Every day he understood who he was as a comic a little bit more.
Now at 1:45 in the morning I thought that this was the coolest thing ever (primarily because it meant that I didn’t have to wrangle the leftover fondue). But then, after a couple of hours of sleep, I got to thinking about the dedication we have of crafting our skills. Those skills may be learning accounting, practicing sermons, new graphic design ideas or even coming up with new poo jokes. But, what if we were to dedicate an hour or so to seeking God every day so that we would know ourselves as a child of the creator a little bit better each day? Each day we could come to God with questions that we have from the day before. Maybe we wouldn’t get the answers we thought we would, other days we may feel like we bombed, but at the end of the day we would find out something that drops the veil hiding us from the Almighty a little bit more and we could see God more clearly for who God is and not what we make the Creator to be.
