large as this longing

How fun is this gonna be!

http://www.smm.org/starwars/

Here’s a link to the Presbytery of the Twin Cities website. Scroll down the main page until you find me. It’s an article that was originally included in my church’s monthly newsletter.

(Dan Antoine, I think this means I’m a real live Presbyterian!)

http://www.ptcaweb.org/

So today’s my birthday…number 27. No other birthday has phased me at all. I’ve never felt like I was getting ‘old’…not even at 25. But 27?…I have to say it has made me think. I’m not having a quarter life crisis or anything…but is it normal to stare contemplatively in the mirror at yourself on birthdays that are nearer 30 than 20?

if you follow this link and watch the video…you might giggle or even cry.

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=9e7c4b40cf5a13cea6ca

Have you seen the movie, “The Astronaut Farmer”? Ali and I rented it lastnight…what a great story. Its about a father who lives out his dream of one day flying in outer space by building his own rocket in his barn. Okay, so maybe its not the best movie out there, its a little predictable at times, perhaps a little too “feel good” for those who don’t like that sort of thing. But I loved it! Incidentally, I’m not convinced that a movie has to be about dark things to be good. I love a good story. And I mean ‘good’ in the sense that it’s true. Now, this isn’t to say that, historically speaking, there actually existed a guy who built his own rocket with the purpose of flying it into space. Thats not what kind of truth I mean. I mean the kind of truth that points to the bigger story. The one that we are all involved in. The story that God has been creating since the beginning. This movie told a story about believing in dreams. Isn’t that truth? Isn’t God all about giving us dreams to dream?
It reminds me of a thought that G.K. Chesterton once had:

“I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by fairy tales, but has since been ratified by the mere facts.”