Good Morning

This is going to have to be quick, because I need to get to work before daylight.

1. Job update - I dropped off my resume at the hospital in town and they have already called back. I have not yet set up the interview, but my chances look very good.

2. My sister is home and looks great! She was kinda funny actually. She disappeared a few minutes before we ate dinner last night (at mom's house) and I found her doing jumping jacks in mom's bedroom. I guess she got in the habit of doing jumping jacks before eating her meals and she wants to continue it. I asked if they made her do that to eat and they didn't. She just enjoys doing it.

So, that's about it. I really don't have the time for anything further. We did go out to the church last night and there was much healing of hearts and reuniting. The Lord lives!

A Little Humor

Today, Jason got a haircut. After Jason was through with the cut and had showered, he was cleaning up the mess. Shepard went looking for Daddy and found him on his hands and knees sweeping the hair into the dustpan. Shepard took one look at Daddy and said, "Daddy, don't ever pee and poop on the floor again!"

He he...yes, he really said it. My love made a blog for the church: cfcrushville.blogspot.com and he has one for himself: jdcupp.blogspot.com

Postmodernism

I just realized that I had a few comments on the post, "Death of an Age". I will find some time this weekend to address questions and provide more insight. I'll pray about the strategy and hopefully the Lord will bless me with some ideas that make sense.

Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood
A wonderful day in the neighbordhood
Oh, could you be mine
Would you be mine?

Good morning from Mr. Rogers. :) That's all I got for you today. I woke up this morning with Mr. Rogers on my mind. Good or bad? I'll let you be the judge of that.

God Is Always Present

I feel that somehow over the years, the fact that God is always present has somehow vanished from my mind. God is always with us: Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you. I pray that today I will remember the joy of my salvation and that the Lord would once again set up His tabernacle in my cube at work. I pray that it would be an oasis of rest and clarity of mind. I read Psalm 65 and realized for the first time that the chapter is talking about how God (right now) holds the universe together. It says:

Who establishes...
Who stills...
You make...
You visit...
You prepare...
You water...You settle...You soften...

...All of these are actions happening right now!

Lord, right now, You make the dawn and sunset sing for joy. I pray that today I can hear their song. Open my eyes to see the beauty of Your creation today. Establish Your tabernacle in my cube at work. Give me clarity of mind in order to train effectively today. Lord, I pray that as I get distracted or stressed today that I would remember that You promise when I come to you that you will give me rest. I want to see You glorified in my life. I pray that you will make me an empty vessel that you will flow through. Use me, Lord. I'm all Yours.

The Sun Has Not Yet Risen

...but here I am getting ready for work...

Naomi is sketching a picture for me and I cannot wait to see the final result. I told Jason months ago that I had an idea for a piece of artwork that I wanted to pay an artist to paint for us. Well, Naomi has stepped up and she is going to sketch it for me. It was supposed to be a surprise for my love, but he figured it out. Okay, so what's she drawing? The fountains downtown across the street from the Hyatt. A little more than six years ago, my love took me to the Eagle's Nest for a wonderful dinner followed by a walk across the road to the fountains. We sat on a bench under the pergola and looked out at the beautiful fountain and gardens. I don't remember what Jason said, but he slid down on one knee and asked me if I would become his wife. And as they say in the movies, the rest is history.

I am so excited that Naomi is drawing this for me. I will put it in a place where I can see the magical fountains every day and be reminded of the beauty of the night when my husband proposed to me.

Death of an Age

It has been a bit of time since I last blogged, but I remembered that I wanted to do the post on post-modernism.

Did you know that in the intellectual community, the ideas of post modernism have died and more and more leaders at Harvard, Princeton, etc. are turning to Christianity. The pomos accused Christians of living in a world where we claim to know truth. The pomos said, "there is no truth". Logic is finally being reborn as pomos are finding that the statement, "there is no truth", is in fact a statement of truth. Unable to reason it out in their minds, they are beginning to be open to the ideas presented by Christianity. Praise the Lord that this age has died and is whithering up. All the talk of postmodernism over the past few years ate me up, because the ideas could be defeated with logic. I'm such a logical person that I just couldn't figure out how these people believed such a crazy thing!

So, on a funny note. Want to know the difference between agnostics and atheists?

atheist - must prove that he has infinite knowledge in which to say, "there is no God".

agnostic - just has to prove, "I don't know".

he he....what a way out...choosing to be agnostic is one of the dumbest things ever. Often times, when an atheist is faced by an apologist, the atheist quickly decides to convert to agnosticism. Agnosticism is one step closer to Christianity than atheism, so lets go convert people to agnosts, then we'll lead them to Jesus.

:) Night for now...oh, wait, it's morning...Morning to you all!

Thank You, All

Thank you to everyone who has commented on the recent posts. Your encouragement and love are helping to get through difficult days. My sister is still doing amazingly well. She reads the Bible with other inmates and they encourage each other. There are those in there that do not know the Lord and they try to work with those people as a team. There is much to be learned from how an inmate lives.

Andrea - I love you and miss you! We need to get together soon.

Tracy - The same goes for you! Wasn't our annual Cracker Barrel meeting supposed to be in January? I guess we missed it. We'll have to have one really soon.

And here are some things I have learned from the classes at work:

1. 75% of the jobs available are never made known publically
2. 64% of the jobs obtained last year were through networking (knowing someone who knows someone...)
3. I have a positioning statement that I can give to people to ask them...hey, do you know of anyone who has a position open for a ....?
4. Never ever give your resume to HR. Call the company you want to work for and find out who is the hiring manager and give your resume to them.

Okay - well, I actually wanted to write my first ever blog on post modernism, but I guess that will have to wait. I'm off to work a bit early today to do five days of work in the time given today and tomorrow. And oh by the way, I have to explain everything I do as I am training my replacement. :( I feel so disorganized this week, but the lady I am training is very good at asking questions. I feel terrible though, because she has a neverending headache. (I had one for the first month that I worked here.) So ya'll have a great day and pray peace and single-mindedness over me and my trainee today.