Christ Animated

Just a happy part of my day Almost everyday as I Log into Facebook to see All the people who are Playing around. I relax, Eating my sliced pickled peppers Not nachos, but chips or crackers with them, On cheddar cheese, too, and I Smile.

Two or three days, at best.  That's all I can manage. Then I break down in tears again. A word, a song, an unfamiliar face ... I never know what's going to open the gates, rip the dam apart. A few precious friends  check on me regularly and pray for me. An even more precious much smaller number call, text, message me and we talk for hours. They know their names. I hope they know that I know their names, and that their hearts are golden -  lovely to me. When I desperately needed to talk to someone yesterday, I got to talk to my girls via Skype. How I've missed them! Then one of those precious few called, and we talked for an hour, about everything and nothing. I felt so much better after talking with you. Thank you. Then another of those precious few messaged, and we 'talked' like that for three hours, about things that matter and things that don't, to anyone else. I felt so much better after talking with you, too. Thank you....

Have you ever listened to a CD (tape, record, 8-track, iTunes list, stone tablet) that you've had for quite a while, and maybe listened to countless times, and "discovered" a song? It just jumps out at you, and you could swear you've never heard it before. Two songs did that for me today. I was listening to "Alien Youth", an earlier album from Christian/crossover mega-group Skillet . My son and I had previously agreed that "You are My Hope" was the only song we both really liked from that album.  But then I heard "Will You Be There? (Falling Down)", followed by "Come My Way", and I thought, "Wow! Where have these two songs been hiding?" I'm not sure why I never noticed them before. Maybe it's like when you see a beautiful woman across the room and she takes your breath away, and you find out later you've seen her a dozen times before. For some reason you did not notice until just that moment . It...

A while back, a friend who had himself very recently been through a divorce, recommended that I sign up for Divorce Care Daily Emails [ http://dailyemails.divorcecare.org/dailyemails/tellafriend/ ], so I did. As I read through the ones that came, I thought some were less than helpful (most likely due to my attitude at that moment), but the majority hit me right between the eyes, and straight in my heart.  As I write this, I'm on day 126. Two days ago, the short email was on "Profound Loss". Though I cannot reprint the short article here, you can look it up for yourself on the DivorceCare.org website [Day 124].  But I can share part of it: "When you go through divorce, you experience a profound sense of loss, and that makes the loneliness deeper." "What was so bad is that I knew what it felt like to be loved, to be cherished, to not be lonely, to have a full life. All of a sudden it seemed like my life was over. I was convinced that I would nev...

'You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.' [Insert photo of Congress here. Don't know where it went. Maybe it's not in session ...]

How awfully inconvenient. Although I repeatedly implore God to work according to my  timing, He never does. Although God's timing has (remarkably) coincided with my own at times, not once has He ever altered His timing for any reason. God's timing is always  best. Always.  So, if I am to fully depend upon God, I must fully depend upon His ability to do what is right at the right time.  Pity that doesn't line up with my "gimme it now" attitude.  But thank Him that He would rather give me what I need when He knows I need it, rather than give me what I want and think  I need whenever I ask for it.  Praise You, Lord!

See how many you can get right WITHOUT looking up the answers! [1] Top grossing _______ movie of all time:      [a] Western:   (1) Dances with Wolves  (2) Django Unchained  (3) Unforgiven      [b] Zombie:    (2) Night of the Living Dead  (2) 28 Days Later (3) Zombieland        [c] Drama:      (1) Gone with the Wind  (2) Titanic  (3) The Passion of the Christ      [d] Thriller:    (1) The Dark Knight  (2) The Hunger Games  (3) The Sixth Sense      [e] Horror:     (1) Texas Chainsaw Massacre  (2) Blair Witch Project  (3) The Exorcist      [f] Comedy:   (1) Groundhog Day  (2) Home Alone  (3) Liar Liar      [g] Animated: (1) The Lion King  (2) Toy Story 3  (3) Shrek 2       [h] Any Genre: (1) Avatar  (2)...