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What I am looking forward to

You know what I'm looking forward to next week? Sleeping in (except for Sunday morning when we are leaving at 6 AM - that's just wrong) or being able to take a nap (which won't happen Sunday afternoon at it's regular time while I'm driving -- I hope I can stay awake). Doing a jigsaw puzzle. When is the last one you just sit down and did one? It not being 100 degrees and actually getting some fall weather. Reading books for the fun of it. I already have two picked out to take. Fishing. I don't touch worms or fish, but I'm going to stick a hook in the water because I can. Being about to get out and walk around. I'm tired of being glued to my office chair and when I leave it, it's been 100 degrees outside. Playing mini golf. Sitting around and watching the new TV season without interruptions. Not answering questions non-stop all day long. Not doing weekly reports. Not checking email. A change of scenery. Chicken and Dumplins at Cracker Ba

A look inside Cherished

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Thanks to everyone who took part in today's tour! It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book! You never know when I might play a wild card on you! Today's Wild Card author is: Kim Cash Tate and the book: Cherished Thomas Nelson (August 30, 2011) ***Special thanks to Audra Jennings, Senior Media Specialist, The B and B Media Group for sending me a review copy.*** ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Kim Cash Tate was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area. Her mother, a manager with AT&T, and her father, an educator

The online premiere of 180

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180 Film Turns Opinions Around Regarding Abortion New award-winning documentary is changing minds and saving lives What would you do if…? Thus begins the question being asked by author and film producer Ray Comfort in his new documentary, 180. Titled to reflect the complete turnaround in the mindsets of all to whom the question is posed, the award-winning film shows eight pro-choice people (mostly college students) changing their stance to pro-life just moments after the question is asked in its entirety. It is Comfort’s hope that the documentary, releasing online September 26th, will go viral. While skeptics of 180 (Living Waters Publications) say they can’t believe anyone would change his or her mind so quickly, Comfort accepts and even understands their disbelief, stating that he could hardly believe it himself when he first viewed the footage in the editing room. Initially, 180 was not the film he meant to produce. At the time, Comfort was taping interviews for

I'm too old for this

That's what I was thinking last night about 10:30 on the green hill of the Gexa Energy pavilion at a concert. It's not that the crowds were large or the music was too loud or that my left leg had gone to sleep earlier while sitting on the ground. It was because I was so very tired. Getting about 5 hours or less of sleep the night before didn't help. That was a combination of problems I won't go into. Oh, but it was good for me. A normal Friday night consists of coming home and turning the TV to see the ridiculous women shell out thousands of dollars for a wedding dress on Say Yes to the Dress on TLC. It usually does not take long before I fall asleep and take a two hour nap on the couch or love seat before getting up, taking a shower and going to bed. My friends Jenny, Rakia, Courtney and I went to Train and Maroon 5 to drool over Adam Levine. We would have drooled more if we had binoculars. We were way out on the lawn hill to which I have to say they did a great jo

What does it mean to be Cherished?

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God Redeems. God Restores. We Are Cherished! Kim Cash Tate and Da’T.R.U.T.H.  share how God’s amazing love restores. When Kim Cash Tate began writing Cherished , she had no idea that a real life story paralleling that in her book was about to unfold. In 2009, Christian rapper Da’T.R.U.T.H. released this statement, “In light of a moral indiscretion in my personal life, I will be taking a sabbatical from music ministry and teaching. I have repented first to God and then to my wife and family. It is my prayer that my family, supporters and the brethren in Christ will collectively be able to forgive me.” When Tate read his public statement in its entirety, including how God had shown him the power of forgiveness and restoration, she said, “That’s what Cherished is about. That God is a God who redeems and a God who restores. That no matter where you’ve been and no matter what you’ve done, God redeems. God restores. He loves with a steadfast love. You are cherishe

A sneak peek at The Fulfillment Principle

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Thanks to everyone who took part in today's tour! It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book! You never know when I might play a wild card on you! Today's Wild Card author is: Bob Westfall and the book: The Fulfillment Principle: Experiencing Pure Joy in Your Life Leafwood Publishers (July 5, 2011) ***Special thanks to Audra Jennings, The B and B Media Group for sending me a review copy.*** ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bob Westfall is president of the Westfall Group which serves charities and Christian ministries in financial stewardship an

A look inside Megan's Secrets

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Thanks to all who participated in today's tour! It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book! You never know when I might play a wild card on you! Today's Wild Card author is: Mike Cope and the book: Megan's Secrets: What My Mentally Disabled Daughter Taught Me about Life Leafwood Publishers (June 14, 2011) ***Special thanks to Audra Jennings, Senior Media Specialist, The B&B Media Group for sending me a review copy.*** ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mike Cope is an author, blogger, professor, minister and magazine editor. He has written

What to blog when you don't know what to blog

I cannot blog worth a flip from my phone with Blogger's new interface, so I will have to ramble later. This drives me bonkers!

The Young and the Breathless

In case you haven't noticed, my family is crazy. I forgot - did I blog that I thought I had killed Princess Fish the other day? I don't think that I did. Princess had been more vertical than horizontal, gulping for air, over the past week or so. I had delayed changing out the water in the fish bowls thinking that the girls were going to come pick up the fish for a few days when they went to their mom's. As a total side note, has any one else ever had custody exchanges with goldfish? Only me, I'm sure. Anyway, I decided, ok, this water needs to be changed. So, I put the net in try to catch the lethargic fish - and the net wasn't floating out either. Finally, I scoop her and put her into a cup of water. The fish goes into the cup nose down, and pretty much stays in the cup that way and doesn't bother to swish around. I pour out the smelly old water, fill it with clean water, and pour the cup of water into the bowl. The fish sure doesn't do much to swim

9th cousin 3 times removed?

My mother finally has a hobby. Well, at one time she did cross stitch, but that was many, many years ago.  She is all into this ancestry thing and this weekend she tracked down a tidbit of information that she has gotten the most excited about. She found that President George H. W. Bush's mother was a 7th cousin twice removed on her paternal grandfather's side. Now, I still don't know the rules of removal, and I think that was to her rather than her grandfather, but I am not sure why she stopped at the mother instead of George Sr. And I am not sure if that makes me and "W" ninth cousins twice removed or something four times removed or just two people living this life here on the planet Earth. I lean towards the latter. Between both sides of my family, mom has found four US presidents in my ancestry. She even called her aunt on her mother's side to brag and/or rub it in that it wasn't on that side of the family. Maybe the next time I am at the Rangers

Wishy-washy old me

Now I'm back to going on vacation. Dad told me he wanted to beg me. So, we're going in two cars now which will help me have freedom to actually do my own thing and not be stranded. That will be good since I do want to and need to actually leave the house and leave this town for a week. Here's a total side note to anything. As I was working on the lesson I am teaching, I came across a question in the student workbook. This curriculum must be somewhat lacking on updates going back to before the cold war. The lesson is on Acts 2 and Pentecost. One of the questions is, "were the first Christians communists?" WHAT? WHY? HUH? A) Where did that come from? B) What does it have to do with the rest of the lesson? C) How would these 5th graders know anything about Communism or living in a commune which more the direction of where the teacher's book had it going than the government of China. Another total side note to anything that has anything to do with an

Read the first chapter of Passion to Action

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Thanks to everyone who took part in today's tour! It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book! You never know when I might play a wild card on you! Today's Wild Card author is: Jay and Beth Loecken and the book: Passion to Action Guideposts (September 2011) ***Special thanks to Audra Jennings, Senior Media Specialist, The B&B Media Group for sending me a review copy.*** ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Jay Loecken grew up on an eighty-acre hobby farm in Minnesota as the youngest of three boys. His upbringing was solid with loving parents