First Place is my place!!! (I think…)

A few years ago, I was browsing my friendly neighborhood Christian bookstore trying to talk myself out of spending way too much money on the CDs and really cool books when I came across one titled ‘First Place’ and gave it a look see.

It’s actually a Christian-based healthy-living program that has groups starting in churches around the country….I bought the books…naturally…and let them sit on my bookshelf for a few years…naturally.

Just recently, though, it’s been weighing on my mind (and my scale) that I really need to do something as I go careening into my middle years (ye ol’ mid-life crisis), so I mentioned, in passing of course, the program to my pastor at church and he filed that bit of information in the mental file folder of his of ‘cool stuff that she talks about but never gets around to doing’…until he approached me a few months back with these words…”I think you should really start that program up….there’s a definate need out there for things like this that the church can help out with”…..oh….ok….

So I ordered everything, put the word out…and wouldn’t you know it – I have 10 awesome people in my group that just started last Thursday (including my beloved husband and my wonderful mom) and more are joining up next Thursday.

Now the idea of me leading a group like this is kind of funny as I’m not great leadership material…I’m more like the ‘ok whatever you want to do’….kind of leader rather than the ‘let’s do this and do it now’…kind of leader (which made me a horrible boss in corporate America).

So Thursday was the first meeting, and it went great! Everybody has a real interest in healthy eating, exercise, Bible Study and just plain old balance in their lives! And  everybody was just a lot of fun…my husband, being the only male in the group, may find himself subjected to a lot of ‘girlfriend’ kind of chat, I have a feeling…

So wish me luck and pray for me…I have a bit of pressure on me because, being the leader of this group, I’ll be hard-pressed if someone from church finds me eating half a pizza at a restaurant…gotta be that role model! And, to my mom and hubby, I’ve suddenly become this expert on nutrition when, in reality, I’m learning along with everyone else!!!

Oh, well…this really should be a great time…out 

David Crowder is amazing…

I love this guy – the band is great. I saw them in concert last year and Crowder is a very, very funny guy - just about as down to earth as you can possibly get. 

Sounds like heaven???

This whole documentary was fascinating to me – I kept on applying my faith and beliefs into the scientific discussion and came away excited, stunned and amazed…could we be seeing the face of God and Heaven and Hell as other dimensions? Check out the video in the chapters of The Wild West of Physics and Parallel Universes

It made my heart pound a little stronger when I was watching it…

out.

Love to see ‘em squirm..

The Republicans are in a position that they haven't been in for a long, long time. All I gotta say is, it's about time…

How can people who claim to be anti-big government back legislation like the Patriot Act? 

And this article makes reference, albiet seemingly true, to the Democractic Party's lack of a 'plan'. That's what has been most frustrating about being a Democrat. We have so many groups to please that sometimes I feel like we're a dog chasing it's tail, ignoring all of the stuff going on around it.

By my book – the Democratic Party is a party that:

• looks out for those less fortunate
• supports and defends the underdog, and
• believes that we are all not perfect, but we all want to try

Hey…that sounds like what Jesus was teaching all those many years ago…go figure, Mr. Pat Robertson..

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Precious life

So my first official post will be my musings on a crisis that's hit home hard the past day or so.

A dear friend of mine that I work with at my church took her daughter in to see the doctor yesterday because her little 2-year-old was complaining of owies in her knees. Of course, this little girl promptly blamed my own 2-year-old son of giving her the owies - "Dabey kicked me…"  He didn't…my precious angel would never do anything so cruel…when being watched at the nursery…I think.

You see, this little 2-year-old girl just dotes on my son, David. (She called him "Dabey-God" – I'm really going to have to watch my son's ego.) And, of course, we have pre-arranged a marriage for them in their late 20s – no earlier because, well, that's just not optimal marrying age in my humble opinion - no later because, well, both my husband and I would probably not be around much to nag our son about how he is raising his own kids.

So this sweet little girl was in some pain, and had a high fever last week. The doctor's visit yesterday did not go well. The doc wanted to run some blood tests, mumbling something that included the word 'Leukemia' in it.

My friend's brain froze up at that point and she couldn't focus after that. Prayer requests were sent out and, after coming back from a Phoenix Suns game late last night (we lost horribly), I found the e-mail about it – knowing it was way too late to call, I did my usual. Prayed and then searched the internet for about 2 hours on anything and everything dealing with kids, fever, joint pain, etc. Well…Leukemia is one of many, many things that might cause this.

Good news…blood test results came back today…no sign of Leukemia. The little girl is still going to see more doctors (she may have some need for braces on her legs and such), but that's so minor compared to what it could have been. And, in all honesty, my son won't have to run really fast to catch her for that kiss when they are teenagers…um, no, young adults…ok, married with kids.  

This mom stuff…can get pretty hard sometimes. Made me hug my kids a little more today than usual (much to my 7-year old daughter's delight and my son's discomfort).