Ben Pettit

Time for an update!

Rolling down the interstate today, a slightly peaceful time. Stacy is driving right now and I’ve got the Macbook plugged into the cigarette lighter via my new $6 power converter. This weekend was lots and lots of fun. We started on Saturday heading up to Charlotte for our friends’ Mom’s birthday party. Then Sunday after church in CLT we drove down to Columbia to see two great men of God graduate from the South Carolina Master’s Commission. Graduation was a blast and the disciples of Christ were so excited to be there and make God big.

After the ceremony we went to Ruby Tuesday and encountered the most interesting waiter I’ve ever had. We ordered one hamburger add salad bar and another salad bar. He told us that he wouldn’t charge us for the salad. We figured he meant the added salad bar. So we got the check and it was for one hamburger. $7 and change for a $20 meal. We tipped him well and left before the deal reversed on us.

Somewhere after the graduation and dinner we decided not to return to Spartanburg but go ahead and drive to Charleston. I called my favorite Aunt Tina who welcomed Stacy and I down to her house. We had a great time with the relatives. We stopped in at Blossom’s (downtown Charleston) for lunch and it was wonderful! Stacy had the white pizza and I had lamb sausage pizza. Wonderful waiter, beautiful atmosphere, and exquisite food.

A truly wonderful weekend.

ALSO.

I’ve started working for a financial services firm and I have a very exciting opportunity ahead of me! If you know of anyone who is interested in making some extra money let me know!

So I woke up this morning, and I checked my email as normal. I had an email from Google which said that they are upgrading a service for which I was a beta tester called grandcentral. The new service is called Google voice. The interface feels much like Gmail to me. One new feature is a widget I can embed on the web for people to call me. So if you ever need to call me you can go to the contact page and click on the “call me” button and it will connect you. For today I’ll show you this widget on the main page!

The face of Christ is where I want to be. I want to be seated at Your feet laying face down, giving You everything. Lord, take away the sin that entangles my thoughts and my dreams.

I want to dream Your dreams, I want to speak Your words, I want to love Your sheep the way You do. I want to touch Your heart with Your voice. Oh, God, do something in me to speak for You.

Let Your face shine upon me so bright that they see You through my eyes.

Got this in an email. I laughed so hard I had to share it with the world.

A $50 Lesson

I recently asked my friends’ little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. She said she wanted to be President some day. Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her, ‘If you were President what would be the first thing you would do? ‘

She replied, ‘I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.’

Her parents beamed with pride.

‘Wow…what a worthy goal.’ I told her, ‘But you don’t have to wait until you’re President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I’ll pay you $50. Then I’ll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house.. ‘

She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, ‘ Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50? ‘

I said, ‘Welcome to the Republican Party.’

Her parents still aren’t speaking to me..

So often we put these fronts up around ourselves. We try to be someone were not. Maybe it is to impress someone. Or maybe we are so scared that if we are ourselves that someone may be critical of who we are. Because at that point it cuts into our in most being. It cuts us at the core of who we are. I think we’re so frightened of rejection that we cannot be ourselves. We pretend to like popular music because that’s what is popular. It is hard to be criticized when your into the normal. I’m a musician. I’m not normal. I like weird music. I like things that are meaningful. I like things that are funny. Not the vulgar type of funny. More like the funny a child would make. I think of my twin nieces. Something just so adorable you just can’t help but to smile. You can’t help but love it.

I don’t know what the Lord has for me. But one thing I have learned in the past couple weeks is I will always aspire to be something greater than I am. Even if it doesn’t make me the most money. What do I really care?

God already promised he would take care of everything I need. I can literally sit back and wait for him to move. Patiently wait. Sit back and enjoy the stillness. Enjoy peace. Enjoy Love.