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Thought and Prayers for Japan.

Winning or Losing?

   Sheen and Gadhafi - crazy, winning?, angry, on dope, want to take people down, have loyal followers and want to get their message across.

 When I look at these men, I see the reality two broken individuals...lost in the madness and evil of our times...that ultimatly stems from the heart.   Craziness sets the stage and we are the audience.

An old Proverb says, "A fool has no delight in understanding, But expressing his own heart." 

Official World Record Ollie!

Two weeks ago I watched this kid literally knock himself out at a best trick contest in Carlsbad, CA. He shows up at the Maloof High Ollie Challenge in Vegas and gets the world record!  Aldrin Garcia can pop!

Ignorance is there.

This artwork makes me laugh!                    artwork by Steve Olson

  Ignorance - "unproven knowledge" imbedded in someones mind as if it was factual information.  It's interesting how people will base all their understanding or view on a certain people group or person or polictical party just based on what somone tells them or what the news media fortells. We live in the age of technology from iphones to facebook to text and we still can't get the right information. We get a news? story from CNN or Fox news and we get angry or fearful of a certain person or people group.  I see it on both sides of the fence if it be Left or the Right. Ignorance is there! 


  But, saying all of that, I think the real issue is man's heart. Man's heart can be full of hate, ignorant, full of pride, or just plain hard.  The Bible says, "The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?  Jeremiah 17:9  

Hows your heart?

A Thing Called Love

Have you ever thought... Where does love come from?


"Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." -Jesus

Who will answer?

From the canyons of the mind,
We wander on and stumble blind
Through the often-tangled maze
Of starless nights and sunless days,
Hoping for some kind of clue
a road to lead us to the truth,
But who will answer?....

Is our hope high upon some dusty shelves?

or in the stars?

or in ourselves?

Who will answer?

...If the soul is darkened

By a fear it cannot name, 
If the mind is baffled 
When the rules don't fit the game, 
Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will answer? 

                  Here is a photo I shot of Christian Hosoi (left) and Steve Caballero(right) about 2 years ago in San Diego. 

  

 Steve Caballero and Christian Hosoi, two of skateboarding's biggest legends. Here they stand side by side in this photograph. In the middle of them on the table lies a open Bible. Why? As the above song writer asked in his lyrics, so did Hosoi and Cab of their own personal lives and cries of the heart. Wrestling with their own struggles for truth in life...they asked "Who will answer?"  

  Hosoi almost threw his entire professional career away because of Crystal Meth. He had all the fame, but deep inside still searching for fulfillment in life, gave into the modern day street crap of drugs. 

  

  Caballero, one of skateboardings great vert, and pool skaters wasn't looking for fulfillment through drugs, but trying to find it in his agnostic mindset and in the teachings of Zen. "I chose to follow the Zen way because it didn't have a religious aspect to it. There wasn't a belief system; It was a way of life. But, It didn't help me though in terms of my personal struggles."-Cab.

 Here Hosoi and Cab stand at a Bible Study in San Diego. Why!? To get religion? No. Because they lived out the lyrics of that song. They stumbled through the maze of life, trying to find a clue, a road that would lead them to the truth and they found it. The Bible spoke true truth to them. They did not just find one of the many ways. They found the only answer to life's meaning and fulfillment.  And that meaning in life was found in knowing the God of the Bible... The meaningful life comes through acknowledging our dependence on the God who is there and in Jesus Christ as The Way, The Truth, and The Life. He will answer. 

Think about it...and seek out what really is truth. 

Side note:  I also know there are people not like Cab and Hosoi. They keep searching through life for the answers. But, they really don't want the truth or they really don't seek in truth. Like the atheist philosopher Thomas Nagel... He says, "I want atheism to be true. It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I’m right in my belief; It’s not that I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that." Wow! That is some bold committed unbelief."I don't want there to be a God." The only answer for what exist is that God, the infinite-personal God is there.