Friday, August 19, 2011
Mayday! Mayday!
So I semi crashed and burn eh? Fell right off the diet horse for a bit. But the goals don't change and the motivation stays the same. I start again folks. Today was number one of starting the two weeks again. I know I can do this. I've done it before and plus this time I am going to a bible study like group on weight loss with God. Woo hoo. It's gonna rock and I know I'm going to be under 200 pounds by Christmas. Even if I am 199. It doesn't matter. It cannot be to hard to lose 29 pounds in 5 months. That's about 6 pounds a month. Not bad at all. I'm going to do this. Workout every day and no more starch. Yay. I'm glad I'm doing this again. Cannot wait for the next weight in. The goal is hopefully 216 but I'm flexible. If this blog post looks funny it's because my computer has got some serious issues going on right now and I haven't been able to get it fixed yet. So I am to make do and use my iPod. Whatever works right?
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Today was a near perfect day.
Brooke got baptized today! Woooo!!
Today I woke up at 5:45am. Yuck, but I was pumped, today was Brooke's baptism! So I jump out of bed and get ready, shower, straighten, and out the door. We all headed down to the river in Duncan, and it was pretty deserted, the service was to start at about 8:00am, and we got there probably 7:45. We met up with some family and walked to the river. The kids were pretty frustrated that they couldn't go swimming with Brooke, but they got over and started to draw in the sand.
Soon, it was pretty pack with the pastors and people who had come to see their loved ones get baptized.After we sang some hymns with nothing but our lead pastors guitar, he lined up all the people getting in the river. There was quite a few people, about 9. The oldest was 69 and the youngest was 9. They all got a chance to say something. We were there for Brooke but we were also glad to see a guy from BCTeenChallenge get baptized. We've been hanging out with some of the guys from that program, and they are all inspiring in there own right.They were also beyond pumped for Brooke. One of the guys that has really connected with us gave everyone big high fives. He always plays with the kids and it just like a big brother to them.
So soon it's Brooke's turn to get in the water. I was bit emotional, it was so neat to get to see her make this promise to God. It was absolutely beautiful. Then after we were done, I got to meet some family friends that I hadn't met yet. Gave my Lord of the Rings DVDs to the BCTeenChallenge guys, because they all have to see those movies so that we can hang out with them. Just kidding! But they need to watch them.
Then it was Church time, it was a beautiful service with the worship being done by Trevor Dick from Compassion. He is the best violinist ever. It was stunning music.
After church we went home for a nap. Zzzzzzz.
Then it was KidzZone (used to be Kidtown) time! There were a video camera crew because our church is being shown at a World Leader Summit. But we just acted normal and had a wonderful day at Kidz Zone. I really love playing with the kids down there. They are all so special to my heart.
Then it was home time, and life didnt stop there, we have to give our new puppy, our cat and our dog flea baths.... yuck.
Now its about 7:50pm. I'm beyond tired, but I'm going to try to get in some bio questions and finish my facebook scrabble games.
Thank the Lord for the best day today!
Today I woke up at 5:45am. Yuck, but I was pumped, today was Brooke's baptism! So I jump out of bed and get ready, shower, straighten, and out the door. We all headed down to the river in Duncan, and it was pretty deserted, the service was to start at about 8:00am, and we got there probably 7:45. We met up with some family and walked to the river. The kids were pretty frustrated that they couldn't go swimming with Brooke, but they got over and started to draw in the sand.
Soon, it was pretty pack with the pastors and people who had come to see their loved ones get baptized.After we sang some hymns with nothing but our lead pastors guitar, he lined up all the people getting in the river. There was quite a few people, about 9. The oldest was 69 and the youngest was 9. They all got a chance to say something. We were there for Brooke but we were also glad to see a guy from BCTeenChallenge get baptized. We've been hanging out with some of the guys from that program, and they are all inspiring in there own right.They were also beyond pumped for Brooke. One of the guys that has really connected with us gave everyone big high fives. He always plays with the kids and it just like a big brother to them.
So soon it's Brooke's turn to get in the water. I was bit emotional, it was so neat to get to see her make this promise to God. It was absolutely beautiful. Then after we were done, I got to meet some family friends that I hadn't met yet. Gave my Lord of the Rings DVDs to the BCTeenChallenge guys, because they all have to see those movies so that we can hang out with them. Just kidding! But they need to watch them.
Then it was Church time, it was a beautiful service with the worship being done by Trevor Dick from Compassion. He is the best violinist ever. It was stunning music.
After church we went home for a nap. Zzzzzzz.
Then it was KidzZone (used to be Kidtown) time! There were a video camera crew because our church is being shown at a World Leader Summit. But we just acted normal and had a wonderful day at Kidz Zone. I really love playing with the kids down there. They are all so special to my heart.
Then it was home time, and life didnt stop there, we have to give our new puppy, our cat and our dog flea baths.... yuck.
Now its about 7:50pm. I'm beyond tired, but I'm going to try to get in some bio questions and finish my facebook scrabble games.
Thank the Lord for the best day today!
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Jeremiah was a bullfro.......prophet.
So the other day I was praying about this.. thing that is going on in my life. I'm still not going to put up the details, but it has to do with matter of the heart. I was praying on what to do about it because I have never really had experience with things such as this. Anyways, I sat in my room with my bible and prayed that I would open up to whatever God wanted me to read and that it would pertain to my issue. I opened to Jeremiah, and it didn't seem to have anything to do with what I was praying about, so I tried again, I landed on Jeremiah, again. and again. So at this point, I decided, Ok, looks like I need to read Jeremiah.
So I snuggled into my bed and began to read. It was an interesting experience to say the least. God was pretty upset and how his people just basically gave him the middle finger, and he would rant and rave about how he was going to destroy them. And at this point I was all over it, "SMITE THEM" the warrior inside me cried. But, then God does the coolest thing. He gives them a chance, and many of them don't take it, but he loves them (and us) so much he gives us another chance. He even sneaks a hint of the coming of Jesus in the book. It made for quite and interesting read.
What I also learned from it, was that I didn't really find anything to help me with my issue, save a verse I'm going to put at the end, but I found out the neat thing, that God sometimes, just wants to hang out with us, and chat with us.
So I snuggled into my bed and began to read. It was an interesting experience to say the least. God was pretty upset and how his people just basically gave him the middle finger, and he would rant and rave about how he was going to destroy them. And at this point I was all over it, "SMITE THEM" the warrior inside me cried. But, then God does the coolest thing. He gives them a chance, and many of them don't take it, but he loves them (and us) so much he gives us another chance. He even sneaks a hint of the coming of Jesus in the book. It made for quite and interesting read.
What I also learned from it, was that I didn't really find anything to help me with my issue, save a verse I'm going to put at the end, but I found out the neat thing, that God sometimes, just wants to hang out with us, and chat with us.
What a cool God. So the verse I was left with to kinda give me some perspective on my issues was
“This is what the LORD says, he who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it—the LORD is his name: ‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’" -Jeremiah 33:2-3
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Define Dancing.
The title is a song from Wall-e. It is one of my most favorite songs in the world. Most of my favorite music is from movies, with no words in them. It's feels like if my soul could sing, it would sing Define Dancing as I dance around on a beach or in the snow, while the night sky is twinkling above my head with every star in the sky shining.
Yah, that's what my soul would be doing.
Yah, that's what my soul would be doing.
Doing something that scares you.
I hate that saying,
I mean, it obviously scares you for a reason, so why go and do it.
So I can be scared everyday? Yah ok, sounds great.
I'm not saying that you should never try new things, but I'm not going to wake up and say to myself, I'm going to snuggle a spider today and give my self a heart attack.
Anyways, the point is today, I did something that scared me, on a slightly emotional level, and no, I didn't die, and it was alright, and no you're not getting details. This is just me hoping that it goes over well.
I mean, it obviously scares you for a reason, so why go and do it.
So I can be scared everyday? Yah ok, sounds great.
I'm not saying that you should never try new things, but I'm not going to wake up and say to myself, I'm going to snuggle a spider today and give my self a heart attack.
Anyways, the point is today, I did something that scared me, on a slightly emotional level, and no, I didn't die, and it was alright, and no you're not getting details. This is just me hoping that it goes over well.
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