United We Stand

Reader be warned, this may be long.

First of all, the time on this post is correct. It is 5:34 AM right now. In order to get rid of a nasty migraine that has plagued me for two days now, I inadvertantly took migraine medicine with a large amount of caffeine in it.

Fourth of July recap- went over to Jessi's. Ate FAR too much grilled food. Watched National Treasure 2, which we deemed the most patriotic movie in her cabinet. Drove to the intracoastal. Saw AMAZING fireworks. Waited 40 minutes for the trolley to take us back to the parking lot, which was two miles away. Went back to Jessi's. Ate a lot of watermelon. Watched Beetlejuice (not exactly patriotic, but fun nonetheless).

So I just had another one of those God moments. Where out of nowhere, the random thoughts coursing through my brain are brought together by the very least expected things. The book I am reading with Sharon (The Unexpected Adventure by Mark Mittelberg and Lee Strobel -read it) has got me thinking a lot about our "mission." The Great Commission and all that jazz. Since today (I guess yesterday now) was Fourth of July, there were a lot of patriotic things on TV and in the newspaper. Including things about 9/11, which made me think of the slogan United We Stand. I got to thinking about things in the past that people have become "united" on and how much of an effect we can have when we unite. LiveStrong. the Red campaign. The relief efforts from the 2004 tsunami. Hurricane relief efforts (which my own family benefitted from- free ice after Wilma). But I couldn't really tie my thoughts together.

So thats what has been on my mind all day.

I have been in bed since 1230 trying to fall asleep. I tried everything. TV. Reading. A cup of hot tea. So I went back to TV. It is VERY rare that I have the TV on at 5 am. Actually I don't know if I ever have, unless I was waking up uber early for something. Slim pickings. Many many informercials. If it isn't an infomercial, it is most likely boring or disturbing. I will never EVER put Spike on in the middle of the night again. I was just hoping for CSI.

I settled on ESPN, SportsCenter is always entertaining. But after 25 minutes on coverage of Steve McNairs death (my prayers go out to his family, but the coverage was speculative and spotty), I flipped to Disney Channel. Lilo and Stitch was on (the TV show, not the movie) If you haven't seen the show, the premise is that the other experiments end up on Earth and Lilo and pals have to corral them and find good jobs for them before the bad guys use them for bad things. If you haven't seen the movie, we are no longer friends.

I missed the first 20+ min of the episode, but from what I gathered, the alien featured in this one made clones of any other alien it touched. So the bad guys used him to make armies. But it was all in Lilo's plans for him to make huge armies, because the more copies were made, the less powerful they were.

Lo and behold, Lilo and Stitch triumph. Lilo's closing line you ask? "United we stand. Divided? We are nothing but a whole bunch of weaklings"

NO LIE.

I almost died. I was like Whoa God. I gotcha.

You see, that is more perfect than any other saying out there. I tend to think United We Stand, Divided We Fall. But we can never truly fall if we have Jesus in our heart. We can get up and continue the fight alone. But when we are alone, we reveal our weaknesses. We all struggle. No one struggle is worse or better than another. We are all unique in our own weakness. But together we can be unstoppable. We compensate for each others weaknesses. Can you imagine if for one day every single Christian did NOTHING but Evangelize? What could we accomplish?

Okay. It is now 6:23. The sun has risen, and I think the coffeepot just started kickin. I am going to try and sleep.