All System Alert

not that it’s ever happened…

Alright crew, we need to come in for a chat…

All: Hey Erik, what’s up?
Well, I just need to get some things discussed right now, out in the open… you know, a little one-on-one time.
Brain: No problem, buddy, that’s what we’re here for… how can we help?

Fear: Hmm —  do we have to do this now?  can’t we just save this for later

Brian: Nah, we can take it now.  Although you’re in a grocery store, we can do this here.

Ego: That’s right, you can take anything!  YOU ‘DA MAN!

Brain: Hey everyone — quiet… let the kid speak.

Well, it’s really about my walk with the Lord — all i really want to do is focus on Him and get some more HIM time in.

Ego: Oh yes — that’s totally rock solid, man

Flesh: Hypocrite, no you don’t… all you think about is yourself

Heart: hey listen, why are we even having this discussion… live a little

Hey now, this is important, I just want to —

Brain: ALL SYSTEM ALERT… we have a bogey in checkout lane #3, checkout lane #3 — beautiful young woman bagging groceries, i repeat.. beautiful young woman bagging groceries — alternate checkout lanes are numbers 4, 7 or express — avoid lane #3, i repeat — avoid lane #3!

Eyes: Affirmative Brain, we have identified the bogey in sector 3, proceeding to divert focus to alternate location and make for lane #7, I repeat, we’re diverting attention and going for lane #7.

Attention Span: Affirmative Brain, attention has been diverted.

Heart: This is heart to brain, heart to brain, do you copy? over.

Brain: Go ahead, heart.

Heart: Permission to Speak, over.

Brain: Permission granted, at ease soldier.

Heart: Just felt it necessary to remind you that you’re still single, over.

Brain: Yes, heart, thank you for the reminder, however project diversion still in effect.

Don Juan: ALL SYSTEM ALERT — We have an unidentified bogey spotted at checkout lane #3, requesting permission to go in for a closer look…

Brain: Negative, checkout lane #3 is the enemy, i repeat, do not proceed to checkout lane #3 — reroute to Charlie, David 7, over.
Don Juan: Hey, uh, sorry, Brain, you’re breaking up… rerouting all engines to checkout lane 3 and accessing the command system override — seems to be a little bog, over.Flesh: woooooot!!
Brain: WHO IS THIS?

Don Juan: This is Don Juan, the Hormones, Sir, but you can call me El Guapo, over.

Heart: Oh boy, sorry Brain, but the Hormones have accessed the command system override and steering right for the bogey!

Brain: Lack of discipline is all this is… Discipline, are you online?

Discipline:  :: yawn ::

Don Juan: We have identified the Bogey as a young beautiful lady, possibly in her 20s — she’s in visual, requesting permission for charm.

Charm: Hello, you’ve reached Charm.  Sorry, no one is available to take your call right now, but if you leave your name and a number…

Discipline: Brain, hey — what’s up?

Brain: we need a little intervention here — captain america is going for the blonde bogey in checkout lane 3 and is attempting to exhaust all engines to get to her — again, requesting intervention to take him down.

Discipline: Standby…

Don Juan: Mayday, mayday, bogey is carrying groceries out of the store with another customer, i repeat, carrying groceries out of the store — checkout lane #3 is empty and unoccupied, over and out.

Discipline: oh, ok… didn’t do nothing, but that was easy.

Brain: Hey Romeo, listen… you need to follow orders buddy.

Don Juan: Hey Sesame Street — can it, will ya?

Fear: phew, i don’t know if we could have taken that kind of rejection, if she didn’t take the charm.

Brain: hey, what were we really talking about to begin with?

Umm… We were talking about my walk with the Lord
Brain: Oh yeah — where were we?

Don Juan: sound the alarms, our bogey is coming back in, i repeat, back in… re-accessing all drives for —

Discipline: Can it, Don Juan
Heart: yeah, not again… even i’m tired of this

 

Flesh: But I’m not!

Brain: oh please, simmer down guysEgo: hey, uhh… we don’t have to mention that this little interuption ever happened, do we?  That wouldn’t really help our image

Flesh: Uhh, yeah, he’s got a point

Damage Control: yeah, don’t put me through that again 

Heart: Err… he didn’t just post this on his blog did he?

Attention Span: sorry, what?

42 thoughts on “All System Alert”

  29. You are a very talented writer and many times you seem to get in to people’s heads – or you are just honest with what is in your head, which is usually what is in other people’s head and they are afraid to say it….anyway, I always enjoy reading your posts.

  35. i just found your xanga site.   and it was a wonderful one to read – not the “struggle” or whatever, but the CREATIVITY and use of words….i am thankful to see this side of you.

    i haven’t heard anything in a long time on your family, where you are now, and how you are – how your heart is….

    how are you, erik?

    bethany

  38. exactly erik! there is no other way around it.

    “longing for more”

    and i don’t think you could describe the way my heart feels any better.   it feels the same way.

    its a fighting season.  a tough season that demands so much effort, so much energy, so much thought and dependence (on God).  it demands risk and irresponsible passion, it demands a listening ear and a heart that is desperate.   its the one i am walking through….and its…well….hell in so many ways.  you know?   but that is just it………….             i’m just longing for more          – because i know there is ‘more’          there is Him and there is LIFE – here and now life.   and i long for that here on earth…here right now…to experience with Him always.

    you know?

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