Christian Authors

I went looking through the bookstore the other day....i love to read and i plan on writing a few books when i get a job and am out of school to have some time so the bookstore is one of my favorite places to look. Anyways it struck me as im gazing through all of the "christian" books a very funny thing.

I have this class called legal/social/political environment and we talked about how business ethics was a hot topic so the professor had to discuss it but he told us that a lecture won't change your view on ethics, which is probably true and also that businesses unfortunately don't want to be ethical but appear ethical so i have been thinking about that while i am in the bookstore. Its unfortunate that christian authors tend to ride coat-tails of people with original ideas i know that this happens everywhere but i figured that we would be different (novel concept i know!!) but the davinci code, every man's battle, and the newest genre of books out there are the "churchanity" books are all just ridiculous to me. You have a single book with an original idea and everyone can't find anything else to write about.

I think that this shows a larger picture unfortunately of what christianity has become. We so often rely on other people to tell us what to do or what to pray or just how to live instead of allowing God to truly be our guide. Everyone has a different story and im happy that there are books out there to help people with issues that are prevalent but do we really need 500 books on how to defend against the DaVinci crazies that try to take over our mind with historical fiction??? I want real people to talk about their real life don't sugercoat, or try to be something you are not. Be who you are, something that is different, unique, and special. Take advice definitely from people who truly care about you but do what is best.

Live the Life
-J.C.

Conflict

well we as a management team got a good stern talking to the other day for our horrible numbers that we have been posting....long story short it was a kick in the pants that we all needed. I tell you all this because i have discovered something not only involving work but life and i have a person to thank for this and i looked at his example when i was pondering this. Honesty is always the best policy. If there is a mistake made it needs to be pointed out. If people are doing an excellent job that also needs to be pointed out. But however possible you need to let people in your organization know what is going on in order to build trust and allow them to contribute to solving the problem

Seeing as how i love to give illustrations i will give this. Problems are like puddles of water after a storm...if you let people know or make them aware of the puddle it can be avoided or even cleaned up with relative ease. But if you allow the puddle to stay there it can not only get people all messy but can cause other worse problems if you don't deal with the intial problem of the puddle. Annoying little mosquitoes (i think that is the plural form) come to mind. They will aggravate and could cause potentially fatal problems with them which all could be avoided if the intial puddle problem was dealt with swiftly.

Anyway i had a discussion a few weeks ago where we discussed honesty. And people in this dialogue were expressing how times that certainly did not involve life or death but only your integrity it was okay to lie and i don't want to sound old fashion but come on. My parents have never lied to me and pretty much the only thing besides like yelling at my mom that was like the biggest crime ever at my house was lying about something. I couldn't fathom how easy it was and not only that how non-chalant people were about talking about it. I was fuming because they were justifying the one of the main things that people try to keep. They were okay with their integrity being flawed and while im not judging them or anything like that but man where have we come as a society when we can't tell the truth in any and all circumstances and just be real with people. Its kinda sad. But all this to say strive to be better, strive to be the tool that God pulls out to bring people to Him, because this world is hurting for honesty naked eye poppin honesty and sometimes i wonder why people have such a hard time giving it to them.

uncool school

yeah so i've been going to school for about two weeks now and im so glad that im going to school, i know that someday it will pay off and im thankful for my parents pushing me to work my butt off to get into college. Im not sure who really reads this thing cuz like 3 people comment but i hope that those of you that do read this learn a little bit more about me. I'm leading people for the first time in my life and its harder than i thought because people are so different from one another. One guy is very quiet another is very outspoken. One person has great intiative and does a great job without someone bearing down on them and others need to be walked around on a leash in order to get things done. I know one thing i have to be involved with people directly and seeing them grow in my life. I've learned that i love seeing people develop and grow because of time and effort that they have put in. I can fix things but i hate to do it but man i love fixing people's problems and taking and learning i love it. I love learning i love school and reading and anything that has to do with learning. I know that this blog is a random stream of consciousness but im feeling good and trying to let people know who i am for anyone who's reading this let me know cuz i literally have no idea who reads this stinking thing maybe me when i get bored who knows....anyway live so people remember you.....later

uncool school

yeah so i've been going to school for about two weeks now and im so glad that im going to school, i know that someday it will pay off and im thankful for my parents pushing me to work my butt off to get into college. Im not sure who really reads this thing cuz like 3 people comment but i hope that those of you that do read this learn a little bit more about me. I'm leading people for the first time in my life and its harder than i thought because people are so different from one another. One guy is very quiet another is very outspoken. One person has great intiative and does a great job without someone bearing down on them and others need to be walked around on a leash in order to get things done. I know one thing i have to be involved with people directly and seeing them grow in my life. I've learned that i love seeing people develop and grow because of time and effort that they have put in. I can fix things but i hate to do it but man i love fixing people's problems and taking and learning i love it. I love learning i love school and reading and anything that has to do with learning. I know that this blog is a random stream of consciousness but im feeling good and trying to let people know who i am for anyone who's reading this let me know cuz i literally have no idea who reads this stinking thing maybe me when i get bored who knows....anyway live so people remember you.....later

football....

I have a lot of things on my mind right now and so i will be blogging two maybe three times today....first of all this blog is in response to JR Lee's blog which you can find at jrleereveal.blogspot.com by the way i love and respect and admire him on many levels except the topic which i am about to speak on. For years you grow up beginning to gain interest in things for most guys its sports teams...the teams that you like are dependent on a couple of variables location, family, and time period. Why are there so many chicago bulls fans that are younger a man named micheal jordan, why do people love that God-forsaken orange color in tennessee cuz they used to go to bowl games. Some people when they grow up will never say that they loved there team because they were good when they were young even though its obvious that this is the case and i won't get into this. But man you big conference cronies that think you are too good to play smaller conferences, wake up and smell the losses. Just because you get paid by television and sponsors does not just give you the right to call yourself better, why don't we have a playoff, cuz the BCS couldn't pull themselves out of the hole when a non BCS school beats the living snot out of a "powerhouse program" tulane12-0 auburn11-0 utah 12-0 all never got a shot whine all you want to but you one loss punks that think you have a right to play in the championship based on the conference you play in should be ashamed of yourselves "we have higher standards" that's why you don't complain about beating kentucky, miss state, duke, all those pitiful groups that you call football teams grow up and realize that you aren't on a higher plane and take a chance and play boise state and utah and bowling green and uab and memphis. and those of you that say well if we were in so and so conference we would win every year and how would that feel that now matter how many games you win in your conference you would never get a shot at greatness because 11-1 USC plays in a better conference.......GO MEMPHIS TIGERS!!!!