Madre's Missives

...but God meant it for good." (Genesis 50:20)

I used to think that verse was so comforting because it meant that when life gave me lemons, God would make lemonade out of it.  We hear things like that all the time.  Bad, evil, horrible things happen in our lives that are just the effects of living in a sinful world full of sinful people and being sinners who do sinful things.  That's just the way it happens.  The bumper sticker is right.  "Stuff" happens. 

I am watching Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

I haven't posted in a while because I've been insanely busy.  You know how you plan a reward for yourself after you get some other really pressing and intensive work done?  Well that's what posting to my blog has been.  I'm still not caught up, but oh well.  Sometimes you just get a treat even when you don't deserve it, you know, kinda like grace and the whole Gospely Jesus thing...

I am listening to The Essential Iron Maiden Release Date: 12 July, 2005

For the past couple of years, my life has been in a state of flux.  Nearly everything (except the promises of God for me in Christ) was an improvised, temporary solution that could change in an instant.  It's not exactly a fun way

I am listening to Feels Like Home Release Date: 10 February, 2004

Yesterday, some of the youth from church (who just all happened to be of the female variety), and I went and cleaned out the gardens of one of our busy members.  After all our hard work, pulling weeds and leaves and old growth out of a

I am listening to Truly, Madly, Completely- The Best of Savage Garden Release Date: 24 January, 2006

I LOVE this town.  When I came here to visit after receiving the offer to be Mt. Olive's new Christian Education and Youth Director, I saw the still-under-construction storefronts for Panera and Chipotle, two of my favorite lunchtime

I am listening to Love Songs Release Date: 24 March, 1998