Making promises can be dangerous business.

We should think about it before we say because...

making promises can be dangerous business.

stuck to the back of my mind+stoked

You ever get this feeling like you're in someone's life at a praticular time to do something inpraticular or be something praticular for them and then maybe your "job" is done and you'll be gone or maybe, just maybe you'll stay there and you realize that was just the beginning?

Mmhmm. (I guess that's why I pose the long question.)

What a privilege to speak truth, life and love into a person's life.
Also daunting.

On a totally different level...

The play is hereeeeeee. DYING ON AIR. I am pretty stoked, all things considered.
Tomorrow we have 2 performances. And then one each on Thursday and Friday. WOOT. Is this my last Co-op play? SIGH. It could well be.

I'm stoked for the friends who are coming. I am also stoked that they are indeed filiming it again so we can share it with others who can't make it to the actual play.

I'm also stoked that AOC 2009 was so amazing last weekend.

I think, I'm just stoked right now.
I'm also stoked to be me.

classified as someone

....there can be a crowd, but you can feel so alone, right in the middle of it all....
Although your identity is still intact and you're still the same person and...
You still KNOW who you are. (Well, do you? Do I?)
Who else, really knows who you are?

Does anybody take the time to know you?

What a self-centered world.
And we're all searching for significance.
We all want to belong, and we cannot deny it.

A Father delights over us and all we want is the world's applause.

The human race is so annoying on occasion.

merely a suggestion

I'm fairly sure that on a semi regular basis I need to let it all out. To the sky, the ceiling, to God.

It is quite beneficial, I am thinking.
Why keep it all pent up inside, slowly wreaking havoc on my heart and constantly tugging at my mind?
Why do I do the things that I do?

there was a smile on every face

I witnessed a beautiful wedding yesterday.
It was a party, full of joy and love.
And I was overcome with the realness of it.

The pastor who officiated had a wonderful message for the couple, (but it was also for everyone else present).
The wedding text was Mark 10: 13-16 "The Little Children and Jesus".
An odd text for your wedding- but only at first glance.

He spoke about how Jesus rebuked his deciples, saying "let the little children come to me", and then he embraced them. Hugged these children, touched them appropriately and made them feel special and adored.

He spoke about how through touch and words Jesus affirmed these children.

He spoke about how Jesus attached high value to these children's lives.

And finally he spoke about how Jesus showed grace to everyone around Him.

Then the pastor suggested that following through with, living and accepting those 4 points (main words bolded and italicized) are what makes a marriage as strong as it can be. NOT just a marriage, but a relationship, of any kind. (That's what made it a message for everyone present.)

I thought that was pretty dang awesome, and I was encouraged.

it is sweet

The joy of the Lord
The hope of the Lord
The love of the Lord
The peace of the Lord
The grace of the Lord
The faithfulness of the Lord

IS

My strength

My path
My road
My life
My all.

I can have life to the fullest.
Sweeeeeet, indeed. :)

walk first

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12

This is what I am living by.
Where God is, hope is also.
Amen.

now I understand life a little more...

Like puzzle pieces scattered over the lawn coming together with an audible click. :)

excerpts from Job 6

Oh, that I might have my request, that God would grant what I hope for.
(v.8)


What strength do I have, that I should still hope?
What prospects, that I should be patient?
Do I have the strength of stone?
Is my flesh bronze?
Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?
(v.11-13)


Teach me and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong.
How painful are honest words!
But what do arguments prove?
Do you mean to correct what I say, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?
You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.
But now be so kind as to look at me.
Would I lie to your face?
Relent, do not be unjust; reconsider, for my integrity is at stake.
(v.24-29)

(whoa...)