Jonny Heart: Goatee be gone! (change)

Friday, June 8, 2007

Goatee be gone! (change)

Today it’s gone, after nine months, four days and 15 hours I shaved off my goatee. I know I write as if I’ve had this relationship with my facial hair for twenty years or so, but in the last nine months it became a part of me and I became looked upon as a much older and wiser Jonny Heart. The transition was great while it lasted yet now I return to the clean-shaven look of my youth.

Change can be a great thing, lots of good has come from change; our country, the reformation and restoration movements within the church, and yes even the change from french fries to freedom fries was a good move. Many people have a hard time with change. For some odd reason people just don’t understand why change is important. It brings the chance of a fresh beginning and a new generation of opportunity.

You may be thinking, “Jonny Heart why are you talking about change?” The truth is, I don’t really know. People say I am conservative, and because of that I don’t take well to change. Well, some times I find it hard to cope with change and other times move along with it quit well. I admit that the later are further and farther between. Why do things need to change when they are working just fine the way they are? I don’t really like the idea of the “seeker sensitive church” that so many congregations have migrated towards. I don’t like that “King of Queens” ended and another comedy sitcom will take its place.

Change is inevitable, could be bad could be good, but no matter what a person does change constantly stares them down. Whether it’s the passing of father time or a sudden shift that will nock you off your feet, you will never be able stop it but what matters is the effect you let it leave.

I’m sure that at some point I will let my goatee return but what I like about it is that I can control when. I look forward to the change that will embrace me tomorrow.

1 comment:

Unknown said...: Haha. . .your funny, I will miss your facial hair. It always did define who you were. Just Kidding, love yas, Kit-Kat; June 8, 2007 at 3:43 PM

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-Clive Staples Lewis-

"The Love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

The Problem of Pain

"We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which he will not be satisfied until it has a certain character."

Mere Christianity - (Pg. 31)

"This is the terrible fix we are in. If the universe is not governed by an absolute goodness, then all our efforts are in the long run hopeless. But if it is, then we are making ourselves enemies to that goodness every day, and are not in the least likely to do any better tomorrow, and so our case is hopeless again. We cannot do without it, and we cannot do with it. God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. He is our only possible ally, and we have made ourselves His enemies."

The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis (Pg. 31)

"What would really satisfy us would be a God who said anything we happened to like doing, what does it matter so long as they are contented? We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven - a senile benevolence who, as they say, liked to see young people enjoying themselves, and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, a good time was had by all."

"If we wish to be rational, not now and then, but constantly, we must pray for the fit of faith, for the power to go on believing not in the teeth of reason but in the teeth of lust and terror and jealousy and boredom and indifference that which reason, authority, or experience, or all three, have once delivered to us for truth."

Mere Christianity - (P.g. 139-140)

"It is not reason that takes away my faith: on the contrary, my faith is based on reason. It is my imagination and emotions. The battle is between faith and reason on one side and emotion and imagination on the other... Now Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your ganging moods. For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes. I know by experience..."

A Grief Observed - (P.g. 9-10)

"I once read the sentence 'I lay awake all night with toothache, thinking about toothache and about lying awake.' That's true to life. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer."

Mere Christianity - (P.g. 7)

"It seems, then, we are forced to believe in a real Right and Wrong. People may be sometimes mistaken about them, just as people sometimes get their sums wrong; but they are not a matter of mere taste and opinion any more than the multiplication table."

Mere Christianity - (P.g. 32)

"In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth-only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair. Most of us have got over the pre-war wishful thinking about international politics. It is time we did the same about religion."

Mere Christianity - (P.g. 56-57)

"Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something mush harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing part of yourself, undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here comes the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person-and he would not need it."