RETHINK Studios

Rethink Studios is a graphic design and film production team based in Fenton Michigan. We specialize in cultured wedding documentaries. In addition we also do occasional videos / graphics for non-profit organizations, along with commercial freelance work. The purpose of this blog is to keep clients and other professionals in our area informed on what we're up to. Thanks for checking us out. Be sure to hit up our official website at www.rethinkstudios.org

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2 Months... Wow!

Well, it has been two months. I've got several new projects up on my website, (www.skyfilms.org). We've been pretty busy and, well, yeah. Oh, right, we're pregnant! So that's really exciting. The little guy, or girl, is due on March 3rd. It's funny, it seems like with so many different websites up there, ie facebook, blogger, twitter, myspace, xanga (does that still exist?), there's just too much to keep up with. Man, well, the desire to write still dwells within me, so, here I am yet again after a long sabbatical. What to write about though. Well, hmm, let's see. Vertical Horizon is playing at the moment. Nope, still nothing.

Let's talk about God. More specifically, what's going on in our relationship at the moment. I feel like we're on the edge of something. Like we're pushing, or knocking, or maybe just standing, at a door that has not yet been opened. I feel hesitant to push, or to do the wrong thing. Don't get me wrong, I'm not afraid of taking a step. I just want Him tell me what to do, and I'll do it, no matter what. Wow, those are pretty intense words. Pretty over-promising as well. How many times have I heard His still-small-voice urging me to talk to someone, to help someone, and I've ignored it to because it would make me uncomfortable? What am I waiting for then. God told Abraham to go into a land that I will show you. That means that Abraham went before God told him where he was going. That seems to be an adequate example of where I currently find myself. I feel like I should wait, and yet I feel this urge to push my way to provide for my soon-to-be-expanding family. As if God isn't going to provide what He promises to. Hmm. Well, I leave it at that for tonight. Hopefully I'll be back soon. Until then...

Desire to Crash

Why do we have this desire to fall? This desire to crash. Is it just me? I hope not, but I can only guess that it is this wretched sin intwined in our makeup. Thank you Jesus for rescuing me my due consequence, but Lord, please help me to shirk this self-defeating desire far from me. God, I can't, I am incapable of it in my strength. Holy Spirit, please come, fill me, and strengthen me. Lord, please come and fill all parts of me, destroy all parts of me that aren't of You. God please, breathe on me, make me holy. Take away all of these distractions. God please, help me to see You and only You. Teach me to move where You're moving, to do what You're doing. God help me, sanctify me, change me. Overwhelm me... in You. God please.

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Evening in the Familiar

Do you know that scripture about a dog returning to its own vomit? Well, I wonder if that's an observation about humanity's behavior, and it is most visible via sin? I mean, the thing you hate the most and absolutely abhore, where does it dwell? Certainly not miles away hoping you might someday come back its direction. No, it dwells right behind you. It's out of your sight and you think you're away from it, but all you have to do is turn around and it's right there to welcome you into its grasping comfortable arms. Do you know what I mean? It's been my experience, albeit very limited, that most recovered alcoholics didn't recover overnight, and when times were rough, I bet the thought of drinking their problems away weren't far from their minds. Or the suicidal person, "healed", has he been thinking about rolling green hills with bright blue skies, and feeling overly loved by all and genuinely "worth it"? Probably not. My point is, though it is our nature to return to the things behind us, maybe God, knowing that, decided to make our journey so much more victorious by leading us through our valleys in the shadows of our sin, not fearing it, but following Him. I mean, if we were delivered and set upon perfectly still waters, would we refer to that time as "something I faced once, but - really don't remember too much of how I felt"? But if we waded through that murky dirty water on that gentle slope back onto land, feeling, choosing God over the dark water below, would He not lead us beside still waters? Would He not cleanse us gradually as we came more and more out of the water... forgiven but being sanctified?

- God, cleanse me and sanctify me. Forgive me for all I've done, and for my nature. Thank you Lord for giving us a way apart from the vomit we so often return to. Thank you for Christ. Father, we choose You. In Your name, amen.
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