Fridays are For One Question

I stole this from this blog.

But I liked it... especially since I have one question for you:

Do you still use phone books?

I only ask because living in an apartment, I feel like we get a new one every two or three months.  Normally they just show up on our doorstep.

But this week, it was different.

I got a package in the mail. My first thought "who would be so kind to send me something out of the blue? oooh, birthday present!"

No, nope. Not even a chance.

I went downstairs to pick it up and it was a phone book.

Yes, now they not only print them often (which is a waste of money), they mail them (even bigger waste of money)!

So, again I ask you blog world... do you use a phone book?  Because I certainly don't... and haven't since who knows when. Isn't that what google is for?

How is this possible?

Ok, so I think I have discovered a new phenomenon.

For work, I spend a lot of time on email.

But can anyone answer me this?

How is it possible that I send one email and some how 5 more appear in my Inbox.

And no, I am not even kidding. I swear to you, I get close to being at the spot I left off yesterday and then I look up again to find 5 or 6 new ones. It's like email can breed or something. Or all my volunteers are on the phone saying "send it now!"

Let me know if you have this problem, too!

Random Question

There was a HUGE thunderstorm rolling in as I went to bed last night. Had me thinking a lot about thunderstorms.

At what point do children stop being afraid of thunderstorms?

And at what point did they actually start to bring me comfort?

I am serious. I haven't feared a thunderstorm in a LONG time. But I never really enjoyed them. However, it the last couple of years I have really begun to enjoy them. Last night as I fell asleep to the thunder claps I thought "in a weird way, this is comforting." Why is that?!?! And when did it happen?!?!

I'll give you this, though -- I do NOT like thunderstorms if I have to drive through them or if I have to walk from my car to a building. Its not the sounds... its the lightning!! i don't want to get hit. (really, what are the chances of that happening?).

Do you like thunderstorms? or do you still hate them?

Random Question

What is growing down here in the basement that I work in (well, semi basement) that makes it so I cough constantly each and every morning?

If you could answer that for me, it would be amazing.

Thanks! ;-)

Question

How do you cultivate discipline if it isn't your nature? How do you start being uber productive when you have a habit of procrastination and laziness?

Any thoughts and tips are greatly appreciated.

Wash your hands?

Ok, I am a big advocate of washing your hands. This post is by no means implying that I don't wash my hands or think you shouldn't. I do. Please people, for all of us around you, Wash Your Hands!

However, there is this soap in one of the bathrooms here at work, and it is possibly one of the WORST smelling soaps in the world. AND, to top it all off, every time I use it, it makes me want to puke... and I get a headache from it.

Now... what should I do... should I still wash my hands?

The obvious answer is Yes. But, I am seriously considering going to another bathroom just to that because this headache is just not worth washing them there.

A Question to Ponder

During a down moment at work today I decided to google "My Utmost for the Highest," to see if they provided the devotional online... and, well, they do. So I read it... and whoa, did it give me somethings to ponder.

• Have I lived my last day on earth? Have I had my "white funeral?"

So, I guess what this has made me think about... have I really given up my life to God? Am I really willing to say I am ok dying tomorrow (and maybe that's not what this days devotional wants me to think... but it is where I am being lead). anyway... am I ok with that thought? I have I truly given up my LIFE to be ok walking as the Lord has called me to. You know what, I don't know. I have accepted Christ as my Lord and Savior, but there are days where I just think I am still clinging onto what I want, to things here on earth. I cling to my life, my stuff and materials here on earth. I don't want to leave it all... and I think that is something that God has been showing me and convicting me of recently.

Lord, I want to let go of my life here on earth, to trust you that life with you is so much better. Lord, help me to just give it all to you. Lord, help me to just live my life for the things above, with an eternal perspective. Lord, convict me when I am not living that way. Lord, help me to develop this intimate life with You. Amen.