All To Myself

Hmm...what to do this weekend? I've got David all to myself...except when he's working at the Pizza Stop...and on JR's bike...and tinkering around with a Trail 90. So what should we do for his 2 free hours? Just kidding. He did mention working on JR's bike but not working on any Trail 90's. Anybody want one? I've got 3 for sale!!!!

Next weekend is the Famous Preston Rodeo. Vicki and Austin's little boy is going to do some mutton bustin'! He's going to ride a sheep until he falls off. I bet it's going to be cute.

David and I have got some other plans but I won't mention them yet as the universe might align soon and someone besides my dad and sweet Karen might read my blog and learn our secret! It will be uncovered in the next few weeks. If you would really like to know, just ask me somewhere else (like email, myspace or facebook).

The basement has become home to earwigs which has caused me alot of distress at night. So today I went and got some insecticide to sprinkle around so I hope they GO AWAY! I told David pretty soon he's going to find me huddled in the corner picking chunks out of my skin going crazy. I feel like these things are crawling all over me! I HATE BUGS!!! I can't go to sleep because I feel like they're on me and then I freak out that if I fall asleep they will crawl on me. Isn't that lovely?

That's all but I leave you with this:

The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. - Leo Rosten, American teacher and humorist

Success

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

-David Brinkley

Theodore Roosevelt

"It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

I love this! Especially at this point in my life.

A Pick Me Up

I am in need of a pick me up this morning. I got out of bed just fine but then everything has gone south ever since. I have this horrible problem of once a few things go wrong-EVERYTHING goes wrong. At least in my mind. Well, I should be happy. It's Friday after all. Here's a quote that I should remember more often:

"The most significant decision I make each day is my choice of an attitude. When my attitudes are right there's no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme and no challenge too great." - Charles Swindoll

I'm in serious need of an attidude adjustment. So thanks Chuck, I needed to put things into perspective.

Another quote

“It is a fearful thing to hate whom God hath loved. To look upon another his weaknesses, his sins, his faults, his defects is to look upon one who is suffering. He is suffering from negative passions, from the same sinful human corruption from which you yourself suffer. This is very important: do not look upon him with judgmental eyes of comparison, noting the sins you assume you’d never commit. Rather, see him as a fellow sufferer, a fellow human being who is in need of the very healing of which you are in need. Help him, love him, pray for him do unto him as you would have him do unto you.”–Attributed to St. Tikhon of Zadonsk (1724 - 1783)

Worry

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.

-Corrie ten Boom

No Evidence of Progress?

No Evidence Of Progress?

At times nothing seems to be happening. So it must be for the bird that sits on her nest. Things are apparently at a standstill. But the bird sits quietly, knowing that in the stillness something vital is going on, and in the proper time it will be shown. It takes faith and patience for the bird, and such faith and patience never seem to waiver, day after day, night after night, as she bides the appointed time.

Restless and doubtful we wonder why we have nothing to show for our efforts, no visible evidence of progress. Let us remember the perfect egg--unchanged in its appearance from the day it is laid. But while the bird waits faithfully, doing the only thing she is required to do throughout those silent weeks, important things are taking place.

I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in His word do I hope. 

My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

Psalm 130: 5 & 6

--Elisabeth Elliott

I must give credit to Rocks in my Dryer for posting this