Fill Your Soul

Ponder this quote:

Personal worship is an absolute necessity for a strong marriage. It comes down to this: If I stop receiving from God, I start demanding from others. 

This could manafeist itself in the small things like how we treat our server at a restaurant or in the big things like always focusing on your spouse’s shortcomings. The less I receive from God the more I demand from Scott and the more I receive from God the more I can give to him. 

What I am trying to say is fill your soul with God because marriage is limited. It is not able to replace God so don’t ask it to.

Do You Have What It Takes To Become A Citizen?

I stumbled across an interesting article today and thought I would share it with you. When immigrants want to become an American citizen they have to take a test civics test. MSNBS had compiled some of the hardest questions from the test and you can test your knowledge here. I am ashamed to say that I took it and answered only 60% of the questions right. Apparently I would not be able to become an American citizen because you have to have 80% or higher to pass. If you are brave enough to take the test post your scores in the comments and lets see who is smarter. Ready…go!

Give a Book a Happy Home

I like setting goals for myself. Since I love to read I have decided that my new goal is to read 20 classic novels. I found a good list online and was surprised to find that I have already read some, but I sill have a long way to go. I will not be starting right away because I just ordered a book from the library (Panther in the Sky by James Thom) and I need to finish it before it is due back. Feel free to join me in this new adventure if you don’t already think that I am too much of a dork. 

1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin by Mark Twain 

2. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque 

3. The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 

4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 

5. Cry the Beloved Country Alan Paton

6. Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beacher Stowe 

7. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

8. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

9. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

10. Jane Eyre 1984 by Charlotte Bronte 

11. My Antonia by Willa Cather 

12. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

13. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane 

14. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

15. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

16. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 

17. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

18. The Sound and the Furry by William Faulkner 

19. Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

20. A Separate Peace by John Knowles   

Our Sick World

God Time

Scott and I have been doing a couples devotional together that is really good so I wanted to recommend it to all the cool people that read this blog. It is called Devotions For a Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas. It is extremely deep and thought provoking, and has sparked good conversations between us. We do it when we first wake up in the morning before we even get out of bed, and is a wonderful way to start the day together. It is supposed to be a years worth of weekly devotions but we do it everyday because we like it so much. 

That is all I have to say. Bye.

Craft Idea

I felt like being crafty today so I went to Joann’s and bought cardboard letters, then I covered them with embossed scrapbook paper. They now sit on top of my kitchen cabinets as a reminder of what I love to do most (like a need a reminder). It was an easy and super cheap way of spicing up my kitchen. 

Here is a closer view of the pattern. The large letters are white with gold raised dots.

Sara Palin On SNL

Scott just posted a funny video that I wanted to post here but was not able to. Go check out his blog.

Moving Forward

I just realized that I have not updated everyone on our current church situation. I am sure that some of you already know that we are no longer serving at Celebration Baptist Church. Scott has been the interim worship leader there for about a year. About a month ago Scott was approached by River Town Church wanting him to come and be the full-time worship leader there. It was not even on our radar to move churches at the time so we immediately told them no. We then realized that we had not even prayed about that decision or given God the chance to guide us. For about a month we had been praying about what we needed to do. It was agonizing to say the least but we finally felt the Lord leading us to move to River Town. Many times it hard to understand God’s timing but we are called to walk in faith. Faith is more than just believing, it is doing.  

It was hard for me to leave Celebration since it is the only church family I have ever known (except Arlington Baptist). We will definitely miss every one at Celebration. We are excited because River Town is a permanent position and since Scott is not called to be an interim worship leader we know that this where God has us now.

Sean the Assassin

We spent the week in St. Augustine with our friends Krista and Sean and their baby Jacob. We had a great time eating, laughing, and lounging on the beach. Here is a video that Scott made of us attacking him with an airsoft gun. 

Why God?

Something is wrong…very wrong. Since I got back from Nicaragua two weeks ago I have been constantly sick. I picked up some kind of virus in Nicaragua (possibly Montazumas Revenge) which left me with diarrhea and nauseousness for days. After I finally got over that I picked up a killer cold which knocked me out for a week. I am now finally getting over my cold and today I start puking. I am not sure if all this is related to Nicaragua or if my immune system is just very weak and I catch anything that walks by.

I am tired of being sick and I just want my body to feel normal again.

Any advice for getting my immune system back up to par?

Here is a short video I made.