Archives for 2008

I recently found The Lylah Blog.  My aging mind can’t recall how but I’m so glad I stumbled on it.  Lylah is interested in helping women in their walk with Christ and with their husbands and children.  I’ve enjoyed so many of her posts, both new and old.  She recently had a post where she gave away one of her books and I can’t wait to read it.  In exchange for the book and just because I think she’s worth recommending, go visit The Lylah Blog!

So I tried using my WordPress iPhone app to type up two posts last night but when I click tap on the menu that says Local Drafts (2), nothing is in the list.  I’ve left a message with support and maybe you guys can read it.  In summary, it says my neighbor is still seeing his visitors, he got his gun but only has blanks and we’re beginning to believe the issue is related to the war he fought in.  The other was a long post complaining about how stressed I was yesterday.  Hoping today is better.

I heard this one on SYTYCD actually “Youth is wasted on the young.”  How true at times.

This one I thought of as I lay in bed not wanting to get up and exercise.  I don’t think it’s grammatically correct but oh well.  “To be different, do different.”  I was just thinking if I want to BE a healthier, more fit person, I’m going to have to DO something about it.

Permission to Peruse (P2P) has now joined the BlogNetwork on Facebook.  If you’re on Facebook, you can join as a Blog Fan.  Thank to Mama Belle for the heads up.

Emma and Lexi were pretending to call their boyfriend on cellphones in the car last night

Emma: You want to go on a date?

Lexi: Sure

Emma: That means we’re going to coffeeland.

I have *no* idea where she might have gotten that idea.

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We have a blended family in our youth group.  The families involved have last names beginning with B, J and B.  We were trying to come up with nicknames for the family and J pipes up (without thinking ;): “Double BJ”.  Um, no.

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We were talking about David last night at church and I was saying that a lot of times people concentrate on his infidelity with Bathsheba and I said, “David did more than just Bathsheba.”  Try saying that to a bunch of teenagers and not get a response.

Last night as I sat down to prepare my lesson for Sunday School I realized I had no more lessons this year.  We use StudentLife curriculum and this year we studied Consecration (to be set apart).  I realized I was going to have to share something on my own and felt like all year while teaching consecration, I’d been pushing a very judgmental view of God down their throats.  And while that is one side of Him, He is also and good, loving, forgiving and gracious God.  The phrase “God is Good” kept popping in my head.

So I came up with an acrostic for that using characteristics or names that tell why God is good…gracious, omnipotent, defender, integrity, shepherd, omniscient, omega, Daddy.  I gave supporting Scriptures for each and tried to put some personal accounts in some of them.  Anyway, I made it clear it wasn’t much of a planned lesson but I really felt like God had led me to it.  One student even asked if I had really done it all last night.  I had so much stuff, I had to scramble through the last few.  As you can imagine, talking through all those characteristics can really get you fired up about how good God really is.

And then something really cool happened.  I went up to “big church” and sung in the choir…which I haven’t done in 4 weeks and guess what the song was we sang first?

Lord, You are good
And your mercy endureth forever
(repeat)

People from every nation and tongue
From generation to generation

We worship You, hallelujah, hallelujah
We worship You for who You are
We worship You, hallelujah, hallelujah
We worship You for who You are
You are good

Lord You are good
And You mercy endureth forever
(repeat)

You are good, all the time
All the time, You are good

God IS good but really, sometimes He’s just cool.

Short on time…my day yesterday was actually summarized by the people I was with…

Playdate for Emma and her soon to be classmate Cootiegirl.  The girls had a ton of fun.  Emma can’t wait to go play dress-up over there.  Emma did tell MIL last night she didn’t like the tea.  I was shocked because as Jaynee said, she was sipping it and never said anything to me during or after the visit.  I questioned her more on it and she just wants to try it without milk next time.   And Lexi did love it and so did I so I still count it a hit.

Heather and I went to see Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.