my brain is about to…

explode.  Have you ever done so much brain processing that you feel as if your brain is done?  Well if you haven’t, consider yourself lucky.  However I would have to say that these past few weeks have been some of the most productive, encouraging, growing weeks I’ve had in a long time.  I must say that I’m really happy with where my relationship with Steph is, I’m encouraged to have multiple job opportunities (even though I’m having to patiently wait to hear back from a couple of the jobs that I’d really well…LOVE to have), and I’m feeling like I’ve been able to develop some really grand relationships with some guys who I’ve been able to see everyday for most of my four years here, but haven’t ever been able to truly connect with.  So with that being said, it’s spring break. Party right? Well…if you consider I’ll get to hang out with Steph, her parents, my parents, and of course my sis…then definitely.  Ya, sorry, no girls in bikini’s sipping slurpee’s on the beach.  On to more serious notes…Recently I’ve been really thinking about the ways in which we always struggle with the difference between theology and the real world.  I’ve heard the comments directly from theology majors and even from others just not phrased in the religion jargon that I’m used to hearing on a daily basis.  However, it seems like it should be such a simple thought and feeling…right? I just have a hard time believing and thinking that this God who desires a relationship with us would want our theology to be so complicated that simple people cannot embrace him.  With that being said, I think there are some really bright people out there that can think and debate all the major theological issues, and I don’t think we shouldn’t concern ourselves with these theological issues however, when did theology become so distant in our minds from real life?  Do we often miss the mark on what we are truly seeking and relating too?  Just a thought of mine.  Seems to me that there should never be a time in which my theology isn’t practical because the day that it isn’t is the day that my belief and my being cease to really exist in this world.  I do not know if I can serve a God that isn’t about the people who have no voice, those who aren’t the paid brains of society.  Anyone else ever thought about that?  I guess we’ll see.