Baby Sister

Have been chatting with my little sister throughout the course of the day. I hear the computer make noise and know she is sending me an instant message.

We both talk about our lives – what is going good, what isn’t, and what makes us laugh so hard that we almost pee our pants. I told her my theory on moving home to find a good man with at least 15 kids to settle down with – I think she about had a heart attack laughing at that one. Forget pee her pants, I think she lost her entire supper. LOL

Lightning keeps skirting across the sky making me think it will rain soon – hasn’t yet but maybe soon. Always soon…soon…soon…why can’t it just be NOW?

Right now we are arguing the idea that a group of people could go off to some uncharted land and make a better nation then anyone else has done so far. She wants to live in the Hollywood portrayed past where people lived off the land and loved it. Where bug spray and medical supplies were not needed or available even if needed. Where people get around on horse and buggy – if they are rich enough to afford both. LOL

I explained to her that there is no going back because we all know what now has to offer. No one would choose to go back to the old way of doing things if really made to do so for awhile.

But it is an ideal and ideal’s aren’t bad – just have to salt them with a bit of reality and they cook up nice.

She is off to go get laid and I’m off to work on my list. Have a good night!

18 Items

I have a “to do” list of 18 items that I want to get done before going back to work tomorrow. So far today I have scratched off seven things. That isn’t a very productive day. I have so much to do and yet the computer seems to be taking up all my time.

I did also load my new cd into the computer and add it to the gospel playlist which is now over 6 hrs long. I have four more cd’s of Bruce Carroll’s to get and I want to hear some of Big Daddy Weave…I think that is what they are called. I heard a couple of their songs on “You Did What?”’s website yesterday. They sound like they are good. I looked at Walmart but they didn’t have any of their CD’s.

I did harp to my youngest sister about her not eating fruits and veggies. Decided I better follow my own advice so went downstairs to make a fresh carrot & peach drink with my juicer. It was almost delicious – would have been better with a few more veggies added but I didn’t have any that didn’t require a lot of prep time.

Lucky for me I left my To Do list downstairs…now I don’t have it as a glaring reminder of all I’m not getting done.

Life

Life is but a stopping place, a pause in what’s to be, a resting place along the road to sweet eternity.

We all have different journeys, different paths along the way, we are all meant to learn some things, but never meant to stay…

Our destination is a place far greater then we know. For some, the journey’s quicker, for some, the journey’s slow. And when the journey finally ends, we’ll claim a great reward and find an everlasting peace, together with the Lord.

Greatest of these is Love

And now I will show you the most excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. ~ 1Corinthians 13

Today on the Bay

Choppy but clear water greets me today at the bay. It almost looks inviting enough to jump in but looks are deceiving. Very few people are out in the water and most of them struggle constantly to stand against the waves.

Somewhere out there on the water are a couple of windsurfers – they were battling the wind at first but seem to be doing better now. Don’t know how they get those sails back up once they fall into the water – the wind is very powerful today.

Some guys next to me are trying to put a jet ski in the water – I seem to be in the way so I guess I’ll go on with my errands.

Beautiful ~ lovely ~ breathtaking ~ happy ~ endless blue skies ~ bright sunny day…all these phrases and words do not begin to convey how the bay looked today.

Outside Looking In

Being on the outside looking in makes a yearning burn in my heart. I press my face against the pane of the window, wishing to come inside. But to do so, I must agree to take part of what is inside. How do I participate and become one with the beauty of the inside?

I use to be on the inside. Romped, played, and enjoyed everything the inside had to give. It reminds me of the song “On the outside looking in”. Somewhere along the way I quit going inside and took shelter on the outside instead.

Outside is security, comfort, and solitude. Inside is beauty, sunshine, and interaction. My heart desires to go inside. But I have no sense of purpose inside – I go inside and am at a loss on how to join in with all the festivities and grandeur.

So instead, here I sit at my computer on the outside – looking through my window at the rest of the world. I feel like I am in a shell, my condo is a shell and I need to break free of it and go into the world to do something, anything. So here I go – taking a step inside so that I can feel the sunshine and participate with all that is going on there.

Joy…not

I have spent the last three hours reinstalling my dsl network. Seems once I downloaded the new internet explorer, it clashed with my dsl so had to redo the whole thing.

Have I mentioned before that these computers are a pain in the ass?