I'm Alive!!!

I may have disappeared from cyberspace. . . . but I am still putting fog on a mirror.  Life for me this past year has been full of changes. . . and the balance of commitments and priorities leaves me little time to blog.

Since I last posted:

• Changes at work (reorganization, transfers, training. . . etc) = LOTS of overtime required to keep up with the influx of new business--10 hour days anyone? 
• I recently transferred to another department, which means a new schedule and job training.  I like the people I'm working with, and I'm excited to have a bit more time in the morning (I can sleep-in 'till 5:30am YAY!!). 
• I was approached by my new manager who told me he wants me to write the "desktop procedures" for the department!!  These procedures will eventually be expanded into the department training manuals--which he wants me to do as well.  I've been wanting to do this for awhile now--but my former department had no interest in it at the time--so this opportunity comes as an unexpected blessing!

• Night classes (have I mentioned I dislike math?)  I'm taking an evening Accounting class for job enrichment, and to complete my Administrative Assistant Certificate.  Accounting homework is super time consuming and very frustrating. . . when I find the time and mental capacity to tackle it.  However, I've kept my head above water by creating "cheat sheets," ie graphic versions of the formulas used in accounting equations.




These are the two basic themes of my life right now.  Not much excitement here!

Despite the ever-present busyness and exhaustion, God has been good.  Each day He reminds me of His gracious and sovereign control over my life.  He daily dispenses grace and strength to ride through the fatigue or frustration.  Even though my days have been fuller and busier than ever before, I have been able to rest in Him.  I'm a doer. . . I want to achieve, to control my environment, to make things happen. . . .so I would normally become very stressed and irritable in situations like my current one.  But something totally foreign to me--something completely outside of me, detached from me--has settled over my soul.  A peace. . . a stability. . . a sense of quietude, contentment, rest.  Only God can perform such wonders in the lives and hearts of His children.

I'll leave you with a little something I saw on my way home from work today.


It's an Old Fashioned Ice-cream truck!!



The Amazing Human Voice

The human voice is an amazing instrument.  Check out this video from T-Mobile (you know, the company that did the dance at the train station...)  No instruments were used in the making of this video.

On another note--no pun intended--I recently found some of the music from the harmony group lil' sis and I were part of for several years.  Boy were those good times!  G & B, I miss singing around the piano with you!

“What is truth?”

“. . .For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”. . .

So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. And they stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him.  When they had twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”  Then they spat on Him, and took the reed and struck Him on the head.  And when they had mocked Him, they took the robe off Him, put His own clothes on Him, and led Him away to be crucified. . .

And He, bearing His cross, went out to a place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha, where they crucified Him. . .

Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land.  And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”. . .

After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I thirst!”  Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there; and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to His mouth.  So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!”. . . And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. . .

Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split. . . So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God!”. . .

These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.

-Scripture excerpts from Matthew, Luke, and John