Busy, But Fun, Days!!

Wow. What a whirlwind the past couple of days have been! I forgot to tell you that I got a speeding ticket on Thanksgiving Day. Happy Thanksgiving to me! My attitude, actually, is never bad when I get a speeding ticket, because I always know that I deserve it. I was a little puzzled, however, how I happened to win the prize this particular time. We were in 4 lanes of traffic, going through downtown Indy on I-70. I'm pretty sure every car was going 70 miles per hour, but I won the award. :-)

Yesterday (Friday) Maren and I got up fairly early, and went shopping. I, actually, have NEVER done that before on the day after Thanksgiving, but Maren was begging me to go shopping, so I decided to let her experience that thrill. We got a lot of shopping done for the Milbourn boys, and were still home by 10:30am.

For lunch Friday, we fixed a ham, and our favorite soup, "cheesy broccoli alfredo" soup. Denny's mom and his sister's family came over and ate lunch with us. After that, we put up a tree, and then went to see a movie. We saw "August Rush". I REALLY liked it. I think I liked it so much because it was a little different than normal, and yet still had a great story line.

Today, we finished decorating our house for Christmas. We put another tree up, and put lights up outside the house.

Currently, I'm getting ready to fix the family a good, healthy, dinner...(cereal). Then we're planning on sitting down, enjoying the lights, and watching Shrek the 3rd.

Thanksgiving Day

Today, we celebrated Thanksgiving at my cousin Cathy's house in Greenfield, Indiana, on the East side of Indy. Thought I'd share a few pics....

Me and My Mama...

Josh being goofy....(how does he do that?!)


Thanksgiving Day Football Game...

Josh and my nephew Logan...

Denny and I. Denny took this picture. We look a little distorted!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

I AM

This Thanksgiving, I am most thankful that God is the great "I AM". I'm thankful that he calls Himself, "I AM". Not "I WAS". Not "I'm gonna be". But "I AM".

So many times, I think that we Christians think, "well, God did that in 'Bible days', but I'm not sure about now..." or we think, "wow, can't wait 'til Jesus comes back, that will be awesome!"

How about now? I ask. How about right now? He is alive and active NOW.

Father, I'm so thankful for you. Thankful for Your ever PRESENT help. Thankful for how you're moving in my life. Thankful for You, and amazed by You.

Call on the great "I AM" today.

"Call on Me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things that you do not know." Jeremiah 33:3

"I AM"

Relaxed

I am SOOO relaxed today. I'm not sure why. I'm thinking that my brain has kicked into holiday/vacation mode. Cathy and I had some light jazz music playing in our work "condo" this morning to reflect the current mood.

The mood was quickly interrupted, when our boss called us to quickly get on the phones and sell an upcoming special that we're airing. Darn those bosses. He, evidently, hasn't caught the relaxed mood, nor have my clients. I've already sold the special event, shot a commercial, and have another client who wants to be on the air starting TOMORROW, yikes. However, I'm not allowing them to change my current mood of...relaxed.

Part of the "relaxed" feeling, might be because of last night's community service. It was awesome. I love it when the "church" gets together. I loved looking out across the congregation and seeing my Baptist friends, and my Methodist friends, and my Nazarene friends, and my non-denominational friends. Judy Williams from Trinity Methodist Church gave the message, and quite frankly, I could have listened to her all evening. I really enjoyed her message. Through it I felt God's comfort, and His Love, and I liked being in that "place."

So, anyway, I decided to come to a coffee shop on my lunch hour, away from the hustle bustle, and relax in this very quiet place where they're playing relaxing music, and share my relaxed mood with you.

You might want to call me at 12:55 and make sure that I wake up and go back to work. :-)

Community Thanksgiving Service

Join us, Sunday evening, for the Community Thanksgiving Service. It will be held at our church (First Christian in Marshall) it begins at 7pm. I'm excited about what God has planned for this service!