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Fun weekend with Charles' family

Here are Charles, Ellen and John in front of St. James where Ellen & Carl were married 29 years ago. What a great picture of them all!

One-year anniversary

Charles stood in line at the Apple store one year ago today to buy my iPhone! Can't believe it's been one year... it's no doubt the best gadget I've ever had. My favorite things about it are: the cool text messaging interface, the email interface, the beautiful browser experience, the map feature, the camera, the way you can scroll through the Photo Album, the iPod, the Notes feature. Simply put, everything is cool about the iPhone!

I can't believe that a gadget has changed my life so wonderfully!

I would still pay $599 for it! (Don't tell Apple!)

You can never have too much Durkees!

I love Durkees! At the grocery store yesterday, I picked up 2 jars thinking that we were about out. When I got home, there were 2 jars in the pantry. That makes 4 jars of Durkees that we now have. Life is good!

Do you also have a favorite food that you could never have too much of?

Butterfly Festival at Dunwoody Nature Center

Janice and I enjoyed seeing the butterflies. We were supposed to feed them, but they weren't too hungry by the time we got there.

Hosea

I guess before God let Assyria invade Israel, He was thinking of various ways to get the Israelites' attention so that they would turn their ways. One of the most unusual was having Hosea marry a prostitute to illustrate the unfaithfulness of Israel. It didn't work, though, because Israel did not get the message!

The rest of the book of Hosea is all about God pleading to the Israelites through Hosea that they should return to the time of the wilderness when Israel totally depended on God. God mixes in hope, throughout however. It really shows us that God can at the same time be so exasperated with us, yet so full of love. How does he do it?

My favorite verse of Hosea has always been Hosea 6:6 - "For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings."

I'm looking forward to the rest of the Old Testament: lots of short books, the only one of which I've read is Jonah.

Daniel

Daniel was a lot easier to read this time, than it was several years ago when I tried to get through it. I remember giving up when Daniel started having all the visions. For some reason, this time around, the visions were pretty easy to understand.

Even so, the best part of the book is the first few chapters when Daniel and his friends are so bold! What I would give to be so bold! I love what Shadrack, Meshach and Abednego say to King Nebuchadnezzar when he threatens to throw them into the burning furnace for not worshiping the graven image: "If the God we serve is able to deliver us, then he will deliver us from the blazing furnace and from Your Majesty's hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up." God is still God, no matter what!

How about the admission of King Nebuchadnezzar in chapter 4, when he realizes that God is Supreme? Sure enough God "does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth."

Waterlogged carrots

My pet peeve is not being able to find a decent bag of baby peeled and cut carrots... they all seem to be soaking in water, which perfectly ruins the taste! Why do they put water in the bags? Or, is it the water sprayer that grocery stores use to keep the veggies fresh? It's a real downer, because the baby carrots are so much more convenient than the whole ones.

Keeping the Faith

We rented Keeping the Faith last night and really enjoyed it! It came out in 2000 and has Edward Norton and Ben Stiller as a priest and rabbi respectively who fall for their childhood friend when she comes to town on work. It's funny and sweet and you won't know how it ends until it ends!

Being thankful for troubles at work!

My manager emailed an interesting quote to us the other day. The quote reminded us to be thankful for the troubles at work because those troubles provide about half our income. If it weren't for troubles, challenges and stress on the job, companies could find any ol' person to do the work.

I googled the quote and learned that it's cited in a Max Lucado book, Every Day Deserves a Chance.

Here's an interesting blog about the quote from Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers: http://www.michaelhyatt.com/fromwhereisit/2007/03/why_you_should_.html. (You can read the entire quote there too.)

I was mostly inspired, although truth be told, some days I'd consider earning half as much if I could lose some of the stress!

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