Just in case anyone out there was devastated that they weren’t picked to win the longhorn bookplates . . . there’s still a way for you to get them! But only for another week, so you’ll have to hurry it up if you want some. Details are over at the Fortnightly Purse – and if you haven’t signed up for the current purse then you should get yourselves on over there and do it!
OK so you’d better go on over to the Fortnightly Purse to find out about the new giveaway (yes, it’s worth the trip) . . . and who won the last purse!
This morning I got the chance to walk around the County Fair with my daughter’s pre-school class, which was a hoot. I absolutely love the Fair. Especially the livestock barns. Yes, I enjoy a stroll through the quilt show, a walk past all the booths where we get free popcorn, lollipops, and “future nurse” hats for the kids. I even love to walk past the booths where we don’t get foot-long corn-dogs. But the thing that brings me back year after year is the livestock barns.
This is my yearly appointment with what is really going on in the world. It makes no difference to me that I have seen it before, I am always shocked. I love to walk past the small town cheerleader girls chatting through their gum about their steer. I love to see a bunch of nervous kids with canes sweating it out trying to keep their pigs moving in a circle so the judges can get a good view of the meat in motion (and comment later about the shape of their hams). I love to see the piglets fighting to Continue reading ‘Ah, the County Fair’
Introspection: a looking into one’s own mind, feelings, reactions, etc.; observation and analysis of oneself.
Morbid: having, or caused by disease; unhealthy, diseased.
It is good to check up on ourselves from time to time to see if we are tolerating some major blind spot or nursing along some grudge or other. But there is a way of self-examination that is unhealthy, that dwells on self to the exclusion of others.
If we are conducting a little spiritual check up on ourselves and being mighty pleased with what we see, patting ourselves on the back and congratulating ourselves and giving ourselves a high five, then we may be prideful, wouldn’t you say? That’s pretty straight forward. But what if we are checking up on ourselves and bemoaning the fact that we are wicked and bad and big fat failures and no goods and losers? Isn’t that essentially the same thing? Both are self-absorbed. And whether it is positive pride or negative pride, both are self-centered. Continue reading ‘Morbid Introspection’
When it comes to understanding our own hearts, we are in deep water. It’s easy to assume we can read other people’s hearts and motives, and we may even think we have a grip on our own, but the truth is, man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart. We attribute the best of motives to our own actions, but seldom give others the benefit of a doubt.
For example, if we have spoken unkindly to someone, we can spend the next several hours (days, months, years) telling ourselves a story over and over about how we really said (or did) the right thing. We tell ourselves that they really deserved it, that we had pure motives, that it was right, right, right. But the Continue reading ‘Know Your Own Heart’
Recently my friend Chris LaMoreaux (many of you know her as our church secretary) and I took my dear sweet mom to lunch (an early birthday outing). Mom got married on her 21st birthday, and she and Dad have now been married for 65 years! Mom has always been the most beautiful woman I have ever known, inside and out! Here’s the pic that the waitress took for us. That’s me on the right, Chris on the left, and Mom is the pretty one in the middle!
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