i love movies. last nite was the Oscars, glad to see Sandra Bullock won for Blind Side, but generally the Oscars bore me. i used to watch every year. i would even stay up until the wee hours of the morning to see the end of the show. but the movie industry and the music industry have so many “aren’t we wonderful shows” it gets on my nerves.

there’s the Oscars, the SAG awards, the Golden Globes, the People’s Choice. how many times do they have to tell each other that they are great? the same is true for music. how many times in the last six months have we heard that Taylor Swift is wonderful and Kanye West is a jerk for not thinking so. it just gets old to me.

i know it is important to be recognized by your peers. i have an ego like anyone else (sometimes even bigger i suppose) but that is the point, my ego is big enough that i don’t have to have someone constantly telling me how great i am. not that i don’t want you to think i’m great. but i can look back with satisfaction over the last 20 years, (just completed five with West Ridge Church) and see the churches that have started and knowing that i played a small part is satisfaction enough. don’t need to speak at the world’s largest conference, don’t need a plaque or statue, i need the peace that i am doing what God called me to do and in my heart feel i’ve got His approval. the question i keep asking myself, “is Jesus enough?” or do i need a golden statue to prove it? that may be idolatry.

as Sally Field’s said several years ago, “you like me, you really like me!” shame it took a statue for her to know that.

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