Sarah Tagged Me

So, I guess I have to tell you seven weird or random things about me? Ok.

1. I can't stand dry things touching dry things. Flour on a rolling pin, naked feet on dusty cement...things like that majorly make me cringe.

2. Growing up, I had such a bad memory that I told my friends that my birthday was on Dec. 28 (it's really the 29th). To this day, my best friend growing up still can't remember which it is.

3. I can't stand common grammar errors in writing. Sorry if you can't stand people like me!
Ending a sentence with a preposition (at, to, from...)
Misusing words like; there and their or then and than
Putting "a lot" or "really" in every other line

4. I like to have someone stand in front of me and hold my ankles while I sit. I have to be in a comfy, tall chair and the "holder" has to cup my ankles really gently or else it doesn't count.

5. I smashed a T.V. in the driveway a couple of years ago. It was out of rage.

6. I may try to conceal it, but I always want to win.

7. I love to have a party. I (almost) always like company.

So, now I tag seven other people who post seven things about themselves. Don't be shy. I look forward to reading...

Jenna
Tamara (facebook)
April (facebook)
Melissa T.
Melissa L. (facebook)
Stephanie K. (facebook)
Stephanie H. (facebook)


Sorry, I can't make a link to your page. I'll just check later.

A Time To Decide

When life changes I suppose we all have a choice. What our life circumstances become will not always be in our control. "Life" seems to have a direction of its own, not bothering to check with me about the flow or timetable.

While a senior in high school, I helped select the following quote for our senior motto: "We are exactly where we have chosen to be." I no longer remember the author, and yet I have often thought about that message. Yes, we are, in a sense, where we have chosen, but life is not a bank account, which yeilds exactly what we have deposited. I suppose it's more like the stock market. We deposit and hope that the market will improve. We research and find the most promising financial future, but even the most experienced broker cannot assure you of immediate, or even eventual gain. You watch and wait, hoping to someday be exactly where you have chosen to be.

So in the midst of being "not" exactly where I have chosen to be, I have a choice to make. How will I respond to the life that is mine - not that life which I thought I chose? Will I find the strengths of my situation? The strengths of my spouse? The beauty of my children? The sweetness of the unpredicted? Or will I become bitter? Will I cast off God and refuse to forgive because "I have that right"? Will I shrivel? Or will I choose abundant life?

Elise, Silas, Emmitt & Amelia: we love it when Amelia and her mommy come to play!

The three little squishy ones.


Dad, Elise, Mom, Emmitt, Me, Barry & Silas at Thanksgiving

The Thanksgiving crew including JD, Kara, Kylen, Evie, & Lydia. We are really missing Angie and her family.