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Bedtime Stories

I just returned home (about an hour ago) from my Life Group with my fellow singles. Together we all brought it up a few notches as we shared deeply personal Life stories with each other relating to tonight’s topic of discussion. It was all about ‘Words Of Affirmation’ – the first of ‘The Five Love Languages For Singles‘. (That’s the book that we’re reading together as a group during this Fall semester.)

As usual I failed to do my homework during the two weeks leading up to tonight’s Life Group, and our leader – Patricia – made me pay for that. But it was all good, and I deserved the extra bit of attention for the night. ‘Say what ?’ We had a little exercise that we did during tonight’s session where we each wrote an affirming handwritten note to someone else in our group (we each picked a random name out of a glass). Due to a suspicious clerical error Patricia made me write two handwritten notes to two people in my group. The joke was on Patricia. I enjoyed it immensely, and I sincerely meant everything that I wrote in those two notes over the course of about 15 minutes.

Our Life Groups at Life Pointe Church are all about living Life together on His fantastic journey for us. Our ‘church’ is not the movie theatre. It’s not the office suites in Downtown Homestead. It’s not the 70-minute service or the 5-hour experience on Sunday morning. Our ‘church’ is us – we – the living breathing body that lives Life together and loves and worships Jesus Christ with reckless abandon. It never stops. It’s a 24/7 commitment. Anything less than that would be cheating our Lord and Saviour. He gave it all up for us on that bloody hunk of wood.

So that’s what I’ve got to offer for tonight’s edition of the ‘Bedtime Stories’. We’re all on this journey together, and sometimes we physically meet at strategic intersections of Life. Until we meet again at a junction – REMEMBER THIS:

Proverbs 18:21
The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences.

Luke 6:38
Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full — pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.”

1 John 4:19
We love each other because He loved us first.

Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare.

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Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

1.  Of all of the regular weekly blog entries that are posted on here this is the one that I look forward to compiling and posting more than any other. This is totally unrehearsed, and I am totally unprepared for it. This is raw, and that’s what makes it so cool. I have absolutely no clue what I plan to blog about for the next 9 items of interest, but I’ll just let my fingers do the talking and watch what happens.

2.  The 10TH season / 9TH summer edition of “Big Brother” on CBS-TV begins this Sunday night at 8 PM EDT / 7 PM CDT. Please don’t bother me while it’s on (three nights a week as usual).

3.  Some days everyone around me is a lousy driver. They either drive too slow in front of me, pull out in front of me, or tailgate me. This was one of those days. I couldn’t wait to get off of the streets.

4.  Everytime I sneak a peek at this book I spend more time in it than I intended. I need to find some time this weekend to intentionally spend a couple of hours with it. It’s what I do for Life Pointe Church. It’s how I serve God and His children here in Homestead.

5.  This afternoon I ordered a medium roast beef sandwich combo (with curly fries and a Sierra Mist) and an apple turnover via the drive-thru at Arby’s in Florida City (where all the food is). That’s what I paid for, and I’ve got the receipt right here to prove it. I got the curly fries, the Sierra Mist, and the apple turnover, but in lieu of the medium roast beef sandwich that I was truly looking forward to devouring I instead got – get this – a REUBEN !  I can dig mistakes like that when they work out in my favour flavour !

6.  Are you tired of all of the rain here in Homestead (nearly 14 inches over the past 22 days) ?  GOOD – I’m forecasting very little to no rain at all for the next 5 to 7 days (until perhaps early next week). Let’s see if I’m right.

7.  The Washington Redskins and The Indianapolis Colts kick-off the 2008 NFL season with the annual Pro Football Hall-Of-Fame Game in Canton Ohio on Sunday August 03RD 2008. That’s only 26 days away. THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKIN’ ABOUT !

8.  I saw my hot new laptop on sale at a Best Buy in Plano Texas last week. The longer I wait the cheaper it gets with more power. Laptops with 4 GB of RAM are pretty much standard nowadays. So are desktops with 8 GB of RAM.

9.  I survived my 5TH cold in 8 months. It lasted 6 days. I kinda knew that I was getting it before I got it, and it was pretty much gone before I realized it. Here’s hoping that I don’t have to be blogging about my 6TH cold in 10 months come Labour Day Weekend !

10.  THIS JUST IN – My brother and his wife (my sister-in-law) now have a cold. My 6-DAY cold ‘peaked’ on its 3RD day. That was my last full day at their house. I felt a little bit better on the 4TH Of July – the day that I left them behind and flew back home. A single contact with my nasty cold germs left behind and it was pretty much all over for the both of them. They’ll probably infect each of their coworkers.

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Bedtime Stories

Greetings my friends. This is the Wednesday night edition of the ‘Bedtime Stories’.

I just realized that this will be my last free Wednesday night at home until sometime in August. For the next couple of months I’ll be hanging out with my Life Group on Wednesday nights. I’m looking forward to it, as we venture into this book by this guy.

It was one year ago yesterday (calendar date wise) that most of us at Life Pointe Church met Paul H. for the very first time ever. Pastor Paul was our special guest speaker on that Memorial Day Sunday in 2007, and he made an immediate impression on all of us – particularly Ela and I when he uttered our names in search of us (because he had read all about us on this cat’s blog). He packed quite the punch with his debut teaching on that holiday weekend Sunday morning entitled ‘Self-Contained – Self-Sufficient’ (as part of our ‘Losing My Religion’ message series at the time). 45 days later Paul officially began serving as our Executive Pastor. Happy Life Pointe Church 1ST Anniversary Paul !

Get ready for another frightening edition of the ‘Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame’ tomorrow that the entire free nation will be talking about by the watercooler on Friday morning. You totally won’t believe your eyes !

Well then until we hang out again LIVE and in-person, or virtually here in the blogosphere I invite each and everyone of you … to remember this !

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I did not write this childrens’ book:

The Eastern Edge Of The Woods