I don't know why I thought of a circa 1989 low rider window sayin' when I saw this picture, but I'm pretty sure Suge has his eyes open, even if it's just a slit. Love you Suge.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
I C U LOOKIN'
I don't know why I thought of a circa 1989 low rider window sayin' when I saw this picture, but I'm pretty sure Suge has his eyes open, even if it's just a slit. Love you Suge.
Preschool Graduation
Oh my...I can't believe my very first baby (he's not actually mine of course), just graduated preschool tonight. Before we know it, we'll be crying at high school graduation. Where does the time go?
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
On My Heart
I know it's been a month since I last visited here with you and I'm sorry. But I promise to make it up to you. There will be pictures galore in my next post, don't you worry. Today, I want to take a few minutes to tell you about a book I've been reading and how it's been working on me.
The book is called Plan B, it was written by Pete Wilson of Crosspoint Community Church in Nashville. The same church Mom, Uncle C and Sweetheart attend. Mom got me the book 2 months ago and I just started it a week or so ago. Anyway... so far there have been many things in the book that have hit home with me but nothing like this passage from Chapter 8 called Darkness:
"Can You Handle It? Like you, perhaps, I grew up in church. And my overall experience with that was actually quite positive. I'm not one who walks around bitter and carrying a lot of baggage from my early church experiences. However, there were several times in my life when well-meaning people spoke what they thought were scriptural truths into my life. But those "truths," which actually were not scriptural at all, just created layers of distortions about how I relate to God. One particular phrase I seemed to hear over and over was this: "God will never give you more than you can handle." It sounds so sweet and biblical, like something my grandmother would have done in needlepoint and hung on the wall in her house. The problem is, nothing could be further from the truth. Where in the world did we get such a whacked theology? Where's that verse in the Bible? Hallucinations 4:32 maybe?"
He goes on to say: "Here's the truth--and this one is thoroughly biblical: throughout life you will face one situation after another that will be completely beyond what you can handle."
He says the Bible is packed full of stories of people who were given more than they could handle and they were forced to make a choice--"either abandon God or worship him in the midst of a Plan B."
Essentially what we are being taught here is that, God wants us to depend on him. He does not want us to think we can do it on our own. And let me say this, I've used that phrase more times than you can imagine trying to comfort someone, I am GUILTY. But doesn't this theology make much more sense? After reading this chapter I couldn't help but think about the families in Nashville that have lost everything, my friend who recently lost a loved one unexpectedly or all those fishermen in Louisiana that are out of work indefinitely. Now, I want to give totally different advice. I want to say lean on Him now more than ever. Take comfort in Him. He wants you to know that you need Him. And I believe He will get you through this.
You can purchase the book on Amazon.
Love ya friends.
Mama Stone
The book is called Plan B, it was written by Pete Wilson of Crosspoint Community Church in Nashville. The same church Mom, Uncle C and Sweetheart attend. Mom got me the book 2 months ago and I just started it a week or so ago. Anyway... so far there have been many things in the book that have hit home with me but nothing like this passage from Chapter 8 called Darkness:
"Can You Handle It? Like you, perhaps, I grew up in church. And my overall experience with that was actually quite positive. I'm not one who walks around bitter and carrying a lot of baggage from my early church experiences. However, there were several times in my life when well-meaning people spoke what they thought were scriptural truths into my life. But those "truths," which actually were not scriptural at all, just created layers of distortions about how I relate to God. One particular phrase I seemed to hear over and over was this: "God will never give you more than you can handle." It sounds so sweet and biblical, like something my grandmother would have done in needlepoint and hung on the wall in her house. The problem is, nothing could be further from the truth. Where in the world did we get such a whacked theology? Where's that verse in the Bible? Hallucinations 4:32 maybe?"
He goes on to say: "Here's the truth--and this one is thoroughly biblical: throughout life you will face one situation after another that will be completely beyond what you can handle."
He says the Bible is packed full of stories of people who were given more than they could handle and they were forced to make a choice--"either abandon God or worship him in the midst of a Plan B."
Essentially what we are being taught here is that, God wants us to depend on him. He does not want us to think we can do it on our own. And let me say this, I've used that phrase more times than you can imagine trying to comfort someone, I am GUILTY. But doesn't this theology make much more sense? After reading this chapter I couldn't help but think about the families in Nashville that have lost everything, my friend who recently lost a loved one unexpectedly or all those fishermen in Louisiana that are out of work indefinitely. Now, I want to give totally different advice. I want to say lean on Him now more than ever. Take comfort in Him. He wants you to know that you need Him. And I believe He will get you through this.
You can purchase the book on Amazon.
Love ya friends.
Mama Stone
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