An Evening With Arnold

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Tonight, Daniel and I sat down with The Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. We had a good time watching a couple of his older movies: Total Recall and True Lies. As Daniel phrases it, Total Recall is "a fantastic movie." However, to be certain, True Lies is "a fantastic movie" in an entirely different sense. I guess it's up to you to decide which sense he meant for which movie, but, all in all, it was a lot of fun. There's something about Arnold Schwarzenegger that is so absurd it's funny. Especially every time in True Lies where he would "squint" his eyes in anger. The best of those moments is when he's following the terrorist guy up the elevators in the hotel, they are staring at each other through the glass, and the terrorist guy's response is a look of total fear. He has the Arnold coming after him!

Daniel's been doing this whole weight loss thing recently. He apparently started it while I was in Germany. This means that he has been counting calories. It's a little frightening, too. He was explaining why he gets one kind of food and not another tonight, and also how many calories each had. I knew McDonalds was bad, but now I may never be able to eat there again!!

Interesting food fact (and I happen to really like this one): Mustard has zero calories.

Did you know that? I didn't. That's pretty cool though because I like mustard a lot. I'm working on what I eat a little bit myself. There are currently apples and bananas in my fridge! I've always liked both, but I never stocked any until now. I'm trying to encourage myself to snack on these kinds of things. It's surprising though how bad some of my favorite things are. For example: cheese. I love sharp chedder cheese, and I also enjoy American cheese on many a sandwhich. But, apparently, these are high in calories. Krass! That's annoying. I confess: I will never be able to eat so healthy as some. I'm just thinking now about trying to eat less like a pig. lol.

I've got marriage on my mind a lot lately. That's probably not a surprise to anyone since I'm recently engaged. I've been wanting to get married all my life, and now I'm engaged to the woman I am absolutely certain is the one God has always had in store for me. I'm not at all worried about the question of "who", but I am a little worried about the question of "how". In other words, how this wedding is going to happen, etc. In truth, her and I both are seeing the difficulties ahead, and we're both praying about them. We truly need God's help in everyway. this brings me to a random thought...

Have you ever seen a public concert or, really, any kind of public event where everything is sponsored? Did you notice how often they would acknowledge their sponsors everytime they came to the microphone or how many banners they would hang up? Maybe they would give away free stuff, but every single item was, I'll guarantee you, labeled with the name of the donating company. They give so much glory and thanks to those companies that make those events possible, and there's not a reason to think they shouldn't. (Even if it can be annoying sometimes) My thought though is about this: Shouldn't we give the glory for all the things God does in our life as openly as this? Maybe we do in some ways, sometimes. My point is not to question whether or not we do or whether or not we do enough (although, truthfully, we can never give Him enough glory for all He has, is, and will do). My desire here is simply to point out the similarities because I want you to think about it the next time you see all the beer names on a wall in a bar or all the advertisements in the background during a baseball game. The next time you see FOX pausing after a commercial break to say, "this [such and such] brought to you by...", remember that the corporations are giving glory and thanks to these companies. In a very real sense, we can possibly learn a little bit about the practical ways in which we can give God glory and thanks when we see these "spots".

Just a thought...

"Impossible! Once the reaction starts, it'll spread to all the turbinium in the planet. Mars will go into global meltdown. That's why the aliens never turned it on."

- Vilos Cohaagen - Total Recall