Quite a few things changed since Saturday morning when I wrote my post about it being a cozy day. It was, in some ways a very cosy day. I was happy, content, not lonely for the first time in a week.
The biggest change was that on Saturday night, on my way to the youth Christmas party I mentioned, I was in a car accident. I was fortunate. God showed many mercies - the other car was not badly damaged, no one was hurt beyond some stiff muscles, my parents weren't angry with me, the cop gave me a significantly smaller traffic ticket/fine than he could have. I probably wrote off the minivan I was driving.
Saturday night, as I slept (if you can call it sleeping) was a time of intense spiritual warfare. Not something completely out of normal for me, but not by any stretch something common. Again, God showed me his mercies, and gave me the strength to fight against the lies that were being spoken into me.
All in all, it could have been much worse. It was not, by any stretch a stellar weekend, but it could have been far worse. I'm grateful for the little mercies (and the big ones) of the weekend.
Monday, December 18, 2006
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Cozy Day
Today is about doing cozy things.
Drinking herbal tea.
Baking lemon shortbread cookies.
Playing Christmas music.
Taking a long bath with a good book.
Making Christmas cards to mail to my friends.
Watching M*A*S*H* Season 11 that arrived in the mail yesterday.
Doing one or more of these things at a time.
Tonight is a Christmas party for the youth. I think we're taking them caroling at the homes of some people from the church.
But today is for cozy things.
Drinking herbal tea.
Baking lemon shortbread cookies.
Playing Christmas music.
Taking a long bath with a good book.
Making Christmas cards to mail to my friends.
Watching M*A*S*H* Season 11 that arrived in the mail yesterday.
Doing one or more of these things at a time.
Tonight is a Christmas party for the youth. I think we're taking them caroling at the homes of some people from the church.
But today is for cozy things.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Searching for Entertainment
I've spent a significant chunk of my day surfing the web for entertainment options for my company's spring regional meeting. Not the easiest task at the best of times, but my search has been significantly complicated by the audience we need to entertain.
You see, they're Mennonites. And not any one type. We have the ultra-conservative, still wear the special outfit Mennonites, and we have the very modern, they might have a nose-piercing mennonites. And we need to entertain them all. We'd like to make them laugh...
Turns out a great many of the people I would normally reccommend for this sort of thing - people I've enjoyed - would definitely NOT fit the demographic we're looking to entertain.
So, if you have any brilliant ideas for musicians or singers or speakers or dramatists or illusionists or comedians - basically something entertaining - that would fit a widely varied Mennonite audience, or if you, as members of my readership think you can do the job, drop me an email, or leave me a comment. We can use all the help we can get.
(And, by the way, I like my job, and the people I work for, and the people we serve - all Mennonites... they're just hard to figure out how to entertain!)
You see, they're Mennonites. And not any one type. We have the ultra-conservative, still wear the special outfit Mennonites, and we have the very modern, they might have a nose-piercing mennonites. And we need to entertain them all. We'd like to make them laugh...
Turns out a great many of the people I would normally reccommend for this sort of thing - people I've enjoyed - would definitely NOT fit the demographic we're looking to entertain.
So, if you have any brilliant ideas for musicians or singers or speakers or dramatists or illusionists or comedians - basically something entertaining - that would fit a widely varied Mennonite audience, or if you, as members of my readership think you can do the job, drop me an email, or leave me a comment. We can use all the help we can get.
(And, by the way, I like my job, and the people I work for, and the people we serve - all Mennonites... they're just hard to figure out how to entertain!)
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Mood Music
I think you can tell quite a bit about my mood and the kinds of things I’ve been thinking about lately if I just give you the most recent playlist I put on my ipod and have been listening to quite incessantly. (Remember, I’m less than musical, so you have to do some research and check out the lyrics to some of these songs if you want to really catch my mood!)
Small (Amanda Falk)
If it be Your Will (Jann Arden)
The Valley Song (Sing of Your Mercy) (Jars of Clay)
Deliver Me (David Crowder Band
Scratch (Kendall Payne)
Let Go (Frou Frou)
Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley)
Ups & Downs (Kendall Payne)
Hosea (Jacob and Lily)
Aslan (Kendall Payne)
Hurt (Johnny Cash)
Twenty Three (Kendall Payne)
Psalm 23 (Jason Upton)
Build a Tower (Jacob and Lily)
Hallelujah (K.D. Lang)
Pray (Kendall Payne)
Have you caught the mood? It’s also a fairly accurate reflection of the new music I’ve been listening to lately. And yes, I know that the same song appears on there twice, only performed by two different artists. That would be because I love the song, and I love both versions, and certain parts of that song quite nicely fit my mood of late, as well as highlighting themes in my life this last year. I realized as I was walking to work from the train this morning, that one song is missing - I'll have to add it tonight. Rescue Me (Rik Leaf).
Small (Amanda Falk)
If it be Your Will (Jann Arden)
The Valley Song (Sing of Your Mercy) (Jars of Clay)
Deliver Me (David Crowder Band
Scratch (Kendall Payne)
Let Go (Frou Frou)
Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley)
Ups & Downs (Kendall Payne)
Hosea (Jacob and Lily)
Aslan (Kendall Payne)
Hurt (Johnny Cash)
Twenty Three (Kendall Payne)
Psalm 23 (Jason Upton)
Build a Tower (Jacob and Lily)
Hallelujah (K.D. Lang)
Pray (Kendall Payne)
Have you caught the mood? It’s also a fairly accurate reflection of the new music I’ve been listening to lately. And yes, I know that the same song appears on there twice, only performed by two different artists. That would be because I love the song, and I love both versions, and certain parts of that song quite nicely fit my mood of late, as well as highlighting themes in my life this last year. I realized as I was walking to work from the train this morning, that one song is missing - I'll have to add it tonight. Rescue Me (Rik Leaf).
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