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Weddings

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:50:53 GMT

Well, 1 out of 5 ain't too bad, given I have no money and no car. Last weekend sure was popular.

Western Pride

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:47:15 GMT

It's hard to find a better feeling than when an old cowboy says, "I'm proud of you."

Night Life

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:05:00 GMT

While my house is being repaired, most of my family is sleeping at my grandmother's. I bunk on a couch in the small sunroom that's attached to her outside wall. There's a pull-out bed in the house, but it’s a high traffic area, and I like some privacy. The sunroom isn't air-conditioned, so at night I keep the outside door open to bring the temperature down to 85. The toads enjoy visiting through it, but we keep a board in the doorway to make sure they know it's not an open invitation. One of them didn't get the hint the other night, and he was (politely) shoved out with my sandal.

Last night, a few evenings after saying goodbye to my toad friend, I took a walk around the neighborhood in the dark. The streets aren't well lit in between the houses, but if you're familiar with the layout, you don't have too much trouble finding your way. I walked around the new housing development, and a vehicle started coming behind me. Very slowly. I ignored it, until I came to the end of the street and took a right at the main road. It stayed at the intersection, then started to ease its way in my direction. I turned around and walked past it back into the neighborhood. Not really sure what it was doing, but I didn't want to take a chance at being out in the middle of a road away from any lighted driveways with it behind me.

After my walk, I got ready for bed and stretched out on the couch in the sunroom. The water from the goldfish pond trickled down and the crickets were all tuning up for a night of music. It was peaceful, and I was tired. After a day of 95 degrees, 85 feels refreshing. Then I felt something move on my stomach. I couldn't see anything in the dark, so I felt for it. Whatever it was crawled into the blanket as soon as I touched it. Maybe a lost, six-footed musician. At that moment, I started feeling really tingly all over my upper torso. It was weird, because I wasn’t nervous—it seemed like my hair was just standing on end in several spots on my chest, arms, stomach, shoulders. I got up to turn the light on to see if I could find what had moved.

Surprise! The tingly feeling was a dozen baby spiders crawling all over me—little brown guys with black dots, running around on my skin. They wanted a place to stay for the night and had the audacity to assume I was Spider Hotel. Quickly stepping outside, I brushed them off. No vacancy. There were a lot more left in the room, so I changed my quarters for the night and slept on the pull-out bed.

We sprayed for bugs today in the sunroom.

Oh, the irony... :P

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:29:34 GMT

Commitments

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:58:02 GMT

Don't take a commitment lightly. Consider what it entails before committing. Place, person, time, action. You may have changed your mind when it comes time to fulfill it.

If only the church gave like this today...

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:45:07 GMT

"Then Moses gave an order and they sent this word throughout the camp: "No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary." And so the people were restrained from bringing more, because what they already had was more than enough to do all the work."

~Exodus 36:6-7

Saturday, June 09, 2007

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:07:51 GMT

The LORD is my strength and my shield;

my heart trusts in him, and I am helped.

My heart leaps for joy

and I will give thanks to him in song.

~Psalm 28:7

God has more mercy than I have sin

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:24:54 GMT

I was refreshed and exhilarated this evening... I was going to be dead to myself, and alive to Christ. True to human nature, I fell flat on my face when I was given my first opportunity.

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.

They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.

~Lamentations 3:21-23

Die for Life

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:55:41 GMT

"Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it."

~Matthew 10:39

"For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it."

~Matthew 16:25

"For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it."

~Mark 8:35

"For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it."

~Luke 9:24

"Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it."

~Luke 17:33

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

~Galatians 2:20

They saw God, but we know Christ

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:44:57 GMT

"Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear as the sky itself. But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank."

~Exodus 24:9-11

"These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better for us so that only together with us would they be made perfect."

~Hebrews 11: 39-40