My name is Jody and I am a 40-year-old still acting like a 20-year-old. That means I like to whine and get things my way but I am in the process of trying to change all that (no offense to you “got it together” 20-somethings).

You see, a few years ago I decided to take my relationship with God a bit more seriously. Of course this started with the decision that I was tired of feeling different. I felt weird living for me all the time when I knew that way of living was wrong. It felt weird because I was just too chicken to go all the way over the deep end and give up on God. So step by step I decided to lean a little more into Him and less on me.

Boy, does He have a sense of humor. Talk about taking something and running with it. I find myself 10 years later down that road as a pastor. I am actually in charge of the spiritual well-being of other people. I was, up until recently, working as the Associate Campus Pastor for the Wellington Campus of LifeChurch.tv but now I am the Connections Pastor for Oak Leaf Church.

If you are one of my High School or College friends you can stop laughing now. You see! God still does miracles! He takes broken and ignorant people and gives them a new start on life. He will even take the class clown that was so concerned with getting people to like him that he never spent the time to develop a real relationship with anyone.

This blog is about helping me process out what’s on my mind (you see, it’s about me). But in the midst of some ramblings and observations there are some things to take notice of. God blessed me with the ability to see practical theology in a messed up world. I like to view people and situations and figure out how it all fits and why it works the way it does. These attributes get me in trouble sometimes because it tends to make me daydream a little too much. In the end I would love to see these things have a pattern over time and at least have a purpose besides tying up my brainwaves with a lot of clutter.

So here’s the jist:

If you know me then you know one of my favorite sayings is, “What’s up with that?” Call it curiosity or call it a desire to understand the things I see but this is a constant question running in my head. As life goes on, I know that the lens through which I view life changes but the one thing that doesn’t change are the eyes of the soul. They have an understanding about the underlying concept of truth. This truth I hope and believe is the same as the One who says “I am the truth.…” Life has a center and an ongoing current called Truth. He is also the agent of creation and through Him all things are made. Therefore, I need to connect this stuff we call LIFE to Him – Yeshua, Jesus, the Christ, the living God. Let’s discover these patterns together and see what we can learn.