Proverbs 18:13

Proverbs 18:13

Love the cross necklace my

Love the cross necklace my sis gave me. Have worn smaller ones but this makes me think of Jesus whenever I glance in the mirror...

Shin Shin

This is an old article but it makes sense for what hubby and I were talking about tonight: http://www.jewishchronicle.org/article.php?article_id=1645

http://readytofollow.blogspot.com/2011/06/exhausted-and-unsatisfied.html

Romans 12:2

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Repetition really is key to my learning

As my daughter moves up through Jewish daycare into actual day school I'm starting to remember more and more about the high holidays through repetition!
     I tried really hard just now to imbed a cool video Union Square's High Concept Sukkahs from 2010.  But that didn't happen.  And now I'm quitting.....Anyway, she was featured in the class newsletter under the schools Sukkah and that term was now vaguely familiar to me after researching from last year so that's fun :)

Firstfruits

I hesitate to post this because I'm not sure I'm going to do anything about it?  But I've told my husband on more than one occasion that it's unfortunate that all he gets is my leftovers.  He sees me in the am when I'm running out the door with no lipgloss on and dog/kid/lunches/laptop under each arm and then he sees me in the pm when I'm running upstairs to put on my PJs and I can't wait to get my smudgy glasses on because my contacts are crispy saucers oh and when I finally get to unpin my hair from the work day up-do.  Well I guess he sees me on the weekends when I'm either decompressing from the work week or ignoring housework or running like a mad woman to pack in all the kid time I can because I feel like I've missed out on it for the past five days...  Point being:  I've tried to be thoughtful this evening about how I could make my God time more of a priority time (sorry hubby, you are still getting the shaft).  As it is now I feel proud that I'm able to s-q-u-e-e-z-e him in at possibly the end of every day but what if I were to treat God like I treat strangers?  What if I would put my freshest foot forward on my daily devotions?  What if I were to carve out a real hour for Bible reading?  What if I wouldn't try to "multi-task" when I pray?

Family prayer

It's really life's most wonderful blessing to have a God-fearing spouse... When I said as like, the last thing to shutting off the kitchen lights and going up to bed tonight that we really needed to iron out a family prayer, he said I know.
Thank you Lord for that.  It's hard enough to just speak it but you are leading us (it seems this way at least) to bring about a bigger confidence in You together.

Do Christian's know how to be angry?

http://www.walking-wounded.net/html/anger.html

Ack. Forgot to say last night that combos with my fam about religous topics are getting really easy

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I expected more out of my fave clever show (big bang theory) when they touted a religous theme for an episode...

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Our daughter loves Noah

:) Just thought I'd mention that every old-ish man we see in any children's Bible story book is "Noah!"
After listening to that Heaven is for Real book, maybe it means she'll be buds with Noah in heaven???

Irrationally generous

Common themes on the tv show House are that being benevolent is a symptom of a neurological problem.  I wanted to research that.....  AND may God grant me that "bug".

What does the Bible say about laziness?

http://www.gotquestions.org/laziness-Bible.html
This website actually seems like a neat reference...

Jesus' papa was a carpenter (have I posted that before?)

So in heaven, I bet that God lets me organize and then craft ALL DAY.  But when I'm done with the crafting he doesn't even make me clean up.........

In the midst of a fall cleaning thing and thinking about jesus blood washing white as snow.

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Loved the Heaven is for Real book (thx Ma) for all the reasons Todd Burpo lists in the epilogue.

Ornate cross necklaces are cool AND a statement

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prayer

When I need help I know God hears me better on my knees............................................................

Hi God, I had every intention of praying with our daughter tonight by her new "big girl" bed but it was too tempting not to introduce something new into her routine and after all, she was already tucked in.
Please help me to help her learn how to pray.  Again, every intention of putting together a family prayer and that just hasn't happened yet.  But thank you for your forgiveness and for your understanding that I'm learning a lot in the margins but it feels like I need to focus on my day job right now, still 24/7.
Regards, nell

Child-like faith

I'm not going to go into this real in depth right now but the book I'm listening to, Heaven is for Real brought up really good points about Child-like faith.

The Day of Atonement

http://www.aa.org/lang/en/en_pdfs/smf-121_en.pdf  -Wow.  The 12 steps are very God centered?

A friend's book, soon to be released!

Oh wow-  and after cruising his Youtube site...Here's an awesome Book or Mormon explination:

(and what a super fun Father/Son project?!?!)

Neat!

http://bibleillustration.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-did-jesus-look-like.html

And furthermore...

...this blog's purpose is mostly selfish.  It's my way in this technology age to prove myself accountable as far as the goal of thinking about my spirituality.  I hope that others find what they are looking for in it if they run across my blathering but I'm not going to change my inner workings just so the pages are nice and neat and/or friendly to the conservative viewer.
     With that being said I welcome the feedback. 
     Bring on the public comments (I don't pre-moderate)
     I don't even have that many viewers so apologies but you people know who I am and you know that I posted out of interest and humor; Not to defile the name of the Lord.

Reflections on yesterday's post

-What's wrong with pushing boundaries?  Often it seems that I don't stretch the mind or the emotions that God gave me.  Especially after the awkwardness of high school and the abrupt freedoms of college it seems that I almost search out the doldrums of working life. 

-The graphic I found yesterday made me laugh.  Most of the other American-y Jesus pictures I came across made me furrow my brow with disdain.  Which is better?

-How do we deal with offense in our lives?  Avoidance of people who are dissimilar than us so we don't have to think about what makes us uncomfortable or sad or even angry?  I'm this way about politics.  I refuse to comment on anything because I often have a hard time defending my ideals and the majority of my friends don't agree with my p.o.v. in the first place.  And I'm secretly thankful that I'm not forced to deal with my questions about the sinfulness of homosexuality because I don't have anyone like that in my circle of close family and friends; Just to clarify since I'm trying to be honest here, I fall on the "I don't really know if that sin is worse than John Doe's gluttony or Jane Doe's sex with her boyfriend on their first date".  I still can't get it out of my head that a sin is a sin and just because one is more black and white to the naked eye than all the others...well...I dunno.

-The F word really doesn't offend me.  I use the "WTF" phrase often and especially lately because of my stress level at work I cuss like a sailor.  I also use the F word as an expression of surprise and excitement as in, "that song is ssoooo fing amazing".

-Could the Holy Spirit work through a piece like this?  What if such a thing became viral and the human image of God reached several thousand more people that it wouldn't have otherwise?  I know of a Christian artist struggling because of opinions of what’s “ok” to paint.  Also I remember an art exhibit on our tiny Christian college campus that was controversial but honestly I kind of feel like that whole, any press is good press thing might apply.  By opening our faith doors to the contemporary world we invite people to not feel so damn uncomfortable! 

-I'm really drawn to aspects of religion that have a sense of humor or cleverness.  I think it's unfair that the part of life (God) that should be most important really has nothing to do with the 90% of life that we actually live. 

-Did a quick search to try and find the origin but I could only find the random post from someone who didn’t seem to be the creator so I guess I can’t say what the intent of the human who drew it was.

-Won't take credit for this paragraph cause it's not mine but feel it's really well stated:

Can we not simply look and interpret our own feelings about it?  Stores are selling rosaries as jewelry, shirts have “jesus” in silver sparkle print and churches have neon light crucifixes.  Icons are not religion.  Icons are not belief.  They represent.  They suggest.  They portray.  And in today’s world, icons sell.  We can love, we can hate, but we should stop and take note of it.  We should stop and take note of it so that we can reflect on if we have God in our lives or just his icons.

Sorry!  I know this will offend some.  But I can't help it.  I came across this while looking for a visual representation that was anti white-Jesus.

Many are called, few are

Many are called, few are chosen

FWD: Dear God, help me

FWD: Dear God, help me shepherd my little flock. Amen

I wonder if a sarcastic barb from an obvious non-Christian program could spark interest in God?
     Obviously it could.  And I just wonder if it does. 

Comment

As I was casually researching my question from yesterday (based on a comment about the book Heaven is for Real) I came across this comment from the book 23 Minutes in Hell and it seemed poignant:  superlonglink

I meant to post last night, an inquiry about being able to go to heaven and come back...