Here’s one of the 2 stories I wanted to tell.

Nobody’s Hero

One day I was picking up some food for Jess and taking it to her before I had to head off to another Campus Life club to hang out with kids and do some music.  I took a parking lot away from Wendy’s that went through the Lowe’s parking lot.  Suddenly, I saw a kid running out of the garden department and across the parking lot at full speed.  Being a wierdo myself, I assumed he just felt like running; I’ve done the same thing before.  Seconds later though, I saw a lady cashier trying to follow.  She was looking kinda stunned and hopeless.

I wanted really badly to be a hero.  I drove my truck to the edge of the parking lot in chase mode but by the time I got there, the kid was already running across the busy lunch-rush intersection.  It’s amazing that he made it across so fast.  I knew I’d be to chicken to follow him and my sandals wouldn’t take me there anyway.

I saw him book down a street, so I quickly drove to the streetlight and waited for a green light to continue pursuing this little thief.  It took at least… too many minuites for the light to change though.  The kid was long gone.  I drove around a little bit in the neighborhood, but I was out of luck. 

My reaction was being angry and frustrated, although there was nothing I could have done.  If I was closer to the kid when I saw him running, I might have had a chance…  if I was wearing shoes and willing to run across 55mph lunch rush highway traffic, I might have had a chance…  bottom line:  If God had given me the ability to catch this kid, I would have saved the day.

Simply put, God doesn’t want flashy heroes as followers but I realized that that’s who I try to be “for Him” so often.  Everytime something good happens, someone gets “the points”.  Who gets the points for tackling a thief?  Probably the person on the front page of the paper the next day.  Who gets the credit for serving students?  Not the guy who doesn’t have a big head about something like that.  So the “small things” in our eyes are what are what are important because they actually go to glorify God, and not ourselves.

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Jess and I  bought a video camera.  I’m thinking about doing some kind of weekly web video on here or something.  That’d be fun.