Good Words...

"This is the work we have to do: hold fast to the confession of hope without wavering! Claim
Christ this day as your own. Open your heart to his healing love and grace. Then walk out these
great wooden doors to share him with the world.
“Hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is
faithful.”"
The Rev. Timothy E. Kimbrough
Christ Church Cathedral
Nashville, TN
November 15, 2009

http://www.christcathedral.org/WorshipMusic/Sermons

I was looking at the web site for the cathedral in Nashville and read a few of his past sermons. This was from a sermon on what the word "confession" means. The sermon in its entirety is awesome.

The left image is Bobby at Disney on the tram going from the parking lot to the park. The middle image is Bobby and his date for homecoming earlier this month. And the last is Becca and Daddy at Disney. The gentleman in the green shirt is Byron Veasy. His family met us there, Rick and Byron have known each other for over 20 years. We had a great time...very relaxing, no agandas, no schedules, just fun!

Teen Homelessness

My 14 year old son, Bobby, participated in a church activity last night in which they were homeless. It was appropriately called "Cardboard Village". This was organized by a member of our church who grew up in Trinity (Trinity Episcopal Church) http://www.trinityparish.com/ and is now attending seminary. This project required the youth to sleep in a cardboard "village" they constructed, participate in a service project at the Salvation Army, and read passages from the Bible and have discussions. Their village was destroyed while they were at the Salvation Army and the Sheriff showed up at midnight to escort the "homeless" off the church property (all of which was pre-arranged). Oh, I forgot to mention the fact that it rained last night and their dinner was in the trash cans (in baggies)! This project was done to increase their awareness of homelessness. Personally I am hoping that my son appreciates the little things in his life a little more...i.e. a house, clean clothes, and a shower!! This project is going to be done annually with the hope of participation from other local churches.

Food for thought.........

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32108119/ns/health-health_care/

This article was thought provoking for me. Does this hospital have the right to deport this illegal immigrant back to their country? Why would a hospital spend their own money to fly this man via a chartered flight back to his country?? They did this to avoid his long term health cost to the hospital as an illegal immigrant. They were being sneaky and failed to let family here legally know that they were sending him back. He is on a 4th grade level after his accident and the hospital claims he understood and asked to be sent back to his country?? To a country with poverty and poor, hard to access health care?? However.... do we as a country have a obligation to pay for his long term health care expenses as he was here illegally in a job where he could not legally obtain health insurance because he was here illegally??? We are speaking of a person who never contributed to social security or paid any type of taxes (city, state, or federal).

Finally we have some nice and cool weather.... Kids are getting ready for school... starts 7 Aug! Hard to believe that Bobby is going to be in High School! And my sweet daughter in 1st grade! Time flies!

Will post pics from 1st day of school soon!

NOT for the birds!

Okay, never in my life have I had this happen to me..... My clothes dryer had not been drying my clothes too good and I knew that a bird had been trying to get in the dryer vent on that is on the outside of the house...well I never thought much about the bird. It was comical to turn on the dryer and see that bird zip right out of the vent. So the other day my dryer was not drying well.. so I took the vent off the back of the dryer and tried to clead it with a brush I have to clean the inside dryer vent. I figured there was some lint collected around the inside of the tube...wrong!!!! It was a BIRD NEST!!! I had to take the hose off the wall hook up and take it outside and get the nest out. It was huge!! I feel very fortunate that my dryer did not burn up or catch on fire. Now my dryer is back to normal drying my clothes nicely!!!

Here is Becca with her missing teeth. Dad lovingly calls her "Gaps"! She was not very happy that I took this picture!

snapshots of kids

The top is at the wax museum in Gatlinberg... she just hopped up there and posed! (it was allowed) the next is of Bobby refereeing his first Saturday soccer games. Pretty good gig for a teen ager... Becca's school celebrated the 100th day of school and encouraged the children to dress like they were 100 years old! I dusted her hair with baby powder and a generous spray of hair spray! Last but not least... a teen ager smiling!! What a rarity... He will be 14 next month...he went indoor skydiving in Gatlinberg! He had a blast!

Well not much to say today... Becca has soccer practice tonight and Bobby has baseball practice tonight... Oh...Becca took a reading test in school this week to see what level she is actually reading on.. she is on a 3.6 to 4.1 level... third grade 6th month to 4th grade 1st month!! She loves to read! She is currently reading Junie B Jones and Moody Judy series.... Her kindergarten teacher told me she has never had a kindergartner who can read so well... (she has been teaching kindergarten for 19 years!)

Everyone have a good day!!

Jen

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First time blogging

I really have no plan for this blog... just to talk about my family, life, and anything of interest...
I plan on posting some pictures soon!