Blessed: The essential code term for Christians. Popular usages: Have a blessed day and God bless you. Turning blessed into a two-syllable word, like bless-ed be the Lord, suggests you're really down with JC. I'm blessed is the correct response to give to another evangelical who asks "How are you?"; otherwise they may lay hands on you and begin praying.
my family has been pretty funny about it too. so far, there's 10 of us going to the award show in nashville. i'm sure there will be more.
Monday, February 19, 2007
for david costellow, a.k.a. civilingum
reasons 1-16 why i love cleveland: because everytime i go in wal-mart i see somebody i know. jenkins. lee university. paul conn. because it's close to the ocoee river. monterrey's. mr. and mrs. prater. because if there's a threat of snow, the schools close. edley and flora moodley. it has quite an international community given its small size. mary schimmels. samaritans purse isn't far away from it. the bakery by my (old) apartment. because of the mango coolatta's and a bavarian creme doughnut from the 24 hour dunkin doughnuts. monte de olivos internacional iglesia de dios. thirsty thursday's.
Saturday, February 17, 2007
reason # 17 why i love cleveland
a few weekends ago i went to clevegas for the 30th birthday of one of my buddies from college. i had a blast with these characters...
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
the bagel
i stopped to pick up the bagel rolling away in the wind, annoyed with myself for having dropped it as if it were a portent. Faster and faster it rolled, with me running after it bent low, gritting my teeth, and I found myself doubled over and rolling down the street head over heels, one complete somersault after another like a bagel and strangely happy with myself.
- david ignatow
zzzzzzz
i have insomnia tonight. so i'm catching up on reading all of my favorite blogs. check out my blog roll. just scroll down and look to the right. you'll see it.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
fast love
Monday, February 12, 2007
my hero
when i grow up i want to be like jack bauer.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
random thoughts v9
my neighbor called my sister while we were at lunch yesterday, but my sister couldn't answer the phone so the call went to voicemail. i told my sister it'd be horrible if our house were on fire and she was calling to tell us about it. fast forward about an hour. we pull in the subdivision and we see police cars, fire trucks and the fire marshal. turns out our house wasn't on fire - thank God. but our neighbor had hired some people to cut down one of his trees and the tree fell on one of the workers. when we got there, he was still stuck under the tree. the paramedics said he had two broken legs, a broken back, some broken ribs and probably more broken bones. they had to stat-flight him downtown to the trauma hospital. made for an interesting afternoon. _____
to say that i am sunburned is an understatement. i'm going to florida in a few weeks, so i decided i'd get a head start on my tan by going to the tanning bed. yeah. not so smart of me to get in a 12-minute bed on my THIRD visit. my arms, legs, back, chest, and worst of all - my butt - are all bright red. i've taken some ibuprofen and am using aloe vera like it's going out of style. ouch. _____
we had perry stone at church today at the 9am, 11am and 6pm services. he's interesting. and long-winded. very long-winded. _____
we watched the movie "facing the giants" this weekend. it was produced by a church somewhere in georgia so i was expecting it to be pretty hokey. i was wrong. it was a genuinely good movie. seriously. if you haven't seen it, go to the movie store now and get it. it's worth the $.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
a small part of a great debt
"Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour. If you knew the satisfaction of performing a duty, as well as the gratitude to God which the missionary must always feel in being chosen for so noble and sacred a calling, you would feel no hesitation in embracing it. For my own part I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office. People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay?"
- David Livingston
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
my predictions
louisville will lose. again. kentucky will win. again.
what a way to start the day
i had to get up at the crack of dawn this morning unvoluntarily. my nephew slept with me last night and to what phrase did i awaken?
In some parts of the world, the Seattle Seahawks are the reigning Super Bowl champions, the Buffalo Bills are the last great football dynasty and Tom Brady is some frustrated quarterback from New England who can never win it all.
So say the T-shirts and the caps worn in Niger, Uganda and Sierra Leone.
The Super Bowl will end about 10 p.m. Sunday, and by 10:01 every player on the winning team — along with coaches, executives, family members and ball boys — could be outfitted in colorful T-shirts and caps proclaiming them champions.
The other set of championship gear — the 288 T-shirts and caps made for the team that did not win — will be hidden behind a locked door at Dolphin Stadium. By order of the National Football League, those items are never to appear on television or on eBay. They are never even to be seen on American soil.
They will be shipped Monday morning to a warehouse in Sewickley, Pa., near Pittsburgh, where they will become property of World Vision, a relief organization that will package the clothing in wooden boxes and send it to a developing nation, usually in Africa.
This way, the N.F.L. can help one of its charities and avoid traumatizing one of its teams.
“Where these items go, the people don’t have electricity or running water,” said Jeff Fields, a corporate relations officer for World Vision. “They wouldn’t know who won the Super Bowl. They wouldn’t even know about football.”
while i'm glad that world vision is cognizant of the fact that there are people in need in other parts of the world, i am saddened by the arrogance of the west.
this ranks right up there with an advertisement i heard a church of god international official's wife make once. she said "women, bring all of your good used clothing items for the wives of the missionaries." because Heaven forbid if the wives of our missionaries actually have anything new.
Friday, February 02, 2007
hierarchy of communication
