I’ve not “planked”, but “stocking” may be fun…
Check it out here –> Stocking Is the New Planking
I splurged and had dinner at Max Brenner, Chocolate by the Bald Man last night…
Result: Happy Tummy.
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Dinner: Mini Philly Sliders
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Dessert: Chocolate Chunks Pizza – “THE WORKS” (half order, of course!)
Definitly have to take Karen there next time we are in Vegas!
“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof”
Inscription on the Liberty Bell, from Leviticus 25:10
It’s what all the cool kids are wearin’
“…designed to be worn discreetly around your neck and pulled up over your nose and mouth when you need added protection from germs or are sick and want to keep your germs away from others.”
Whenever I prune our roses, lessons abound. It’s a given.
Yesterday, I was working in the backyard on a gangly bush and saw the limb shown above. I thought, “If I grab it just right, I won’t get stuck.”
Guess what – I wasn’t ninja enough…
It hit me: temptation, or the attraction of sin can be exactly the same. We see/think/do something obviously wrong, and think, “It’s OK, I’m a ‘ninja’ – I won’t get stuck/caught/discovered/etc. No one will ever see/hear/spot me.”
The truth is, we’re wrong. We all get stuck, caught, discovered, seen, heard, spotted, etc.
We may be able to fool some in our sinful, game of thorns (like my creative reference to the book & HBO series); but rest assured, God knows – which is key since He’s the One we most offend by our blatant, would-be ninja sins.
Thank God for His amazing and wonderful forgiveness and grace!
For there is no distinction: all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.
Romans 3:22-25 (ESV)
Read this passage this morning and immediately thought about seeing the sunrise at Haleakalā.
Between Karen an I, we snapped some pretty cool photos. This one has a filter applied though…it made it more dramatic.
A while back I bought Sara Bareilles’ album Kaleidoscope Heart for my wife. It synced to my iPhone back then and, while scrolling through my music the other day, I figured I’d give it a listen.
It’s not what I normally listen to, but the album’s got some pretty good tunes and creative lyrics.
One song that jumped out at me was King of Anything [YouTube, iTunes]. I guess we’ve all had the feelings expressed in the song in most of our relationships: “I’ve got it together”, “like you’re perfect”, “you don’t understand”, “who do you think you are”, …
When I heard the chorus, though, my parochial-school-educated and Holy-Spirit-convicted mind immediately went to what Christ-followers basically tell God when we don’t agree with Him or His Word and do what we want or think is right…you know, that thing called SIN…
“Who cares if you disagree
You are not me
Who made you king of anything
So you dare tell me who to be
Who died and made you king of anything”
ouch
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