In the face of the unthinkable!

So I have to ask a question? When you get "that news"....you know what I am talking about. That news that makes your heart stop and your face gets numb...your stomach drops into the bottom of your pelvis and you all of a sudden become hard of hearing....when tears are having a riot right behind your eyeballs and all logic, reason, knowledge, understanding, wisdom and education falls out of your nostrils onto the floor. And, for a brief moment.....your life stops. The world goes in slow motion, peoples mouths are moving but their voices are not being heard. You look up to the sky and whisper to God, "what's happening?"

This morning, my family had that moment...my father drew a few blanks as the information he heard was being rejected by his logic - I know what they are saying but I will reject it until the moment I have to place him in the ground. My mother, automatically became sick to her stomach. She said her heart stopped and all of a sudden, her office became a small steel box, that she was trapped in and had to get out. Me...well I thought for a moment. With every bit of information I received, fear started to assault and batter my faith. I thought, "I just got him back, I am not loosing him again."

I prayed - they prayed - other's prayed and one even reminded me of a prophetic word that said, "your whole family will come into the Kingdom of God."

Then I called the 1-800 number for the family disaster line,

"Hello, I am me, have you seen or heard from him?" I waited....1 minute suddenly felt a lot like 1 hour. I waited....she came back to the phone, "he was not on that rig." Relieved! yay! Hallelujah - yes, life is great all over again, life is perfect, God is good woooooooweeeeeeee.......but.....wait; it wasn't good. Not for everyone...a lot of people were going to receive some devastating phone calls today. Some people's faith was going to be tried more than ever before today. Someone was going to hear that their son, husband, father, friend didn't make it off the rig. Today for some, life was going to change forever. This first 48 hours were going to be the weirdest moments of their lives. For some, this was going to be the longest Wednesday of their lives.

So,

Lord, I thank you very much that you are a God who sees everything. I am so glad that you have never stopped doing miracles and that you are still in control, even over life and death. I lift of the families of the "Deepwater Horizon" today and I pray that you will give them supernatural peace, help them to grieve and find rest in your arms. Be with them in this time and for those in the hospitals I pray for swift recovery and healing. I pray for the emotional well-being and spiritual strength of those who lost friends and co-workers and loved ones.

Thank you Lord for the preserving of my brother.

Atheism

Ok So I found this thingy...It was hilarious and it made me think so I decided to write about it....

So I had a convo with an Atheist the other day and a famous quote from the Internet popped into my head after he explained his views on Atheism to me......


Atheism is the belief that in the beginning there was nothing; and this nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything after which a bunch of the nothing that became everything, magically rearranged itself for no reason what so ever, into self-replicating bits which then turned into dinosaurs? (Thnx Bryan).

Now I am not always the brightest star in the sky, but I know that people everyday buy car and homeowners insurance. Now, your not buying car insurance because something HAS happened or even buying it because something is GOING to happen. But we buy car insurance because someone said something more than likely MAY happen and in case it does we want to be able to ensure that we have the money to cover our butts SHOULD an accident even pop off. And our insurance companies charge us a lot of money monthly NOT to cover our whole car but the individual things regarding the car and have even broken it down to liability, comprehensive etc.

So he agreed....then I said so let me get this straight. Someone wrote a book and in that book HE promised that if you chose to deny Him that you would MOST CERTAINLY go to hell where there will be gnashing of teeth, (FIRST OF ALL Ga-NASHING of TEETH - WTW is going on in hell that you got to chew on your own TEETH!!!?!? CHEW YOUR TEETH are you kidding me?)

Anyways back to insurance - and then that same person told you that the assurance of heaven is FREE and that is covered all of you for eternity and someone else paid the price of your soul insurance and then as a bonus threw in abundant life and stuff and instead of just accepting the insurance JUST in CASE the GA-NASHING of teeth thing is real, you (wit' yo' dumb self) decided that you would take your chances with hell for .......ever, but you had the nerve to ask Geico to give you COMPREHENSIVE coverage on your busted lil' Hyundai with a donut, 1 headlight, a Tasmanian devil steering wheel and a RADIO - yes a RADIO in the back seat?????!!!

And the world has the nerve to call Christians Crazy!

Did you put a boot on it...?

Soooooooooooooooooooo; God is so good. This was not an experience that would normally be pleasant but God always has a way of working things out for my good, even when I catch a case of random, transient Idiocy Disease.

Ok - yesterday, I went to lunch with one of my co-workers. It was a lovely day. The sun was blazing high in the noon day sky; the birds were chirping their songs of worship; a 400 year old lady pushed her 200 year old dog in a stroller; men walked down the streets in public in skinny jeans and tiny shirts (wtw?) and by the grace of God I was able to sit outside on the balcony of a great Italian restaurant and eat my lunch. It was a good lunch too - until my co-worker tried to eat a portabello mushroom and almost had an NBD.... (Nervous Breakdown - Ha!)

Then the weirdest thing happened......................................................

A police officer/parking guy walks up to my car, which is parked RIGHT in front of my face and starts to put a boot on my car. Now, the sad part is...it took me about 7 minutes to realize what was happening (as I watched him thinking - "Oh, someone is about to be BLOWN to DEFF out here in Old Town Alexandria. lol I mean someone is NOT gonna be able to drive their truck home today...") and we all know who that someone was.

Like a bat out of.........Southeast I jumped over the fence and dramatically ran down to the police officer throwing myself (calmly) at the mercy of his authorit-ay. With my country "gone with the wind voice" I said, "Oh no...what are you doing - what happened-..and yungin, why are you doing it in Old Town Alexandria in the middle of the day in front of ALL the white people on EERF and I am the only black girl out here today wif my co-worker except for the strange black lady walking around in BA-Dooty shorts. Please noooooooooooooooo - the cop actually laughed a little at either my acting skills or at my calamity. I told him that I lived 1000 miles away - he was like 1000 miles away in Maryland. I was like, "It's 1000 miles if I gotta walk home".... then I asked what did I do..he said, "you have a unpaid parking ticket from like 1989 and your tags are expired... - I was like nah-ah? Really, 1989? Was I driving in 1989 then he was like 2009...and I was like Oh....and he said well look, go to city hall (is it still called city hall in 2010? -they should call it a new name like "gimmie all your money plaza" that's a more fitting name. Anyway, he said go there and just pay for the ticket. Then I didn't know where it was so the guys from the restaurant were like we'll walk with you and I was like, "yay lets make a parade out of this public mockery of my life" - (dramatized) and all walk down the streets of Old Town in broad day light.....but I found humor in that and said to myself, "Lord, this could have been so much worse. So I want to thank you right now, for the blessing in that, I didn't pay the parking ticket, and I need to render to Cesar what is Cesar's or he's gonna make me wear a big YELLOW boot. So I thanked God, ran in City "gimmie all your money" hall and paid my parking ticket, making jokes and telling the people that it was ok, I should have paid the ticket that I don't ever remember getting EVER.....

I ran back to my car, and the cop was already taking the boot off...and gave me a verbal non-written warning about my tags and was like they are 3 days expired go get em done. I was thinking, "can I wait until a rainy day to get em don b/c it's really nice outside this week." but I kept that to myself and figured i'd do it as sooooon....as...poss....so anyway...

I was so happy - he waited for me to come back b/c he said I had such a good attitude about everything. I thought why wouldn't I, I'm the one who didn't pay the ticket. Then I thought about all the people who would have had a really bad attitude about their OWN mistakes and still would have been sitting out there this morning w/ a boot on their car and a $700.00 removal fee.

Needless to say, I ate lunch, got a discount there too, I kept my car, paid the ticket - not too bad it was only $500,000 sike...but it wasn't that bad and returned to sitting in the sun, on that warm day eating outside and laughing about the whole thing while blessing God for his tender mercies that are new to me every morning - and Lawd knows I need new ones every morning b/c I be wearing my other mercies out....

Thank You Lord, not just for paying the tickets, but for being God and being able to change the hearts of men.

In the beginning

I guess in this age people have a whole lot to say. Not because they have anything specific to talk about but because they just like having the proverbial "cyber" soap box. So I figured, I'd join the ranks. Sometimes, Ill talk about meaningful things like Jesus (the ONLY one), the meaning of life, why good things happen to bad people, destroying the memes we all love to live by and of course things that make you go hmmmmm...like the NUCLEAR SUMMIT.
Other times I may just talk about things that are on my mind, like why is skittles coming out with redundant candy? Why are all men jumping on the gay train? Why people mix up the definitions between homosexual and gender identity disorder? Why the powers that be hate God - even though we already know the answer to that and finally why in the world do GOOD counselors do what they do for a living.
Your welcome to read it if you like...and if you wouldn't like - DON'T.

B/C I can guarantee you, a war of words will not be easily won....except for Shay. I will concede on a war of words for her because she speaks fluent genius and I don't really know the whole lingo yet and I left my thesaurus back in undergrad with the rest of my brains....

With that being said, stay tuned...this is gonna be hilarious.