So....

I got a tumblr. It's here. Enjoy.

I'm gonna be trying it out for a couple of weeks. If I don't like it. Check back here. It'll be blogger for me.

Contemplation.....

I am thinking about switching to the blogging platform Tumblr.......

Opinions?

Views?

Objections?

Complaints?

Opposition?

No?

Things that made my day

1. Caramel + Apple Slices = Happy Breakfast

2. A call from a first grader asking if I "liked a snake, a yak, a gorilla or a raccoon best?"

3. A whopper storm

4. A new Flickr account

See it here

Happy Monday to you all!

quick update...

As I type this, I am sitting in the campus Library in an abandoned coffee shop. Waiting for my two friends to come so we can prepare for this tournament that is tomorrow. We are organizing and deciding whose car the two boxes will go in and printing out articles. Fun stuff.

Mom and Dad are in Houston and yours truly is depending on rides from her sisters... as I don't have a car yet. (I know, I'm ashamed of me too.) So anyway, I had to be dropped off an hour early due to said sisters' schedules. But, I am ok with that. It gives me time to write this post.

So, what are you doing over spring break week? I'd love to hear!

On thankfulness, contentment and cultures......

As I sit here in my red sneakers, I am thankful. Yup, thankful. I complain a lot, I really do. About school, chemistry, rain, sunshine (or rather the lack thereof) cool weather, colds etc. But, this earthquake and tsunami in Japan has really put things into perspective for me.

Here I am sitting on the computer "studying" in my nice warm house with nice fuzzy socks under sneakers, jeans and an overlarge sweatshirt with tea in a mug beside me and a mother just across the room who loves me very much and God who loves me so much more. And people, I complain. Do you realize how ungrateful I am? I know, it's ridiculous!

People in Japan don't have decent food, water, or shelter. They are missing members of their families, sleeping on cardboard, standing in line for hours to get rice crackers and clean water and now they have the threat of a radiation cloud hanging over their heads. If anyone has the right to complain, it is they. But, they don't. They wait patiently and are generous with the meager supplies that they have. The Japanese culture is really one of community. They care for one another.

Our culture is a self-focused culture. It is too individualistic. Sure, it's great to "be yourself" and have your own opinions, but when it goes too far (as it has) other people's opinions just don't matter anymore. YOU make your own decisions, It's YOUR life, YOU need to listen to YOUR heart, YOU deserve the best.

Our culture ignores that, in fact, we are flawed, sinful humans. We don't have enough wisdom to make decisions for ourselves. Not wise ones at least. We need the wisdom with which God has gifted others. We need to pray and read his word before we make decisions. We don't deserve the best, we don't even deserve what we have.

I am not saying that the Japanese Culture is perfect, because it's not, but what I am trying to say is that when you have a culture that doesn't basically say "you are God and your decisions matter the most" you get a lot more done.

What would happen, I wonder, if we had a 8.9 earthquake and a tsunami in San Francisco? Do you think people would stand patiently in lines to get 2 Rice cakes a person and one bottle of water? Do you think people would give their rations to those who are sick and need them more? Do you think people would refrain from looting through houses? I don't think so.

It would be more like looting and robbing and murder and chaos and riots. Our culture says "you deserve better than this."

The Japanese say "I am so blessed to be alive!", "My family is safe!", "We get clean water!"

It all comes back to contentment. Thankfulness and a realization that you DON'T deserve better, you deserve much, much worse. All we have are gifts of God's great grace.

Nothin' says "I'm sick" like the carmel I burnt.

That's right ya'lls. I burnt the carmel. I never burn carmel. I never burn ANYTHING! ever.

All that to say: I'm sick. again. I'm chalking it up to the low Vitamin D levels.

Folksies it has been a sick kinda year. To date I have had: Pneumonia, Bronchitis, strep, the one day flu, the week long flu, two sinus infections, a concussion and a variety of colds. And I ain't even kidding. The z-pack and I have been well acquainted this winter.

I need chocolate. Have a great monday peoples.

Prayers for the Unborn

Today, Kay and I had the blessed opportunity to go and pray in front of our local abortion center. We went with 40 days for life.

It was helpful to be reminded of the loss of human life everyday in our country, that is legal. Can you believe that it is legal to murder our children? Murder. I mean that. It's not "terminating a pregnancy" or "protecting women's rights", it. is. murder.

We pray for the women who decide to do this. We pray for their husbands, boyfriends and parents who convince them that it is the right thing to do. We pray for the abortionist and his staff.

Our town's abortionist is a man of hypocrisy. He aborts children in our town Tuesday-Saturday. He aborts children in a neighboring town Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. And on Mondays he delivers babies at the hospital. Talk about irony. This man believes that what he is doing is a mission from the LORD. Literally, he does. We pray for his salvation.

We had signs today that said "Pray for Abortion to End." While we were there, they taped three signs in their window. 1. "Pray to end sidewalk bullying" 2. "Jesus never shamed women" and 3. A picture of the savior. At a place of murder, they posted a picture of Jesus Christ. Yet every day they do atrocities that are direct violations of his holy nature and laws.

Christ knit the children, they are aborting, together. He knew them before they existed, he made them specially, as he did with the mothers, the fathers, the abortionist and his staff.

"I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well." Psalm 139:14

Please pray to end abortion. Pray for the salvation of those involved with it. Pray for churches to come along side single moms and families that have decided not to abort their children. Pray for Organizations that assist unwed mothers. Our God is a God of means. He will use your prayers, and he will use your actions to further his glory.