The ideas just keep coming. This one i know Chris, my husband, would greatly appreciate because I press snooze at least 6 times a morning from 6:45 until 7:15.
Silent alarm clocks.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Inventions...
My sister and I were just thinking through some things today we want to invent. I think we could really capitalize on these ideas.
water-proof towel
Glow in the dark sunglasses
Solar powered flashlights
Submarine screen doors
A book on how to read
Inflatable dart boards
A dictionary index
Powdered water
Pedal powered wheel chairs
Water proof tea bags
Watermelon seed sorter
Zero proof alcohol
Reusable ice cubes
See through toilet tissue
Skinless bananas
Do it yourself roadmap
Helicopter ejector seat
Unsweetened sweetner
0 calorie ice cream
high heeled flats
non skin contact tanning beds
silent car horns
non-peddling bicycle
fart detector
invisible sweaters
reversible microwaves
cut proof knives
perfect pitch pills
Dummy books for Dummies.
Ooops...looks like someone is already getting ahead of us here...
http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Touchstone-book/dp/0671212095/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274380034&sr=1-1
Got to go...have a lot of work to do.
water-proof towel
Glow in the dark sunglasses
Solar powered flashlights
Submarine screen doors
A book on how to read
Inflatable dart boards
A dictionary index
Powdered water
Pedal powered wheel chairs
Water proof tea bags
Watermelon seed sorter
Zero proof alcohol
Reusable ice cubes
See through toilet tissue
Skinless bananas
Do it yourself roadmap
Helicopter ejector seat
Unsweetened sweetner
0 calorie ice cream
high heeled flats
non skin contact tanning beds
silent car horns
non-peddling bicycle
fart detector
invisible sweaters
reversible microwaves
cut proof knives
perfect pitch pills
Dummy books for Dummies.
Ooops...looks like someone is already getting ahead of us here...
http://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Touchstone-book/dp/0671212095/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274380034&sr=1-1
Got to go...have a lot of work to do.
Monday, May 10, 2010
"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus..."
We were singing this hymn at my sister's graduation from Wheaton College, and I thought what a beautiful, life-altering prayer this is...
May the mind of Christ, my Savior,
Live in me from day to day,
By His love and power controlling
All I do and say.
May the Word of God dwell richly
In my heart from hour to hour,
So that all may see I triumph
Only through His power.
May the peace of God my Father
Rule my life in everything,
That I may be calm to comfort
Sick and sorrowing.
May the love of Jesus fill me
As the waters fill the sea;
Him exalting, self abasing,
This is victory.
May I run the race before me,
Strong and brave to face the foe,
Looking only unto Jesus
As I onward go.
May His beauty rest upon me,
As I seek the lost to win,
And may they forget the channel,
Seeing only Him.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
"For Freedom, Christ Has Set Us Free"
In reading through Romans 6 the other day, I realized a very important truth that I was ignoring that has been costing me dearly...
I tend to be an anxious person. Anxiety and fear come naturally to me. At times I feel downright enslaved to it. Yes, I have learned to overcome and recognize most it, to cope, and to learn when it is illogical. There are even times when it is not a struggle- by the grace of God. But I had been missing what it really is at the root. It is sin. I was reading this passage from Romans 6 - "our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin." - when I was struck with the reality of anxiety.
The well known passage Philippians 4:6 states "do not be anxious about anything." I have never so clearly seen that when I choose to let anxiety rule my life, I am choosing to let sin rule my life. I am choosing not to trust God, to diminish His character, to make God too small and to magnify my worries. I "justified" it as being just who I am and something to work on. I was not viewing it as a rebellion against God. After all, it wasn't what I naturally thought of as sin-slander, sexual impurity, stealing, cheating etc.
What a relief and breakthrough it was to hear the truth earlier in Romans 6 "just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life." This perspective has given me new motivation for putting aside my old self "anxiety" and putting on the new self in Christ- peace, joy, faith. Christ died to set me free from my sin, not so that I would continue to live in it! I will type out this last passage in Romans 6 which deeply speaks to me.
"for the death He died He died to sin, once for all, but the life He lives He lives to God. Let NOT sin therefore REIGN in your mortal body, to make you obey its PASSIONS. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for RIGHTEOUSNESS. For sin will have NO DOMINION over you..."
You have your own tendencies and know its never a breeze to put aside "self". It is a daily dying to sin and self. But we can always claim God's promise in 2 Corinthians 12:10. "My grace is sufficient for you, Carolyn." (carolyn added) :)
I grew up in the D.C. Talk era, and I can definitely relate with this line from their hit "In the Light"
"What's going on inside of me? I despise my own behavior. This only serves to confirm, my suspicions, that I'm just a (wo)man in need of a Savior."
I tend to be an anxious person. Anxiety and fear come naturally to me. At times I feel downright enslaved to it. Yes, I have learned to overcome and recognize most it, to cope, and to learn when it is illogical. There are even times when it is not a struggle- by the grace of God. But I had been missing what it really is at the root. It is sin. I was reading this passage from Romans 6 - "our old self was crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin. For one who has died has been set free from sin." - when I was struck with the reality of anxiety.
The well known passage Philippians 4:6 states "do not be anxious about anything." I have never so clearly seen that when I choose to let anxiety rule my life, I am choosing to let sin rule my life. I am choosing not to trust God, to diminish His character, to make God too small and to magnify my worries. I "justified" it as being just who I am and something to work on. I was not viewing it as a rebellion against God. After all, it wasn't what I naturally thought of as sin-slander, sexual impurity, stealing, cheating etc.
What a relief and breakthrough it was to hear the truth earlier in Romans 6 "just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life." This perspective has given me new motivation for putting aside my old self "anxiety" and putting on the new self in Christ- peace, joy, faith. Christ died to set me free from my sin, not so that I would continue to live in it! I will type out this last passage in Romans 6 which deeply speaks to me.
"for the death He died He died to sin, once for all, but the life He lives He lives to God. Let NOT sin therefore REIGN in your mortal body, to make you obey its PASSIONS. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for RIGHTEOUSNESS. For sin will have NO DOMINION over you..."
You have your own tendencies and know its never a breeze to put aside "self". It is a daily dying to sin and self. But we can always claim God's promise in 2 Corinthians 12:10. "My grace is sufficient for you, Carolyn." (carolyn added) :)
I grew up in the D.C. Talk era, and I can definitely relate with this line from their hit "In the Light"
"What's going on inside of me? I despise my own behavior. This only serves to confirm, my suspicions, that I'm just a (wo)man in need of a Savior."
Monday, May 3, 2010
entering ...
the world of the blog. you're welcome. ;)
Entering this blog scene at 11:00pm at night, on a monday i add, i will make my debut into the blog world with this:
today i opened my back door just in time to see a deer running past. in our suburbian subdivision. no idea where he could have come from. clearly lost, he chose to do what seemed to be the best decision at the time and jumped into our pond. i have never seen a deer swim before and it made my night. he did make it to the other side at what seemed to be a better situation to him- trees and foilage. but he was still stuck. poor lil guy.
well, that's it. no deep thoughts and eloquent writing today. i'm sure you could create your own analogies about the spiritual life from this short memoir. even now, they're flooding in...
Entering this blog scene at 11:00pm at night, on a monday i add, i will make my debut into the blog world with this:
today i opened my back door just in time to see a deer running past. in our suburbian subdivision. no idea where he could have come from. clearly lost, he chose to do what seemed to be the best decision at the time and jumped into our pond. i have never seen a deer swim before and it made my night. he did make it to the other side at what seemed to be a better situation to him- trees and foilage. but he was still stuck. poor lil guy.
well, that's it. no deep thoughts and eloquent writing today. i'm sure you could create your own analogies about the spiritual life from this short memoir. even now, they're flooding in...
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