Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.

March 25th, 2008

God help the next person that wants to meet me somewhere in Cary, NC.

Now, I don’t often say this, being a woman myself–but clearly, a woman designed Cary’s road system.

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Jesus is Alive!

March 24th, 2008

So, I’ve been a Christian since I was a little girl. Asked Jesus into my heart at my parent’s bedside when I was about 7 years old. Grew up in the church. Schooled in the Bible. And yet, I had never fully realized the implications of serving a living God. Not dead. Not used-to-be-alive, floating around on some cloud wearing a halo. Not a state of mind. ALIVE. Like me. Except way better, because it is only through Him that I have life at all :)

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God delivers me from all my fears.

March 20th, 2008

God’s been doing some great stuff in my spiritual life. Here’s a little progression:

Step 1. I find out I’m terrified of dying, because I fear God’s judgment even though I’m saved.
Step 2. I ask God why I’m terrified of this, and he points me to a book I read when I was a very immature Christian. The book left me with the wrong impression that I can still somehow be kept from God’s full glory even when I’m in heaven unless I do lots of great things. Like a point system. Or the NASCAR poll position.
Step 3. God delivers me from fear of judgment.
Side Effects: I now can tell people about Jesus and really believe that heaven is a wonderful thing.

And:

Step 1. I find out I’m terrified of teaching even though I love kids.
Step 2. I ask God why I’m terrified, and he points to several times in my life where I myself or my authority has been rejected or belittled.
Step 3. God delivers me from fear of teaching.
Side Effects: Coming to believe that maybe I am called to teach. So, today I mailed in my stuff to teach.

Psalm 34:4 works.

Top five items to bring to Disney World

March 5th, 2008

In order to maximize your Disney World experience as an adult, I recommend the following five items to have with you at all times:
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Jesus Christ is Truth.

February 29th, 2008

That’s all. I need Jesus. It’s that simple. The more needy I am toward him, the more He will come out of me.

Disney World can really screw with your mind.

February 28th, 2008

I had a dream last night that really shook me up. In the dream, I had died. I don’t remember now how it happened. In order to get to whatever afterlife awaited me, I had to board this Disney-like ride that would carry me away in a little rail car. Talk about Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.

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Top five reasons you should go to Disney World RIGHT NOW.

February 27th, 2008
My next few blogs will be dedicated to Disney World. We spent six MAGICAL days and five MAGICAL nights wandering around the most MAGICAL place in the world. So here, I present the top five reasons you should drop everything and get on a plane, train, or automobile to Florida RIGHT NOW.

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Happy Valentine’s Day

February 14th, 2008

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Free to Run

February 12th, 2008
run.JPG A few weeks after the new year, I decided something. I decided that I was fat and out of shape, and that just didn’t fit me at all. Now, it may come as a surprise to some people that I am in fact fat and out of shape. I know, it surprised me too.

Isn’t it funny that often we are the last people on earth to find out about ourselves what everyone else has known all along?

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Death By Taco

February 8th, 2008
Choking

No, I’m not talking about the e. coli outbreak at various Taco Bells in 2006. It’s far more serious than that. What I experienced was the excruciating pain that only a broken taco shell can cause as it scraped and tore its way down my esophagus, wreaking havoc from mouth to belly.

It still hurts to swallow.
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