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Silencing the Crowd

Last Saturday was the annual Heart to Heart Brunch. Heart to Heart is a ladies' discipleship program that is lead by my dear friend and birthday buddy, Gladys Wilson. Our speaker, Debbie Daniels, is married to the pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene in Pasadena. She made a very interesting point at the beginning of her message. She is always introduced as "the pastor's wife." She pointed out that no other women in the world is introduced that way, you don't hear, "this is my plumber's wife" or "this is the mailman's wife."

Needless to say, she was a very enjoyable speaker. One of the things she talked about was "silencing the crowd." As a mother of four who is also involved in ministry she understands how hard it is to get away from everything and spend time alone with God. She reminded us several times, we have to silence the crowd. Not an easy task, but one well worth the investment.

The second thing that stuck was the reminder that God only gives us what we need today. Just like the people of Israel when they were in the wilderness, he supplied manna for that day. Afterwards, my discipleship girl, Susan and I were talking about that. (That's her in the picture with me, in case you didn't guess that) We can't get all caught up in the future and whether or not this relationship will work out or the whatever that consumes our thoughts. One day at a time God gives us what we need. Something to that song... "One day at a time, Sweet Jesus"

Always learning

Today, I'm attending Microsoft Excel 2007 Level 3. Thankfully, unlike the Excel level 2 class most of these people have had the other sessions. But I stil feel like I know more than most. That's ok, I suppose, I am still learning stuff. The instructor is pretty good. I learn as much about how to teach something as I do the topic

Basketball season is over for Mark. His team didn't make the playoff. Big surprise! I think they won 3 games. At least Mark had fun and I saw a lot of improvement in his play. Next week we start baseball. He's looking forward it. I hope he does well, I don't expect him to be great, it would be nice if he just did ok.

Life has been busy to say the least. The "project" is taking all my time. It's making me crazy. I do have a student worker now, Joe. He's a great person and has been a good friend. I trust he'll be a good employee as well. I'm working on getting at least a temp position that if he wants to step into he can. We'll see what happens.

Easter is coming soon!! I have to finish getting my ideas out of my head and onto paper. I am looking forward to the Stations of the Cross coming up on the 20th and 21st. I think it will be a good experience for people. There are 8 stations starting with the Garden of Gethsamane to Christ being laid in the tomb. That's the only station that we really don't have a "good" visual for. We'll find out on the 17th whether or not the idea we have will work.

Enough for now... I should probably stop being A.D.D. and pay attention to what's being said.