Pride Radio update

We had a meeting with Dallas Voice today and now I'm even more excited about the possibilities with Pride Radio. Perhaps this is what I'm meant to do with my radio life!

You can listen to the stream now with the link provided in the previous blog, but we'll officially launch with new imaging, more personality, and a new website in the next couple of weeks. And we're having a big blowout party at S4 in March. This rocks!

We need your comments! We've set up a voice mail box that we will sort through every day and edit for audio drops. We especially need ya all in Dallas/Fort Worth to leave a message saying, "I am Pride Radio."

Hey, it's Tahlulah in Dallas...I am Pride Radio. That sort of thing. I had Robert Moore of Dallas Voice do it earlier today and it sounds great. Won't you join him? If you live out of state, just say you're listening online.

The number is 214 866 8773.

There are a lot of great visionaries behind this brand new radio station. Let's bring it to life!

Pride Radio

A new radio station is here! All my peeps in California, Armenia, and everywhere in between check it out! It's streaming online, and available as an HD Channel.

A gay-targeted radio station... My company totally rules.

It is just now launching, and we will build as the year moves on. It's bare-bones right now. If you have suggestions, I'd love to hear them. I've been asked for input, and I'm jazzed that I can be involved in the construction of such an exciting and revolutionary project. Stay tuned for updates!

http://mix1029.com/pages/pride/

Hebrews 3:4

A few months ago, I wrote Hebrews 3:4 on a very plain white piece of paper and propped it up at eye-level, so I'll see it every time I get on the computer in the home office.

It says, "For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything."

That's one of those verses that has the tendency to make me think, "Yeah, that is a great verse," and then whizz right on by with my all-important daily planner and not give it another bit of contemplation. So to trick myself into pondering it, I put it in a spot where I'll be forced to see if over and over until it really sinks in. I think it's beginning to.

It applies to us as individuals as much as it applies to our families, careers, and even our hobbies. We can work on building our lives personally and professionally, but ultimately, God is still the builder. Now you're thinking, "Yeah, yeah, that's a great verse." And you're about to whizz on by with your daily planner. I dare you to meditate.

When I look back over my life in the past year, the fact that God is the builder is OH so evident! Even during those times when I have been building, God is still the builder. I've worked hard to make the most of my opportunities at work, for example, and now it seems as if God is beginning to open more of the doors that I've been knocking on. AND I'm able to see how many events had to happen first, and how many other things had to line up perfectly in order for the doors to even crack. It's amazing. God is amazing.

The builder always knows what the finished product will look like, while the person putting in the most sweat-equity, rarely does! I think God keeps us in the dark so we won't give up. If we're constantly aware of the hudreds of things that have to happen in order for us to get our blessing, we might feel inclined to throw up our hands in disbelief and forget the entire thing. It seems impossible! But God gave us blinders so we'll keep moving. And to spare us some stress.

Angela and I are working on having children, and even though we're the ones physically going through the steps, we know that God is the one who is building our family. I believe God has already conceived our children, and we will simply give them a place to exist. As the builder, God has a vision, and we are the willing participants who will do anything we have to do to carry out the plan.

Hebrews 3:4 has been instrumental in helping me own this truth.

Body Worlds

If you live in the Dallas area, you've no doubt seen and heard the commercials for the Body Worlds exhibit on display now at the Museum of Nature and Science.

It's Gunther Von Hagen's plastination display, which he says, "unveils the beauty beneath the skin, frozen in time between death and decay." Real human bodies, preserved for eternity, who now stand at the crossroads between art and science.

It's a fascinating exhibit. Angela and I spent two hours walking through it on Tuesday, and it was a maze of wonder, education, and plain ole spiritual awe. There are times when Christians get upset about anything that even remotely deals with science, and I've never understood that. Don't they realize that God is the one behind the science?

This exibit allows us as lay persons to see inside the human body in ways that have never been possible before. I peered into one man's skull and saw the nerve and blood vessels behind the eye ball...the very culprits responsible for my migraines. And I saw that the nerve travels down into the shoulder, which explains why massaging that pressure point feels so good when I have a headache. I saw hearts, lungs (the smoker's lungs weren't pretty), bones, muscles, and brains. Who knew that the human brain is larger than a horse's brain? I didn't.

It's amazing how everything in the human body fits together. How did God fit it all in there? Why does it work so well? The one basic observation that was powerfully reinforced by this exhibition was this: All of our body parts can come together, but there is a force that has to make it go. The heart is ready to beat, but something has to make it start. The life force that runs through everything is invisible, powerful, and ultimately good. God is wonderful.

The Body Worlds exhibit is not without controversy, but as usual I looked beyond the controversy, and from a very chilled-out, secure place, thought, "This is the pretty dang cool." It's great that exhibits like these allow us to see more of God's creation, and appreciate the ways in which God not only breathes life into us, but allows us to learn more about the process.

Check it out if you get the chance.

Words of wisdom, anyone?

An interesting dilemma.

What do you do when your spiritual peers, whom you love and admire, suddenly reveal an entirely different side of themselves? Instead of feeling uplifted, you suddenly feel judged, frightened, and uncertain. Thank God that God isn't this fickle.

Click on the link below to view the discussion entitled, "Brokenhearted." Please help out if you can!

http://www.jenaustin.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=74

Craig Ferguson cracks me up

If I finish my duties at work in time, I'm able to watch Craig Ferguson's monologue on the Late Late Show. Last night he was cracking me up!

I'm hooked on his delivery and sense of humor and always find him amusing, but last night he seemed to be particularly "on." And contemplative! As he was poking fun at televangelists and other religious leaders, he made a great point. He excitedly stated, "You can't have certainty and faith at the same time! You can't have it! It's impossible!" And then he launched into several analogies that pointed out the inconsistency, and ended with, "It's like being fat and thin...." And then the shot of the pot-bellied guy with bird-thin legs popped up (with whom George Michael had had a rendezvous in the park), and the audience laughed and Craig moved on to the next subject. But it's true. Faith without doubt is not faith at all. Faith without doubt is just another modern convenience.

Another Craigism from last night's monologue..."When you talk to God it's praying. When God talks to you...that's schizophrenia!" Ha! Although I don't believe that's the case, it certainly feels that way at times.

Props to Craig Ferguson for not being afraid to get religious on mainstream television. And perhaps more importantly, props for using humor to point out how ridiculous we can be when we think we have it all figured out.