best yet

tonight, this made me laugh out loud. for awhile.

"...one person can't feel all that at once, they'd explode!"

"Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have."

You have to love Harry Potter!

if furniture could talk

dear owner,

please clean me off at your first available chance.

sincerely,

your bed (who is NOT your clothes holder because you are too lazy to put them away)

lifesong of late

It's time for healing time to move on
It's time to fix what's been broken too long
Time make right what has been wrong
It's time to find my way to where I belong
There's a wave that's crashing over me
All I can do is surrender

Whatever You're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos somehow there's peace
It's hard to surrender to what I can't see
but I'm giving in to something heavenly

Time for a milestone
Time to begin again
Revaluate who I really am
Am I doing everything to follow Your will
or just climbing aimlessly over these hills
So show me what it is you want from me
I give everything I surrender...

Time to face up
Clean this old house
Time to breathe in and let everything out
That I've wanted to say for so many years
Time to to release all my held back tears

Whatever You're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but I believe
You're up to something bigger than me
Larger than life something heavenly

-Something Heavenly (Whatever You're Doing), Sanctus Real

my sweet girl

Today, I got a letter from one of my sponsored children, Masresha. Once a year, Food for the Hungry has every child in the sponsorship program write a thank you letter to their sponsor, and that's what today's letter was. Most letters are generally the same, telling you how your money affects their lives, what it allows them to have, etc. Each letter, though, is totally personalized in the last few sentences. Masresha's last few sentences melted my heart.

"I love you so very much. You are one of my family members, and I also am the family of your family." Masresha, her mom and I. July 2008

my need for bara

bara (hebrew): to create something out of nothing.

"Abraham was first named "father" and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said he would do...He didn't tiptoe around God's promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, sure that God would make good on what he had said." romans 4:18-19

Excuse Me?

This morning at school, I was talking to one of the kindergarten boys about his new haircut. It was one of the strangest cuts I've seen on a white kid, so I asked him who cut it. He told me that his grandpa took him to the barbershop to get it done. We talked for a minute more about it, then something I was totally unprepared for came out of his mouth: "You know where else my grandpa took me? To the bar." Uhhh, yeah. I wasn't sure I heard right, so I asked him again. And he repeated it again. Wondering just what a five year old does in bar, I asked him. He said he drank a water while his grandpa had a beer. WHAT?!?!?! First of all, show me grandpa, because I'd like to punch him in the face, second of all: why do you take a five year old to a bar? Who lets five year olds into bars?! I was totally stunned. And appalled. And really, REALLY wanted to say something to his mom this afternoon when she picked him up (because he told me that grandpa told him not to tell her). Seriously.

newest family addition

Meet Mathilda. The newest member of my immediate family.



She even speaks to me in a british accent.