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Monday, December 22, 2008

My Top 17 Things of 2008

Why is it the Top 17 things you might ask? Well, I couldn’t settle on just 15.

17. Live Danity Kane concert

16. Love Lockdown by Kanye West

15. Dark Knight Movie

14. The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs

13. David Cook winning American Idol

12. Chicago Cubs great regular season (let’s just forget about the playoffs—please!)

11. The entertaining Presidential Election and the subsequent Saturday Night Live spoofs

10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Movie

9. Adventures in Missing the Point by Brian McLaren and Tony Campolo

8. Body of Lies Movie

7. Gas prices lowering back into the stratosphere

6. Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw

5. Being the Friday night General Session speaker at all of the Youth Specialties National Conventions


4. Having the humbled honor of officiating 2 of my friend’s weddings (including my best friend’s wedding held in a Chateau in Southern France—and then getting stuck in the airport in Paris for 17 hours)


















3. The birth of my God-daughter, Addie Overgard




2. Wrote and finished editing my first book—Love is an Orientation: Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community...IT'S NOW ON AMAZON FOR PRE-SALE!!!!!




1. My 1 year wedding anniversary


Can’t wait for 2009!

Merry Christmas as our Savior came to love and forgive.

Much love.
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1 comment:

Andrew Marin said...

I forgot to add that Clay Aiken 'came out'....(my mom and I haved loved him to death since we voted for him on Amierican Idol).

Anyway, I would have put him at #7 and pushed the gas prices to #8.

:)