Rambling for days.....

This entry actually began on Wednesday May 2…..

So I know I’m so slacking on my journaling….I was blessed with an opportunity this week to learn patience and forgiveness toward my sister and my cousin and my father for giving me their cold! Lol blah! So I’ve not really been terribly interested in looking at a computer screen more than necessary. It’s more like a sinus cold because it was so in my head and behind my eyes….but anyways…I’ll live…and I’m actually feeling much better today….

So we had a fabulous weekend at Women of Faith last weekend! We laughed we cried, we laughed some more. I so recommend going to the Friday session (or the whole darn thing if you’ve never been!!). I just got so much out of it. Although, this is humorous, all us girls were trying to take notes all weekend and they really dim the lights when there is a speaker and up in the rafters, where we sat most of the weekend, it was really dark…so I just wrote really big and hoped that I wasn’t writing over something else. So Sunday when I got home, I wanted to show husband some of the valuable tidbits that I wrote down and for the most part, my notes made sense….but there was one page, where apparently I’d already written notes and then I wrote more notes on top of the other notes….yeah, that’s not legible at all! Lol

But anyway, the Friday day session was great. Dr. Henry Cloud was so insightful and interesting. He really has a way of bringing God’s word together with human psychological truths to really bring home a point. It was so cool to see him speak live. Some of you may not know this about me (I know right?!), but I’m a New Life Live junkie! And he’s on that radio program, so it was cool to see him live – he looked nothing like what I’d pictured though – but he definitely sounded like himself. So then after the Friday day session was over, we went and checked into the hotel and went the scenic route (if you sense sarcasm there – you are correct! None of us girls have a very good sense of directions) back to the conference area where we had a lovely, but quite rushed, dinner at Mongolian BBQ – yum! So we get to the Friday evening session just in time – whew! We climb up to our seats – and then get cozy (not the good kind of cozy – the kind of uncomfortable, wiggle til you get as comfy as you can with an elbow in your side or the seat pressing unnaturally against your legs, kind of cozy lol). Actually, it wasn’t that bad once you came to terms with the fact that this was not a place to have personal space issues.

Anyway, so we had worship time, and then all the speakers came out one by one to say a little bit, and it was all lively and loud, and then all of sudden they introduced Max Lucado. Now I am a huge fan of the author Max Lucado. His writing is very anointed. But I must say, I’m not so much a fan of the public speaker Max Lucado. He has an extremely soothing voice. And it was really quite a contrast from the upbeat tempo of the evening. It came to a screeching halt very suddenly. Now granted, all us girls had been up since the butt crack of dawn, but all of us were struggling to keep our eyes open. That is until at least three of us got the uncontrollable giggles. There was a woman sitting next to cousin Chelle, who for some reason, when she agreed with the speaker, would sort of grunt or almost groan. It was really a creepy noise she made. Also, when Max was talking he said “the armies” and Mandy or (or both – it was never clear) Jeanna thought he said Arby’s and they kept saying Arby’s?…so they started giggling and then I started giggling because they were giggling and then Missy woke up and asked what we were giggling about (I later figured out that she thought we were giggling at her sleeping) and I was giggling too much to say – I do not know what we’re giggling about…that went on for a good while. Have you ever had the giggles and you just can’t stop giggling? That’s what I had going on…it was kind of awful – but it did feel good to giggle too…

Anyways…it was a really great weekend of being spiritually fed and also cousin and sister bonding time. During a couple of the breaks, we had some really great discussions. Our cousin Jeanna and her husband are considering adopting and so are Jimmie and I, so we talked about that some.


Friday May 4….

Happy Friday! So umm…let me read what I’ve typed so far, since I started this entry two days ago…..

::reading::

ok so I think I sufficiently recapped the Women of Faith weekend…it was AWESOME!

I’ve had a cold most of the week so not much interesting has happened, well not much that I can remember anyways because I’ve been walking around in a sort of cloud ::brain cloud:: (any Joe v the Volcano fans? “I have a ::waving hand over my head:: brain cloud”) ok ….lalala…I’m a flibberdy-jibbet….I have no response to that….

Seriously, I’m done quoting Joe versus the Volcano…I love that movie though! I’ll always stop and watch that movie when they show it!

Nerd…

So it’s Friday and I’m obviously in a really strange mood! I heard something on the radio this morning…no wait! It was on Regis and Kelly. Umm..some guy who is also an author and a reporter on CNN…oh man..he used to host the Mole…grrr…his name is just on the tip of my brain…anyways…she was talking about when she first started working on Regis and Kelly, people would encourage her to keep a journal of the different people she interviewed, etc. And she said she tried that but she would read what she’d written and she didn’t like her written voice. So she asked the guy (grr can’t remember his name dangit!) which he liked better - his written voice better or his speaking voice? And I thought that was a really cool way to put it. Which do you all like better? Personally, umm, do not take this journal entry as an example, lol, but personally, I actually prefer my written voice…cuz like you have time to put things together better (again – don’t use this entry as an example of that! Lol) but also, wouldn’t it be great in your speaking voice to have a backspace button??! Or delete….I mean really! Lol ::hitting buttons:: Home Home…or Esc!! Wow the possibilities are endless there huh!

Anyways…I really do apologize for the strange mood…

So I guess that I’ll post this post…I really don’t have a lot to add…

I bought some art this week from a lady from church who is a bonafide folk artist. I’m thinking of asking her to like tutor or mentor me. I just haven’t a clue where to start. I think I would like to give it a try to be a “serious” artist…like I paint on slate and furniture…anything that doesn’t move…but I’ve never really tackled canvas and serious folk art scapes…if that makes any sense? Lol….she had a gallery in Henry County and she recently moved her gallery here to LaGrange so I hope to go visit her more now that she’s here.

Umm…my boss and I went there…oh I have to say, I really flubbed up a witnessing opportunity…so, ok, the print that I bought from my artist friend…her name is Emmy….check out her website….www.Emmysart.com…anyway, she is a Christian and she has been on an Emmaus Walk and also helped on one. So she had this print of a folk art rendition of the picture of the two pilgrims with Jesus on the road to Emmaus. At the bottom it says “Did not our hearts burn within us”. So that’s the print I bought and as Judge and I were walking back to work, she asked me what Emmaus was….so I fumbled through the story about how after Jesus died, two guys were walking to Emmaus and this stranger joined them and after He left, they realized that they had walked with Jesus. And that was about the extent of the conversation….believe you me I have replayed that moment in my head so many times…I could have said…I should have said…oh man what an opportunity foiled!! Argh!!! I so could have should have said more…but I didn’t. You know why? Well I’m sure there are a mirade of reasons why but the biggest reason is because I do not feel that I am (in my speaking voice anyway) eloquent at all. And my boss, a Judge, a holder of a doctorate, a very well read, well spoken, wise woman, is very well spoken and whem it comes right down to it, intimidates the heck out of me. But why, when I know that Jesus is the way, the truth, the life, and no one comes to the Father but by Him, why can’t I convey that? Why can’t I feel confident in conveying that to someone that I deem so wise? Anyway…I need prayers…I’m sure we all need prayers in this are. I need to be bold about my faith. In our culture which tells us that faith is a personal thing and don’t beat people over the head with a Bible…well that is simply not what the Bible teaches is it? Don’t hide your light…let it shine!

Argh! Anyways…just thought I’d share that…

I better post this post before it turns into a book….

Love and prayers….