Baffling isn't it.
At one time I had learned math so well I could actually figure out equations of X and Y. But this one, THIS one, has always left me wondering. What in the heck does this mean?
If I plug in Y with any number, X could be anything.
So is this an equation of potential possibilities with no right or wrong answer? More like a personality test or some other philosophical question. Perhaps even a Microsoft question. Does this mean all things are linked to math? I never thought that was true, but now I am beginning to think.....
Think? UmmmmmmNO.
Here's to all the C-A-P-I-T-A-L-S of the world.
Love ya's.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Two weeks ago
i stayed after bible study to talk with a buddy of mine and her mother. let me tell you about her mom. last year, the side of her face and neck were swollen say 3x's the size of normal with lymphoma. it had been like that for a long time. she finally broke down and went to a doctor. chemo. but while all that was going on the prayers started...and the continue to this day in praise to God the Healer. she is completely free of the problem. free like it was never there in the first place. miracle. she's getting her hair back now, its short and just as curly as can be. her story is so very encouraging..... well we were joined by a third buddy of mine. this lady is the head of the quilting ministry. and let me tell ya, she is a prayer warrior that knows no bounds. we were all about ready to go, but my buddy's mom insisted that she pray over the prayer warrior for thyroid issues that were popping up. nodules. and she was due an ultra sound withing the next couple of days. when we were done praying, she just kind of sat back in her chair and said she began feeling tingling in the thyroid area about the time the prayer started. and she said she believed that what ever had been there was gone. check this out now....hold on to your chairs. i just got an email from her. her ultra sound and other assorted tests that she had done....all negative. no thyroid issues. totally normal. no nodules. miracle
i saw it happen. amazing.
i saw it happen. amazing.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Come, let us worship and bow down.....
You turned my waiting into dancing:
you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy
that my heart may sing to you and not be silent.
O LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever.
Psalm 30: 11 - 12
Thursday, October 9, 2008
The Bulletins
Approaching the last day of my first full week. I can only chuckle at it all. God ~ He is something else!
Monday, I was on my own. My boss was out of town until Wednesday. So I played with the MAC. I even set up my own desk top. I got all my little Monday tasks done by 5:00.
Word:Mac. We are talking no PC here. MAC itself is upside down and backwards to any PC I have hugged in the last 20 years or so. I love my MAC. One of these days when I know it better, I am probably going to get one. Maybe.
Tuesday, office dynamics, interesting. Bulletins done by 5pm. All three of them. I figured i was about 4 hours ahead of schedule. And for the first draft, they weren't so bad. So I thought.
Wednesday bossman is back. Only I was to "inherit" the former desk top, not start out on my own. Long story short, about 2:30 pm, I lost everything I had done on Monday and Tuesday, including my Email and my bulletins. Good practice. So I started over and by 5, I had the bulletins rebuilt. Formatting is quite the challenge. Especially when one doesn't know the short cut keys. But one is learning pretty fast. One is getting a lot of practice.
Thursday, tonight I went home at 5:15. The boss has approved the final cuts. Tomorrow print jobs. We just may very well have bulletins this weekend. I hope.
What an experience to have a job where it is so very evident that it came from God. Peace. Comfort. Quiet. Satisfaction that far outweighs any and all stress incurred along the way.
I have long ago forgotten even that I have dimple. Yes I do. It is located in the right cheek of my FACE. About the time I said yes to this job I saw it for the first time in about 20 years. I have smiled so much and for so long over these past two weeks my dimple hurts. I think that is about the best confirmation of happiness I have ever experienced.
This job really is better than retirement, even.
adieu
Monday, I was on my own. My boss was out of town until Wednesday. So I played with the MAC. I even set up my own desk top. I got all my little Monday tasks done by 5:00.
Word:Mac. We are talking no PC here. MAC itself is upside down and backwards to any PC I have hugged in the last 20 years or so. I love my MAC. One of these days when I know it better, I am probably going to get one. Maybe.
Tuesday, office dynamics, interesting. Bulletins done by 5pm. All three of them. I figured i was about 4 hours ahead of schedule. And for the first draft, they weren't so bad. So I thought.
Wednesday bossman is back. Only I was to "inherit" the former desk top, not start out on my own. Long story short, about 2:30 pm, I lost everything I had done on Monday and Tuesday, including my Email and my bulletins. Good practice. So I started over and by 5, I had the bulletins rebuilt. Formatting is quite the challenge. Especially when one doesn't know the short cut keys. But one is learning pretty fast. One is getting a lot of practice.
Thursday, tonight I went home at 5:15. The boss has approved the final cuts. Tomorrow print jobs. We just may very well have bulletins this weekend. I hope.
What an experience to have a job where it is so very evident that it came from God. Peace. Comfort. Quiet. Satisfaction that far outweighs any and all stress incurred along the way.
I have long ago forgotten even that I have dimple. Yes I do. It is located in the right cheek of my FACE. About the time I said yes to this job I saw it for the first time in about 20 years. I have smiled so much and for so long over these past two weeks my dimple hurts. I think that is about the best confirmation of happiness I have ever experienced.
This job really is better than retirement, even.
adieu
Sunday, October 5, 2008
shouts of reds, yellows, and gold
permeate the air as Fall approaches. even here in the high desert it is changing colors. mostly from golden dry to leafless brown. but 'tis still Fall, none-the-less, and time to get ready to hunker down for a long winter comin'.
the end of summer. day dreaming through the window's as classes resumed. the warmth of the cloak room and smell of sweaty little bodies. remember raking the fall leaves? one good jump to spread them out and rake them up again. and then the cracklin' of the fire as the smoke filled the air for miles around. guess we can't do that any more. but it was good while it lasted.
so today, i trimmed out the branches of the trees in the front yard. someday i suppose i'll make it to the back and trim out the chinese elm. these trees look like "bad hair day" trees anyway and without trimming, well, they look like they just got up. good shade on hot summer days.
tomorrow i start my first full week at St. John's. training is over. there are lots of things to do. the biggest challenge will to gracefully transistion from PC to MAC. now i understand the secret of that eternal love affair....and yes, MAC does get my vote. LET ME AT IT.
the bulletins we printed for the weekend looked great. but 9:30 service was missing the installation announcement of a new ministry staff member. i think we were so busy editing from one another's desktops, the wrong one was sent for printing. the new Mac I have is less than two weeks out of the box and even L was struggling with it as she attempted to transfer 17 years of knowledge to me. not to worry. tomorrow brings opens the door for more learning....... but it is really great to go home each night with square, not bowled over, shoulders. it even beats retirement.
the end of summer. day dreaming through the window's as classes resumed. the warmth of the cloak room and smell of sweaty little bodies. remember raking the fall leaves? one good jump to spread them out and rake them up again. and then the cracklin' of the fire as the smoke filled the air for miles around. guess we can't do that any more. but it was good while it lasted.
so today, i trimmed out the branches of the trees in the front yard. someday i suppose i'll make it to the back and trim out the chinese elm. these trees look like "bad hair day" trees anyway and without trimming, well, they look like they just got up. good shade on hot summer days.
tomorrow i start my first full week at St. John's. training is over. there are lots of things to do. the biggest challenge will to gracefully transistion from PC to MAC. now i understand the secret of that eternal love affair....and yes, MAC does get my vote. LET ME AT IT.
the bulletins we printed for the weekend looked great. but 9:30 service was missing the installation announcement of a new ministry staff member. i think we were so busy editing from one another's desktops, the wrong one was sent for printing. the new Mac I have is less than two weeks out of the box and even L was struggling with it as she attempted to transfer 17 years of knowledge to me. not to worry. tomorrow brings opens the door for more learning....... but it is really great to go home each night with square, not bowled over, shoulders. it even beats retirement.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Okay, I'm Singing
And it isn't Kareoke.
What fun this day has turned out to be! I believe I have had nothing but fun for about a week running, now. Frightening. I am even smiling just around town. Seriously, I must look like I have not a care in the world and if I do, its out of control anyways.
So today, right in the middle of filling my head with all this stuff, we stopped for Staff Devotions. Don't get me wrong, we didn't sit around telling each other how devoted we are to the cause. No, we did BIBLE study! And we get to do it every Wednesday. I have a feeling I am not going to miss a Wednesday for the next however many years I'll be working.
There are tons and tons of things to do. This office does this stuff so nicely that when you are sitting in the pews you have no idea how much work goes into the process.
Truly, I am so very excited. God is good. He is very good.
BTW, I did eat lunch by myself...and thats okay. I ate it at home and had time to spare getting back.
g'nite
What fun this day has turned out to be! I believe I have had nothing but fun for about a week running, now. Frightening. I am even smiling just around town. Seriously, I must look like I have not a care in the world and if I do, its out of control anyways.
So today, right in the middle of filling my head with all this stuff, we stopped for Staff Devotions. Don't get me wrong, we didn't sit around telling each other how devoted we are to the cause. No, we did BIBLE study! And we get to do it every Wednesday. I have a feeling I am not going to miss a Wednesday for the next however many years I'll be working.
There are tons and tons of things to do. This office does this stuff so nicely that when you are sitting in the pews you have no idea how much work goes into the process.
Truly, I am so very excited. God is good. He is very good.
BTW, I did eat lunch by myself...and thats okay. I ate it at home and had time to spare getting back.
g'nite
panic....no calm
"hello, this is St. John's. How may I help you?" I don't even know how to answer the phone anymore!!!!!! Okay, let me try again. "Good Morning, St. John's". How's that? And have you noticed my typing. Practice. Caps. Commas. Periods. gee.....semi-colons!!!! Oh Lord, help me. It's kind of nice to know I only have to whisper, He is so near. At that other place, I had to yell, to get any attention. LOL
Okay....count down. I have to be there at 8:00 am. Its 7:10 right now. It is no more than 7 minutes away, probably closer to 3. I don't want to be late. But I can not be earlier. Oh I am working myself up. I am going to be nutz by the time I get there. I can hear the whine in my thoughts.
I am oh so over it. Here we go.
............................................................I wonder what we'll do for lunch today. ACK!!! What if it is not "we". What if they leave me stranded. Do I come home? Do I just go do some fast food and run the risk of it dripping down my shirt? Maybe we will take the lady whose place I am slipping into out to lunch today. Maybe they baked her a cake! Oh, should I take a coffee cup? I should have planned this out better.
Not to worry....He has the plan. :))
im out.....ttyl *X*X*X*X
oh i am just so nervous
Okay....count down. I have to be there at 8:00 am. Its 7:10 right now. It is no more than 7 minutes away, probably closer to 3. I don't want to be late. But I can not be earlier. Oh I am working myself up. I am going to be nutz by the time I get there. I can hear the whine in my thoughts.
I am oh so over it. Here we go.
............................................................I wonder what we'll do for lunch today. ACK!!! What if it is not "we". What if they leave me stranded. Do I come home? Do I just go do some fast food and run the risk of it dripping down my shirt? Maybe we will take the lady whose place I am slipping into out to lunch today. Maybe they baked her a cake! Oh, should I take a coffee cup? I should have planned this out better.
Not to worry....He has the plan. :))
im out.....ttyl *X*X*X*X
oh i am just so nervous
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