So the last 15 chapters of Exodus (which I have been reading this past week) are all about the tabernacle and all the very detailed specifics on how it should be built and how to conduct yourself around this holy place.  Honestly: the boring stuff, the mundane stuff, the details… to which I found myself skimming through on several occasions to get to the more important stuff. Until the last chapter of Exodus were everything comes together.

Exodus 40:16 – “This Moses did; according to all that the Lord commanded him, so he did.”   The past 15 chapters Moses did everything the Lord commanded him to do.   In the next 16 verses this phrase was repeated 8 times.   “ as the Lord had commanded Moses”  (vs 16, 19, 21, 23, 25, 26, 29 and verse 32).

After Moses had did everything The Lord commanded  “THEN the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.” Vs 34

This is my revelation: I breezed through 15 chapters of Exodus because they were boring and talked about tedious details of what Moses needed to do in order to build the tabernacle. So I could get to the good stuff like Gods Glory (pillar of cloud by day and fire by night).  But if Moses would not have spent the time to properly build the tabernacle according to Gods exact specifications he would have missed Gods glory.   How often to I try and breeze through my 15 chapters of life that I don’t like in order to get to the good stuff I know God wants to do.

We cannot enjoy Gods presence unless we are willing to put the time and effort into building a sanctuary that he can dwell in.   We need to realize that the 15 chapters need to happen in order to experience the words in verse 34, “THEN…  the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle”.

I cant breeze through my 15 chapters of life, I need to do everything “as the Lord command[s]” so that “THEN” I will experience his desire/plan for my life.

At the height of prohibition in 1920s Chicago, there was a mob war brewing between the South Side Gangsters and the Northern Chicago Mob Outfit. The two ruthless crime leaders Hal Sapone and Beanie O’Dannon (played by yours truly) reached a mutual agreement on bootlegging practices in Chicago and decided to pull together resources and undergo a collaborative effort with criminal endeavors.

However, one fated night at ‘The Grand Gatsby’ Speakeasy ended up being the straw that broke the camel’s back as the two crime factions gathered together to discuss the future of underground casinos. And, to everyone’s horror…one of the guests at the speakeasy was murdered! To prevent a massive mêlée, the mobsters and their companions decided to work together one last time to try to figure out who-dun-it before the fatal flames between these two criminal organizations rekindled.

Dun Dun Dun

It was a great night of hanging out with friends and doing something outside the ordinary.  Plus I got to hang out with my beautiful Dame (AKA Kate)

Here are a couple other fun pictures

Good friends (and business partners) of ours Andy and Jessie

We have been doing all the leg work to get the company started and will be officially launching this fall (very exciting and scary all at the same time).   I have been working on the website and logo this past week…  branding a company is harder than I thought it would be.  So let me take you on a little progression of where WonderLink Communications has gone.

We had a couple friends of our who were graphic designers come up with a couple concepts like the ones below.

Then we decided to move away from the swoosh and tried a couple other ideas

But then we finally settled on this logo.

Be expecting to see us in the future!

There have been few books that have addressed this issue well, not only has this book articulated the issues well; it also gave very practical and applicable steps as to what we should do next.

To be honest this book kinda messed me up, I feel sorry for Kate who has to live with me now because I want to get a little radical.

I have typed up all my book notes (per chapter) click below on the “radical” link if you would like to read them.

Radical