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We’re beach bound! That means that the Beach Chair between pews will soon be in a beach chair between...well, other beach chairs. And pelicans. And shrimp. One of the best weeks of the year, but a heads up that my post count will be slim(mer) over the next 2 weeks.
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While I’m at it, let me put a plug in for Ocean Isle Beach, NC. If you’re looking to slow down time and keep it low key by the sea, I’d highly recommend OIB (or neighboring Sunset Beach). The island is mostly populated with family-sized beach houses and small condo units. Throw in a handful of mandatory souvenier stores, some local seafood huts, ice creameries and you can really get away from the hustle and bustle. There really isn’t much to do there except go to the beach... which is exactly the point.
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I hate searching for receipts. We’ve all been there before: We have some item we need to return to the store and if we don’t find that tiny slip of paper amidst the clutter of our modern lives we’re gonna be out some money. So we search through sofa cushions, under car seats, dig through garbage bags and tell ourselves, “... but I know I wouldn’t have done that.” I was there this week.
But do you know what I hate most about searching for receipts? Well, other than the fact that you have to look for receipts... (“Y’know why I hate fightin’ in a basement... cuz we’re fightin’ in a basement!”). I realized that the thing that is most irritating is finding the wrong receipts. It amazes me every time I act out this most frantic of dramas how many receipts I find. I am overwhelmed at the excess of worthless receipts I encounter. I find receipts for groceries I already ate and cannot return, gas station receipts, a receipt for lunch at the Mexican restaurant seven months ago. I even found receipts to stores that have long since closed and receipts from nearly a year ago when my family lived in another state.
They all sit there mocking me.
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What Did Jesus Say? Be sure to check out Young Evangelical and Catholic’s article this week, “What Did Jesus Say?” The article makes a good point about Jesus’ implications in his teaching on the Lord’s prayer.
“Reciting memorized prayers? To some evangelicals, that sounds like dead religion. Real prayer, they counter, should be spontaneous, like we're having a conversation with a friend. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus was specifically asked to teach a person how to pray. What did Jesus say?
Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.” And he said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread, and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation." (Luke 11.1-4)
Jesus simply gives the person a prayer to pray. While spontaneous prayer is certainly acceptable, the way Jesus chooses to answer the question may make evangelicals want to re-evaluate the way they teach people to pray.”
Couldn’t have said it any better. I actually wanted to kick myself. I have always thought of the Lord’s Prayer as a “model prayer” (which it is); I have always thought of Jesus as saying “when you pray, pray like this.” But that isn’t what He said... he said, when you pray, “say.” The oblivious often miss the obvious (and in case you didn’t notice, I’m the oblivious one in this vignette). Check out the full article...
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How is it that as your baby grows older she actually gets messier when she eats? Call me naive, but I didn’t see that coming. We’ve got bits of orange wedges on the floor, on her elbows, dried up on the slats of our window blinds, stuck in her hair and stuck on the wall. This morning she had less breakfast in her belly than on it.
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WRs (several of whom have been in the top 10 range for a few years now) have solidly made their case. There are also two big time QB in the top 10 range in Rogers and Brady. The big surprise is that there is at least one TE (maybe two) in the top 20 range! All in all there are a lot of ways to build a team in the first two rounds of the fantasy draft this year, and the rankings confirm this growing trend.. This could make the draft much more interesting and balanced among the positions than it usually is.
And give me more excuses to study up on fantasy football for the next two months...
Read the original at Conversion Diary.
