coup d’état

Its been a long time since I posted on here.. To long... Well what can I say a blog isn't the most important thing in the world to me at any given moment. So I don't know what to put here I mean I could tell everyone all the things I've done for the last couple of months since I posted something or I could tell nothing. For now I believe I will give a little bit of information just for the fun of it.

I was supposed to be in Jamaica right now with my good friend and travel companion Jeff Calaway however the Navy is being the Navy and they won't sign his release and give him leave so we can't take off til that finally gets sorted out... Lets see other than that I'm dealing with the very stressful situation of having an 80 some year old woman who is a, and in the bad sense, religious fanatic. I say in the bad sense because I believe there can be a good "religious" fanatic if by religious fanatic you mean a Jesus Freak, I truly don't believe this to be the case for her though.. Nothing I do lives up to her health and wealth, feel good, televangelist messages. I could be going to India tomorrow to save 1000 lives if I could raise 150$ more and I wouldn't see a penny from her. I digress though because this isn't meant to bash my grandmother. Its tough though because now when I'm home its not enough to just keep the parents happy I now have to keep her happy which is impossible if she decides its impossible. So I've covered the trip and home life.. I guess its time to talk about the end of last semester and the coming semester and I guess college stuff in general... Well last semester came to a kinda rough close... I passed all my classes which is really good news for me cause I wasn't sure about one of them and in another, with it being my first upper level, I was stressing hardcore about anyways, other than classes it was a little rough cause I was having some problems with a two of my three room mates, the one moving off campus and one of the two who was graduating. Now don't get me wrong I love both of them to death and would do most anything for them but it was like 900 degrees inside and outside of the dorm, I was trying to get my stuff packed for moving around three other people, and in a situation like that tempers flair a little, good, bad, wrong, and ugly. We got through it though and even though two of them graduated I will forever know them as close friends and room mates. Plus to top all things college off there was the wonderful, "Maupin is getting AC" news that seemed to split the dorm. Half of the people are stoked for AC thinking it will be great and the other half is morally opposed to the AC. I find myself on the latter, since then we've pretty much started being raped by the AC beast which is being installed now, and then Nate dropped the bomb and resigned. Sure we all knew it was coming sooner or later, most hoped for later, but it came sooner and now he will be gone with his family long before we see the doors of Maupin Hall again. So I think this is enough of the "catching" up stuff lets talk about the title and bring this thing to an end for the night.

I am staging a coup d’état. Yes I know those are usually violent with lots of guns and people dying and all that stuff. Well this coup d’état won't have a single gun, there will most likely not be any deaths, the inevitable not included, and surely there won't be violence, well not from this end. So then we ask how can one have a coup d’état without the guns and violence. Its a coup d’état of love. I've talked about love several times in the handful of post I've completed and since if you are reading this you likely know me, then you must know how I feel about love. It is a very dangerous weapon, it can be you're most powerful ally from God or it can be a mighty enemy used by God to tear down strongholds. Well on to the point my headache isn't getting better by blogging.. I'm staging a coup d’état. We will tear down the establishments of this fleshly world and we will do them by love. 1 Corinthians 13:3 says, "If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing." Lets face it we could be militant about this and we could rise up against the man, there's that anarchist coming out in me, but if we don't change the system by love we won't gain anything. So I invite you to join me in staging the coup, the only casualties I forsee is the foolish pride of "patriots" who have so much stock in a flag that they turn a blind eye to the evil's commited under its watchful eye in the name of "liberty and justice for all." So come with me friends I'm staging a coup d’état.


Time for a little disclaimer.. This post isn't a troop bash, it is far from meant to be that. In fact I believe now more than ever I support the troops, I do not and never ever ever will support war, especially this "war" we are in now, but I support the young people who are giving up their lives in my stead while I plot my little plots to save the world with God's grace and love by bringing justice to people who desire it. What this post is, is me stating my desire to overthrow the evil government we are under now and show the people of this land that just because we are told in the bible to respect the established government over us we are also not under it, we are under the rule of the only king we should ever serve and here it is a kinda cheap plug for Shane Claiborne, Jesus is my president Mr. Obama might preside over the country which I am taking temporary residence but I am a pilgrim from another land, Hebrews 11:13, and I will return there someday. Thank you for reading. One love.