Jon Nungester-Living from the Inside Out

Does anyone else out there have the same dizzying experience when they look at technology?  I am leading my church in updating their web site and finding so many useful applications and widgets that friends are telling me about, but it all seems a little complicated.  There are blogs, wikis, twitter, flicker, readers, RSS, buckets, widgets, gadgets, and thing-a-ma-bobs!  I can’t keep them all straight.  They seem to be about helping communicate.  The world seems to be running a sprint with technology and I can’t seem to keep up.  Now I am a pretty savvy guy and can handle techspeak, but somethings tend to fly over my head.  I hope I catch up!

So, I survived the holidays.  With the travel and parties and church events, I made it!  Now on to ‘08.  I feel like I am behind already and I am only 2 days into the year!  But, I do have a few resolutions that I have made and hope you have made some as well.1. Lose another 25 pounds.I have plateaued and I can’t seem to drop anymore weight.  However, I ate like crap over the holidays and did not gain a pound!  Rock on increased metabolism!2. Get the garage organized.It is so big and we have so much stuff.  We need to have a garage sale, but who wants to buy a box of two year old paintballs?3. Trust God with my (our) finances.I always seem to get stressed out watching the stock market rise and fall.  I think I might just get out this year.  Not out of panic, but of how much it consumes my thought life and time.  Not spiritually healthy.4. Set aside more time for prayer.Now this is not coming last because it is the least important, but because this is the one I have been thinking about the most and need more space to write about it.  The top three always seem to be on every Americans list, but as a Christian I don’t think we ever create resolutions for our spiritual lives.  Do we look any different spiritually than we did last year?  I think a lot of us don’t, but my goal is to try to spiritually look differently this year.  My prayer life  is something that I have never really paid much attention to.  I have never seen a prayer like Elijah where God sends down fire after he prays so I have been a very unfaithful in my prayer life and have gotten flabby.  I need to begin working those muscles out and working out my salvation (Philippians 2:12).