to involved?

so, in case you don't know, i like American Idol, a whole bunch.  i've had to back away from it at times b/c i would let it consume to much of my time!  trying to figure out a way to watch it thinking about who would win ect.  yeah, so i quit watching it for a few weeks.  but when it got down to the last 7 i started watching again.  

i'd missed the past week or 2, so i was excited to go to my friends house to use her treadmill and to be able to watch it.  it makes time go so much faster when you're watching something you like.  anyway, it was down to the last 4.  1 girl and 3 boys.  i tend to like male voices better than female voices, but the girl was good!  one person had to go home. i hoped it wasn't one of the two that i was going for!  so i'm watching with great anticipation, and as they kept annoucning those that were still on the show and both of the guys i was routing for were "safe", i almost jumped up and down on the treadmill.

that's when i had the thought, maybe i'm a little to involved.

me again

well, i guess it's time i write something.  i'm sitting at my "new" desk with a fresh coat of Old English on it.  it's great, i love this desk.  my dad gave it to me.  it's big and roomy, and i suppose when i take my whopping one class at Liberty online, i'm going to need it :)  not much has gone on i guess.  well, it's been busy, but nothing to note worthy.  

Tina and i went and did a video testimonial this afternoon for something on the web.  that was interesting.  it took a little while.  we are going to share in church on Wed. evening, talk about nerve wracking.  i thought devotions with the kids were bad....hmmmm.

well, honestly not to much else.  saw my mom and my bro today that was nice.

i'm really boring tonight, but i am going to try to post a video or something to see if i'm "techy" enough to figure out the video button on this thing..... here we go

this is a video that i made out of pics that i had of him.  it was quiet fun, but very time consuming.  soon i will make one of Oaxaca and i'll post it.  enjoy watching.

 

tomatoe sauce, heartburn and peanut butter

Good evening fellow blog readers. thought i would make some light hearted comments this evening.

today i had pizza for lunch, it was a late lunch, but none the less it was lunch and I've been having this insane craving for spaghetti o's. so i ate some at dinner, then came the heartburn, or i should say acid reflux, i said oh, no, not again! so i took some meds, and then the hic-ups! it happened like this the last time i had tomato soup! and the same thing! so i had my traditional spoonful of peanut butter to knock the hic-ups out. they are very loud and embarrassing! but the peanut butter knocks it out every single time. okay, enough about food, and onto another funny (or at least amusing) story.

this past week and a half I've gone to Quincy 6 times! wow, that's a lot, and most of the time i took my own car. which is a standard without power steering, so the other night I'm laying in bed, and my biceps were hurting! i couldn't figure out why, then yesterday while i was driving my car i figured it out! it's from shifting and from turning the steering wheel! then another thing happened the other day, i was driving a company vehicle back from Quincy and i went to push the clutch (it's an automatic), and i stomped on the break! wow! was i shocked when my head jerked forward, I'm so glad no one else was with me otherwise they would have gotten whip-lash, and today i went to put the car in 2nd gear and couldn't get it to shift.... I'm either really tired, or i need to learn to pay attention more to what I'm doing!

tomorrow i get to go see the Nutcracker in Kansas City with a friend and her boyfriend, the ticket was an early birthday present.

sorry this blog had no point, but felt obligated to write something,
until next time...

what would you be?

This past week, we had some revival meetings with an Evangelist. they were pretty good. a lot of the ladies got touched. now the thing is to get them to walk out what they got touched with. well, Tuesday night we were singing a song by Christ for the Nations International called the revelation song. it's really a good song and everyone really gets into it.
well, we were singing the part that says "holy is the Lamb who was slain" and then i remembered something that i once thought about. i was on a walk with a friend one night and i asked her "if you could be anything in Heaven, what would you be?" she wasn't sure what she would answer. she asked me in return. hands down i knew the answer. i wanted to be one of the 24 elders that fell down and worshiped Jesus who sits on the throne. it's found in Rev. 4:9-11. it says:
And when the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, to Him who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders will fall down before Him who sits on the throne, and will worship I'm who lives forever and ever, and will cast their crowns before the throne, saying. "Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created."
i just think it would be amazing to be there and have our jobs be to fall on our faces towards Jesus casting down our crowns. anywhere you see the 24 elders in the the book of Revelation they are on their faces! wow, how wonderful. they realized who they were in relationship to God.
so i went awhile thinking about this, just really thinking about this, and God said "why wait until you get to Heaven, start falling on your face in worship now!!! prepare yourself for Heaven." and i thought, yeah, that's right, I'm in a dressing room where i need to prepare myself for Heaven...
what do you want to be when you get to Heaven?

5 DAYS UNTIL OAXACA!!!!!!!

I Corthians 13

I've been reading another book. one that I've never heard of or read before. but it's well worth the read. it's by a Scottish writer, (so of course I'd like it)! some of the language is archaic, but it's pretty simple to understand. it's called "The Greatest thing in the world and other writings" by Henry Drummond. the greatest thing in the world is love, and he goes through and walks you through the passage of I Corthians 13. at the very end, he presents a challenge, asking "will you take this challenge with me for the next 3 months, and read 1 Corthians 13 with me everyday?" now i use to do this a few years back, not for 3 months at a time, but for a month at a time and it really did change me. it changed my heart and when i found myself in a "moment" where i needed to be thinking about something other than what i was thinking about, the chapter gave me something to think about, and it's a good way to memorize also. so I'm asking you, will YOU join with me reading the "love chapter" for 3 months everyday. not skipping one, maybe in the morning, or at night before you go to bed. a couple of my favorite translations (or versions) one is the J.B. Phillips I'll type it out, and then I'll cut and paste the other from the Message. hope you take a few min to read this:

J.B. Phillips translation:
if i speak with the eloquence of men and of angels, but have no love, i become no more than blaring brass or crashing cymbal. if i have the gift of foretelling the future and hold in my mind not only all human knowledge but the very secrets of God, and i if also have that absolute faith which can move mountains , but have no love, i amount to nothing at all. if i dispose of all that i possess, yes, i even if i give my own body to be burned, but have no love, i achieve precisely nothing.
this love of which i speak is slow to lose patience-it looks for a way of being constructive. it is not possessive: it is neither anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance.
love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage. it is not touchy. it does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. on the contrary, It shares the joy of those who live by the truth.
love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. love never fails.
for if there are prophecies they will be fulfilled and done with, if there are "tongues" the need for them will disappear, if there is knowledge it will be swallowed up in truth. for our knowledge is always incomplete and our prophecy is always incomplete, and when the complete comes, that is the end of or incomplete.
when i was a little child i talked and felt and thought like a little child. now that i am a man i have finished with childish things.
at present we are men looking at puzzling reflections in a mirror. the time will come when we shall see reality whole and face to face! at present all i know is a little fraction of the truth, but the time will come when i shall know it as fully as God has known me!
in this life we have three lasting qualities-faith, hope and love. but the greatest of them is love.






1 Corinthians 13 (The Message)
The Message (MSG)
Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson
1 Corinthians 13
The Way of Love 1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. 3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love. Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut, Doesn't have a swelled head, Doesn't force itself on others, Isn't always "me first," Doesn't fly off the handle, Doesn't keep score of the sins of others, Doesn't revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.
8-10Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
11When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
12We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
13But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

Laminin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e4zgJXPpI4

You have got to check this out. Yes, it is 9 min long, but it is totally worth it. God is so amazing. also, share this with your friends. just take some time out of your day to check it out.
happy watching.