Imma Imma Imma Doug

"Hello! My name is Doug! My master made me this collar so that I can talk with humans...SQUIRREL"

One of the things that made me laugh so much about Doug, as well as all of the other dogs in Up was the fact that they could be so on track with something and then suddenly get distracted by a squirrel. And I mean be on track with something important. Take the final "battle" persay of the movie. All of the bad dogs are flying fighter jets and trying to harm the main characters. They are on a mission. And then all Russell (a good guy) had to yell was "SQUIRREL" and the dogs immediately tried to focus on the squirrel (which didn't even exist). For peteys sake they were on a mission to find and distroy (which I would call important from their side) and yet they got distracted...by imaginary squirrels.

I think that my name actually might be Doug sometimes. I get so distracted by the things around me. I was listening to another Tenth Avenue North song yesterday and the chorus goes like this:

Look at all the pretty things that steal my heart away; I can feel I'm fading. 'Cause Lord I love so many things that keep me from your face; come and save me!

It's so crazy. I could be totally and completely focused on God...like hard core! And then all of a sudden something comes along and I go "squirrel!", though in my case it might be "stress!", "looks!", "popularity!", "boys!"; I could go on and on. But you get the point. I'm like Doug. I can be completely focused and then something pretty comes along and I go "oooooo sparkles!" I lose sight of where I was. I walk off the path. But that's silly because the path I was on was God's path wasn't it? And silly insignificant things like sparkles, or squirrels, can distract me from God's path? Taylor did you lose your brain somewhere? His path is so important yet I get distracted by unimportant things. Why?! Man humans are so confusing sometimes. Actually a lot of the time, if we're going to be honest. God's really brought this into my mind this morning because I've been thinking a lot what it means to be sold out for Christ...what does that look like? And then also what keeps me from being sold out for Christ? And then I realized that a lot of my distractions from God are the small things that sparkle and are insignificant. It's like I'm taking the cheap dollar store diamond ring instead of the real legit diamond ring from the jewelry store. What are we thinking?!? So I challenge anyone who reads this to think and try to figure out what your "squirrels" are? And how can you submit those "squirrels" to God? Don't be a Doug =p

loves!

tay