Southern Living Yankee

Click on this link and in everything give thanks. http://www.biblesociety.ca/free_scriptures/escriptures/ecclesiastes3/ecclesiastes3.html Tom and I went to see the movie "Bella" last night. If you want to show Hollywood that movies don't need to be saturated with sleaze and violence, you should go to this one. It's thought provoking and touching. That's all I want to say about it. Regarding the incident in church last week, click on the Apex link on the sidebar if you'd like to hear yesterday's take on it. Our pastor squarely addressed it. Good job, Pastor Rob Turner. One thing, too, we always need to discern is the difference between conviction from the Holy Spirit and accusations from the father of lies. If we're not careful we can be easily confused, because, as pastor pointed out, a tactic of the enemy is to twist scripture. My personal experience has been that accusation from satan leads to relentless guilt, while conviction from the Holy Spirit c...

Let's take the easy one first: have you seen the movie "Bella" yet? I have not, but I've heard some great things about it, so it's on my list of goals for the coming week. If you've seen it, please let me know your thoughts. If you haven't, read up on the reviews--I think you will want to see it, too. Second thing: today in church at the invitation when the pastor encouraged everyone to spend some moments in prayer or come up front to pray, a woman started telling everyone to listen to God and do what He said. I was up in the balcony so I couldn't clearly hear everything. She sounded very emotional, but she talked really fast. And I didn't think she'd ever quit! She talked so fast, tho, that there was no chance for the pastor to ask her to quit. When she finally did, the pastor asked the musicians to come close the service. Then he commented that "something happened" here this morning and we should seek to discern what it was. So, thi...

I've been living in Seattle since Wednesday. Not doing the tourist thing--I'm just enjoying being with the kids. And yes, I'm coming home to Ohio today. Here are a few pics: 1) I'm a little bleary-eyed from the 3 hour time change. Brad and Joe, and Brad's lovely friend, Rachel are getting ready to go to "Seattle Nails" with me for the boys birthday treat. 2) Brad gives a "thumbs up" on his pedicure. 3) Lisa and I cut out 1 million snowflakes for the visual crew at Anthropologie. We are loving it! 4) The slackers. 5) Lola sleeps more than my cats! Hope you enjoyed the photos. I had a good time, too. Joe & Lisa picked me up from the boondocks airport and had all day off Wednesday with me. Lisa and I spent Thursday together, Brad and I had Friday, and we all spent the whole day Saturday together: Top Pot donuts, Brad helped me pick out my own digital camera --maybe I'll get it for Christmas? Then we went to the antique mall by Pioneer Square...