Its funny, you know how you never say you will turn into your parents or do stuff like they do it.. Well I am finding more and more I was so wrong.. For example... I find myself wanting to go to bed earlier and earlier becuase i have to wake up earlier and earlier. I am turning into an old man. Its midnight and i am so tired. Maybe i have a tiring job? I mean after all i sit at a desk all day and wait for a tour to come along.
Today was a good day. I got to make a mock up for a Dane Cook cd. We are trying to pitch him for Instant Live so we talked with the Comedy division (who today gave me the chapelle show season 2) and they wanted a sample of what we could do. Needless to say I am super proud of it, because our in house design guy Braden also know as "hot bowling shoes" is an amazing designer.
After that my english friend Andy took me to this really amazing place in beverly HIlls. I forget what it was called but we got some delicious Salmon and jasmine rice and then had some great apple pie to top it off. Man what a great place. Right on rodeo and wilshire. Nothing like a nice walk in beverly hills. Its funny because i just got the new Weezer album and they have that beverly hills song. I used to think as a child that someday songs will mean something to me, and that i could relate and know what they are talking about. Well today as i drove away I blasted Beverly Hills by Weezer with my windows down. I am such a dork! If you guys havn't heard the new Weezer album its really really good.
Yesterday was interesting because i felt like God was telling me i was being selfish. And then to top it off an old friend who I havn't talked to in more than a year or two randomly imed me at work and started to tell me this sob story and how she couldn't pay her bills and it sounded to me like she was asking for money. I of course being in my selfish mood wrote it off and just said .. hey call me later.. So when she called I was really not interested so I ignored the call, but something told me I should call her back. I did and for a lot of the conversation she told me about how she has had such a rough life in the past year or two with her new husband and that she has all these medical things wrong with her, her bills were piling up, and to make things worse her landlord was basically screwing her. I just listened and sat there. the whole time waiting for her to ask me for some money and send her a check. Well boy was I wrong, she never once brought it up.
And thats when it occured to me....Jon Mark, your being selfish, what does your friend really need here? I remember something my dad once taught me.. the power of Prayer. Growing up I had seen my dad pace through the halls on the phone councelling someone, and then at the end he would always pray with them over the phone. I always thought that was weird. When I would ask my father for advice in situations like this with friends, he would always ask me, "so you talked to her and listened, did you offer to pray for her right there on the phone?"
What a Jerk I am sometimes. Here I am just waiting for her to ask for a hand out and I couldn't even see that all she needed was some prayer. So I asked her to pray.. and we did.. and she started crying.. Then told me that she had needed that for a long time now.
It really is amazing how much prayer impacts people, even the ones who are filled with faith like my friend. So if the Lord ever gives you the urge to pray for someone, don't fight it.. ask them to pray and see what amazing things God can do through it.
Thats all for now... Got any cool prayer stories to share?
qoute of the night... came from Andy Scarth our englishman who is working over here with us... " I am not a foreigner.. I am an Alien of extraordinary ability!!!"
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