Not so long ago my three favorite words were "You are right!" ... I LOVED hearing it. At first, it was just funny ... It was a sickness that turned into a joke among my friends and family ... that wasn't very funny at all after a while.

But in the past year, I've watched countless friendships end and hearts break over some who believed they were right ... 

and I realized that right ain't all it's cracked up to be. Being right put people in the middle, put people on the defensive and put people in their place. But never did it do anything to speak to the need in the lives of the ones who were wrong. And frankly, from the not-so-outside looking in,  it's done little to improve the lives of the ones who were right either.

And so I decided to do a little searching ... do you know that the scripture never really talks about how highly we are esteemed by our Heavenly Father when we are right ... it talks about humility ...  it talks about teaching others ... it talks about confession ... it talks about loving others ... it talks a  ton in Proverbs about wisdom and the dangers of the tongue (Hmmm ... primary method of proving how right we are?? I'm just sayin' ...)  ... but I can't find anywhere that anyone is given great accolades for being right?? There are however warnings to avoid controversial conversations(see Titus 3), not loan money, not covet what another has, not to provoke to anger, not to fall prey to Pride and oh yeah, to love your neighbor as yourself.  

Seems to me that if one is going to follow the teachings of Christ, one would first have to lay down the need to be right ...

just thinkin' outloud here ...

We've been primarily a homeschool family for the past 13 years - but we've also had kids in private and public schools.  We are not militant homeschoolers, and we believe that each of the education options has its pros and cons.  The poll results below caught my eye so I thought I would share it.  It's not as frightening as the adults who try to answer the basic questions Jay Leno asks them, but it's still a pretty bleak assessment.  Keep in mind that these were high school students ....

Here's what Kirk Cameron thought about the Feed Your Faith Marriage Conference on July 18 (more info about the conference below).

 Me, Kirk Cameron and Mike Williams

 Kirk Cameron

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 Warren Barfield

Warren Barfield, Kirk Cameron and me

To all 4,000 of our friends who turned out Saturday, we appreciate it.  If you had a good time, watch the Feed Your Faith web site for more upcoming events.

A good story here.

From the Associated Press:

SYDNEY, Australia - Wallabies snacking in Tasmania's legally grown opium poppy fields are getting "high as a kite" and hopping around in circles, trampling the crops, a state official said.

Tasmania Attorney-General Lara Giddings told a budget hearing Wednesday that she had recently read about the kangaroo-like marsupials' antics in a brief on the state's large poppy industry. Tasmania is the world's largest producer of legally grown opium for the pharmaceutical market.

"We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," The Mercury newspaper quoted Giddings as telling the hearing. "Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high."

Now we can all rest a little easier knowing where crop circles come from. 

The Feed Your Faith Summerfest '09 concert was in Knoxville this past week.  Feed Your Faith was started by my great friend, Mike Williams, and I have been working with him for the past few years.  The concert featured three of Christian music's hottest bands and took place at Sevier Heights Baptist Church.  Sanctus Real was the headline act and DecembeRadio and Decyfer Down opened for us.  My musical genius son, YoungestSon2Me, got to meet and hang out with the bands.  I'll post more pics later, but here's one of YoungestSon2Me with Sanctus Real after the concert (I have more posted on my Facebook page - there's a link on the right-hand column of this page).

Here are some of Sanctus Real.

Below is a video shot by one of OldestSon2Me's friends.  Matt, the lead singer from Sanctus Real, took his video camera during the concert.

By popular demand (from Smallworldathome), I am posting one more shot of OldestSon2Me.

He's not so much about smiling ... but it works for him.  Such the tough-guy.