Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Stop me if you've heard this one before...

What do you get when you cross a recent trip to your childhood camp, the movie Public Enemies you just watched last night, and an overactive imagination?


I've always had an insanely vivid and unique dream life. I remember once in high school I had this dream that was so good that I willed myself to fall back to sleep against the shower wall to finish it before school started. I won't bore you with the details...but suffice it to say that it involved Kevin Costner, me babysitting his kids, a red jeep, and Scooby Doo. Seriously. :-)

I also remember one where the band room turned into the deck of a cruise ship...I know what you're thinking...how soon can you end this friendship you have with a seriously deranged individual.

So, today I found myself in such a fitful sleep in the early morning due to one crazy dream. I can't quite piece it all together but I was at some sort of campy-lodge-in-the-woods type of thing with a friend of mine. I think I was at least college age. There were four single beds in the great room...and later two more people joined us. Turns out I and one of the other people who joined us were secret FBI agents sent to quash whatever the nefarious doings were of our companions. Oh...man it was creepy...we had secret vehicle agreements with Tom Denchel Ford...there were secret documents I had to sleep with so he wouldn't see them. At one point there were dark and shadowy happenings in the middle of the night between the back door and the great room. Seriously...now that I re-read it I must be NUTS!

It was the type of dream where it kept waking me up but then I'd fall back to sleep so I could continue it. I can't even really remember how it ended. I don't think I as an agent was successful...but I do remember there being some resolution. Weird...

Sunday, July 05, 2009

Blessing

Today's sermon was about being a blessing. Am I a blessing? I mean...I know in the grand scheme of things that yes I am a blessing. At least I think my mom thought so...so it must be. The greater question this morning was how can you be a blessing to others in your everyday?

When I get frustrated at the McDonald's drive thru gal because I have to repeat my simple order more than once...sometimes more than twice...I am not a blessing to her.

When I punch it on the freeway because I'm impatient...I am not a blessing to the cars around me.

When I sleep in and have to rush out the door thereby not have time to wash the dishes...I am not a blessing to Sean.

I know that there are lots of ways every day that I do things for the people around me that are a blessing to them...this isn't some super existential crisis I'm having...just a wonderment about the ways we all can be blessings to those around us.

It's worth thinking about I think...

Thursday, July 02, 2009

Right now...

My right now...
*woke up shortly after 6 AM?...couldn't sleep :-)
*drinking coffee with Parisian Almond Cream Coffeemate
*eating vanilla yogurt and granola
*wearing brown sport capris and my two-tone orange tank with black crocs
*contemplating driving to Tri Cities to get a few things
*anxious to get the closet finished
*watching Family Guy
*found the 1957 classic Pollyanna on AMC this morning!
*still have my blue and white bracelet from VBS...it is supposed to remind me that God wants to be part of my whole life...not just little bits.

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Ocean Vacation 2009

This is a small collection of the photos from our most recent holiday to the coast. Ahh...just thinking of it puts me in a more relaxed mood. If you're on Facebook these will look familiar.