Celery in town?

In case you haven't heard, Celery's coming to Terre Haute. (if you have no idea what I'm talking about, see the post titled "Phil and Celery" below)

Today, my friend Stephanie e-mailed me and asked, "are you and Lenny going to have lunch with Phil and Celery when she's in town?" That made me laugh!

Then she started referring to me as a Celery stalker. I thought that was pretty funny too!

I'm certainly not a Celery stalker. Though, since my dream, I would love to see her.

Who knows? Stranger things have happened. First she was in my dream, now she's coming to my town. :-)

Thankful...

I woke up this morning thankful. Thankful that I've slept the past two nights. I've always had some issues with sleeping. I go to sleep fine, but I'll often wake up at 3am, and have trouble falling back to sleep, sometimes not going back to sleep at all. Normally, that only happens about one week out of the month, but until yesterday, it had gone on for the last eighteen, or so, days and quite frankly, I was exhausted.

Two days ago, I had a major discussion with God about it, and I also went to GNC. I walked in, grabbed the guy by the collar, and said, "give me something to make me sleep, NOW!!". (okay, I didn't grab the guy by the collar, or say the now part)

I've never wanted to have to take a medicine to help me sleep, but I'm not opposed to natural stuff. They put me on a mult-vitamin, and gave me something called "nutra-sleep" that is made up of some herbs. Anyway, the past two nights, I have slept, and slept well. So, I don't know if the sleep came from my discussion with God, or the help from GNC. But, I'll give the glory first to God, and then to GNC, which I have now labeled "God's Nutritional Center".


I'm also thankful because we have a FREE Saturday! Yay!! The last two, we have worked our tails off. The Saturday before last, was improve your serve day at church, and we missed it because we had scheduled a gentleman to come and stretch our carpets. We had actually been waiting on this day for four years. One year after we built our house, the carpets started rolling, and we could not seem to get the builder to do anything about it, or send anyone down to restretch it. So, Flooring America, in Terre Haute is one of my clients, and he sent one of his guys out to take care of it for us. By the way, if you ever need carpet, I HIGHLY recommend Flooring America, Wayne Gore is the owner, and he is one of the nicest men I have ever met in my life. He also just recently opened a new store called Big Bob's Flooring Outlet, go to either one and they will take care of you well. Anyway, the restretch of the carpet meant that we had to move furniture out of EVERY room. So the whole family pitched in to take care of that, thanks mostly, of course, goes to Denny. He put the most work in. Here's a pic of Maren's room, before the restretch.



THEN, last Saturday, we worked on re-finishing some furniture that had been in the fire at my Mom's house. They had been told that it was ruined, and really, it was. The finish was taken off in many places, but you know what they say, "one man's trash is another man's treasure." So, Denny and I took it to see what we could do with it. Last Saturday, we scrubbed so much on this furniture that our hands were left ACHING, even into our fingers. I've never had that kind of pain in my hands before. (I'm such a wimp) Anyway, we were SO pleased with how the furniture cleaned up. It's now sitting in our dining room...YAY!

So, today, all we have to do is go to Robinson and check out the church's audio/video system for the event that we're doing there in a couple of weeks. Chris and Sherri are going with us, and we're figuring on 20 minutes at the church, and an hour a Monical's Pizza...oh yeah....

Prayer to Spare?

I thought that, after my last post, I should at least stop by here briefly to let you all know that I'm still alive. I avoided the falling ice. My car is still intact, and so is my head. At least the outside framework of it. Sometimes I wonder about what's going on inside. :-)

I'm also pausing here to say that if any of you have a prayer to spare, I'll take it. I'm currently sinking knee deep into planning for our event in Robinson with Renee Swope, as well as our event with Anita Renfroe. Praying that it's just the way God wants it, and that He is glorified.

Beware of Ice

This time of year, my job gets seriously dangerous. Why, you ask? Because we have a huge television tower that stands right beside our station. Can you guess what happens after an ice storm? Yeah, the ice melts, and falls from the tower…sometimes in huge chunks. Sometimes onto our cars in the parking lot. As you make your way to the car, ice falls all around you. I seriously think they should distribute hard hats. :-) Tomorrow, I’m wearing Maren’s motorcycle helmet to walk to and from my car.

Phil and Celery

There's a woman who is currently running for a high political office and her name rhymes with Celery Fenton. So, this post is about her. And because I don't particularly want someone to google her name and land on my site, I will continue to refer to her as "Celery".

To be honest, I've never cared much for Celery. I can't really give you a solid reason why. Maybe she just seemed too "political" for me, not "real" enough.

However, the other night, I had a dream about her. In the dream, Denny and I were hangin' out with Phil and Celery in a relatively small cabin. I remember in the dream, I kept whispering to Denny, "they are so normal, isn't that weird? I never expected them to be this normal." At one point in the dream, Denny and I were sitting at the dining room table with Celery. She was sharing her heart, and I vividly remember that as she shared her heart, my heart totally went out to her. It was as if God poured His love for her into my heart. Romans 5:5 "because God has poured out His love into our hearts, by the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us."

Anyway, what's strange to me is, that love has remained with me. I could really care less about the "political" side of Celery, but I do care about Celery the person. I have begun to pray for her. and I've wondered what she and Phil's marriage is like. Is it really love, or is it a nice, somewhat, convenient, business relationship. I've prayed that if it's not love, that it becomes true love. And I say that all the while realizing that her marriage might totally be more solid than mine.

I've prayed that God himself would lavish His love on Celery. That she would have a wonderful love relationship with Jesus.

So, why am I telling you this? I have no idea. I guess I just found it interesting how God took my heart and completely molded it into a different fashion toward someone. And I guess I'm thinking that if He can do that to me, He can do that to anyone. And I'm thinking that it's a good reminder as we head into a huge political year, that as Christians, regardless of how we view a political candidate, we still need to practice loving the person.