Tulip Girl

One thing I love about having very new Christians and non Christians alike around me is their very different perspective. I think something happens the longer we are Christians; that we stop looking for the right answer to very important questions. Instead of really trying to get to the core of how we are supposed to treat sinners who are committing adultery, homosexuality or idolatry, we just ignore the sin and don't bring up Jesus. All the sticky subjects get forgotten and we just hope we don't come across any body we have to confront and if we do we simply avoid them. After all how many gay friends do you have and how many friends do you know who are struggling with say pornography ? I can tell you I don't have a friend who is gay and if any body struggles with pornography , they certainly haven't told me about it. Well, last week in Sunday school a new Christian had joined us. When he asked about the difference between accountability and being judgemental w...

Sarah has her first two teeth coming in on the bottom. The little white tips are visible just underneath the skin. How exciting! So far this process seems to be going pretty easy on her. She is a little more irritable by the end of the day but so far so good. Well, and she is a lot more slobbery and spitty, but it isn't has upsetting to her as I thought it would be so... so far we're good.

I have renewed the follower list. Sorry I deleted it. I just was having a hard time with somethings last week and well, I was feeling a bit like the followers list can be sort of a popularity gauge sometimes. I consider it more of a blogging buddy list. Anyway, sorry about that, got a little overzealous and a bit self righteous I think. :( If you still would like to be my blogger buddy, then by all means, I welcome you. :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I've been really trying to get deep into God's word lately. There are a few things I want to know more about like right now, Jeremiah 'cause we are studying him in Sunday School, God's call for me as a follower of Him because I feel Him calling me towards something but my heart feels a bit like Jonah; trembling at the thought of it, and also a new concept that has been forming in my head. A fresh truth for me about Jeremiah is that he struggled for a good part of his ministry with God's call to serve ...

I don't normally like to complain on my blog, but I have found something worth complaining about. That horror movie, The Orphan. Seriously? Seriously? To you all who made that stupid movie, the rest of us were wondering what were you thinking? Why with the state of the world being as it is, with so many children out there who need a good home (I worked in the juvenile court system, believe me you don't need to go to Guatamala or China to find a child), why make a movie to possibly stigmatize adopting in the eyes of prospective adoptive families like they did for clowns in It? I can't even stand seeing the trailers for that movie (all-be-it, the trailers may contain the only thirty seconds of scary scenes, thats been known to happen to more than one movie). I have tons and tons of admiration for every person who has adopted a child, many of the most amazing people I know were adopted and its a big leap of faith feuled by enormous loving hearts of prospective and existi...

I have been remiss. I promised my friend Natalie I would make sure there is a post for her to read every morning for the next week while she finishes her job and begins her awesome season of being a stay at home mom. I remember being in a place where I was burned out and ready to leave my place of work. Its tough not only if there isn't an end in sight but even tougher to stay engaged when you are only days away from the end. Natalie I won't fail you again! ;) I am very aware of how blessed I am to be able to stay home with Ms. Wiggles. I know financially this is just not possible for a lot of moms. I talked to my SIL , Julie last night and as we both love blogging, it would be so awesome to be payed to blog. I know Julie wants more than anything to be home with her children and that would just be an awesome way to be able to do something she loves and get paid to do it and it all pretty much is centered around her family. I've always dreamed of being a writer, so I...

I could call this This and That Thursday but well, maybe next week. Or not 'cause I do a lot of writing about just this and that. Anyway, I babble. I am so thankful for my family. I don't know why I got blessed with them, but I did and so no complaining I'm just very thankful. Felt Sarah's first tooth coming in this morning. Cool. Sarah also rolled over for the first time this morning. Ubber ubber cool! I'm thankful it is raining a lot lately so I don't have to water the lawn. I'm thankful for the blogger community. You rock! I'm thankful I'm not pregnant. I'm thankful for this experience of trying to sell the house and all the crazy stuff that comes with it because it is helping me to really appreciate other things more. That and I have to keep my house clean and that isn't always a tendency of mine. ;)