I had the privilege of hearing Clayton King speak at the University of Florida FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) meeting tonight. It was a talk that took a fresh look at a story I’d heard many, many times. He spoke on the parable of the Seed and the Sewer found in Luke chapter 8. He talked about Jesus� story describing a farmer sewing seed on four different surfaces–a well-traveled path, a rock, thorns and fertile soil. Clayton then described what each of these surfaces represents in terms of the human condition: The well-traveled path is analogous to a hardened heart–a heart that is unreceptive and unresponsive to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The rock represents a shallow person–the seed, or the Gospel, is able to sprout, but not take root on the rock; essentially, the seed is not able to fully grow and reach its potential because of the poor surface the rock provides. This person is characterized by little commitment or devotion to pursuing God. The thorns represent a crowded heart–a person who has substituted a busy schedule (often times doing things intended to bring honor to God) for a personal, growing relationship with God. And, finally, the fertile soil represents an open heart–a heart that is receptive and responsive to God’s Word.

After hearing Clayton speak and meditating on what he said for a while, I’ve decided that mine is a shallow heart. This is discouraging and somewhat relieving at the same time. It is discouraging to think that I could’ve become complacent enough to be described as having “little commitment or devotion to pursuing God”, but it’s relieving in that I now know exactly where I am and that where I am is not where I want to be. It seems I need to do something about my shallow heart and, with God’s help, I intend to.

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Unbelievable. I spent 5 hours today, waiting in line to see the Kentucky vs. UF game. That is really out of character for me–I usually wouldn’t be able to justify spending 5 hours sitting around waiting to watch a basketball game–but, I thought, “What the heck. I’ll give it a shot. We have to win anyway, because we’ve lost the last two and we’re one of the best teams in the country.” Turns out we lost by 2 lousy points. So, I spent about 8 hours today, waiting to see our guys lose by 2. Ouch.

Anyway, I just finished watching Pretty Woman for the first time. It’ll probably be the last. Honestly, I don’t get it; everyone always says, “You haven’t seen Pretty Woman?! Man, you gotta’ see that movie.” I just don’t see what all the hype is about. Julia is a good actress and Richard did a good job in the movie, but I never really caught what was so special about this particular prostitute that she changed his life. She seemed like a nice enough girl, but when it comes down to it, I just don’t see what set her apart from the rest. Yeah, she knew a little about cars and she was kind of feisty, but there are lots of feisty, car-knowledgeable women that aren’t prostitutes. Why didn’t he just go find one of those?

I better get some sleep. I have a dilemma tomorrow in that I have 4 consecutive classes, but the third one is cancelled. So, I’m wondering if I should go to the first 2, then leave and skip the last one, or if I should stick around and kill an hour before attending my last one. Why does life have to be full of so many tough decisions? Ah, the life of a college student…

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So, this may be an easy way to release some of the myriad thoughts that bounce around in my head and trounce on my conscious thinking. I don’t have much to say right now, but I hope to be updating this frequently. I figure I’ll probably be the only one interested in reading anything written here, so this is really an exercise for me and no one else. However, if someone stumbled upon my writings, then I suppose that someone might have a little peek at who I am… and then that someone will probably move on to something more interesting.

Here goes (the physical manifestation of) nothing…

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