Today is Earth Day and I didn't recycle anything, but I did read an article about plastic bottles blocking channels in Kampala, Uganda and causing major widespread flooding, all while sipping out of my second plastic bottle of the day.
Today is Earth Day and I didn't plant any trees, but I did open and discard 3 envelopes, use approximately 15 unneeded sheets of paper, and file a paper bill that I also receive electronically.
Today is Earth Day and I didn't conserve any water, but I'm pretty sure that I left a full glass of water on the desk at work when I left.
Today is Earth Day and I did wear a green jacket that has the words "LOVE" with a tree on it... it looked kinda hippie-mother-earth-loving; its a cotton-poly blend.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Poem
close to Thy Heart Lord
let me find my rest
content me in Your arms
safe, cared for, and blest
teach me not to wander
and seek other arms
dissuade my flirting with danger
wrapped in evils charms
remind me of bluer skies
deeper greens
when i first fell in love
and all that it means
keep my heart Lord
pining for You
to my First Love forever
and always be true.
let me find my rest
content me in Your arms
safe, cared for, and blest
teach me not to wander
and seek other arms
dissuade my flirting with danger
wrapped in evils charms
remind me of bluer skies
deeper greens
when i first fell in love
and all that it means
keep my heart Lord
pining for You
to my First Love forever
and always be true.
desperately, i need You
okay, this post might get a little nitty-gritty, so consider yourself forewarned.
i was talking to my lovely roomie the other day about when we want God the most. and how interestingly enough it seems to directly correspond with when we need Him to get through every day. and strange thing... He seems to bless us more when we are consistently seeking Him every day. at least it seems that way in my life.
so i was telling her about when i was in africa and how i woke up every morning and read my bible, and every night before i fell asleep it was the last thing that i looked at (and yes, i'm a dork, but i totally fell asleep with it in the bed next to me with my hand resting on it!). weird i know, but that is how much i felt that i needed God during that time. and the joy that got lavished on me was frankly... AMAZING! i don't even know how i would have made it through that time without Him renewing me every day like that.
anyway, so i was saying to her that i wish i still felt that i needed God that desperately. and the sad thing is that I DO. i need Him every day in soooo many ways, and yet i've grown appathetic to the fact that i am in desperate need of Him in my life. which... *cough, cough*... has made me rather blind to small pockets of sin occuring rather blatantly in my life. thankfully, He is really good at reminding me to come back to Him, and He restores freely when we ask.
anyway, so now i am asking Him to restore me to the place where i realize my desperateness to Him for everything in my life. do you need to too? i talked to one of my really good friends the other day, and it was so hard to talk to her, because i recognized this same struggle in her life. her main complaint was that she was just so bored, and she wanted an adventure. when did we get the idea that God is not a God of adventure?? who planted that lie? all i could think to tell her was that she was missing the very source of where her adventure should be coming from! the amazing thing is that we are so discontent most of the time, and yet we look at God and believe that lie that says He won't really change that in our lives. i know how many time i have been guilty of that very thing. but then... when i'm living in Him. i forget that whole silly discontent/bored/unhappy thing and just am fully alive again! and its so beautiful! why don't i run back to it all time? do you?
desperate
i was talking to my lovely roomie the other day about when we want God the most. and how interestingly enough it seems to directly correspond with when we need Him to get through every day. and strange thing... He seems to bless us more when we are consistently seeking Him every day. at least it seems that way in my life.
so i was telling her about when i was in africa and how i woke up every morning and read my bible, and every night before i fell asleep it was the last thing that i looked at (and yes, i'm a dork, but i totally fell asleep with it in the bed next to me with my hand resting on it!). weird i know, but that is how much i felt that i needed God during that time. and the joy that got lavished on me was frankly... AMAZING! i don't even know how i would have made it through that time without Him renewing me every day like that.
anyway, so i was saying to her that i wish i still felt that i needed God that desperately. and the sad thing is that I DO. i need Him every day in soooo many ways, and yet i've grown appathetic to the fact that i am in desperate need of Him in my life. which... *cough, cough*... has made me rather blind to small pockets of sin occuring rather blatantly in my life. thankfully, He is really good at reminding me to come back to Him, and He restores freely when we ask.
anyway, so now i am asking Him to restore me to the place where i realize my desperateness to Him for everything in my life. do you need to too? i talked to one of my really good friends the other day, and it was so hard to talk to her, because i recognized this same struggle in her life. her main complaint was that she was just so bored, and she wanted an adventure. when did we get the idea that God is not a God of adventure?? who planted that lie? all i could think to tell her was that she was missing the very source of where her adventure should be coming from! the amazing thing is that we are so discontent most of the time, and yet we look at God and believe that lie that says He won't really change that in our lives. i know how many time i have been guilty of that very thing. but then... when i'm living in Him. i forget that whole silly discontent/bored/unhappy thing and just am fully alive again! and its so beautiful! why don't i run back to it all time? do you?
desperate
Monday, April 12, 2010
Its the little lessons in life...
1.) six miles on the Konza can be a bit much for winter skin.... especially on the shoulders... also the hip muscles... but that's another story.
2.) don't go camping with your spaz dog... unless you want to feel like shooting her when she wakes you up every hour by walking around your tent once again... and trying to lay on your face.... yeah, i'm not joking.
3.) stretch pants are all nice and comfortable and all... until you finish your 10 hour shift at a job that requires a lot of turning, twisting, bending, and squatting... at which point you begin to look like the 'pants on the ground' song was written expressly in your honor.
4.) burning prairies out at tuttle definitely look like the beacons of Gondor have been lit.
5.) it nearly next to impossible to finish something you are not working on.
6.) surest way to shock the socks off someone: be the PLEASANT customer that calls the customer service line. seriously, i am pretty sure this guy was about to ask me out if my call hadn't been being "monitored for quality customer care assurance".
7.) never underestimate the redemptive quality of something that you were originally doing for someone else. sometimes, God intends to bless you through it too. (ie... you should read Wild at Heart, its not just for guys. and no, i don't just like it cause i am a tomboy!)
8.) gratefulness is an awesome cure for that completely drained from serving others feeling.
9.) God's love is so deep and wide that when he casts away our sins into that deep sea and they sink beneath those waves... we know for sure that no one could ever fish deep enough to pull them back out!
10.) falling in love is hard. little smells, sights, sounds that remind you of your Love. it sucks. oh, Africa, i miss you so!!
2.) don't go camping with your spaz dog... unless you want to feel like shooting her when she wakes you up every hour by walking around your tent once again... and trying to lay on your face.... yeah, i'm not joking.
3.) stretch pants are all nice and comfortable and all... until you finish your 10 hour shift at a job that requires a lot of turning, twisting, bending, and squatting... at which point you begin to look like the 'pants on the ground' song was written expressly in your honor.
4.) burning prairies out at tuttle definitely look like the beacons of Gondor have been lit.
5.) it nearly next to impossible to finish something you are not working on.
6.) surest way to shock the socks off someone: be the PLEASANT customer that calls the customer service line. seriously, i am pretty sure this guy was about to ask me out if my call hadn't been being "monitored for quality customer care assurance".
7.) never underestimate the redemptive quality of something that you were originally doing for someone else. sometimes, God intends to bless you through it too. (ie... you should read Wild at Heart, its not just for guys. and no, i don't just like it cause i am a tomboy!)
8.) gratefulness is an awesome cure for that completely drained from serving others feeling.
9.) God's love is so deep and wide that when he casts away our sins into that deep sea and they sink beneath those waves... we know for sure that no one could ever fish deep enough to pull them back out!
10.) falling in love is hard. little smells, sights, sounds that remind you of your Love. it sucks. oh, Africa, i miss you so!!
Saturday, April 10, 2010
I'm out man
SIN: Aye look what’s good fam it’s me again. The one you used to call your friend. I know you aint forgot me?
CRAE: Oh yeah you always get me caught in sin.
SIN: Here you go with that again. You act like we aint cool or sumthin. Lets go smoke a Kool or sumthin. Talk and sip a brew or sumthin.
CRAE: Naw man I aint trusting you/ Aint nothing but lust in you/ Thanks be to God I obeyed the teaching I was entrusted to/ cause when you pass by you just want ya boy to backslide/ Have me feeling sick like I’m coming down off a crack high/
SIN: Man that’s a flat lie/ you act like I’m the bad guy/ you know when me and you get together we have a grand time/ lets take it back. All the way to like the 6th grade/ last thing on your mind back in the day was trying to live saved/ remember house parties, kissing in the dark?/ man that was innocent fun come on…
CRAE: NOW don’t start/ See dawg I live by the Spirit so I don’t gratify/ all them old sinful desires that never satsify/
SIN: Aye come on KILL THAT!/ Look me in my face and tell me I’m a lie/ You aint feeling chasing women, getting drunk, and getting high, stacking money, staying fly, living up the playas life, we was having fun now gone try to be religious guy
CRAE: Aye Yo man first of all LOWER YOUR VOICE! Who you talkin’ to?/ Handcuffed in August ‘02 I got caught with you/ Truck flipped over on 35 that was all from you/ I’ll mess around and lose my life man tryna walk in you/ I’m standing on these stages and got these people believing me/ what I look like trying ta gratify this disease in me/
SIN: So Now I’m a disease? Man please. I got yo back dawg/ I aint saying drop the Jesus and be a rap star/ All Im saying is when it’s you and me lets be real folk/ We aint gotta be selling drugs and tryna kill folk/ Maybe just a lil…
CRAE: What? A lil this, a lil that, a lil BET late at night, that’s like a lil crack, see you aint gone lie to me/ I see how you be tryna be/ BET tonight becomes addiction to pornography/ and that’s in no way honoring the God who’s ruling sovereignly/
SIN: Man you know you miss them old days
CRAE: Yeah you right possibly/ But after that I sober up and think of Jesus holding up…his skin up on the cross for all them drunken nights I’m throwing up/ every thought of blowin up is captured in his flowing blood/ I start thinking Philippians 4:8 when you showing up/
SIN: You know I aint gone quit right?
CRAE: Yeah I know but I’m dead to you/ and one day I’ll be present with Jesus who died and bled from you/ Colossians 1:15 thats the God that I trust in/ the Father crushed Him/ In doing so he has crushed sin
Friday, April 2, 2010
Top Picks
Complement of the day: my dear roommate Jenna
"Well, you are a lot more farm girl than a lot of people!"
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Movie of the Week: Zombieland
I know its a little rough in some places, but I absolutely love all his rules.
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Surprising moment of the week: My mom with a pile of poker chips
Apparently my brothers were teaching her a new game, and I walked in on the action!
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Encouraging person in my life this week: Kia
My soul sista! Anything and everything from the AIDS epidemic in Africa, to boys, to following God... we're there for each other! luvya girly!
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Prank of the week: my BFF telling hubby she was pregnant
Its all about ground-work folks... thats the key to a convincing bluff. April fools! (and btw, he started it!)
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Moment with God: Sunday morning church
You should totally check out this song. Vicki and Jake sang it at church and it blew me away.
"Well, you are a lot more farm girl than a lot of people!"
~
Movie of the Week: Zombieland
I know its a little rough in some places, but I absolutely love all his rules.
~
Surprising moment of the week: My mom with a pile of poker chips
Apparently my brothers were teaching her a new game, and I walked in on the action!
~
Encouraging person in my life this week: Kia
My soul sista! Anything and everything from the AIDS epidemic in Africa, to boys, to following God... we're there for each other! luvya girly!
~
Prank of the week: my BFF telling hubby she was pregnant
Its all about ground-work folks... thats the key to a convincing bluff. April fools! (and btw, he started it!)
~
Moment with God: Sunday morning church
You should totally check out this song. Vicki and Jake sang it at church and it blew me away.
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