My grandmother did not get a good report from her tests. Even though it wasn’t spelled out in the email I suppose that means my grandmother is added to the list of breast cancer fighters. She meets with a surgeon on Monday. Please pray for her and my family. We just lost my grandfather to cancer a few years ago. My aunt seems to think my grandmother may not accept help from the doctors.
Archives for September 2007
Work, work, work
I have had absolutely nothing interesting to say today because all I’ve done is WORK. I worked 10 hours as of 7pm tonight and still need to put another hour in and some of that includes at 12:45 in the morning when we receive a file. I guess it could wait until the morning and that’s fine if I fall asleep and don’t wake up to do it but if I’m up, I won’t be able to sleep knowing it’s not taken care of. I’m just anal like that I guess.
Tomorrow I had planned on going into the office at lunch and then working really late tomorrow night for an implementation—as in maybe until midnight–but today I just found out some things I had planned on doing next week are due tomorrow. So looks like tomorrow is going to be an extremely long work day for me.
Entertaining angels
Tonight Scott taught the lesson at youth. He told a (true) story a preacher once told him. It was regarding the verse:
Hebrews 13:2 2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
This preacher was walking along in town and saw a man he did not know around town (the same town I live in now which 20 years ago was very small). He was dressed like a homeless man and stopped the preacher to ask for $1 to get something to eat. The preacher waved him off saying he didn’t have time. About four steps past the man, he realized what he had done and that he shouldn’t have acted that way. He turned around to give him the dollar and the man was gone. He said there was nowhere he could have gotten that quickly, nowhere to hide anywhere around him. He insists to this day it was an angel sent to test how he would react.
There were two instances just this week where I felt led to give two people money or at least offer help and I didn’t. One was in the grocery store. A man was buying some very cheap meals in front of us and he gave the cashier all change and then was scrounging for the rest. I almost offered to pay the rest as I had a $10 bill right in front of me. He ended up producing some $20s out of his pocket so I didn’t say anything but still, I still felt like I should have offered. Those $20s may have been rent or mortgage money.
The second was of a man walkin on an Interstate ramp near my house. He had a hiking backpack on, was young and didn’t look homeless exactly but seemed on a trip in some way. He wasn’t really going anywhere and even after my van passed him and no cars were behind him, he didn’t attempt to cross the road on the ramp and wasn’t really going anywhere. Scott and the girls were with me and it wasn’t really feasible to take him anywhere but I still felt led to stop and ask if we needed to call someone or even if he needed money. And yet, I kept driving.
Opportunities missed that I’ll never get back and probably have to answer for in heaven. It saddens and disappoints me that I can’t listen to His voice even in the simplest of things.
Lexi in pageant garb
Looky, looky
Our local paper printed an article on the front page about the pageant. And they mentioned my little Lexi!
Some basked in the glory of the event, while others were a bit shy. Soon to be crowned Wee Miss Tiny Tot Tega Cay, Lexi xxx, twirled with gusto and waved, her adorably infectious smile wowing the crowd.
Awwww
Good new/bad news day
First some good news:
- Scott’s appointment today went really well. He said it is healing great and will be on the road probably in 2 weeks instead of 3.
Unfortunately the rest of the news I have for today is bad. Some very serious:
- Scott has been put on light duty for 2 weeks so he’ll have to sit in the office at work M-F for that amount of time. He’s not real happy about that.
- Scott moved my desk to the playroom and I have no Internet on my main computer because the cable company hasn’t come to move my wire yet and I can’t get a USB wireless adapter I have to work on my computer. To check my email/reader, I have to use Scott’s laptop. Oh the pain of it all.
- And finally, in the worst news of all and on a serious note, my grandmother may have breast cancer. We’ll know something by Monday but so far the doctors don’t sound hopeful.
Band practice
So band practice today…we actually learned a new song together! Yay! It went way smoother than I thought although it’s not nearly perfect. I’m still no singer and one of the guitarist is having an issue with the transition from the verse to the chorus but hey. We can get through it without stopping.
Had an interesting conversation with one of the guitarist though. There are 3 guitarist. One is basically the leader and was heavily involved in the youth group. One is my neighbor and went to camp with us this year but is heavily into being in the band and is a serious musician. The third is not so much part of the youth group, just a guy playing in our band. Well apparently he can be hard to get along with sometimes, trying to play too much rock and also trying to dominate everything. Well the other week I asked him to sing with me to help me figure out when to come in until I learned. He graciously agreed. But then last week when I had a couple key changes he mentioned it may be too high for him and also that he’d figure it out. Fine. Well tonight he says, “We’re going to have to figure out something about these keys, they are too high for me to sing.” I wanted to say, well, I’m sorry, the other keys are too low for me to sing so if you want me in this band, we need to sing them in this key. But what I said was, “Well, you and I are like me and St, we can’t sing the same key so if you can sing either the chorus or the verse, just come in then.” Trying to say just sing when you can basically. He says, “Well, I don’t want to be a backup singer. I only can sing when I project.” So I say, “Well, I don’t want you to be backup. I want you to project when you sing.” So I say, “Let’s just leave it like this for now since we’ve been practicing it like this and if you figure out something, we can talk about it next week.” So I’ve been invited to sing in the band but yet I’m not supposed to sing. And he is still playing guitar when he sings. It’s not like I can just stop singing and just play. I would just be standing there. He could play when he’s not singing. So why tell me “this is not working”. What does he want me to do? Just quit?
I took my neighbor home and he complained about him almost the whole way home. The bad part is the guy really does help me when he sings. I guess I’ll just ignore him for now and say something a little bit more forceful if it comes up again.
Because God is cool like that
The other day I commented on being “in a funk”. I specifically mentioned the need for “something to do”, not filling “full” and thinking part of the reason was my lack of bible study. Well, last night I had some time on my hands and decided to listen to the next DVD in Beth Moore’s Living By the Spirit bible study I’ve been plugging through honestly for almost a year.
It was about the fruit of the spirit goodness and kindness. Specifically goodness and goodness is kindness “spilling out” and “Goodness does”. And how God is good and one way we know He is good because of the good things He does. And then the worksheet says “Our ‘creation’ in Christ Jesus is also good because of the good we are called to do. God gives us something to do.” Then I made the notes “We are called to be a benefit to this earth” and “We’re after a feeling and the works He has for us has results.” And then also another point…”If you spend yourself…” (meaning doing good works that God has prepared for you to do) “your needs will be satisfied.”
This lesson was a word for me. In a time when I felt empty and bored and unfortunately was looking in all the wrong places. I love this verse:
Ephesians 2:10 For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
God has something for me to do even today. And it’s good works that will produce good things for someone AND it will fill my needs. Now, I just have to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing which gets me to the numero uno “something to do”–pray!