the:road

"peek in at my journey: a small part of God's BIG plan."

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Breakfast of Champions



3 shots + a touch of h2o + 3.5 Equals + shot of whole milk = bliss.

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Lovell being Loveable

this is an audio post - click to play

This is my friend Matt, outside Chili's, he's hilarious.

Monday, June 27, 2005

Cue from the Spirit

I want my flesh to take the cue from my spirit, not my spirit from my flesh. I’ve been sick--going on 3 weeks now. Doctor says it’s not allergies, but it’s definitely something in my sinuses that makes me NOT feel like Josh Coy. If you know me, I like to express myself. I realize now that I am not my personality. My personality is a fruit of my spirituality. I will always be who I really am, no matter how I feel. My walk is strong, my flesh is taking a beating. The battle feels to be raging, yet victory is mine through Christ.

Romans 8:5-10 (MSG)
5Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them--living and breathing God! 6Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. 7Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. 8And God isn't pleased at being ignored.

9But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. 10But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells--even though you still experience all the limitations of sin--you yourself experience life on God's terms.

Picture Posting = Happy


Just testing out the new picture post option :) Hello!

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Doing It

Check out my internet press :) This is me sharing Christ with the cube that I sell!

It's on the Southern Baptist Convention website (being held in Nashville)
http://sbcannualmeeting.net/sbc05/pictures/hiresphoto.asp?ID=90

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

The Spilled Life

Matthew 6:30-35 (NIV)
31So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

I like how Peterson puts it…
Matthew 6:30-35 (MSG)
31What I'm trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God's giving. 32People who don't know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. 33Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.


I want this. Bad. I feel like I am obeying for the first time in the same direction for the greatest extent of time. Out of this, I long for things above (Col. 3). I'm not looking at the fantasy sidelines. My periphreal is being gurarded and my walk is warred for.

I want to bleed, spill over, exude the longing to love and be with God. As I do this, it's very evident, that I will "hunger for what I feed on."

Monday, June 13, 2005

The Black Hole of ‘ALL’

If there’s ever been a season of consistency in my life, it’s this one right now. Not only consistency in a growing relationship with God, but in the sense of the way God uses repetition in his word, circumstances and people. It helps to be in an environment of people who aren’t afraid to speak the Spirit’s prompting. One example of one of these themes is the concept of everything in and about me being God’s. Whether I wake and walk to work and think about submitting my life to God today or if I make a moment’s choice by His direction. IT’S ALL HIS. This phrase has been echoing through my life, actions, and convictions these past 4 months. As I walk into work today, we met together as guy’s to read and share life. Ozzy (Oswald Chambers) states in his June 13th writing, “Getting There”…
”The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1.)
This word and phrase ALL is sinking in deeper and deeper. I’m feeling it more and more. It’s as I realize more areas of my life that aren’t surrendered to Him, they all are sucked into this black hole of ALL. For example, my 5/3rd account, just recently became a realized part of ALL. It’s All His. This came to my head today…

”The surrendered life isn’t giving God all you’ve got, it’s realizing it’s already His.” -me

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

The "Green Apron"


I have to blog this, because it's something come true. I just got back from Historic Downton Franklin's quaint Starbucks. I was interacting, as I daily do, with Joshua and Shilo (manager) about coffee, life, etc. As I was sharing my dream of one day adorning a green apron, I continue to talk about more life. As I finish ordering my extra roomie americano, out from heaven in a ray of golden light, drops a packaged, brand-new green apron. It's for me. Mine. An OFFICIAL STARBUCKS GREEN APRON. I shall wear it proudly. Thank you Starbucks Inc.

Full of...

I awoke today, really wanting to go to war. I outstretched my hand to point to God, "I want you today Savior...you ARE worth getting up for, I must go to war for my relationship with you today." I don't wanna just goto war for the next few hours to get my butt to work, but even at 1:35PM, when lunch coma kicks in.

I felt drawn to sin in my mind at work. I looked at the counterfeit offer of the enemy/flesh and my mind went to Colossians 2:9-12ish....check it out:

9For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority. 11In him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature,[a] not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ, 12having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. (Colossians 2:9-12 NIV)


My wounds were drawing me away from the truth of my true source of fulfillment and gratification. I could feel the "black magic", as our friend Joe Dallas puts it, welling up inside of me. I know destruction is imminent if I let that magic/lie consume me. Victory is here. I wanna live like it.

Monday, June 06, 2005

Tenacious Texting

I sat down at my desk this morning. As I was getting ready for work, I was like "ugh, I have a spinning head from new allergies er sumthin and my insides just don't feel like going to my place of work. Which, I attempt to believe the truth that's it's not a work ethic, but rather a worship ethic. that my work is an act of worship to my God. A place of worship not a place of work. I work to worship...hmmm. So, with all that blase' junk inside, which being out late all weekend hasn't helped. Oh, btw, my weekend:
Friday
-drove to Cinci for the Schultz wedding
-wedding
-late night with cinci starbucks employees in Over the Rhine (Cinci)

saturday
-brunch with friends in cinci
-lunch in the city with my new friend Tom (what a time.)
-drove to Nashville

Sunday
-church
-lunch with Matt (awesome)
-dinner and good 'ole Woodchuck with Catherine and Laurie at Dan McGuiness Irish pub! woohoo!

Goodtimes.

Anywho...I get into work today with the prayer of God meeting me where I'm at. And as soon as I sit down, I get a text message from a bro in Seattle (gets on knees to thank God for coffeehouses such as Peet's and Starbucks, Peet's (truly exsquisite.)) Here's what Tim texted me, "...and then, when everything has been done, to stand. Standing with you today, bro! Shoulder to shoulder, Tim." Go figure, God. Small things like that push me into the battle of the day. I also woke to the message version of Isaiah, quite cool to come across this,

Isaiah 50:4-6 (The Message)
4The Master, GOD, has given me

a well-taught tongue,

So I know how to encourage tired people.

He wakes me up in the morning,

Wakes me up, opens my ears

to listen as one ready to take orders.

5The Master, GOD, opened my ears,

and I didn't go back to sleep,

didn't pull the covers back over my head.

6I followed orders...


Well, I wanna say this for Josh Coy. I did pull the covers over my head. But I wanted to get my marching orders today. I MUST. This mist on earth is way too short. I love who I really am.

He's Doing It

Hmmm...my mentor as asked me to be journaling about what God is teaching me. I don't respond well to that. It's a weird feeling. As I was walking into work, I was thinking, "ok, I know God is doing stuff in my life, lessons are being learned and my heart's eyes are being opened more and more...but what do I write?! should I just print blog pages, backtrack old lessons, what do I do?" hmmm there's freedom in this stuff right, I mean, come on...it is what God's doing in my life. and I am happy to say that I can actually use that phrase now, "What God is doing in my life." I always want to see Him doing. Ok, now to get from the general "what God is doing" to more specifics. I'm giving this a shot. I get soo rabbit trailed when I try to articulate this stuff. God, please help me be of clear order.