Who can believe that the Bible's not living and active?

Yeah, so after writing that post, I didn't leave myself enough time to read my Bible before bed. Granted, I could've read my Bible, but I was very tired and it was very late, so I chose not to. I disappoint me.
However, because I knew I was disappointing me, I flipped it open randomly to at least read a chapter quick before going to bed. I didn't read the whole chapter, though, because all I needed were the first couple verses:

The shatterer has come up against you.
Man the ramparts,
watch the road;
gird your loins;
collect all your strength.
(For the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob
as the majesty of Israel...)
-Nahum 2:1-2a

I read it as:

The devil has come up against you.
Be on your guard,
be ready for his attacks,
collect all your strength, through perseverence in the Word and in your walk with HIM.
(For the LORD is restoring you,
restoring you to a relationship with HIM...)

It made me very happy.

good advice

today my grandma was saying that she's a good counselor, because this is what she says, 'get good, get GOD, and tell the people that you love that you do.' yep, i think she's good, too.

what i got out of jason's blog post

"I guess I just want to caution you to ask what are you taking a break from? And do you realize how long it might take you to get back in your groove. If you are truly passionate about what you are doing and pursing it with all your heart what is the purpose of your break?"
how true is that of our walk with GOD? if we're truly passionate about HIM, are we really pursuing HIM with our whole hearts? do we realize how long it takes us to get back in the groove when we say, 'i'm gonna skip devos today cuz i need to go to bed' 8 times in a row? all of a sudden we've lost it, not even realizing it until we try to get back on track. i've spent more time not on track lately, with a few honest attempts to get back, but each time i fall into the 'well, i'll do it tomorrow' mindset. am i truly passionate about HIM? apparently not. that's very sad.
how do i change that? "I refused to quit. I sat in front of my piano for two weeks just playing old stuff I had written, a lot of the time playing nothing at all and wondering if I should quit. But then things started to change." i have to plug away at it. not give up. not just think i should magically poof back into passion when i pick up the Word again. that's not gonna happen. i have to not quit. the passion will come again. and then hopefully i won't let it go.

this is the post i was talking about in that other post

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/Ao7s6Y/www.jasonalcott.com/index.php?view=entry&year=2010&month=03&day=29&id=27:how-jason-got-his-groove-back

the handsome justin verlander

that is all

a good post

no, not mine. this here link's: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2v9daY/www.jasonalcott.com/index.php?view=entry&year=2010&month=04&day=27&id=30:what-happened-to-the-verse/r:f

he's a friend of mine from sweden from canada. i like the last couple paragraphs especially.

From a prayer by Barb Cash

"You continue to show up in unexpected ways and at unexpected times in the the lives of those Who seek You! Please continue to show Yourself to me in the most unlikely of circumstances at the most unlikely times, that I may never think I have you all figured out!"

joe mauer also makes me laugh

these pictures flashed back to back on the twins website

the royals make me laugh with their alliterativeness

brian bannister
billy butler
david dejesus
mitch maier

still more from "Surprised by Joy"

"There hung over this image an atmosphere which I dislike as much as any I ever breathed, a blend of the macabre and the weakly, wretchedly, hopelessy pathetic - the dreary miasma of the Pagan Hades."

I just think those last seven words are so beautiful together, so poetic.

"One other thing that Arthur taught me was to love the bodies of books. I had always respected them. My brother and I might cut up stepladders without scruple; to have thumb-marked or dog's-eared a book would have filled us with shame. But Arthur did not merely respect, he was enamoured; and soon, I too. The set up of the page, the feel and smell of the paper, the differing sounds that different papers make as you turn the leaves, became sensuous delights. This revealed to me a flaw in [my tutor]. How often have I shuddered when he took a new classical text of mine in his gardener's hands, bent back the boards till they creaked, and left his sign on every page.
"'Yes, I remember,' said my father. 'That was old Knock's one fault.'
"'A bad one,' said I.
"'An all but unforgivable one,' said my father."

Why on earth would anyone buy a Kindle?

must i say this again?

go to bed, melilot dolly!!!

hobbitsister just burst my (and my american history prof's) bubble

apparently, alexander hamilton was not the hottie we all think he was
http://photo.newsweek.com/2010/4/money-makeovers-for-founding-fathers.html?gt1=43002

just another everyday conversation at hobbitsister's house

erma: are you putting onions in the lasagna?
hobsis: you won't die. God invented onions.
erma: God invented terrorists, too.
hobsis: well, have you died of them yet?
erma (to scout): would you rather be stuck in a room full of onions or a room full of terrorists?
scout: well, onions are gross, and they smell bad.
erma: so do terrorists.
scout: ok, onions are gross, and they smell bad. terrorists are also gross, and they smell bad. but onions won't kill me. unless a bunch of them fall on my head. so i guess i'd say onions.

(and so, hobsis put onions in the lasagna)

Happy Birthday, Joe!

also from "Surprised by Joy"

"The first and simplest barrier to communication was that, having earnestly asked, [my father] did not 'stay for an answer' or forgot it the moment it was uttered."

I also understand this.

from "Surprised by Joy," by C.S. Lewis

"I had become fond of Longfellow's Saga of King Olaf : fond of it in a casual, shallow way for its story and its vigorous rhythms. But then, and quite different from such pleasures, and like a voice from far more distant regions, there came a moment when I idly turned the pages of the book and found the unrhymed translation of Tegner's Drapa and read

I heard a voice that cried,
Balder, the beautiful
Is dead, is dead----

I knew nothing about Balder; but instantly I was uplifted into huge regions of northern sky, I desired with almost sickening intensity something never to be described (except that it is cold, spacious, severe, pale, and remote) and then...found myself at the very same moment already falling out of that desire and wishing I were back in it."

I understand him. It's a shame I'm discovering an interest in old sagas so late in life. Who knows if I could have come up with something to do with it when I was in college? Or if I could have learned an old language back when I had the energy to learn one? Alas - what might have been.

facebook stati

my friends have been having some good statuses lately. sorry to share, since you don't know most of them, but i'm sharing them anyway.

Danish Indian Gypsy: You know those days when you are just having one of those days? This is the opposite of one of those days.

Jonas: Baby Jewel waved at me this morning. She's kryptonite.

Lashaa: i am more wicked and flawed than i ever dared believe, but also more loved and accepted than i ever dared hope (all at the same time)...

Chelleybutton: Melilot Brandybuck is so lovely and perfect! She's awesome!

i'm not a very good hussy

yesterday i had the opportunity to purchase 2 $70 twins tickets for $70. sadly i had to turn it down, because i had no one to buy the 2nd ticket, and i didn't really want to pay the whole $70. after i told the housekeeper who offered them that i didn't want them, it dawned on me. who would have $35? who likes the twins? who gave me a free filling? i should have called the dentist.

apparently my jewishness if more obvious than i thought

i don't think i have anything about judaism in my profile, but facebook has been inundating me with jewish ads lately: "jewelry from israel," "learn about jewish history," "find a jewish husband." hm...maybe i should click on that last one. ;)

Chelle and Mel's Sunday Adventure - Part 1

Today Chelleybutton and I tried a new church. It's my coworker's church actually, and it's in downtown Minneapolis. We parked in a ramp.
After the service (which was nice), we got back in the car and followed the exit signs that directed us toward 2nd Avenue. We paid and went through the arm, and continued following the ramp as it curved to the right. There was a median, with one side blocked off, so we went to the other side, which curved some more. It narrowed, with construction equipment on one side and a kind of drop off on the other. And then there was a "Do Not Enter" sign. It was a dead end. There was no way out. To go forward meant no road, to go back meant backing up around a narrow curve with a drop-off and construction equipment, only to run into the arm. We were trapped.

for Part 2 of this story, go to http://siriusmuggle.blogspot.com/2010/04/chelle-and-mels-sunday-adventure-part-2.html

My Bible school teacher's status

"God is not the author of our suffering, but He wants to hold us, comfort us and lead us through it, to a deeper knowledge of Him and a deeper trust in Him."

I like that.

brett favre's a grandpa. sad.

reason number 14 why i want a lady in waiting

i hate brushing my hair after a bath. it's too much work. it's all tangly. however, if i had a lady in waiting, i could just sit in a chair while she did it. i like that plan.

drug story of the day

so my prescription is supposed to be for 60 pills. they gave me 6. so i went back to the pharmacy today to get that fixed. while i was there, i asked them to ring up the coupon for me, so i got my $10 after all. and they didn't charge me for the rest of the pills because it was there mistake. so not only did i get my $10 back, i also didn't have to spend however much more. that's a much happier drug story.

behold the power of...

it's amazing how quickly i can get out of the tub when my mother hollers up at me that there's ice cream waiting for me

i promise to not always be basebally

Man of Mystery

"Morneau and some of his teammates spent some time recently trying to figure out how Mauer spends his days. Now that Morneau is married and Mauer has more demands on his time than ever, the two don't socialize as much as they once did, but they often travel to the ballpark together on the road.
"And we're usually the last two in here at the end of the night,'' Morneau said. "We'll talk about pitchers, just all those things we always do.
"He's someone who never leaves the hotel or never really leaves his house. If I can get him out, then it's all pretty much the same as it always was.''
No one has solved the mystery of how Mauer kills a day on the road.
"We were trying to figure it out the other day,'' Morneau said. "He can sleep a lot, I know that. I don't know if he's watching movies, reading books, I couldn't tell you.''"

- Jim Souhan, StarTribune

my mommy told me "don't say dumb"

but i think i can this time. every year i look forward to getting new prescriptions. no, i don't want to keep taking drugs, but if i'm going to have to take them, i may as well get new prescriptions so i can get $10 gift cards to target. this year i ran out of my skin pills on friday. but i figured, since it was just skin, not epilepsy, i would wait til sunday to see if there was a coupon for a gift card. lucky me, there was. so today i finally went to get my drugs (yeah, i know, i've been out for a few days now), remembering to stick the coupon in my purse. i've been home for about an hour and a half, and that is where the coupon remains. ugh! dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb!

Go Twins!!!

“Baseball is a national game, our national game, for all good Americans are proud of it, and its great prosperity is the most conclusive testimony to its purity, its honesty, its attractiveness and the hold which it has on the national heart.” – New York Evening Telegram, 1909

First Pitch: Less than one hour!!!

not gonna get on here tomorrow...

so Happy Easter!