How do I love thee...

I love thunderstorms. I love the rain. I love when you walk out side at 8 in the morning it isn't cold. I love that my light jacket was almost too much. I love that thunder so loud can set off car alarms (heard that on Q98.5). I hope we have lots a thunderstorms, but not so many tornadoes.

Work, work, work. I'm going to be late tonight. I have 4 honoree videos and 1 fundraising video to finish for an event on Wednesday. However, they are coming to look at it at 4 p.m. tomorrow. Pray I can get the green screen taken out. This will be interesting. Hopefully it won't be an all nighter.

Saturday I'm stoked because I get to go swing dancing again - so much fun. There's one guy who thinks I'm better than I am and wanted me to like jump over him or something - yeah, I didn't let that happen - if I do something like that I want to learn in a class - and not in the middle of the dance floor! I need to get shoes to dance in - the shoes I have just don't work - they're too clunky.

I'm capturing footage for the video right now. I'm trying to remain calm - strangely I am. I don't think I'm letting myself realize how much I need to do. Oh Dear. Trust Jesus!!!!

Love you all!

Noah

"How long can you tread water?"

To Dance

There is also a rhythm in our lives with God. Too often, in our desire to be passionate lovers of Christ, the rhythm of our lives sounds something like the over-adrenalized stomping of Riverdance. We busy ourselves making history, winning the campus for Christ, overturning tables and the like. Unfortunately, it doesn't take long for this non-stop commotion to come to a grinding halt.

Perhaps this can be a season of stillness after all the noise, or a time of reflection after all the action. Living life with God is less like the quick thrill of Dirty Dancing (Scripture has some more meaningful things to say than, “Nobody puts Baby in a corner,” after all) and more like a slow dance with your love of many years. She already knows you are going to step all over her feet. He does not mind that you have not learned all the latest moves. It's not about the music or the moves. What matters is the gaze of your love, as you sweep your way across the floor together.

The joy of Easter should be unparalleled. We hear the bells ringing and we are singing, and we know about Jesus’ final victory over sin and death and yet, still, it can be difficult to connect that with how we actually feel. Maybe, if we take the time during Lent to walk more intimately with God, to listen more closely, to slowdance with our truest love, we will experience the matchless joy of the One for whom we have made room.

Read the full article @ www.relevantmagazine.com.

"We think he could be mad. He is not a normal person. He doesn't talk like a normal person."

Afghan Christian convert could be executed. Read the whole article. What I thought was interesting is below.


Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Rahman, a father of two, was arrested and is on trial for rejecting Islam. The Afghan constitution, which is based on Sharia, or Islamic law, says that apostates can receive the death penalty.

"They want to sentence me to death, and I accept it," Rahman told reporters last week, "but I am not a deserter and not an infidel."

On Wednesday a state prosecutor said Rahman may be mentally unfit to stand trial.

"We think he could be mad. He is not a normal person. He doesn't talk like a normal person," The AP quoted prosecutor Sarinwal Zamari as saying.

Moayuddin Baluch, a religious adviser to President Hamid Karzai, said Rahman would undergo a psychological examination.

"Doctors must examine him," the AP quoted Baluch as saying. "If he is mentally unfit, definitely Islam has no claim to punish him. He must be forgiven. The case must be dropped."

Snow Days

I miss snow days - I really do. At least I get to go to Kearney on Friday and see Third Day and David Crowder Band. Work is crazy with deadlines fast approaching. I went swing dancing on Friday and saw a friend I hadn't seen in ages - it was awesome to see her! God is so awesome! This article was a good read.

"This steady balancing act of completion and companionship proves to be an every day challenge; however, every day that I wake up and look to God for answers is a day that I adjust that part of me that sought completion in someone else. It’s a day that actually means living life the way it was meant to be lived: Loving people for who they are, not who we need them to be for us."

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.