4 Words...

I love the Christmas story in the book of Luke.  I love hearing it read aloud, I love reading it myself, I love seeing it portrayed through Christmas plays and movies and I love hearing carols reflecting the story.  I would dare to say that in my 25 years of life I have heard the Christmas story in some form or another over 150 times.  Honestly.  However, this past weekend when I saw it portrayed at a churches Christmas program I saw something different.  Something new and exciting to me.  I saw four words that changed me.  I saw three different “characters”, if you will, in the Christmas story say four words that changed lives.  Over the next three weeks leading to Christmas I would like to look at these three characters and the four words that they spoke.

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Things I wish I knew at 15... [Part 1]

The distant future, the year 2000... A bright-eyed and bushy eye-browed 15-year old version of me was venturing into high school.

If Doc could show up with the DeLorean and take me back to that time to talk to myself or my friends. What would I say? 

Probably first, pluck your eyebrows and stop putting bleach in your hair... Then I'd think of some more substantial advice. This blog will be the first in a series of (hopefully) interesting thoughts on how it feels 10 years later.

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Creative Manna from Heaven

When was the last time you were decently inspired by something?  I mean really truly good and inspired? (I am Spartacus...hehe)

I’m a creative type. I like to get my hands dirty and make ideas a reality. But like most people I find myself pulled away from doing the things I love by the things that make life stressful and overwhelming. It can take sometime to really get a grip on those things and have time to refocus. I’ve been in that gripping state for quite sometime now, and I’m beginning to have time to indulge my creative side again, but sadly, I’ve been completely uninspired… I should say, was, because now I have joined the online paradise known as Pinterest.com.

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