thoughts of the week

How many times do you read something and it never hits you. And then at the most random time, you hear someone else say it and it all clicks?!?!!?!?!?! A few Wednesdays ago josh and I were at youth group. We are doing a reality based serious for the summer. We got these DVD that is a reality "show" called the G.O.S.P.E.L journey. This pastor got 7 or 8 teens together and they talk about what they believe and how it's all different. He started out his talk in the book of Genesis. How many times in your life have you read or talked about, or even spoke on the creation story. I know I have. But it wasn’t until he read it that something amazing struck me. When God was creating something he would just speak it into existence. He wanted light…. So there was light. He wanted animals… BAM there were animals. But then it came to making man. First of all, he made us last. And I don’t think that it was by chance. He planned us to be last. And it think it’s because he wanted to take his time with us. We, as humans, require a little more TLC. The Holy trinity honored humanity by making us in There image. They took the time to design us and to form us like Them. They took their breath of life and gave it to us. God didn’t take something that was already holy, like an angle to live on the earth and to look after it, He made something like himself. All of that is so AMAZING to me. He did all of that so we could walk with Him and worship Him. How long did it last? Does it say in the bible how long they walked with God before we screwed it up? I don’t know, but none the less it did happen. I don’t like it when people blame the bad things in life on Adam and Eve. The truth is if any of us where in that position, would we have never eaten from the tree? Would we have taught our children not to eat from the tree? NO. My name might as well be Eve because I probably would have done the same thing. We do the same thing everyday. Everyday we are given new chances to walk with the Lord and talk with him. What do we do? We run him over with our business and idealistic ideas about what MY life SHOULD look like. I don’t know about you. But I leave Him out of a lot. Even church’s are leaving him out of a lot. It’s easy to say that we are humans and we make mistakes and God will forgive us. Don’t you think that that’s just a copout? He look the time to create us and to give us life. We screwed up and he gave us another chance. We take the time to…. What? Have our days filled with business…. Even if it’s business for God?
These are just my thoughts. It’s been a few weeks since I started thinking about God creating us and these are the spits and spats of thoughts that have come out of it.

How awesome are we?

On Wednesday night was had American Idol night at church. The leaders where in charge of picking a song and putting on a show. We had three judges and all the students could text in their votes. I found this awesome dress at a thrift store for $8 and it was worth every penny. I got Josh the short sleeved shirts and suspenders. The rest is all him. I sand the little mermaid song "part of that world" and josh sang The greatest Love of all. It was so great. It did get taped so maybe one day I'll post the songs. It was quite a show.

This photo was taken right after I was named the winner of American Idol!!!!

I mean no offense

I really don't like Philly's fans! Tonight Josh and I were able to get last minute tickets to the Mets Phillys game. We were in Left field 6 rows back. They were really good seats. Josh and I have learned to be good fans. We don't talk trash and we don't respond to the trash talk that goes on around us. Josh always wears a Mets shirt which is fine because he is supporting his team. Sometimes we are lucky and we get other good Met's fans around us. Not tongit. It rained most of the night so people were in and out the entire time. There was this incredibly obnoxious guy sitting a few rows behind us. They kept yelling stupid stuff to Reyes who plays Short stop but really they were yelling at Josh because thats who's shirt he was wearing. Anyway, Josh was really good ignoring them. I was not so good. It was getting really bad and I knew I couldn't do anything about it but I just couldn't sit there and do nothing. So one time he said something stupid and I spun around in my chair and stared him down. He got a big smile on his face and just waived at me. He was quite for a while, but the more he drank, the more he said. The dumber he sounded and the more he slurred. So stupid. Josh asked me if I thought the people knew how stupid they sounded. I said no because if they knew then they would stop. Anyway I was just feeling sad about things because I wouldn't even feel good about bringing my kid's to the games now a days. Anyway.... needless to say i really don't like Philly's fans. Even as we are leaving the stadium people are just screaming out "the mets suck" blah blah blah. Yes it's sad that they lost, but we did nothing to instigate that kind of talk. And one more thing.... man I hate the f word. Why is it everywhere all the time! It's just not right.
Hope you all had a great 4th of July. See you at the beach (or the end of August)