1. If you put half and half in a starbucks instant iced coffee drink, you will have a near-perfect mocha for a fraction of the price and calories.
2. This summer has been a crazy roller coaster, but I'm not getting off yet.
3. Nothing is just a thing if you look at it in terms of potential. It's fun. Just try it sometime.
4. Jeremiah 29:13 and Psalm 119:8 have a really good point about seeking God, not with your whole strength or mind or energy, but with your HEART. Pastor Martin was right when he said that we can have our doctrine spot-on and still not have God with us if we're not doing this.
5. It was really, really hard for me not to go to Camp Hope! But I was brave and did it.
6. I worked for one whole day at a warehouse in Auburn on Monday as a temp. And that has been the extent of my working experience in the last six months. But after VBS is done, I hope to work a lot more.
7. VBS stuff has been hard for me because I'm directing a play and I hate being in charge.
8. It is SUNNY today, and therefore everything is GREAT!
9. God's work is often the most unrewarding you could possibly do. You go around planting seeds and rarely if ever see even the first sprouts of a tree growing. You work and work to set something up and for whatever reason, no one comes. It's the strangest thing and totally unexpected to me. Kind of makes me reconsider why we do this stuff in the first place- because God said so, or because we want to see exciting things happen in our names?
10. Lindy makes the best hard boiled eggs imaginable.
Thank you very much for those varied 10 observations/facts. You'll be fine directing for the VBS. DO HARD THINGS!!! I'm glad you got a job. I think (now this is just my thought at 11pm so take it as such) that perhaps your #4 and #9 are deeply related. If we really seek to know God from our heart, then we will be stripped of all self-importance and desire for self-satisfaction and really depend upon God's working. When we do that, working for God will be the MOST satisfying work EVER because we'll be excited that God promises to work even when from our puny perspective, everything looks like nothing is happening. (BTW, that thought about nothing really lost me ;-)) Okay, there ends my almost-midnight ramblings. Thanks for posting. Fun idea.
ReplyDeleteOkay... I'm all for mocha and such, but how does putting half and half into instant coffee (milk+cream+coffee) equal mocha (coffee+milk+chocolate)? I am interested to learn the secret of this potentially marvelous and beautiful thing...
ReplyDelete"It is sunny today, therefore everything is great."
ReplyDeleteThat should be a mathematical theorem.
Oh, thanks for commenting guys. I didn't know these were all here! Julie, I think you're right about 4 and 9 being connected. Anonymous, whatever, if it tastes good and it has chocolate and coffee in it, it's a mocha to me.
ReplyDeleteI <3 you.
ReplyDelete9. We do it because we love Him. Because we can't not love Him and we can't not fear Him and every part of us should want to love Him and serve Him. Not duty. Or self-glorification. Though that happens sometimes too. (which isn't good.)
Yeah, maybe you're right- although I think there is an element of duty in it too. I mean, you just have to do things even if you don't feel that way.
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