My Own Thoughts

I received my first rejection letter. It was phrased very nicely, saying that they were forwarding my application to the department most suitable, but I don’t want them to do that. I sent an application for that job already. I would have preferred that they had just said, “You do not match our qualifications.”

I woke up at least every two hours enough to look at the clock, thinking it was time to get up. We may have to get blackout curtains and actually use them. All the neighbors leave lights on at night and it seems like day when you wake up at 11:30 or 2 or 3 [...]

When was the last time you wondered about your identity and place in life? I don’t think I have done this in a while. I have wondered what I am supposed to be doing. I asked for prayers for that tonight at Challenge Group. Have you experienced the Enemy trying to steal your identity? By [...]

Map of Betrayal Click thumbnail to view high rez flyer (300dpi). Fits letter size paper. Suitable for flyering your town or campus.

Jesus risked rejection. Right now in your life do you have a relationship in which the communication is really breaking down? Yes, with my mother. That, however, is not a result of a broken relationship, but an artifact of her mental instability. It is very hard to speak with someone who screams at the top [...]

When was the last time you remember stopping to savor the moment? Yesterday in the fog. I just looked around and thought how beautiful everything was. A few days ago on the way to work I noticed the water in a manmade lake and enjoyed it. A couple of nights ago cuddling with R, I [...]

For my husband to go to the museums with me and appear to enjoy them. It’s Pompeii right now at one.

I should point this out to homeschooler friends. It is here.

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” –Henry David Thoreau “If you don’t know what your passion is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.” –Oprah [...]

“If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.” –Edward Everett Hale

I learned a new meaning for that term today. A boy was hit on his bike by a car. I was driving down the one way road going away from him. An ambulance turned in going the wrong way. We all pulled aside to let it by. Then the fire truck did the same. And [...]

I must have a really good life or I’ve run off all the sandpaper people. There just weren’t any I could think of. There is the lady I talk to who is always negative about everything, but I like her and go out of my way to talk to her. And my middle sister… She’s [...]

I wouldn’t have. But Dave Barry can make me do it. And, truthfully, I am much more relieved about that 17,000 feet of tube that will enter my body in four years than I would have been otherwise. I said a prayer for both his brothers.

Did they really think the world was flat?

This day is about conflict. I have written before about my besetting sin. Perhaps I did not also tell you that I try to avoid conflict by giving in on anything that is not important. I know for some people everything is important, but not for me. If you want to go to the store [...]

My first book is about bad things happen even when you are trying to do God’s will. My second book’s theme is bad things happen to good people. Something that is in my books and that I had never articulated before, although I have thought about it a lot, though not this way, is: God [...]

“To accept others means we have to stop trying to change them and we start trying to understand them.” And this one from Mother Teresa struck a strong and loud chord with me: “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish he didn’t trust me so much.”

Last night God called to mind a hurt R gave me, probably without even realizing it. I don’t think I explained to him how much it hurt or even fought hard against his pronouncement. I made a single complaint/request after the initial one and moved on. I love him regardless. Is that forgiveness? It still [...]

If I had one month to live, I would not be spending six or more hours a day applying for jobs. I would not be looking at jobs and wonder whether or not I really want to get them, should get them, or whether it would be better for me to stay home another year [...]

(that I’ve ever heard of at any rate) was written sometime before 1196, when its author died. At least I suppose he wrote it before then. He could have been a zombie later and written it… Found it at Scribal Terror.