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I hate when I feel like there's all the time in the world, only to look at the clock and realize I should have started dinner an hour ago. Luckily! That didn't happen today...for once...yet. Pizza margherita for dinner. And some other junk. Doesn't that sound appetizing? It won't actually be junk. I just don't know what it Will be yet.
My husband and I started playing Minecraft together in the evenings. I'm sure we'll get bored with it soon, but it's pretty fantastical for now (since the weather has been weird and rainy).
The ants are tunneling. I think it's less because that's what they Do, and more because they want out to explore the kitchen.
I'm also pretty sure I've got the plague. Or malaria...wait, cholera. Whatever it is, it can get lost, I don't have time to be sick (actually it's just a mild case of food poisoning and I don't know why I'm so melodramatic about like...everything).
Afternoon ramblings...ugh. Why is this always where I end up dumping my thought garbage? Isn't that what Facebook is for?
My husband and I started playing Minecraft together in the evenings. I'm sure we'll get bored with it soon, but it's pretty fantastical for now (since the weather has been weird and rainy).
The ants are tunneling. I think it's less because that's what they Do, and more because they want out to explore the kitchen.
I'm also pretty sure I've got the plague. Or malaria...wait, cholera. Whatever it is, it can get lost, I don't have time to be sick (actually it's just a mild case of food poisoning and I don't know why I'm so melodramatic about like...everything).
Afternoon ramblings...ugh. Why is this always where I end up dumping my thought garbage? Isn't that what Facebook is for?
olerica, i'm here! working at a desk... on cc.. instead of working. lol
and melita doesn't like spiders
and melita doesn't like spiders
THANK YOU FRIEND.
reading those comments reminded me of something that happened quite awhile ago. in fact, evie, i was pretty close to your age. : D
so, way back during a time in my life when i was going to college and performing with a small vocal ensemble, helping to lead praise/worship service time in chapel, and very involved in all sorts of music and performing stuff.
having moved to a newer city, i was looking for a church and found a great one. except their choir was HORRIBLE. i was mortified, and found myself internally giggling and grimacing at the gall these folks had to sing in all their awful, tone-deaf insanity. these observations culminated to their christmas production, full of solos, duos and other production numbers that i couldn't believe that i was witnessing.
couldn't they hear themselves, i wondered?
fast forward a couple weeks. as i found myself forming the thoughts/words of what i witnessed so that i tell my roommate about this experience. and then i felt this thunderbolt,
it was one of the first times in my life that i actually felt what i now refer to as a "HolySpiritSmackdown"
monica, my young, and stupidly prideful one! how dare you call these people who are raising their voice in worship to ME as awful! do you not realize the very point of worship isn't to perform, but to raise our voice in love and adoration, to WORSHIP!!! they please me, because they are focused on me, not trying to perform.
you see, i no longer hear the "bad singing" when someone is praising God in a situation like the "yousing" room. i just hear singing. i hear someone who is willing to open their mouth and sing something, vulnerable and honest. it's not a contest or an opportunity to be identified as worth hearing
because if we all waited to open our mouth, get involved, serve, be "used" or worship when we are qualified or capable to do so, NOT ONE OF US would do so. i cringe and my face gets quite hot when i feel the shame and embarrassment of the many, many things i have wanted to, or even felt called to do but my insecurity and fears won out.
i know you might very well have been joking around--but keep this in mind, please. there might be folks who see the yousing room as an opportunity to worship God with other believers and do so from a vulnerable place, courageously casting aside their fears and insecurity. we should encourage and applaud that, and i when i see comments like these, i cringe because i worry that someone (or someones) whom you might not even be talking about will read this and stop singing there altogether.
to those who worship, loudly, openly, beautifully and heartfully in all manner of places (including the yousing room) we salute you. : D
That was MELITA who was after a snocone. *I* don't care for cobbler (I know, I'm an odd little duckling), but I will have peaches tomorrow... and will be making white peach and white raspberry sauce/cheesecake this week.
What else? Oh! I DO have popsicles (the fruit slush kind, not like otter pops) because I need to have at least one a day when it's hot.
Mostly I need/want food. Like real food. I don't want to MAKE the same though. Trouble, right here in my house.
What else? Oh! I DO have popsicles (the fruit slush kind, not like otter pops) because I need to have at least one a day when it's hot.
Mostly I need/want food. Like real food. I don't want to MAKE the same though. Trouble, right here in my house.
Cool, isn't it Grace? You see razors and deoderant containers, and lipstick tubes, and other sorts of tubing, netting, buttons... just LOADS of stuff.
My business is a part of the rewards program. If you volunteer there, for so many hours you get discounts or gifts from various local businesses. It's pretty cool.
While I know that THIS earth is going to pass away, I think we need to be good stewards, and if this is one way it's accomplished? Kinda cool.
My business is a part of the rewards program. If you volunteer there, for so many hours you get discounts or gifts from various local businesses. It's pretty cool.
While I know that THIS earth is going to pass away, I think we need to be good stewards, and if this is one way it's accomplished? Kinda cool.
what an amazing thing.
honestly, this is a concept that kind of explains why i love re-purposing things. of all things. one of these days, i'll show some of the stuff that *i* love in that realm.
do they have any more statues or anything like that?
edit: i did some research and found this. AMAZING!!!
honestly, this is a concept that kind of explains why i love re-purposing things. of all things. one of these days, i'll show some of the stuff that *i* love in that realm.
do they have any more statues or anything like that?
edit: i did some research and found this. AMAZING!!!
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