Pudding

so i will do almost anything for my kids if they are good. They filled up a chart and therefore got to throw---more like dump pudding pies on me! laugh it up...it was a cold day!

How is your sex life?

So this morning I went to go give a little speech thing at Memorial on peer ministry with a few other girls. Before the speech however Pastor O was giving the devotion and this line stuck out in my mind and I thought I would right it because it is so true.
If someone came up and randomly patted you on the back and asked you how your sex life….that would be a little too personal right? Well how often is going up to someone and asking about Jesus in their life is the same way. In some ways that might even be harder for some. How do we break through and cause a crack in our personal being. Get inside someone’s head with questions that are just too personal?


ps. yes i made it home just fine...thanks for asking! :-)









How is Christ in your life....?

Shout out to Friends

So often I wander down the side walk thinking about how do people see me....I know I have a blog some where in the stack that has mentioned these things before. I am a people watcher, I love to try to think about what people are thinking...I love trying to get the minds of people and make a story up about their lives....as random as it is. When I was growing up my best friend Casey and I would sit in front of the TV and make up the words to the television show that was on mute. (Great entertainment if you need some) Man did we get creative. Which brings up my random thought of the night. How friends are important to me...and why I call them my friends. My closest friends are like a second family to me....friends mean the world to me and I would be nothing life without them. So then who do I call my friends....? My friends are those I meet when I walk down the sidewalk....those that might not even really know me, those that say hello and continue on in life.....friends are those who leave foot prints to guide...."friends in the family" are those who forgive me for my mistakes in life and stick around in the walk with others...they are the ones that will pick me up on the side of the road at 1am or those who will listen to my tears. It is so hard coming to a new place and think about making friends...but i learned you have to let people in...you have to let people think what they want. I know that I normally hang out with just guys....why is that? I don't really date...nor do I feel the need to any time soon...( must stay focused)...by guy friends are my thing I guess....always has been. When I analyize the circle of friends....i see patterns I hang out with church people, speders, co-workers, and people from my past like high school. Most of my friends that I remain true to are girls....It is so cool that no matter how long we go without talking the minute we begin to it feels as if we hadn't stopped talking in forever.....we just connect. I guess in all my ramble mumble mess of words I just wanna give a shout out to all my friends ....thank you for always being there for me, for understanding and accepting my randomness and my giggles. I'm so blessed that God has allowed you to walk into my life and I into yours. Thought as you continue on for the day...where do friends come into play in your life? What do you look for in a friend?
God Bless Friends,
Kris

sorry for the typos....forgiveness is a good quality in friendship. :-)

Old School

With the week coming to an end I'm full of randomness....from comments to activities. Question for you....what is one of your favorite childhood games to play either with others or yourself.

Thanks to a good friend I got Mario Brothers 3 in the mail!!! That is what I will be doing with my evening! It was one of my favorite video games growing up that didn't require battling someone else! Enjoy the day God has made! I know it is a little old school but why mess with a good thing!

May God continue to bless your life,
Kris

GUMMY

How do you eat your gummy bears? How do you eat animal cookies/ crackers? What does that say about your personality?

I like to pick out the colors and separate them in groups when eating gummy bears. Then I either eat them one at a time head first….or I eat them in a handful at a time. (Green first) With animal crackers I like to go for the body parts one at a time. I will eat the whole animals first and leave the half bodies in the bag until the end. I like to savor the animal in my mouth and kind of let them dissolve in my mouth. Mmmmm this is making me hungry as I sit in class.

How do you eat yours? Does that say anything about you…what does mine tell me about me?

Hmm?

>>>Oh and added information today: it is Talk like a Pirate Day! RRRRRrrrrrr

Walking Around

You know what I love…I love being able to walk across campus and know people. There is 25,000 some odd people enrolled I can walk across campus and find 5 or 6 that aren’t people in my classes that I know and can say hello to or stop and have a conversation with. It is such a great feeling. When I went to community colleges (two different ones to be exact) I never felt like I fit in…people stuck in their own little clicks just like in high school. I feel so much a part of where I am and have a circle of friends that is ever changing. God Bless those who enter our lives and leave many foot prints on our hearts.

I also love this beautiful weather and walking across campus with the sun beating down and the breeze that brings a slight chill to my skin. As many people as I know, I need to always keep in mind it is in those I don’t know that I can impact lives. Those who don’t know the love of God that I have the opportunity to share with them.

Do you ever feel like you are just wondering around in life? Just a thought?

Forgive and Forget!!

Sunday’s Gospel Lesson about forgiveness….are you like the man in the parable?
The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant
21Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?"
22Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.[a]
23"Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand talents[b] was brought to him. 25Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.
26"The servant fell on his knees before him. 'Be patient with me,' he begged, 'and I will pay back everything.' 27The servant's master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.
28"But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii.[c] He grabbed him and began to choke him. 'Pay back what you owe me!' he demanded.
29"His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.'
30"But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31When the other servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed and went and told their master everything that had happened.
32"Then the master called the servant in. 'You wicked servant,' he said, 'I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?' 34In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.
35"This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart."
Yesterday’s sermon talked about forgiveness. Pastor O said that “If you can’t be forgiving then you can’t be forgiven…and if you can’t be forgiven then how can you forgiving?” We looked back at Genesis 50:15-21 the story with Joseph…the brother that got sold, then enslaved, then read dreams and reunited with his family…well his brothers still felt that guilt and were worried so much that Joseph hadn’t really forgot and even after being back with him for 17 years they still felt scared that revenge was still due to them, that Joseph wasn’t forgiving…they even said that deceased father had left a note for Joseph to make sure that he had forgiven them and to bring no harm to them. I sat through this sermon twice so listened contently as things were repeated in a different manner to the different crowds of people sitting in front of the pulpit. Do you ever feel that you are just holding grudges and that it is just so hard at some point just to let them go, to fess up to even holding one. I know I have. I have a friend that let me down and for some reason after a while we just stopped talking to each other, it took forever to just say sorry on the part of both of us.
Forgiveness
The verses above Jesus is talking to Peter about forgiving his brother not seven times, but seventy-seven times. Take this as meaning 7 as being a complete so in terms saying we should forgive our brother (others) every time they need forgiven. Oh how hard that is for us sometimes, but like in the story above how can we expect forgiveness if we can’t deal it out. With the word Forgiveness comes Grace. Because God’s forgiveness is something that we don’t deserve, it is the reason we go up for Holy Communion it is the reason we say “Forgive us our trespasses…” God is Gracious and Good our Sunday school teachers teach, but look at that word…the word inside it is Grace, How important that word is to us as sinners. With out it where would we be? How do you forgive someone who doesn’t deserve to be forgiven….are there such people such events that take place that forgiveness isn’t an option for you to give. Pastor talked about fools.. “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.” We should let people continue to hurt us, how can you forgive someone for something such as rape, incest, brutality if they don’t repent from there actions if they don’t want forgiveness. We shouldn’t put ourselves in positions to get hurt over and over again when we know that forgiveness is something we can’t always offer. That is so easy to type and such a hard thing to do…. So often in people are in relationships that things happen and reasons are found to stay in them…I know as a female the male population isn’t full of ‘nice datable men’ according to our father’s respectable sense…and I also know that the female population at large isn’t the nicest group of women, we use men just like they use us. It is hard to say the words I forgive you and it is also sometimes hard to just walk away because we put ourselves first over what should be important in the relationship. If God isn’t in a relationship with a person whether it be your partner in life or in friendship how well off is that relationship? ---wow I got off track from my forgiveness spiel---
The main point I’m making is ask for forgiveness from God, but remember you need to ask forgiveness from those around us too. Give forgiveness to others around you just as God forgives us.

Prayers: Pray for forgiveness that I don’t feel bad about not beating the Hawks and I pray that you forgive the off task in my writing and all the typos.

May God Bless this beautiful day!

Who would have thought?

WE WON!!!

GO ISU!!

23ISU-3Iowa

Go Cyclones

Who's going to win the big game...Iowa State Cyclones...or Iowa??? Hmmm

I know that Iowa has the favor for a win, but ISU can always surprise you...at least I hope!

The Worlds Most Important Discovery

See what God has done! Numbers 23:23

On May 24th, 1844, the inventor Samuel Mores sent a message by telegraph from Baltimore to Washington. His message contained only four words: “What hath God wrought!” (Wrought meaning created, fashioned, or produced) That successful demonstration sold his inventions, and newsgathering agencies turned to its use. In our day of satellite television and cell phones, we have to go to a museum to learn about Morse’s inventions or read about them in history books. How many of us have cell phones and don’t think about 10 years ago or even 20 years ago when touchtone phones weren’t even prominent.
There is no replacement for the telegraph God uses to transmit his message to us. Jus as to the generations before and after us, God speaks to us through his Word. The methods used to carry his Word may change. Through television and radio, the computer, recordings of all kinds, the printed page, and the witness of people, we receive Gods’ message. In the future, ho knows what means might pop up? And we’ll thank God even as we try to harness those means to get his Words out.
But the message will still be the same. It’ll still be, “See what God has done.” It’ll point at the sinner within the chilling reminder of God’s law-what man has done can only doom him. Then it’ll point to God with the saving revelation of God’s gospel….what Jesus has done is more than enough to save the sinner. “See what God has done in the amazing love to save the sinner. See what God has done in the enduring love to ready the sinner for heaven.” For that timeless message there can never be a replacement.
Another great invention….that I didn’t talk about above is the printing press. With the invention of the printing press it made the scripture more readily available to the common man….more easily able to translate and spread the word of God. Oh and it helped Martin Luther out too…who could forget the reformation that changed the world.

"Everything that is done in the world is done with hope."~Martin
Luther

God Bless Your Day

Devotion guided by Together with Jesus by Richard Lauersdorf

Get Excited

Ok so I have a story for you, you might not enjoy this or it might not bring a smile to your face like it does mine…but I’m going to tell you any way. so I’m an aide in the afternoon around lunch time with the three year old group and one of the younger ones came up to me outside and said he had to poopy. +spelling of which I’m unsure of+ so I sent him inside to find the other teacher…. Background…sometimes it is hard for young boys to go on the potty….and this boy while never peeing his pants anymore sometimes doesn’t tell us in time for the other job. He came back outside about ten minutes later with a smile ear to ear. He ran right over and told me what he did…he didn’t go in his pants he went in the potty. Man was he excited…he ran another boy down to tell him what he’d done…then went on to the next little one. They were all happy for him, they would say good job and tell him that they had gone too or what not. For some reason a child being so excited he had to share the good news with everyone made me think of how we all should be excited to share such good news. Tonight at devotion Anne talked about being bold and getting out their to find out about people and were they stand in relationship with God…and their background. I feel that sometimes that is hard for someone who is more introverted like me. I pray tonight that all of us get as excited as this pure hearted boy that went potty….that we can take something as simple as God’s word and share the good news.

God Bless

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My Opinion of filling the TUB.

Ok so I have been watching things like CNN, local news, and what not. I have been following the devistation of the south and while my prayers and thoughts are on them I think about how it is impacting our nation. We have the technology for advance systems, we knew this was going to hit and there was fair warning to get out of New Orleans, knowing they are under sea level, knowing that they would fill up like a bath tub. They made a choice...and for some it cost them their lives. I know it is a high poverty area….but what things could have been done to prevent the deaths, to prevent such high numbers of those that are just sitting and waiting it out. People were told to evacuate the city….yet now they are complaining when the United States is slow to aide…..I agree as a nation the response of getting materials such as water and food was slow incoming, but when fear of lives are at risk for just walking into the sitting because of the primitive behavior…it makes you wanna look at what our nation has become. If people can complain about not having a shower for a few days while a dramatic event such as this is going on….what does it say about our culture? There is so much blame being put on President Bush…but he is one person, yes he is in the public eye as being the leader of our country right now…but there are sooo many people that should be doing their jobs….one person doesn’t make decisions for our nation…we elect who is in office…we have a voice…so that blame is on all of us for not being prepare for something like a natural disaster to hit this land. I know many people in the mid-west that are turning off the news and saying this isn’t affecting them, but then they look at the gas price right now, hovering around $3.00. I think as the United States maybe we weren’t prepared for this…the Red Cross is asking for money, but how much of that money goes where it is needed…sure there are thousands of volunteers, but what about those who are on a million dollar salary that comes from those funds…? I know people in the National Guard, I know people that are driving in supplies for near by sites. I know that those people with money and those that had the physical capabilities to get out for the most part seemed to have tried…but when it came time for it to hit land….the ones left were primarily those that couldn’t afford to get out…the major gangs that are down in that area. In the news they brought up that right now this issue of distribution and help is going to those of upper status and those that are not of color…they are making sound like this is a racial issue….when in terms is right now…social status is they are all homeless with equal loss of everything whether it be a brick house or a box….a home is a home and the feeling of lose is still the same….as for the color of skin…how could a person look around and judge something to that magnitude when there are people dying, people sick or injured….there are people in need and color isn’t an issue when it comes to human rights…so people need to look around them and start thinking about life in general looking to the Lord for comfort and guidance. New Orleans may come back in to play with in a few months…but I just question why rebuild a city that is sinking….why let this happen again? Yes I’m voicing my opinion….it isn’t like I don’t care for those that have gone through loss…that I don’t feel for those who have lost everything…I feel for those who are sitting and waiting to find out if their loved ones are alive. I have and aunt and my two cousin’s that live in Mississippi and they have managed to get one call out to a friend so that we know they are ok. I guess I know they should have left…they had places to go, but at the time it wasn’t suppose to be shifting more to the east and it did….they dried out fast….Mississippi isn’t a bath tub….I honestly think that rebuilding would be a mistake, that the mannerisms of people during this time is sad…that there have to be people set up as guards every where just to keep order when there are so many people that still need to be saved. I don’t want you to get the idea that I’m heartless, but I feel that right now that there are reasons for everything….God has a plan and we just need to take a step back and follow.
Feel free to comment….I hope I don’t offend…but o-well that is ok you don’t have to agree with me.

Sorry if this is a bunch of ill-informed crappy opinion…I sometimes ramble lots of thoughts on my keyboard…Oh and sorry for the typos….when I ramble…I type semi-fast…so I don’t forget what I’m thinking…

My prayers go out to all those in need of one tonight!