This Sunday I have the privilege & honor of preaching at a Chinese Church. The 1st service is in Mandarin & I’m taking on the 2nd, mostly English speaking congregation. I spoke with my American born, Chinese-American friend, Jeff L. who said, “wow, I can’t believe a Chinese Church is bringing in a young, African-American woman.” Oye. (He also said A LOT of helpful things too!) So, yeah, I’m a little nervous. Actually, much more nervous than I am when... Read more
You probably won’t have a hard time believing me when I say I often have to ask myself, “is this blog more appropriately expressed in my private journal or should I just click that “publish” button over on the right?” I guess this one fits into both because for some reason I’d really like to share my totally bizarre experience today. Like any other day, it was a fluctuation of emotions. Today, I started my 1st set of exams towards... Read more
This flick along with “Rachel Getting Married,” & “Milk” (review to come soon) are 3 of the most enjoyably sobering movies I’ve seen lately. Because of the nature of this movie I don’t want to give away much more of the plot than the jacket cover does which states, something along the lines of: a man who is about to commit suicide accidentally falls in love. That’s all I knew & thats all you should know if you choose to... Read more
Well after last night’s over-emotional, likely immature retaliation blog, I couldn’t sleep so I told Dave the whole story & we prayed together. He reminded a) this person doesn’t actually know me b) is emotionally immature & beneath me c) undeserving of consideration & d) has no real interest in actually helping me to be a better person or she would have come to me genuinely, with love & probably in person. And also, dead wrong. As he prayed he... Read more
I’ve mentioned before that I read way too much celebrity garbage. It’s a dirty little habit I’m still trying to kick. What always annoys me about reading it though it that now-a-days any one can anonymously post mean things in reference to any one picture or story. People are just awful. I’ve read people say horrible things about Heidi Klum & Seal’s babies, calling them “monkeys”, & calling her a “n*gger” lover,” etc. It’s not all racial ~ it’s just... Read more
(That is in our Ranch style home…) We had a great anniversary weekend. My in-laws watched Ransom while we went up to Macatawa Lake for a dinner at this pretty nice place overlooking a boat harbor. An anonymous friend gave all the students at my school a $50 gift certificate there. How is hot is that?! The food was stinking delicious. The kind of food thats so good you just keep looking at each other & smiling and nodding your... Read more
Remember when you were younger & when someone twisted your arm and when you (& they) realized you had no more control you had to say “Uncle?” (This was hillariously brought out in Ace Venture 1, in case your wondering) 🙂 Anyway, I’m saying “uncle” to my blog. I’m so sorry I’ve wasted so many minutes talking about this…but I just know -for whatever reason- I suspect massive amounts of tiredness, I just cannot keep up my blog daily. 🙁 ... Read more
Rachel Getting Married. ay ay ay. I haven’t seen such a sobering film in quite awhile. And by sobering I don’t mean that I was crying -though I did once- I mean it was so friggin depressing I had to look away at times. Actually, look away out of sheer embarrassment & shame! The film is about Anne Hathaway’s character coming home from rehab to attend her sister, Rachel’s wedding weekend. Then the film unleashes the absolute hell of their... Read more
So, I was planning on writing this deep and thoughtful blog tonight, but hten I thought I’d just “quickly” catch up on my email inbox & my facebook inbox & then upload a facebook album, yada, yada, yada…all of a sudden it’s 3 hours later & I’m tired. On a good note: I’m back! I have like 12 blogs in my head that I absolutely cannot wait to get out of there & right here where they should be! Anyway,... Read more
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