You like Barney and Friends. So what?

I love to read what people’s favorite books, movies, music and TV shows are on Facebook. Also, the recent 25 Random Things epidemic was intriguing as well. But a lot of times, when people say they like Star Wars or listen to Backstreet Boys or enjoy reading about the Ming Dynasty, they often put a follow-up “Yeah, I’m a nerd,” or “Totally lame, I know but…” or “Who actually reads, but I do like…”

Don’t feel the need to put some sort of disclaimer. Or justification for a particular taste. You like it. Awesome. Now, have a ball.

Jeanne, be kind and tenderhearted.

Not to be an emo and “where my heart on my tear-stained sleeve” with this particular post, but lately I’ve thought A LOT about how I would feel if all of the unkind (and I mean all. everything. about everyone.) words I’ve said, whether serious or “joking,” were played back to me. I think that I might literally cut my tongue out. Some words spoken out of anger, some out of stupidity, some spoken as a means of self-glorification or self-affirmation. I can recall (and I believe because of the Holy Spirit) some recent specific incidents, which I wish I could erase. I do believe that the Holy Spirit would not want me to wallow in my guilt but rather aspire, with conviction and whole dependence on His grace and strength to BE KIND and TENDER-HEARTED and to walk in love. Walk in LOVE.

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i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

Required Reading

To Read in the Fabulous ‘09 (Or at least the first quarter…I don’t want to bite off more than I can chew)

- Lord of the Rings
- The Hobbit
- Patriotic Grace
- Wordliness
- Mere Christianity
- Roaring Lambs

Has anyone read any of these and would like to comment? Or make any recommendations of your own?

Established 1856

I’m staring at a picture of Burberry rain boots that I have tacked to my happy place the cork board. If I owned this pair of boots, I believe I would put them on display in my living room, not stomp in muddy precipitation.

OK, OK, what’s the point then, right? Well, they are pretty darn awesome for rain boots….

Week of: December 7

Who: Bobby for inviting me to Azia (see below)

What: The Dark Knight. A great movie. IMO, a poignantly realistic portrayal of our despicable human natures.

When: Thursday night with Christopher Parkening and Jubilant Sykes. They can keep playing and singing forever.

Where: Azia….I don’t typically dine at these establishments, but a kind friend invited me. And it was a great experience. I personally enjoyed the Asian-rubbed NY Strip with Brie something-or-other and Cognac reduction something-or-other. It was fantastic. I do like sushi, but I’ve never had the raw fish kind. So, eel it was.

Why: For unto us a Son is given. Emphasis on the word GIVEN.

Week of: November 30

Who: Dave for taking me home and back home.

What: Christmas fabric garlands…Kyle Buttram (site) (store)

When: Sunday afternoon coffee time with dear Mom

Where: Surprisingly, my new home

Why: Because He Reigns infinitely deeper and wider than human scope

Say Hello

“I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stumped by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, ‘Hi.’ They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.”

- Augesten Burroughs

Week of: November 2

Who: AT&T lady who answered my call to order DSL. I hope she gets a prize for being so nice.

What: Belkin arm band iPod holder. Almost Batman-ish in its utilitity-beltish contruction and look. Don’t know why I didn’t get one of these sooner.

Where: My sister and brother-in-law’s new apartment (temporary abode until a permanent move to Fee-nix to plant a church. THANKFULLY, their aparment smells just like their condo did: something savory, something sweet, a mulled cider candle and fresh laundry. It’s actually not always AWESOME-smelling, but it never smells bad. And it’s always a variation of the above combination.

When: Called my Dad Wednesday after the election. Cool guy, my dad is.

Why: He alone is worthy to take the book, and to open the seals: for He was slain, and has redeemed us to God by His blood

DelightfulSpectacularLoveable

Buying DSL was like finding the way to Narnia through an old wardrobe in my apartment. I thought I could withstand the draw, defy the rule and rebel against the trend, but alas, King Internet has added one more territory (my apartment) to his gigantic reign.

I’m an idiot for not joining sooner.