beatitudes.

i am going to start going through the beatitudes on sunday nights with my youth. i sat down today to start taking notes and such. here is what i wrote in my journal concerning chapter 5, verse 1.

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.

“…and when he sat down…”
why did jesus sit? i learned as a communication major that you can project more when you are standing up. there were crowds, why would he sit? jesus would have to really project. did he sit to get down on their level? it had to be really really quiet. how could they hear? how big was the crowd? i wonder if jesus was a spitter? i wonder if the front row was soaked. i wonder if jesus yelled when he taught or was he just simple and soft spoken. the disciples could not just pull out the sound board, speakers and lapel mic. so he probably had to yell. i wonder if that was out of his character?

thats what i have been doing for the past hour. its good sometimes to get in the office and to shut the door, open your journal, open your bible, and start writing.

alarm clock.

so my wife has 8 o’clock classes this quarter. she is on the home stretch as she graduates in may. we live about 30 minutes from the school if there is no traffic. she usually sets her alarm for like 5:15 and hits the snooze a few times and then still has time to take her time and get ready for the day. i usually just roll over when her alarm goes off.

this morning my alarm goes off at 7:15 so i can get up and take my time getting ready. i hit snooze on my alarm and roll over and there is my wife. sleeping in bed 2 hours after her alarm should have gone off!

i have never seen her get out of bed and ready that fast. it was impressive.

i think we need to buy a real alarm clock. one that is really annoying. and not just trust our cell phones anymore.