"Do not, tell me what I can and cannot do when I rock..."

Alstroemeria

These were in the bouquet of flowers my friends gave me for my birthday when I was in Germany in 2003. They are my all time favorite - I can never remember their name so I figure I'll post it here so I won't forget!

May God bless you today!

Gone with the Wind...

Rhett Butler: No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.

Scarlett: Rhett, don't. I shall faint.
Rhett Butler: I want you to faint. This is what you were meant for. None of the fools you've ever know have kissed you like this, have they? Your Charles, or your Frank, or your stupid Ashley.

[to Scarlett]
Rhett Butler: I've always thought a good lashing with a buggy whip would benefit you immensely.

Scarlett: What are you doing?
Rhett Butler: I'm leaving you, my dear. All you need now is a divorce and your dreams of Ashley can come true.
Scarlett: Oh, no! No, you're wrong, terribly wrong! I don't want a divorce. Oh Rhett, but I knew tonight, when I... when I knew I loved you, I ran home to tell you, oh darling, darling!
Rhett Butler: Please don't go on with this, Leave us some dignity to remember out of our marriage. Spare us this last.
Scarlett: This last? Oh Rhett, do listen to me, I must have loved you for years, only I was such a stupid fool, I didn't know it. Please believe me, you must care! Melly said you did.
Rhett Butler: I believe you. What about Ashley Wilkes?
Scarlett: I... I never really loved Ashley.
Rhett Butler: You certainly gave a good imitation of it, up till this morning. No Scarlett, I tried everything. If you'd only met me half way, even when I came back from London.
Scarlett: I was so glad to see you. I was, Rhett, but you were so nasty.
Rhett Butler: And then when you were sick, it was all my fault... I hoped against hope that you'd call for me, but you didn't.
Scarlett: I wanted you. I wanted you desperately but I didn't think you wanted me.
Rhett Butler: It seems we've been at cross purposes, doesn't it? But it's no use now. As long as there was Bonnie, there was a chance that we might be happy. I liked to think that Bonnie was you, a little girl again, before the war, and poverty had done things to you. She was so like you, and I could pet her, and spoil her, as I wanted to spoil you. But when she went, she took everything.
Scarlett: Oh, Rhett, Rhett please don't say that. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for everything.
Rhett Butler: My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying, "I'm sorry," all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

He was right ;)

Check out this video. I think it's amazing when someone can keep doing what is right - when they are bombarded with criticism. If only God will give me enough grace to live like that when the criticism flies and keep my from apathy.

Sometimes you just gotta dance!

Worship God like a first grader. You know what I mean—talking to your friends about Jesus without any shame or any fear of what they will think, singing Jesus songs like you’ve never heard any other genre, jumping up and down with joy for Him at random times. You are still His child and He longs to receive your pure praise.

There are Sundays when I get so excited about God in “big church” that I just want to spin around in circles for Him.
Read the rest here.

I didn't write this, but I've sure thought it. Spinning around in circles is one of the best stress relievers. There's one song we sing in the high school group that makes me want to spin around but I hold myself back. I wish I could just be undignified and worship my GOD with all of me!!! You just gotta dance sometimes!

Song of My Week...

Run Away by Big Dismal

Wake up in the morning
Always rushing around
Trying not to be late again
'Cause it's no time to slow down

I'm sick and tired of the same thing everyday
Same old song the radio always plays
I think I need some time away
But there's no place to go now

I want to run away
Leave it all behind
We only have one life to live
And it's your life so go on

When the world gets the best of me
All I need is a little company
To put me back on my feet
I hit so hard when I fall down

Sometimes I feel like I just can't go on
There's nothing left to keep me hanging on
At the end of everyday
All I want to do is run away

It's your life so go on
It's your life so be strong
It's your life run away

Leave it all behind
We only have one life to live
And it's your life so go on run away

Make your dreams come true
We only have one life to live
And it's your life
So go on, it's your life, so be strong
Run away

Someone to talk to...

Almost too personal to write...

I was able to write a lot in my journal last night - all the things I need to say but the only person to say them too is Jesus. I would like to be able to tell all these things to someone - Someone I can love in person... I feel bad for desiring more because I know that I already have all I need...

Psalm 37
"Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun." Read All

Isaiah 54:5
"For your Maker is your husband— the LORD Almighty is his name— the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of all the earth." Read All

Excerpts of Song of Solomon
"My lover spoke and said to me, "Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me. See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land. The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me. All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him. I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves. So I looked for him but did not find him. The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. "Have you seen the one my heart loves?" Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother's house, to the room of the one who conceived me. Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires. Who is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense made from all the spices of the merchant? Look! It is Solomon's carriage, escorted by sixty warriors, the noblest of Israel, all of them wearing the sword, all experienced in battle, each with his sword at his side, prepared for the terrors of the night. King Solomon made for himself the carriage; he made it of wood from Lebanon. Its posts he made of silver, its base of gold. Its seat was upholstered with purple, its interior lovingly inlaid by the daughters of Jerusalem. Come out, you daughters of Zion, and look at King Solomon wearing the crown, the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced." Read All

Deer in the headlights...

I hate it when I'm told to do something but I just feel like a deer in the headlights trying to figure out what to do first. Yes, it lasts for about 10 seconds, but it feels forever. I just need more confidence in myself. This is definately been a week of feeling like I want to run away, dig a hole and hide. It'll get better - but I hate dwelling on things I'm told or see that don't need to be thought about. Goobers.

Have you ever been made fun of on a podcast?

So, I answered the editorial question of the week, and I said I wouldn't buy an iPod for reasons that I discovered were then wrong. Hey, I have no problem being told I'm wrong - It's even better when it's on a widely listened podcast.
Listen to it here.

Looking good...

Pooh Bear unveils 80th birthday portrait

Want credibility? Just hate America.

White Guilt and the Western Past. Why is America so delicate with the enemy?
BY SHELBY STEELE

There is something rather odd in the way America has come to fight its wars since World War II.

For one thing, it is now unimaginable that we would use anything approaching the full measure of our military power (the nuclear option aside) in the wars we fight. And this seems only reasonable given the relative weakness of our Third World enemies in Vietnam and in the Middle East. But the fact is that we lost in Vietnam, and today, despite our vast power, we are only slogging along--if admirably--in Iraq against a hit-and-run insurgency that cannot stop us even as we seem unable to stop it. Yet no one--including, very likely, the insurgents themselves--believes that America lacks the raw power to defeat this insurgency if it wants to. So clearly it is America that determines the scale of this war. It is America, in fact, that fights so as to make a little room for an insurgency.

Certainly since Vietnam, America has increasingly practiced a policy of minimalism and restraint in war. And now this unacknowledged policy, which always makes a space for the enemy, has us in another long and rather passionless war against a weak enemy.

The rest of the article from the WSJ.

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