- First and foremost, A big Happy Birthday to Vanessa, who turns mid 30-ish today. My present to her? Puttin' on a wig & dress and singing Happy Birthday - Marilyn Style!
- Quite the visual, huh?
- From the "Parenting Is An Adventure" files...Asher is constantly working on something in front of the computer, either playing games, or writing for his blog (he'll publish it when we decide he's old enough to have a blog), or working on a book he's writing (A novel about detention - it aint bad). So last week when he said he was working on "An invitation for my friends to join "Asher's Territory Clubhouse" - we thought nothing of it. Until Saturday, when the door bell rang at 2PM, and a friend shows up, unexpectedly, with an invitation in hand. Turns out, Asher did indeed type up his invitation, print a dozen copies, then distribute them at school. Oh, and the Asher's Territory Club meets here EVERY Saturday...and promises "Good food". Luckily, the other parents got a big kick out of the deal.
- At about 2:15 Saturday, we had a long family discussion about when it was appropriate to pass out our address.
- How much is Asher like me? He says he passed the invites out on Thursday, and "totally forgot" about them until the door bell rang.
- I'll be flying to North Carolina on Monday to visit Camp Lejeune. It'll kind of be nice to be on an airplane again. It seems like forever.
- We are planning a Texas trip in July. It will be brief, but we are looking forward to seeing whoever we can. And eating BBQ.
- A friend of mine, Jeff Flowers, posted a couple of conversation starters on twitter Saturday, to which I responded with a great deal of...well...snarkiness. The question? " Why do you think Evangelicals are embracing Ms. California's "persecution" so quickly? Thoughts?". I answered with two tweets of my own: "because evangelicals spend a lot of time looking for victories in the skirmishes of the cullturual war- she agrees w/ us-we win!" & "...or, evangelicals are just as stupid as everyone else". Yeah, like I said, snarky. But am I the only one who finds it disturbing that evangelicals seem to attached them/our selves to the flavor of the day, (even if that flavor is in a BEAUTY PAGENT) if that flavor seems to agree with our position, no matter how inarticulate it is? We prove to 'the world' that we are no different than 'them' when we knee jerk and heap praise and support upon people who have done nothing to deserve it other than be on TV? Aren't we as guilty as 'them' in media hero-worship? How can we fight a cultural war when we are in love with the culture? What did Miss California say that was so darn Theological and important enough to earn an appearance on the Dove Awards? Miss California agrees with 52% of the voters of California with regards to her views on gay marriage. Big deal. We get offended when Obama states that we aren't a Christian Nation, we love it when a beauty queen thinks gay marriage is wrong. To me it appears that we are seeking outside assurance that our beliefs are correct, and we are right. My faith rests not upon the approval of presidents, musicians, beauty queens, or talking heads; but on the finished work of Christ alone. Anything else just seems stupid.
- $20 to the pastor/leader who can come up with a term other than "the world" or "then" when refering to the lost.
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