"If My people, who are called by My name,"

"will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land" 2 Chronicles 7:14 (New King James Version)

Hello children! I have heard a wonderful song that you should all hear! Go to your favorite music listening site (iTunes, Wal-Mart, Pandora, what have you) and type in We Pray. You'll either find it under the artist name of BarlowGirl or Adam Agee...more than likely.

Any-who. Wonderful song! Lyrics follow below.

We Pray

feat. Adam Agee of Stellar Kart, BarlowGirl, Leigh Cappillino of Point of Grace, Rebecca St. James, Lisa Kimmey, Juan Winans and David Leonard of Jackson Waters

For the tired and the weary

Lost and confused

Hopeless and needy

With nothing to lose

For those who are falling

Or have already fallen away

Cause our hearts are exploding

With compassion and love

For a world that is dying

To be lifted up (oh...)

We pray

Humbly we seek Your face

Broken and unafraid to be, You hear

We leave it all in Your hands

Know that You'll hear us when we pray

Peace and forgiveness

For the nations at war

Strength in their weakness

When they can take no more

Mercy, redemption, healing

And for You to be Lord of all

Our hearts are exploding

With compassion and love

For a world that is dying

To be lifted up...

We pray

Humbly we seek Your face

Broken and unafraid to be, You hear

We leave it all in Your hands

Know that You'll hear us when we pray

Father in Heaven

The Giver of life

Your Kingdom forever be glorified

You alone can unite us

And heal or divide

We bow down before You

Oh Lord hear our cry

We pray

Humbly we seek Your face

Broken and unafraid to be, You hear

We leave it all in Your hands

Know that You'll hear us when we pray

God we know that You hear us

When we pray

That is all. Peace out.

The End.

"No one is useless in this world..."

"who lightens the burdens of another." --Charles Dickens

Hello children!

It very much frustrates me that I cannot engage myself in reading multiple books at one time and follow along intently to each. Insert frustrated emoticon. I am in a very big reading mood right now and am only capable of reading one book at a time. That, my dear friends, is a sad day. I'm not a speedy reader either (if not allowed to sit and read without interruptions/obligations/what have you). Hence the frustration(s). Hahaha....insert defeated sigh.

Oh well. Moving on.

I have the first picture of many that shall and will be taken over this year! Who's excited? I'm excited! You in the back. Are you excited sir? Oh, excuse me. Are you excited...ma'am? You are? Sweet! On to the picture!

This is Lawrence. Lawrence the Lizard. Lawrence

 lives in a small vase of fake flowers in the foyer of our home. He's been living there for 3+ months now. The other day Mom accidently knocked him out of his "home" when she was trying to show him to a friend. I was able to get him to climb onto my hand where he then proceeded to take a lil' nappy-nap on my wrist. No lie. I finally got him to climb back into the flowers where he continued his nappy-nap and I was then able to snap a few pictures of him. He let me too. I think I may have gotten on his nerves a bit with my camera shutter clicking ever so loudly whilst he tried to sleep. My apologies, little guy. So, anyway. Meet Lawrence.

Cutting this a bit short. Sorry kiddos. I'm very much on the sleepy side of awake and should have been in the bed taking care of that problem a good bit ago.

Peace out homies.

The End.

Pattertwig: "We could collect nuts!"

Reepicheep: "Oh yes, and then we can throw them at the Telmarines. Shut up!"

Hello children!

I'm in a Narnia mood. Hahaha! I'm currently reading Prince Caspian and also watching the movie (not literally at the same time as you should properly assume). I need to find the last three books of the Chronicles in the same binding of the first four I have. Hmm, good luck with that, eh? Hahaha! Every time I go into the bookstores they never have Voyage of the Dawn Treader in the binding I'm looking for.

So, here's my confession of the post. Dear Diary, I'm so relieved to find out that the guys who play Prince Caspian and Peter Pevensie are in fact 21+. I feel less likely to go to jail for thinking them attractive. Hahaha! The End.

Yes, I did just say that.

Moving on.

Mom and I went to the Thrift Store the other day. Oh happy times, indeed. I racked up on six books, three picture frames and an owl figurine. The books include Welcome To The Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut; A Wrinkle In Time, Madeline L'Engle; Under The Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayer (in really, really good condition); A Million Little Pieces, James Frey (also nice condition); One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey (decent condition); and some book I've never heard of called O Ye Jigs & Juleps, by someone-I-don't-know-or-remember-and-can't-read-her-name-from-where-I'm-sitting-and-I-don't-want-to-get-up-to-check (I've read bits of it already and it looks like a collection of funny short stories for children and adults of all ages).

Alright then. I am on the sleepy side of awake and need to be up for work in the morning kiddies.

Peace out.

The End.

"A smile is the perfect gift,"

"personal and encouraging." -- The inside of my Dove Chocolate wrapper

"And the rain, rain, rain came down, down, down..."

And boy howdy did it ever today!

Hello children! Man, oh, man did it ever pour showers and buckets of fat rainy drops today. All day. Which made for a very slow-traffic day at work. Not so good for sales at all, but I was okay with that because we were able to bring stuff out of the stock room and complete tasks that desperately needed to be done in preparation for Thursday when we'll be having another truck bring more merchandise.

On my way home I actually switched my radio station over to WDJC (our local Christian radio station for you non-Alabamerians/Birminghamers) and heard Francesca Battistelli's new single "Free To Be Me." Yeah...it only confirmed my fandom for her music. So glad God had me hear that one. Look it up and give it a lil' listen, kiddies. Its a goody.

I've been experimentationing with my Photoshop program I gots for Christmas. Having a ball of a time. Yeppie. I'll have to work more with it and eventually post my outcomes.

As mentioned in the previous post I shall now reveal my New Year's Resolution list for 2009. Ready. Set. Listing.

1. Memorize a verse of Scripture each week.

2. Keep a regular journal log.

3. Write more.

4. Learn to be more quiet [in regards to listening/talking to God].

5. Take a minimum of one new picture each week.

6. Show one act of concern/care for friends each day.

7. Pray more.

8. Read more.

9. Notice more.

10. Talk less when appropriate and speak when appropriate.

11. Love more.

12. Clean once a week.

13. Doodle, draw, create art work more.

14. Write letters [as in pen and paper, stamp and envelope letters -- a lost art].

So far so good with some of the items on the list. I'm happy. I'm pretty stoked to see how things turn out over the year.

Well, I'm going to peace out and try to get to sleep at a decent hour tonight for work tomorrow morning.

Peace out homies!

The End.

"In the absences of a decent time machine,"

"fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras." --Tom Nolan,  The Wall Street Journal

Hello childerenians! So sorry it has been a while since my last contribution to the blogging world.

Christmas was good. I must say it did blow by like a crazy-fast gust of wind. Sad day indeed. I would have loved to have enjoyed the season more than I was not able to. I got two-thirds of my Wish List (woo hoo!). I got a copy of Photoshop for my Mac-y Lap-y; no more editing photos on the desktop and transferring them over. I also got some sort of loverly device that I can plug my guitar/microphone/keyboards/etc. into and then plug it into my Mac and do some pretty decent recordings with. All sorts of excited about both of those giftasesasisms. Yeppie.

New Year's wasn't too much of a bust. I had to work opening shift New Year's Eve as well as New Year's Day, so needless to say I couldn't stay out too long after the new year rang in. Hahaha!....er, sad.

I did make some resolutions. I'm not too big on doing such, but they're different this year. This year's list will be prayed over throughout the whole year. Not everything on the list may not be fulfilled depending on the different season's of my life throughout this year. Hence the praying. What I think I may need to work on or do may not exactly be what God wants me to focus on, so my list is flexible and open to change and tweaking. I'll post my list as of so far later.... It's not sitting next to me at this point in time.

Funny story before I peace out: I was driving home from work a few days ago and was stopped at a traffic light when I looked at the house to my left and saw that in the yard were Christmas decorations (yes, still, but technically its the first week after New Year's and unwritten rule you can still leave 'em up...whatever.). In this yard were three of the white, wicker, white-light reindeer and a Santa figure beside them. Whether due to high winds from the rainy weather we've been having lately or lovely little vandals, the Santa was lying face down on the ground in front of the reindeer with the reindeer looking down triumphantly over him. It was almost as if the deer taken Santa out. It was slightly dark outside and I didn't have a camera to document this glorious sight. I saw it once more before it was finally taken down and again did not have a camera handy and it was getting dark. Oh how I wish it had been light outside so I could have at least gotten a crappy phone picture of it.

That's all for now. Peace out homies.

The End.