Hi Becky -- thanks for visiting my blog today and for your truly life-giving comment on my post about body image. It lifted my spirits to read it. I wrote you a short thanks in return. And now I came here and saw your SO CUTE haircut. I wish my hair could do that! I tried to make it do that -- or something close to it; I asked the hairstylist to make it like Meg Ryan's in You've Got Mail -- except there is one problem: I have thick curly hair that will NEVER look like Meg Ryan's in You've Got Mail. I had hair envy of her so bad, and I could do nothing about it! Now I have hair envy of you. Hmph. The madness never ends! :)
Anyway, thanks for visiting. I'm glad to have now made your acquaintance and look forward to continuing in it!
I told God recently that I was bored with him. Pretty gutsy of me, eh? I couldn't believe my own audacity, and yet that was how I felt, and I figured I should at least be honest about my offensive feelings since God knows them anyhow. And I wondered, what would provoke me to tell the God of the universe that I was finding him uninteresting, ho hum, nothing to write home about? What brought me to this point? And did I really mean what I said? After discussing it with my ever-lovin' husband, I realized that what I meant when I told God I was bored with him was that I was actually bored with the ways of knowing him that I have experienced thus far. 25 years of life in the evangelical world has filled my brain with tons of repeated words and ceremony. I'm bored with praise choruses. I'm bored with organ music. I'm bored with guitars and mediocre worship leaders. I'm bored with sermons, and psalms and phrases like "Blessed be the name of the Lord," and ...
I've been asked, actually tagged, by my friend and colleague David A. Zimmerman to share two tidbits of information about myself with the wide world: a) what does my home office look like? and b) what music am I into now? So, let's start with part *a*. Here are a few photos of my office space. Since I work at home, this is where I spend ohhh, probably about 10 hours of every day (work and home messing around combined). Sick, isn't it? No wonder I have to go to the chiropractor. A person shouldn't be this sedentary. Pic #1 = my desk Pic #2 = Jeff's desk Pic #3 = the wall that connects us So that's that. Frankly, I'm scared to imagine what these photos reveal about me and my work habits. I guess those are best left unsaid. Yes, there are two imacs on my desk. No, I don't work for NASA. Okay, on to the second part: Music I've been dabbling in. 1) On the only cool radio station in the entire Metro Detroit area (Ann Arbor's 107.1 should you come to v...
A few weeks ago I noticed an announcement in our church bulletin for the annual women's tea. We women were heartily encouraged to attend to enjoy some fellowship and a testimony from a woman who had adopted a child from oversees. Strangely, my response to this announcement was decidedly negative. In fact, inside my head it sounded somthing like "blech-no way do I want to go to that." I began to wonder why my ire was raised by this church sponsored tea party. After all, I have been to high tea before several times and enjoyed it very much. In fact, I was going to be having "tea" at a friend's house the following weekend. So why the distain for this particular tea? After some contemplation, I realized that I was feeling frustrated because many churches I've been to only offer this type of event for women. It's like they think when women get together with each other all we want to do (and should want to do) is talk about tea cups and knitting and our ...
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