After one 10 minute trip outside…
From the monthly archives:
January 2010
Couple extra here today.
Which makes this circle: 6 boys…
…and a girl…
At the end of the day, God isn’t going to say, “Well said, good and faithful servant.” THere is only one commendation when everything is said and done, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” God doesn’t reward what we know. He doesn’t reward what we say. He rewards the expenditure of energy.
(Mark Batterson)
“I know God loves the sound of our voices when we sing songs of praise. It’s music to his ears. But you know what God loves even more? God loves the smell of your sweat….God loves it when we break a sweat serving his purposes. Our energy turns into beautiful melodies…”
(Mark Batterson)
Andy made eggs and bacon.
I don’t like eggs. Or bacon. So they don’t usually get it when I’m on breakfast duty.
And our 2 person bar magically transforms into a 4 person…
Zeke singing.A song sung once by some Liberian teen-agers in our church.He remembers it and calls it the “Africa Song.”I do think he has combined some of the tribal language with English here.We have no idea what he is saying. He doesn’t either.But we love it!
Better so far.
I haven’t sent any inappropriate messages to random men.
So that’s good.
And I’m crying, “Do-over! Please.”
So upon returning home a bit flustered this morning, I dove right into tackling the to-do list for the day.
First things first…get on the same page with Andy. I was gone when they all got up so we hadn’t had a chance to talk about the plans for the day.
I knew he was in a meeting so I sent him an email.
Went through the schedule for the day, what was for dinner, a phone call I needed him to make.
Told him how much I loved him.
The End.
Except I sent it, not to Andy, but to our eye doctor.
I received an email from the doctor just now saying,
“Jody, That won’t work for me today.”
Nice, jody.
Nice.
Where do I hide?
Where do I get a do-over?
I’m so mad at myself.
Fuming. Irritated.
And there is no one to blame but me.
Which is also highly frustrating. 
And in the big scheme, it’s silly.
But it’s one of those little things that I messed up that just drives me mad for a good 24 hours at least.
So got up super early this morning to do a Water presentation at Rotary out of town.
Pete also got up super early. Picked me up in the frigid temperatures.
We raced to the Quad Cities.
I felt so prepared.
I had prepared a new powerpoint with image, video ect. Took several hours yesterday.
I had collected the needed equipment to plug into the computer….speaker and cord.
The host had rented a screen and projector for us to have upon arrival.
We arrived and began to set up. And soon realized that I did not have the adaptor cord that makes my Mac computer compatible with a projector machine. I LOVE my Mac. But I was kind of mad at it this morning.
But that is only because there WAS NO ONE TO BLAME! Because it’s MY fault! Why, Jody?? Why do you not have that cord permanently attached to your computer? Why?
We tried to run to Wal-mart…because it was the only place open at 7 AM…but no luck.
So we did the presentation without.
Which is harder than it would seem. This is a completely image and video driven presentation.
Not so easy to do with just words.
Pete was awesome. And calm.
I was so mad at myself I couldn’t think. And I hadn’t had any coffee. And I was mad at myself. (did I mention that?)
Very gracious people. Who listened regardless.
We were thankful for the opportunity
Now I’m home and need to figure out a way to forgive myself.
I thought about not letting myself have any coffee this morning.
But apparently, I’m not that mad….
Earth is crammed with heaven
And every bush afire with God;
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes,
The rest sit around it, and pick blackberries.
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
