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June 16 F2 Tornado hits Olive BranchWhew! Tornado in my cozy little town over the weekend (News story). Fortunately, our home was spared and lives across the city were as well. The storm hit Friday afternoon, just after 5pm. I happened to be on my way home from work when it hit....pulled over into a Walgreens parking lot and quietly prayed as the skies got black, the winds bent the trees in an unnatural way and the tornado sirens screamed through the air.
We lost some trees and some shingles. We lost power from 5pm Fri to noon Sun. We gained appreciation for the simplest things....running water being the most basic. Being on a well instead of city water poses serious issues!! Anyway, all is well here, the cleanup is ongoing and God has spared us for yet another day. April 02 Amazon's KindleMy friend marge and I have been chatting about the library over the last couple of days. She mentioned the love of that book 'smell', the feel of the pages, the thrill at holding a book in your hands.
Well, on the way back from a spring break trip this year I saw a guy on the plane who had one of those Kindle books with him. If you don't know what that is, it's an iPod for books....you download then READ the book, page by page, on a screen. To turn pages he appeared to click the side and I think it had some scrolling abilities and certainly some zoom for those that need a little bigger font.
 Here's a link to the product if you haven't seen it: Kindle 2 (opens new window)
So what do you guys think? Does this appeal to you? Not me!! I love technology, love the toys, own a bunch of them. But don't take my book away. January 23 25 Random Things About Me1) Me and my sister are both adopted. I met my birthmother in 1996 and have a great relationship with her and one of her sisters. The other sister doesn't really fit with Patti and Peggy....but she's ok. Their mom - my birth grandmother - was a dear, dear lady who passed away a year and a half ago. She loved my kids and they loved her. Her husband died a short 11 months later, probably of a broken heart. It's great to have an extended family like that! 2) If I had to do 'career' all over again I'd find a way to go into sports broadcasting. I'm green with envy every time I see a sideline reporter or an ESPN anchor. That should have been me. 3) I never wanted to have children. Once I got married my heart changed and I thought kids would be awesome....but up til that point I was convinced that I wanted nothing to do with being a mother. 4) Picking at and chewing my fingernails is how I deal with stress. Over the last few years I've gotten much better about it but it's been a lifelong struggle. 5) I want to visit every major league stadium in the country. I'm probably half way there (have never counted....) 6) I've been hauled to jail twice, fingerprinted/searched/photographed/bailed out once. 7) I remember very little about my grade school years. Most of the memories are bad. 8) My favorite color is green and my favorite time of the year is the fall. 9) I don't like talking about me. 10) After spending ages 17-36 living hundreds of miles from my parents, they now live 5 miles from me. It's cool getting to know them again - we have a much better relationship now than we ever had. 11) Ditto with my sister - she's two years older than me and we were NEVER friends until these last couple of years. She lives here in town too. 12) I have two step-sons. They are 28 and 23 years old and live in Alabama. 13) I have irrational fears about something bad happening to my children. They are consistent and haunting but I have no reason to believe anything will ever come of them. 14) I want to go sky-diving/parachuting one day. I'll wait til the kids are older in case I go 'splat'. 15) My favorite place in the United States to visit is New York City. The energy, the people, the glitz, the lights, the sidewalks, the little walk-in delis, the townhouses, the street vendors, the accents....I love it all. 16) I want to vacation in Ireland....take a week or two to explore the countryside by train, check out castles and pubs, enjoy the beauty. 17) Both of my children have asked God into their hearts and have been baptized by their youth minister. The peace of knowing that my children are saved and will spend eternity in heaven with me is an astounding peace. 18) I have a hard time throwing things away. I'm not a pack rat, but close. 19) I have four friends that live many, many miles away, that I could call in the middle of the night, and have 100% confidence that they would be by my side the next day if I really needed them. Four. I think that's amazing and awesome. I think that they know I'd do the same for them. 20) If I could go anywhere for a long weekend I'd pick a cabin in the North Carolina woods surrounded by trees, water, trails and nothing else. I love the quiet serenity that nature brings. And I'd go by myself if my family didn't mind. 21) I've always wanted to own a Jaguar but I'm too fiscally responsible to pay that much money for a car. 22) Dilbert is my favorite cartoon. 23) I have a chemical engineering degree but spend my day designing/managing marketing and sales programs. Hmmmmm..... 24) I want to use my past experiences to teach/counsel teens and young adults someday. Problem is that my heart/mind won't let me talk about those experiences openly and truthfully right now. 25) I became a Christian at the age of 24. While I had head knowledge of him for many years it wasn't until I had heart knowledge that I really 'got' it. I'm thankful for many along the way that made the effort to help me come to know God and for those that have held me accountable and helped me grow in my faith over the last 14 years. I'd be dead if it weren't for all of them! January 13 Tuesday's Devotional - PiecesThis mornings devotional made me smile as it began with discussion around 'sewing'. Yes marge, I smiled and thought of YOU.
The book is "Moments With You" by Dennis and Barbara Rainey. It's a daily devotional meant for couples but can certainly be meaningful in a singular setting.
Anyway, this devotional ties the work of a seamstress to the work of the Lord in our marriages. In order to successfully create something useful as a seamstress, one must piece together many pieces into a pattern then "make them come together" in concert to yield the total creation.
As written in Exodus 25:9...
'Make this tabernacle and all it's furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you."
So, in marriage we too have many pieces that must be seen as a collective package designed by God. We have the romance, the chores, the bills, the child rearing, etc that sometimes can cause us to focus on single segments at any one time. But, it's important to step back and see how all the pieces come together to make a marriage relationship what it is. My adult education pastor has a great word picture about marriage where he talks about the husband and wife and stresses that as long as both are focused on the Lord and their paths are taking them to Him, then the husband and wife will always be headed in the same direction, meeting at the top of a three-sided figure where God is.
Good thoughts to ponder this morning. January 09 Today's Devotional - Your Child's 'CQ'So I'm reading this devotional.....it starts my day now. Today's entry was about kids and went something like this:
Think about the greatness of the Great Wall of China. Did you know that it's the ONLY manmade structure visible from outer space? Its huge, strong, inpenetratable. BUT....once built, people continued to be able to access China without getting shot. They didn't go over, under or through the wall....so how did they get by this incredible 'wall'??
What China did wrong is pour all of it's resources into the thing, the wall, not in it's people. The guards were simply bribed and enemies were able to gain entry to China. We as parents sometime forget that we can plan, save, give and help our child succeed in the world....but if we don't arm these same children with a 'Character Quotient' to go along with all that great effort, they will be ill-prepared to stand for what's right when the time comes.
What kink of CQ do you possess?? Do you act in darkness or do you do everything in the light, in front of God and the world to see? Your children are watching and learning. |
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