Tonight we had our family picture taken at church for the new directory. I was so hoping that they would turn out well because it's been about 5 years since our last formal picture. I was quite disappointed. The Olan Mills camera woman (who was wearing a skirt with black tennis shoes) wanted us to say something before she snapped the picture... like "whee!!" and "money" and OK, I WAS SO NOT IMPRESSED! So, I'm refusing to say anything because I am not a 3 year old but my mental telepathy wasn't reaching the other 3 members of my family and so in all our pictures one of them either has their mouth half open, mid-word, or this silly look on their face like, "where did she get that from?" She snapped 2 of the kids by themselves which turned out pretty good so I forked over the $20 for an 8x10 of them at least. Bummer. Seriously, I could have shot better pictures with my own camera... however, to ask them to sit that close together and actually physically touch each other while striking a pose was in itself quite the amazing feat. sigh.
Tony then had a meeting at church and when he was done I had a meeting at church... a Constitution Review Committee... that's right... all those by-laws and rules/regulations. Yuck. It was truly a gift from God that I even had a good attitude about it. Probably only 3 meetings will be needed so that's good. I got home after 9... expecting the kids to be tucked in and snoring. Nope. They just got home themselves. They were out shopping and who knows what all they were doing.
Madison is dog-sitting for a dog in the next sub-division over and it took her 20 minutes after school to ride her bike over and do her chores (or whatever you call those tasks). She needs to be up by 7am so she can get that accomplished in the morning before she goes to school. She asked if I could drive her over there... am I really mean to say no?... I mean, it takes her like 3 minutes to ride her bike and it's teaching her responsibility. I found this new "poll-taker-thing" on blogger so just head to my side bar on the left and let's just cast a vote about it.
OK, gotta run.
Love, Leah
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Monday, March 12, 2007
New Role at Church
Sorry I haven't posted for a few days. This crazy daylight savings time is for the birds and now we are all getting up an hour earlier and feeling tired all day because of it. Last night we tried to go to bed early... like 10:30 so we could get up earlier but I just kept laying there thinking, "it's really only 9:30 and I'm not that tired." Oh... the "problems" I have. (insert sigh here)
I have a new role at church now. Tonight was my first meeting as the congregational vice-chair person and 30 seconds after arriving I quickly put 2 and 2 together and realized that the chair wasn't going to be there and I was looked at to chair the meeting! Well now, that was an interesting experience... I hardly knew what I was talking about! We made up an agenda and went from there. Now I need to put whatever-it-was-that-we-talked-about into minutes (until we appoint a real secretary). (Really it wasn't quite as bad as I'm making it sound to be).
I always have many excuses as to why I can't do something, shouldn't be the one to have to do something, am not qualified, am too busy, it's not the right time in my life, we're gone too much on the weekends etc, etc, and etc. When they asked me to take on this new role of course my mind launched into all of the excuses, ready to pull any one of them out of my hat at the precisely needed moment to decline. I heard myself saying that I would consider it, pray about it and get back with them (who said that... was that me?). So, I did just that and guess what... my excuses just didn't fly with God! Can you believe it?!! So, I said yes to God's will and will try to leave all of the thousands of details for Him to figure out. I found this "poem" and was comforted by it. (see below) I certainly won't be a great hero of the Bible but it helps to know that I'm "probably" not the first leader who has felt a little anxious about new responsibilities or didn't feel qualified for the job. Ha.
When God Sends People...They Make Excuses:
Abraham was too old.
Moses stuttered.
Miriam was a gossip.
Jacob was a liar.
Gideon doubted.
Elijah was burned out.
First David's armor didn't fit, then he had an affair, and had someone killed.
Solomon was too rich.
Isaiah had unclean lips.
Jeremiah was too young.
Jonah didn't like the job.
Amos's only training was in the school of fig-tree pruning.
Naomi was a widow.
Peter was afraid of death.
Thomas was from Missouri (the "show-me" state)
Paul was a murderer.
Mark was rejected by Paul.
Timothy had ulcers.
Lazarus was dead.
Martha was a worry-wart....
or so they claimed, before God's Spirit empowered them to rise to the occasion and become some of the greatest heroes of our faith.
I have a new role at church now. Tonight was my first meeting as the congregational vice-chair person and 30 seconds after arriving I quickly put 2 and 2 together and realized that the chair wasn't going to be there and I was looked at to chair the meeting! Well now, that was an interesting experience... I hardly knew what I was talking about! We made up an agenda and went from there. Now I need to put whatever-it-was-that-we-talked-about into minutes (until we appoint a real secretary). (Really it wasn't quite as bad as I'm making it sound to be).
I always have many excuses as to why I can't do something, shouldn't be the one to have to do something, am not qualified, am too busy, it's not the right time in my life, we're gone too much on the weekends etc, etc, and etc. When they asked me to take on this new role of course my mind launched into all of the excuses, ready to pull any one of them out of my hat at the precisely needed moment to decline. I heard myself saying that I would consider it, pray about it and get back with them (who said that... was that me?). So, I did just that and guess what... my excuses just didn't fly with God! Can you believe it?!! So, I said yes to God's will and will try to leave all of the thousands of details for Him to figure out. I found this "poem" and was comforted by it. (see below) I certainly won't be a great hero of the Bible but it helps to know that I'm "probably" not the first leader who has felt a little anxious about new responsibilities or didn't feel qualified for the job. Ha.
When God Sends People...They Make Excuses:
Abraham was too old.
Moses stuttered.
Miriam was a gossip.
Jacob was a liar.
Gideon doubted.
Elijah was burned out.
First David's armor didn't fit, then he had an affair, and had someone killed.
Solomon was too rich.
Isaiah had unclean lips.
Jeremiah was too young.
Jonah didn't like the job.
Amos's only training was in the school of fig-tree pruning.
Naomi was a widow.
Peter was afraid of death.
Thomas was from Missouri (the "show-me" state)
Paul was a murderer.
Mark was rejected by Paul.
Timothy had ulcers.
Lazarus was dead.
Martha was a worry-wart....
or so they claimed, before God's Spirit empowered them to rise to the occasion and become some of the greatest heroes of our faith.
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