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sarcasm: religious and political poison.
Reading too much on the internet today and keep thinking one thing:
Sarcasm is an ineffective persuasive technique.
It's condescending, arrogant, divisive and shuts down dialog. It's too often used by people in a manner to indicate that an issue is simple and anyone who doesn't see the simplicity and logic of their side of an argument is an idiot to be ridiculed and dismissed.
If these issues were simple,
they wouldn't be so controversial.
Anyone who uses trite, flippant sarcasm to make a point – especially without even acknowledging any opposing points of view – loses credibility with me
- and my interest in any discussion with them about how stupid the other guy's point of view is
- regardless of whether I am the other guy or am aligned in opinion with the person wielding the sarcasm.
facebook fragments: 02/22/14 – 02/28/14 (the kitchen, a loveseat & lessons from my daughter)
Saturday, February 22, 2014
We are loving our new microwave! Last one didn't have the express cook feature and this one has it from 30 seconds to 6 minutes. and it is so. quiet. Best of all, it doesn't continue to beep nag us when the cook time is complete.
You know what I LOVE about reading Philip Yancey? He's not afraid to barrel headlong into the hard questions even when it could make his readers ask "uhhhh. Is this guy even a CHRISTIAN?!"
Only one thing missing from today. A tin roof.
More photos of #thehomeprojectthatneverends: the living room makeover. the library.
The view out my back porch today. It's raining so hard even a turtle is looking for shelter.
CLICK HERE to see the latest photos of the 2014 home makeover project. My very own mini LIBRARY.
FavoriteHusband and Bob have been fighting over this chair all day. FavoriteHusband just left the house.
You got about an hour and a half, Bob.
I know. that in a home improvement project, the house will go from bad to terrible to chaos before even coming close to better. But at this very moment, we have so many things happening at the same time, it feels like the light at the end of the tunnel is being carried in the opposite direction.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Although we are hours behind our hoped for schedule, the game room baseboards are finished, every piece of furniture is back in place with felt on the bottom and the electronics are all hooked back up. Unfortunately, because of all the rain yesterday, we created a dependent task by using wood cutting power tools on the back porch. EVERY. THING. is covered in sawdust, which I have NO intention of cleaning up today. Next up. Laying the new flooring in the kitchen.
My husband just pulled the oven into the middle of the kitchen floor.
that. is. dis. gusting.
The kitchen floor will not be finished by the time we go to bed. At this point, both the fridge and the oven are in the middle of my kitchen. We just broke for dinner. Takeout from Gino's. We've lived here since 1996 and we've only eaten there once. Four thumbs up. And the portion sizes are HUGE. Who can eat this much in one sitting? All four of us will be getting two meals out of our orders. Which is good. Because our fridge and stove are in the middle of the kitchen right now.
Monday, February 24, 2014
The fridge, stove and dishwasher are all where they should be. With new flooring under each. The room we thought would be the easiest has turned out to be the hardest. The kitchen is…1/4 – 1/3 finished.
We. are. tired.
You know what people don't say enough? "dagnabbit."
dagnabbit. No water comes out of the sink when I turn on hot and no water comes out of the fridge door when I try to get ice water. obviously, we've done something to break something. twice. or maybe just once with double consequences. But the floor under the fridge and dishwasher look excellent. Have I mentioned that I HATE dependent tasks? Especially when we actually CREATE them.
And two more dominoes fall in #thehomeprojectthatneverends. Both involving shopping. I hate shopping.
(1) Putting the loveseat back into the living room and we noticed it was actually THREADBARE. Not sure I've ever seen threadbare before, but this is definitely it. Found a new one I actually LOVE yesterday on accident when I was returning shelving to Big Lots. and it's a floor model on clearance! FavoriteHusband is taking his truck this afternoon. REALLY hope it's still there.
(2) 2nd domino is replacing the rolling office chairs we have around our kitchen table. Floor manufacturer's instructions warn against the casters. Casters that meet specs are a minimum of $50 a set. $50+ each to make chairs that already have "cosmetic issues" more functional. no. I'll be shopping for new kitchen chairs. Comfortable. Cheap.
CLICK HERE to see 2009 photos of our chair preference progression AND the threadbare loveseat before it was threadbare and the flooring we will be covering up this weekend.
That lizard Bob the cat presented to me and then set free in the house on Valentine's Day?
Found him.
And it's clear that Bob found him first.
FavoriteHusband is picking up my new reading spot right now. Then we need to feed my old reading spot to the Whale POD (charity storage unit.) Hoping to lay more flooring in the kitchen tonight.
FavoriteHusband and I spent the last hour and a half laying only FOUR rows of flooring in the kitchen. He went into the garage to get tools to switch out the water filter on the back of the fridge.
Me, to FavoriteSon: "I tire of this game. I don't want to play anymore."
FavoriteSon: "Then quit. Make dad do it."
Me: "That wouldn't be very nice."
FS: "Well, then stop complaining."
Me: "yeah. That's not gonna happen."
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
It is February 25th. Who knows why my daughter is ECSTATICALLY HAPPY it is FINALLY February 25th?
(digital HD release of Disney's Frozen)
If you know me, you probably already know this. In the context of my everyday interactions with people, I am very open about my faith. Because I've learned that if I hide the thing that is most important in my life from the people I interact with in an effort to make them more comfortable, we will never be true friends. They will never know who I really am. I will be a big fake. The hiding would be deceitful. I tell people about my faith in Christ because it is such a integral part of my life that to hide it from people would be to hide myself. It would keep people at a distance.
The rest of the flooring is going to go down SLOWLY. The reason? We are working BACKwards. Up until the kitchen, we were working north to south, which meant we were laying flooring on TOP of the last laid row. In order to match up with the connecting room, we have to lay the kitchen south to north, which means that every. single. plank. has to be tucked UNDER the previous row. The adhesive is STRONG. If we let any part of the planks touch before they are positioned, it is a struggle to readjust.
"I've found my bliss." and/or "I need to find my bliss."
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
To continue from yesterday…Here's what evangelism looks like in my life: When I interact with people, the first thing I want to do is get to know more about them as an individual. I ask questions. I listen. I ask more questions. and I listen. Sometimes, the other person shares something about their own life or experiences or goals or dreams or obstacles or fears that calls to my mind something in my own life and experience – something which relates in some way to what they've shared with me. Since Christ is such an integral part of my life, it's only natural that those experiences would be saturated by His presence and influence.
I don't filter God out of my life stories to make other people more comfortable.
What about you? Do you filter out what Christ has done and is doing in your life in an effort to make people more comfortable? To make yourself easier to like? Are you hiding the most important part of yourself and in the process, sabotaging the potential for authentic friendships? Are you keeping people at a distance? Settling for another acquaintance when you could have a true friend? What happens if you give the other person more credit than that? What happens if you trust them accept you for who you are even if they are different than you?
(this is an excerpt from one of my February 2013 blog posts – CLICK HERE to read the full post)
Would this count as a Rick Roll?
PinkGirl, on the ride home from school: "Mom! Did you know there's a gorilla that can communicate using sign language?"
Me: "Yes."
PinkGirl: "Her name is Koko."
Me: "I know."
PinkGirl: "I want a gor…"
Me: "Noooooo."
PinkGirl: "But she's so swe…"
Me: "No. You may NOT have a gorilla."
PinkGirl, trying to pack her lunch in our construction zone kitchen: (spoken wistfully): "Mom. Do you remember…when we used to have a counter?"
Me: "yes. smart alec kid."
PinkGirl, point waving at all the painting and flooring supplies: "and I didn't make this mess."
LONG overdue catharsis. no holds barred. (my latest blog post): The lying tempter would persuade.
(click the link above or the Jim Carrey photos below to read the full post)
Thursday, February 27, 2014
We put the game room back together last weekend.
FavoriteSon: "It's not really a man cave."
Me: "You use this room more than anyone else. It's a man cave."
FavoriteSon: "There's a quote by Henry David Thoreau on the wall. It's not a man cave."
Me, to FavoriteSon: "Part of me says (excited voice) 'Your Dad is coming home today!!' and part of me says (depressed voice) 'Your Dad is coming home today.'"
FavoriteSon: "Because you have to get back to work on the house?"
yes. I did miss him. But it was a wonderful two days off.
Seriously affirmed in my reasoning to create and publish facebook compilation blog posts. Working on one now and there's so much stuff I flat out can NOT find on facebook that I know I posted less than a week ago. It's like it disappeared. If you think facebook is a great way to chronicle your everyday life, it's not. I'm going to try and do these compilation posts from here on out – and post on my own blog. Where I have control of content.
I LOVE my daughter's school and the middle school teachers. She just called me in uncontrollable happy tears to tell me how much she loves me because she just came out of drama class where her classmates (PinkGirl included) just "poured their hearts out about everything they were all going through and how we're all so thankful and blessed that we have Christ in our lives to help us and…" Her next class was Bible and she asked to go to the office to call me and ask me to come up to school so she could hug me. I'm outta here. #ilovemydaughter
Just got back from going to PinkGirl's school to give her a requested mid-day bear hug. One of the kids involved in that heart-wrenching discussion was sharing really, really hard things and everyone was telling him it would be okay. PinkGirl said: "I can't promise you everything will be okay. At least not the way we see our life. But it will be okay the way God sees it. I think God is using the things in our lives to mold us into the people we're going to be. It's like a blacksmith. Sometimes, a blacksmith has to heat stuff up and hit it really hard with a hammer to mold it into something beautiful. The blacksmith knows what he's making."
#ilovemydaughter #seepeople #reachout
EVERY day matters. EVERY conversation matters. Don't settle for conversations about nothing. Platitudes can be lies. Ask questions that let your friends and family KNOW you care about them and talk about things really that matter, even if it makes them uncomfortable. Even if it makes them back away. Even if people think you're too serious. It doesn't mean you are wrong. It means they aren't ready. #lessonsfrommydaughter
HOW have I never seen this? I LOVE smart fast funny! so. good.
I add "read books" to my to-do list every day so I know I'll get at least one thing done.
Here's another facebook compilation blog post. Everything I posted on facebook between February 15th thru 21st, all on one page. Because sometimes stuff on facebook doesn't show up in my newsfeed. or disappears.
facebook fragments: 02/15/14 – 02/21/14 (EPCOT, fb hacks & a dead microwave)
Whenever I see something arrogantly or sarcastically hateful on facebook, I can't help but wonder what is going on in that person's life that would prompt them to take time and effort out of their probably otherwise demanding day to be openly and intentionally hurtful to strangers. or friends. #seepeople #edify
To see more previous facebook update and compilation blog posts, CLICK HERE.
interpretations welcome.
Last night was a lazy family night. The boys were doing calculus at the kitchen table, PinkGirl was watching Disney's Cinderella on DVD and I was reading in the recliner.
I must have dozed off.
But it was obviously a REM nap.
I was driving PinkGirl to school, but we had to stop somewhere because the car was having trouble. It turned out to be a different school and there were kids EVERYWHERE. PinkGirl went off to explore while I took care of the car and then all of the sudden, there was never anything wrong with the car, we were just lost and I somehow had a GPS I didn't have before.
But now I couldn't find PinkGirl.
I kept calling her on her cell, but she didn't answer – and she didn't call me. So I started walking all over the campus looking for her and realized this school overlooked the New York harbor? (No wonder we were lost.) I was walking all over campus, carrying an armful of stuff at this point (Don't know where it all came from…)
Near the swimming pool, I saw a table along a wall and put all the stuff down to rearrange it so I could carry it more easily. While I'm doing that, I hear PinkGirl say, "May I try the slipper on?" amplified over the loud speaker.
I turn around and discover she's in an aquatic performance of Disney's Cinderella. So I just stand there and watch the rest of the performance with the rest of the audience.
When she's done and changed and finally comes out to meet her adoring fans, I asked her, "WHY didn't you tell me where you were and what you were doing?!" She said "Mom. There was no time. I wandered in just after Cinderella got sick. I had to volunteer."
of course she did.
#ilovemydaughter #weird
facebook fragments: 02/15/14 – 02/21/14 (EPCOT, fb hacks & a dead microwave)
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Here's our latest home project progress report, complete with photos: the living room makeover. during and after
"At the end of the day, direction, not intention, determines destination."
from The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Andy Stanley
Cha ching.
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Here's an update on the 2014 Living Room Makeover. Photos included. We're already onto the next room. More photos to come.
At EPCOT with PinkGirl. Holding her place in the 3 hour line to see Anna & Elsa while she seeks out other less-in-demand characters. Watching the passing parents who need a time out.
#wdw needs to clone Anna and Elsa. 4 hours so far. People in front of us just cancelled their dinner reservations.
PinkGirl is distracting some very tired kids by leading a game of I spy in the line to meet Anna & Elsa.
So look what my hunky, talented, smart, dedicated and funny husband accomplished today. Play room floor sealed and ready for subfloor.
Now if he would only stop hacking my facebook…
PSA: These must be eaten ears first. #ocd #peacelovemickey
So the questions you have to ask yourself are:
1) Is the paint dry?
2) Would my husband really just sit there and take a picture of a cat walking on a floor wet with oil-based paint? and
3) will my husband ever stop hacking my Facebook?
Monday, February 17, 2014
I feel like my house is a construction zone.
a fine layer of dust EVERYwhere from sanding the cement floor smooth, furniture EVERYwhere it's not supposed to be.
I may be getting carried away with the purging.
There's only seating for two in the living room.
And the two will have to sit side by side on a loveseat.
and the person on the right side will have to hold their drink because there's no place to put it down.
unless they sit on the piano stool and put a drink on the piano.
the room is so BIG right now.
Subfloor is down. Fine white powder from sanding has been cleaned off all the walls and ceiling fan, glass light shade are in the dishwasher, paint has been touched up on all the walls. Next. moisture barrier. THEN we start laying the flooring.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
A giant angel vacuum cleaner cover.
or a giant snowman vacuum cleaner cover.
a vacuum cleaner cover.
It's probably because my house is and has been in complete chaos for so long due to the #homeprojectthatneverends, but I am in a VERY weird place. All this manual labor is giving me an abundance of time to think. You should avoid conversation with me at all costs unless you are extremely bored.
My husband's plans for the weekend:
(1) cut and install baseboards in the game room.
(2) put all the furniture and stuff back into the game room after putting felt floor protectors on every. piece. of. furniture. and hooking up all the electronics
(3) install the new flooring in the kitchen
(4) put together a 7 foot by 7 foot wall of shelving in the living room so I can load them with the books that are currently sitting in stacks in the family room (I'm getting a LIBRARY in my living room!)
And THEN we have to find the kitchen, family room and back porch, which we have TRASHED in this process.
If you don't hear from us on Monday, send help.
or food.
arrrrg. and again arrrrg. the microwave is dead. again. Do we live in some sort of microwave killing zone? I'm not researching microwaves ANYmore. I'm buyin the cheapest scratch-n-dent from Sears Outlet and getting a 5 year warranty.
I called FirstHusand: "Microwave is dead again. and we're out of warranty."
FH: "of course we are."
Me: "With all we've got going on this weekend, we NEED a microwave."
FH: "With all we've got going on this weekend, we NEED take out."
Me: "What IS it with us and microwaves?"
FH: (pause) "I think we just use it a LOT. (chuckling) We wear them out."
Me: "shut up. You meeting me at Sears Outlet or what?"
FH, still laughing: "Leaving work now."
and I cooked dinner on the STOVE last night, I'll have you know.
Sears Outlet only had 1 black microwave and it was over $700! My husband's comment was hilarious and completely UNfacebookable. We got a $200 off-the-shelf GE with a $25 three replacement plan from Lowe's.
With a Tijuana chaser.
FavoriteHusband is installing a shiny new black microwave. It has not escaped my attention that "clean the microwave" has just been pushed down to the bottom of my to-do list.
Friday, February 21, 2014
"If God has the power to act fairly, speak audibly, and appear visibly, why, then, does he seem so reluctant to intervene today? Perhaps the record of the Israelites in the wilderness contained a clue."
from Disappointment with God by Philip Yancey
If someone invites your voice into their life, share the love, grace & hope of Christ, not childish platitudes.
You may not get a 2nd chance.
My FAVORITEHusband is building me a 7ft x 7ft wall of bookcases right NOW.
They will not go to bed empty.
facebook fragments: 02/8/14 – 02/14/14 (one floor done, dependent tasks & Scooba)
This is only a partial compilation. I waited 3 weeks after posting to create this facebook fragments and some of my facebook posts are already MIA. Which is why I do these posts.
Saturday, February 8, 2014
If the Holy Spirit prompts you to step into a stranger's life and offer to help them, don't fight the prompt. Turn around and go back if your initial reaction was to rationalize your way past the opportunity. Risk rejection. Even if there's no chance you'll ever find out what comes of it. And make sure you give God the credit for prompting you, or the person you help will just think you did it all on your own.
#loveGodloveothers #Luke1027
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Check it out. We started laying the flooring last night. It looks beautiful, but it was a S L O W start. And there will be no cooking in this kitchen until the floor in the living room is laid. Every. square. inch. is covered with the contents of the giant armoire.
I was a little curious about what's going on at the old Borders in Oviedo.
Looks like the property was purchased by BJ's Restaurants in January.
I HATE dependant tasks. HATE them, I tell you.
Just went upstairs to find PinkGirl.
Me: "Do not "Like" your mother's facebook posts when you are supposed to be in bed."
Me: "Seriously, Facebook just sold you out. Go. To. Bed."
Monday, February 10, 2014
The flooring is down! But the dependent tasks continue. I just want to put the furniture in the living room already! But the manufacturer recommendation is to clean it and "polish" it (with their proprietary polish, of course). I was going to let Scooba clean the floor while I paint the one remaining wall (the wall that the giant armoire has been up against all this time) but it appears I left Scooba's battery in him after he cleaned my kitchen floor the last time, so he will be charging while I paint, cause ya KNOW I am NOT cleaning a floor by hand when I have him to do it for me. The green towels are covering the exposed transition area that will continue into the next room…after we empty it.
Do you hear someone wimpering? it's me.
Favorite Q&A about Roomba on Amazon:
Q: "I have 6 cats, a pot bellied pig, and two small dogs in the house. Can a roombah handle those?"
A: "I have no idea, and I don't want to imagine."
2nd Favorite Q&A about Roomba on Amazon:
Q: "How do you store it?"
A: "Mine docs herself along a low traffic wall, but honestly, she does more cleaning than anyone else in the house… she could dock by the front door & I'd thank her every time I stepped over her. "
You know what happens when you paint the inside of a window frame? You get an up close look at the window. The 26 year old energy inefficient, thin as paper window you elected NOT to replace a few years ago when you replaced all the windows upstairs with those kickin double panes. One thing at a time.
I was going to get Scooba started on the floor before I pick PinkGirl up from school.
Am I mean enough?
#lazycat #sunbeam
How tired am I? I gotta get these books off my kitchen table. Three dependent tasks for that.
1. Move a giant loveseat through a doorway that would be blocked by bookcases if they were in place.
2. Move temporary bookcases into place.
3. Put all the books on the shelves.
(in alphabetical order by author's last name of course – and there's twice as many books than you see in this photo)
After we finish the flooring connection with the next room, we can put together the new bookcases and so I can move these books again.
That won't be tonight.
or tomorrow.
or the next day…
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Today's agenda. Some might call it rearranging furniture. I call it purging and reconstructing the contents of a perfectly "fine" room in the middle of a major home project. In my own defense…yeah. I got nothin.
photos to come.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
You know what word I don't use often enough?
"Remarkable: worthy of attention; striking."
"I love looking at the snow.
on facebook.
from Florida."
Chest congestion. Sinus congestion. (sounds better than "I have a cold.")
If I was smart, I would load up on meds & go to bed…after I just do this one more thing…
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Two paws up for the new living room floor.
#lazycats #sunbeam
(I suppose that should be 8 paws up)
"I think that's a little bit of what it's like when you are Christian. We have a genuine desire to please the Lord and to trust Him and to love others, but we can't do it. However, when we fail our Father steps in and does the task for us. Our weaknesses only serve to display to us (and sometimes others) the love that God has for us."
(To read Jeff's full post, entitled "Selfishly Selfish" CLICK HERE)
Friday, February 14, 2014
Bob the cat just brought me a live lizard. He put it down in front of me.
and it ran under the couch.
"Only at the point where the insufficiency of natural strength is faced, felt and admitted does divine empowering begin."
J.I. Packer
PinkGirl, watching Tangled. again.
"If you told me I could NEVER leave some tower, I'd be like, "NO!" She could just throw her hair down and go see the floating lights all by herself. Why does she even need Flynn Ryder?"
To see more previous facebook update and compilation blog posts, CLICK HERE.
The lying tempter would persuade.
Maybe it's the chaos in my house.
or the chaos of the last year and a half.
or the abundance of time I've had to think about the chaos of the last year and a half while I'm attending to the mindless task of shoveling the chaos in my house…
maybe I'm just tired.
or hormonal. I've had a hysterectomy, so for all I know I'm on my period and don't even know it.
But, today is one of those days where I'm haunted and grieved by voices.
Condescending voices of marginalization and mediocrity.
The voices that told me I don't have to work as hard as I do, because less is "just fine." As if the voices didn't realize that the unnecessary extra time I took and the unneeded effort I expended led to a result they just described as "fine." As if it didn't occur to them that less effort and time would knock "fine" down to…less than fine. And worst of all, by continuing to tell me I don't have to work so hard the voices continued to let me know time and time again how little they know me or how little respect they have for my determination to give my best.
And now, "fine" saturates the air I breathe.
The voices that told me I shouldn't work as hard as I do, because it makes other people look bad.
And now I'm gone. And it turns out I wasn't the reason someone else wasn't succeeding. I actually wasn't hogging their opportunities and stealing their affirmation. They are still contributing the minimum and spewing bitterness because they think they are entitled to more opportunities even though they continue to prove they can't be depended upon.
The voices that politely asked me to step back. Say less. Do less. Give less. and be less. And "respect" the leadership of someone I thought I was collaborating with. Because my unfettered contribution made other people jealous. and angry. and sarcastically hateful.
And now, I'm mired in the mindset that everything I have to offer is too much. Unwanted. The constant monitoring for those boundaries holds me back from offering anything outside of one-on-one conversations. The fear of overloading someone with too much of me keeps my head out of the clouds, my feet planted firmly on the ground and my eyes focused on the 1st mile responsibility of caring for my family. And re-flooring and painting my house, all the while secretly hoping it really IS #thehomeprojectthatneverends.
The voices that flippantly dismissed my interest in returning to school because I don't "need" any more education. As if ANYone, ever "NEEDS" a formal education. As if the desire to learn isn't enough reason to seek knowledge and understanding.
And then there's little voice that can't help but wonder if pursing another degree might be an excellent two year distraction…
Even so I continue to learn. But share less of the lessons, gauging who actually might LIKE to engage in a discussion about the things that get me thinking by tentatively testing and retreating in conversation, facebook and the rare blog post. Confirmed in my square-pegness again and again by the facebook stats that indicate people view one of my amusing family dialogs or a home project progress report 3 to 4 times more than they ever view anything I post about something I'm learning.
The voices that let me know I read too much (and am out of touch because I don't watch enough TV). As if someone else's desire to only read fiction – or not read at all – and quote platitudes or pinterest eCards means that my desire to read non-fiction and quote scripture is evidence that I just need to chill out and "enjoy life" more. Because reading non-fiction couldn't possibly be enjoyable.
Even so, I continue to read. and learn. and think. Because I love it.
The voices that assure me it's not necessary to share the hope of Christ at every opportunity because a more acceptable and more comfortable alternative is to "rub off on people." Because evangelism is a process. of passive osmosis. Because too many people think evangelism is telling someone ELSE how you think they should live instead of telling someone how God is working in the life YOU live.
And yet people are DYING every day. DYING. And we may not get that second or subsequent opportunity to allow our autopilot passing presence or casual words in someone's life to be the kind of intentional witness for Christ that the most important relationship of our life deserves. We share posts about kids, dogs, kittens and pinterest exponentially more than we ever share something Christ has taught us or how He's moving in our lives every day, no matter how small.
The voices that explain my writing is too "intellectual," that I use too many rarely used words like "unfettered" and "mired" or that I tend to "drone on." (The owners of those voices have already clicked away. If they even started reading at all.)
And now, more often than not, I have the attention span of a gnat when I sit down in front of my brand new computer. With the rare exception of this post – which at this point exceeds the recommended maximum attention keeping word count – I have no inclination to write anything longer than a facebook update or anything that takes more than 30 or 60 seconds to digest. When I think about anything I might have to say, the only word that consistently comes to mind is "meh."
The voices that suggest I consider the possibility my dream was bigger than God's will for me. I should be grateful. Compared to all the problems and suffering in the world, the loss of my dream is not a tragedy. There are plenty of other things I could do with my time. "There's nothing wrong with living a simpler life, you know." Because dreams devalue anyone living this "simpler life?"
And now I find myself searching for that unselfish place of devotion and delight in Christ that fuels me with passion and a determination to be a good steward of the gifts I've been blessed with while at the same time, being held back by the relentless thought that as long as I continue to grieve whenever I think of never leading worship again or of not writing a book or never again speaking about my faith while holding a microphone, it's evidence that I love the dream more than the dream-giver and I need to climb out of my big britches until a "ministry" of one-on-one every day relational evangelism doesn't feel like less.
And then there's the voice that belongs to the person who sifted through every nuance of every other voice, meticulously looking for truth, no matter how hard to face. The voice that wields the sharpest sword and cuts the deepest.
Most days, the Voice of Truth is louder than all of these voices.
The Voice of Truth tells me that these words are meant to oppress me. To feed me the lie that the words spoken by these voices are more powerful than the blood of Christ and the strength available to me through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
The Voice of Truth tells me that Satan is far more effective in derailing me through the casual words of Christians than he ever would be through a direct attack from an anti-theist who thoughtfully planned out a full frontal assault.
The Voice of Truth tells me that these are the voices of flawed humans, not a perfect God. Careless knee-jerk reaction words, spoken without a pause for thoughts of the message they are sending or of long term consequences or – more importantly – especially when it comes to instruction and advice – spoken without a pause for prayer.
Voices of those searching for something or someone to blame, not words of personal responsibility.
If you're wondering if one of these voices was yours, ask yourself why you're wondering that, and regardless of whether the answer is yes or no, I pray that you click away from this post with an awareness of the powerful impact of the words you speak, the decisions you make and the reasons behind them.
I don't blame any of the voices. Not anymore. I've come to realize that any influence they had on me, I allowed. Any limitations that were placed on me, I accepted.
Any words spoken, I listened.
Besides, these voices are secondary. I'm still working through much deeper spiritual pruning and growth.
My constant prayer these days is to know God MORE.
and today, I'm praying for wisdom and discernment to recognize and block out any voice opposed to the Voice of Truth.
especially mine.
facebook fragments: 02/01/14 – 02/07/14 (superbowl & chaperone duty)
Posting this a week late, as usual…
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Who else would have to eat these one line at a time?
Shopping for a new blender because we smoothied ours to DEATH.
This is my favorite amazon.com review so far:
Pros: It blends. I can make protein shakes with this blender. Cheap.
Cons: Does not clean itself. Does not make my drinks for me.
I LOVE shopping online instead of in a store.
Free shipping and coupon codes make it even BETTER.
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Yo, FirstHusband. Taking the power supply from a laptop that can't hold a charge is like taking a crutch from someone with a broken leg.
Listening to my husband sing "Let me sleep on it" softly as he's putting away groceries.
This is what happens when he drives his son's muscle car and listens to classic rock.
FavoriteSon: This smells disgusting!
Every time I think something died in our garbage disposal I look next to me and there's BROCCOLI.
FavoriteSon: "Watching the Superbowl commercials early on youtube is blasphemous."
Meanwhile, there's a Doritos commercial coming up that reminds me of this one:
This one made me laugh.
Monday, February 3, 2014
I'm chaperoning PinkGirl's 7th grade trip to a "coastal classroom" on an island in south Georgia later this week.
FirstHusband went with FavoriteSon when he was in 7th grade so I'm getting some info.
Apparently, there will be a night hike.
And supposedly, "snakes are in hibernation this time of year."
umm hmm.
Going over the packing list for the trip I'm going on with PinkGirl's 7th grade class. My least favorite item on the list? "Plastic bag for muddy clothes. (clothes may come home very muddy and wet!)"
There was no floor laying this past weekend.
My flooring shipment was somewhere north of snow & ice.
26 boxes of flooring will be here tomorrow between 1 and 4pm.
I think I'm going to get a free pallet or two as a bonus.
Me: "There's no floss down here." (two story house)
FirstHusband: "yes there is."
Me: "I am NOT using the bubble gum floss. (pause)
Why do we even HAVE bubble gum floss? How old is it?"
But did I throw it out? no.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Make homemade marshmallows. #thingsiwillneverdo
Teacher: "Who wants to be in charge of bringing cups to the snack party tomorrow?"
PinkGirl: "ME!"
Teacher: "okay. and who wants to bring homemade brownies?"
That's my girl.
kid homework fail? I think not.
Least favorite task of the day complete:
taking a double bagged diarrhea sample to the vet.
#tmi #pitifulcat
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It occurred to me that coffee at a "coastal classroom" might be…less than optimal.
This is going to be a disappointment, isn't it?
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 (at the CRACK of dawn)
The coffee pot is fully loaded.
none of that half-caf, half-decaf nonsense today.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Breakfast is at 6:30am.
At 5am, a cell phone alarm goes off. (set for the previous morning)
Seconds later, it goes off again.
And again.
The 3rd noise is multiple voices calling the cell phone owner's name in a fruitless attempt to wake them up, followed by "SOMEBODY POWER IT OFF! " and "ARHHH"
It's now 5:45am and the cell phone owner is still asleep.
"Somebody WAKE HER UP! Her cell phone woke US all up at FIVE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING!"
PinkGirl, coming in the chaperone room to change: "you have clean floors in here. You don't find that a lot out there." #suburbgirlproblems
My kinda field trip. Even it is cold and windy. #ilovemydaughter
Thank you God that it is NOT raining.
Thank you God for the rain jackets I bought and brought.
so. cold. so. windy.
Cumberland Island Guide, talking about the Carnegie family:
"How did they make their money? I'll give you a hint. Pittsburgh."
Teacher, under her breath: "steel… steel."
PinkGirl, exuberantly: "They would STEAL IT!!"
Me: "not that kind of steel, babe."
Answer: terrain and wind chill.
Question: what is it about an 8 hour hike on a coastal island that exponentially kicks my butt more than a 14 hour, 25,000 step, park-hopping day at Disney theme parks?
How many tickles does it take to make an octopus laugh?
The correct answer put a group 1st in line for dinner.
PinkGirl nailed it.
Everyone else had to stand in line in the freezing cold and sprinkling rain.
Facing the Giants. #dry #warm #tired
Friday, February 7, 2014
God is good, all the time.
It's been one of the longest, shortest, frustrating, rewarding, heartbreaking, hopeful, disappointing, hopeful 3 days of my life.
Kids who love Jesus,
kids who need Jesus and are looking for him
and kids who keep themselves so distracted they have no idea how much Jesus is jealous for them.
Praying this trip remains a stone in their shoe.
Praying that the Holy Spirit would draw them closer to Christ.
PinkGirl after coming home from a 3 day trip to a "coastal classroom" in Georgia: "I'm gonna take a shower."
FavoriteDad: "A warm shower?"
PinkGirl: "The water in that shower was either like the inside of a volcano or where the Titanic sank."
true. there was a very, very small window on that shower dial where the water didn't burn you alive or freeze you to death.
I was complaining about an incompetent vendor billing error.
PinkbGirl, dramatically gesturing: " Mom. Let it Go. Let it Go."
FavoriteDad: "You know, you can never legitimately say "The cold never bothered me anyway" ever again."
PinkGirl: " It's metaphoric, Dad."
I'm home.
I've been in the sauna.
I've taken a shower and washed my hair
and I've written some alternate lyrics to "My Favorite Things" that I'm calling "Suburbanite Things"
Toilets with knee room and floors with clean carpet
Light bulbs that light things and wi-fi and Target
a king size mattress, complete with box springs,
These are a few of my favorite things.
Sinks with hot water and unfrozen throne seats
Paths free of horse scat and clean shoes and warm feet
Ground with no incline, wind with no sting
These are a few of my favorite things.
When the cold bites
When the wind stings
When I need a heating pad,
I simply imagine suburbanite things
And then I don't feel so bad
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Saturday, January 25, 2014
Me, to PinkGirl, who was head down in her iPad: "Whatcha up to?"
PinkGirl: "Talking to people."
Me: "Who ya talking to?"
PinkGirl: "What difference does it make?"
Me: "When I'm on the phone, what do you always ask me?
PinkGirl, grinning: "Who ya talking to?"
Me: "When I'm texting someone, what do you always ask me?"
PinkGirl, rolling eyes: "Who ya texting."
Me: "So, who ya talking to?"
PinkGirl: "Mama, you know what I realized? Owl is a narcissist, Rabbit has OCD, Piglet has anxiety, Pooh has an eating disorder, Eyeore has depression and Tigger has ADHD. (pause) Kanga and Roo…I don't have anything for them."
FirstHusband and I CRACKED up. The music was a dead giveaway.
(And he's either a bachelor or his wife was NOT home.)
Me, to PinkGirl, who's in the shower: "Do you have a towel?"
PG: "no" and after I give her a towel: "Thank you!"
Me, to PinkGirl, who is walking upstairs wrapped in her towel: "Please put on your wrap and hang up your towel."
PG: "I'm going upstairs to get dressed."
Me: "yes, I know. Please put on your wrap and hang up your towel, so that the NEXT time you take a shower, your towel will be AVAILABLE to you….and I can see you mocking me.
PG: "Yes, but I did it with a smile."
Check out what my FavoriteHusband made with scraps of 2×4 today. #pinterest #honeydo
Saturday, January 26, 2014
The distance between being a target & praying for the shooter is so much shorter for my daughter than myself. #sweetestbedtimeprayers
Monday, January 26, 2014
I'm going to be painting walls this week and my brain will be idle, so I've decided to spend the time in prayer. Is there anything I can pray about for you? Message me. You don't have to tell me exactly what to pray about if you're not comfortable sharing – God knows.
I shared a facebook updated by Mandisa:
"Yesterday #Overcomer won a #Grammy for Best Contemporary Christian Music Song and Album…and I wasn't there. My reasons why might surprise you. I wrote about it here." –> http://wp.me/p3Gq0r-cE
Listening to PinkGirl sing mouth guitar to this while I'm painting.
Day One of painting complete. The big red wall is gone. Both cats are still black. Success. In case you missed it, here are the photos so far: (click the photo to see the post with all the photos)
13 year old PinkGirl, at the beginning of watching this video: "What's this puppy doing? I'm intrigued."
I love hearing my kids use words like this in everyday conversation. #ilovemydaughter
Clearly, my socks are broken.
And we need to replace the sliding doors in this house.
Bank decided to replace our credit card.
1st vendor I updated?
My amazon.com 1-click, of course.
Then paypal, then…2 hours later…I hope I'm done.
Chili 2 ways tonight – white bean chicken & traditional (but with ground Healthy Choice sausage because I'm out of ground beef) and cornbread. oh. & Beano for an appetizer.
Both my men will be in the house with me all day tomorrow. I, of course, will not need it. I always smell like books.
It is NOT okay to be mean to someone & then act like it never happened. It's dysfunctional. Own it. Apologize.
Even if it's uncomfortable.
What a PHENOMENAL story of God's providence!!!
Snapshot of Grace – Crecco / Maianu Family from Christ Community Chapel on Vimeo.
I hate it when Ernest is sick. (Ernest is my laptop.) His battery transplant from Ebay has shipped. Meanwhile, I've been tethered to an electrical outlet for days.
FYI, Ernest got his name from the following book quote:
"For some reason, everyone thinks, 'I should know how to write.' No one thinks, 'I should know how to play the piano.' But when it comes to writing, 'I should know how to do it.'
What if I told you a story about a man who buys a piano, sits down to play for the very first time and is shocked when he doesn't sound like Arthur Rubinstein?
'I don't understand,' he complains, 'I've listened to lots of music, I should know how to play the piano.'
Ridiculous you say? Yet there you are: Banging away at the typewriter, you're mortified when your work isn't as good as Ernest Hemingway's. Hell, it isn't even as good as Ernest Goes to Camp."
from "If You Can Talk, You Can Write" by Joel Saltzman
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Great lesbian club on Thursday nights – Club Fuel usually caters to men but on Thursday Night there is a great lesbian night called FLIRT. The drink specials are great and cheap, the music is amazing, and the women there are sweet, good looking and just loads of fun to hang out with. It's not your typical club in Los Angeles where we all just stand around. What's so fun about this place is that is fun, and there are things to do. If you don't want to dance you can play pool or darts, if the music is to loud go on their outdoor patio where it's quite and comfortable. They have contest, prizes, amazing giveaway and a fantastic cabaret show with the most beautiful women. All types of women hang out here if you're into butch, lipstick or whatever you will find it this night.
Almost always empty. – I waited until my 4th visit to rate this place. Every-time I feel the need to ask the bartender "where is everybody?" I always get a recommendation to try a "better" night or time. I have followed that advice only to be repeatedly disappointed. The Valley is full of "family" but I guess everyone still likes the schlep over the hill to WeHo. The few people standing along the wall make this place feel more like a Jr. High Sadie Hawkins than a gay dance bar. Note to management: loose the cover charge on slow nights. It sucks to pay $5 to find out there is only 6 people in the bar.
Valley nightclub and billiards bar offers local gay scene a social alternative to West Hollywood. – In Short
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A dependent bivariate t distribution with marginals on different degrees of freedom
Let Z1,Z2 and W1,W2 be mutually independent random variables, each Zi following the standard normal distribution and Wi following the chi-squared distribution on ni degrees of freedom. Then, the pair of random variables , has the bivariate spherically symmetric t distribution; this has both marginals the same, namely Student's t distributions on n1 degrees of freedom. In this paper, we study the joint distribution of {, ,} where [nu]1=n1, [nu]2=n1+n2. This bivariate distribution has marginal distributions which are Student t distributions on different degrees of freedom if [nu]1[not equal to][nu]2. The marginals remain uncorrelated, as in the spherically symmetric case, but are also by no means independent.Download Info
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The convention will be at 10am Saturday in the upstairs area of the old Christian County Courthouse, according to U.S. Senator Rand Paul Field Representative Jason Hastert.
Hastert says National Co-Chair Sharon Day could have chosen any of Kentucky's 120 counties to come to, which makes it an honor for Christian County to welcome her to Hpkinsville.
The influence of veteran Congressman and Hopkinsville native Ed Whitfield probably had something to do with getting Ms. Day to Christian County, with Whitfield also on the list of speakers for the Saturday morning event.
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02/28/2013 21:20
The old and new of this Knesset have to come together to bring the courage of ideas.
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United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni told members of the Labor Party that he was praying to God that they would join the government coalition, during a Knesset plenum speech that gained much publicity, in which he was the veteran MK welcoming a newcomer to the parliament: Merav Michaeli of Labor.
Michaeli said that she had requested that Gafni follow her.
Gafni began by saying that he had expected to cringe when he heard the new Labor MK speak. Instead, he said, he agreed with almost everything she said.
For me, as someone who has covered the Knesset on a day-to- day basis since the late 1980s, it brought back memories of other classic moments where – perhaps at first glance – those who are the furthest apart in our society, haredim and supposed antagonists who might be labeled secular leftist socialists, have expressed understanding and even friendship for one another.
Anyone who has covered the Knesset over the course of time knows that behind the scenes, MKs cooperate and even socialize in a way that might shock the outside world considering the differences that these politicians represent.
Still, the Michaeli-Gafni encounter, not in the cafeteria but live on television in the plenum, took me back 20 years to a New Year's Eve state budget debate when the late MK Rabbi Avraham Ravitz, of UTJ, took to the plenum microphone and passionately deplored, with tears in his eyes, the phenomenon of a celebration in the building of a Jewish parliament on an occasion that in past decades and centuries had been used by drunken anti-Semites to assault, murder and massacre Jews.
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Maybe it was the after-midnight hour that seems to make everything more emotional and dramatic, but the way Ravitz and Pines walked away with mutual understanding made me feel that life in this country could be so much better if we just respected – no, not agreed with – one another.
Then, there was the weekly Wednesday question time, during the late 1980s' Labor-Likud unity government, when a number of MKs, including the likes of Mapam MK Yair Tzaban, launched what could be described as nothing less than a verbal assault on then-police minister Haim Bar-Lev, after a haredi MK complained that authorities chose a Friday night to descend upon a haredi home to collect an outstanding property tax debt because they knew that the man would be home at the time.
These secular parliamentarians shouted at the minister: "Where was the sensitivity of what a Friday night meal means to a religious family, was there no other way to collect the debt, no matter how outstanding the debt might have been?"
Here, too, the integrity of politicians who call themselves civil rights activists to fight for those with whom they disagreed ideologically was a sight for sore eyes, certainly not what people seem to expect from the Knesset.
After decades, the cynicism has certainly set in. Gafni is a fast-talking, slick chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee.
He used the comments by Michaeli of the control by the powerful over the weak to serve his own viewpoint of society against the haredim.
He pressed the right buttons, saying that women should get the same salaries as men for the same jobs. After all, that also helps the haredi family structure where the woman's job can help allow the man to study.
It also followed a Gafni warning, the day before, to the religious- Zionist members of the Knesset, that when they joined forces with Yair Lapid's late father in the days of the Sharon government, at the expense of the haredim, the ultimate response was the 2005 Gaza disengagement.
I understand all of that. I know from where Gafni speaks. His subliminal message to Michaeli and her Labor colleagues was that Bayit Yehudi's leader Naftali Bennett and Yesh Atid counterpart Yair Lapid make an odd couple, and that the haredi sector can counter them with an alliance with Labor. (Shas leader MK Arye Deri has also been reported to have held contacts with Labor over whether it would join the government.) However, what made the Michaeli-Gafni encounter so special was that it was the firsttime parliamentarian – Michaeli – with very definitive views and a background that many in Israeli society would consider controversial up against the old-timer – Gafni – with a lifestyle that large segments of Israelis consider appalling, and each made the most of the opportunity from their own perspective to create a defining moment.
Michaeli called herself a feminist; Gafni said that in haredi society, the woman is seen as greater than the man.
Can they sit down together and convince each other of their opposing views? I don't know. I'm not sure that I care.
That's not the point.
Call me naïve. Call it political opportunism. Call me sick and tired of the people who say that there are two opinions, mine and the wrong opinion. Call me a sucker for speeches, whatever the motive, that seek the common denominator.
OK, so it was cute that Interim Knesset Speaker Binyamin Ben-Eliezer felt compelled to say "You can't kiss," when Michaeli stood up to greet the haredi Gafni as he came down from the podium.
Most importantly, the smiles, the sense of humor and the momentary good feelings have to be translated into talk, even before action. The old and new of this Knesset have to come together to bring the courage of ideas, even as the new members of the Knesset remember that they did not invent the wheel, that they should continue the legacy of those before them who have shown that there can be political integrity.
David Ze'ev is a political correspondent at Israel Radio's English News.
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