Iron Curtain?

So, I’ve been reading God’s Smuggler, it’s the story of Brother Andrew.  I don’t know if they ever say his last name in it because it was written in the sixties or seventies when the Iron Curtain was still up.  He was a Dutch missionary to Eastern Europe during the days of the Communists.  It’s very inspiring.   Oh man, I need to let my sister use the computer.  Too bad, this post never really got off the ground.

Sunny skies, 70 Degrees

Look, my last post was called “Snow, snow, snow”…  Today it was 70ish degrees and STILL SUNNY when I got out of the HoP today a little after 5 pm.  It’s so nice this week, I love it.  I love snow too but it’s nice to have sunshine too.  I like having different seasons.

We had hoagies for supper at home today, mmmmm…  Hoagies are one of those things that makes me wish I could eat more at one time so I could eat more hoagies.  I didn’t really like sauerkraut until I had hoagies.

I’m on Spring Break this week.  I’m excited!  I just love having a week off.  I’m still busy at the HoP everyday but at least I don’t have to get up at 8:30 and then talk about poetry in Spanish, etc.  It’s not that bad, it’s just kind of early.  Anyway, I’m a Spring Break fan.

I saw Amazing Grace twice this weekend.  I really like it.  I also saw One Night With the King, I didn’t like that so much.  It was kind of confusing and obviously is rather different from the book of Esther.  I realize they did need to add a few things since the book doesn’t provide enough details for a long movie, but I thing they could’ve added things instead of changing things.  Amazing Grace was really inspiring though.

Snow, snow, snow

So I had a snow day today!  This is truly exciting because colleges rarely cancel classes, especially my college.  I got up and saw that it was cancelled and then I went back to sleep for about three more hours.  It felt good.  And then we spent most of the day cleaning because a girl/woman/whatever (she’s 33, but is single and seems younger) from the HoP is moving in with us for a few months.  At least, I think she is.
My dad went to work early in the morning, probably before the snow was very deep, and he isn’t back yet because the highways between here and his work were closed and the city (not Omaha but rather close) where he works is in a snow emergency.

Chinook weather

So, last night was fun.  We went out to eat for Taylar’s 14th and Josh’s 21st birthday in the Old Market and then walked around and ate ice cream.  It was a little chilly but it seemed relatively warm to us Midwesterners accustomed to the freezing weather we’ve been having.  It was over freezing but not by much.  It felt good.

The HHOP conference was amazing, as usual.  We don’t have bad ones, you know.  We had a big surprise though.  Misty Edwards came!  Brian Kim and Grace Falkner were our main people and they brought Jacob Hanley and Misty with them.  Man, I love them all.  They were so nice and fun.  They were a huge blessing, for real.

I’m interested in Isaiah 32, I think.

Carnival?

You know what would be cool? If someone actually read my blog and wanted to know about my life, that’s what would be cool.  Ah well, what can ya do?
I’m trying to finish a  chapter presentation for my Brazilian history class.   It’s over the chapter on Carnival and I’m not really digging this whole Live-wildly-and-promiscuously-for-five-days-and-then-fast-40-for-Lent thing.  It’s kind of like Mardi Gras in New Orleans only BIGGER.  Anyway, I need to finish this so I can go to sleep sometime tonight.
Just a note: we got a new full-timer at the HHOP!  Brandon is joining us (again) to the be the media man for the house.  This is exciting.

I love that song “Your Glory Will Cover the Earth” by Justin Rizzo.  It just moves me.

Sings:
And I believe heaven’s coming down, Jesus will reign on the earth…

Anyway, I love Jesus and I’m praying that He helps me with this little paper that I need to write for my class tomorrow night.
It is verrrry cold.  Well, today it was warm at 30 degrees but that was just one day and tomorrow it goes right back to 10 or fewer degrees, I think.  Whatever it is, it’s pretty cold.

Shoe?

So, here I am in Kansas City, enjoying the nephew and the close proximity of IHOP to my present location.  Soon I need to go pick my sister-in-law up from her dance class that I guess they put FMA females into?  Maybe she just wanted to dance or something.  We have pork chops for dinner and I heard that Misty is playing at the EGS tonight.  It’s a good day except that I’m tired because I was at the prayer room til somewhat late last night and my people like to get up early for no reason.  That doesn’t usually combine well for me.  I usually try to ignore them for a while but of course I can hear Mikey “talking” so I eventually drag myself out of bed to play with him.  And then I usually pretty tired the rest of the day.  Ah well, I’ve only got one nephew so far.  Right now he’s taking a nap with Grandpa, or Dad, as I like to call him.

Can’t wait for those pork chops.

It’s cold, too cold

Oh man, I guess I wrote a post last night but then it didn’t post.  Who knew?  I pushed button and then went downstairs to brush my teeth and then…so sad.

I’m really tired today.  I’m trying to take a nap before I go to a movie with some of my friends but I have such trouble actually lying down for a nap, no matter how tired I am.

Well, the HHOP’s been in it’s new schedule of (at least) 12 hours a day.  I like to say that we’re 12/5…not quite 24/7 but sort of close.  Some days we actually have 18 hours.  We’re a bit thin with an average of only two or three whole shift people per shift but there’s other people coming and going so there’s not usually just two people there.  I never thought I’d be an afternoon shifter but here I am, rocking the afternoon shift like that was my plan all along.  It was really a choice between 5 am-11 or 11-5pm…so yeah.

Still doing homework

Well, give me credit…I want to do my homework but I’ve lost one of my readings that I need for it.  Ah well, I guess if it doesn’t turn up then I’ll just have to waste another 11 pages of perfectly good paper and print off another one.  What can ya do?   Actually, I don’t really want to do my homework, but I want it to be done so I don’t have to think about it and feel guilty and all the accompanying emotions.

Luke Wood is on the webstream…he’s one of my favorites.  I’d just like to throw that out there.  When I was at the Onething conference in KC a few weeks ago I actually got to talk to him…well, more like say something to him.  I was at the ZHOP booth, or very near it, and he was there and I got to tell him how much I love that song of his “Picture of Your Love”.  He was so nice.  And then he played it later during the offering!  I’ll bet he played just because I said I liked it.  Yeah, I’m sure that’s exactly why.

I saw somewhere that today is the 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
Jesus, I plead Your blood over my sins…

Tell me Your name again, but this time let wonder arise
-Luke Wood

Late night with J-Riz

For some reason this is one of those nights that I do not want to go to bed.  I guess I had that last night too.  The only problem with these nights is that I have things to do the next day that would be better done with more sleep than less.  These nights are also not so good when they are strung together making me tired day after day which is kind of depressing.  Oh man.

I went to the Creighton basketball tonight instead of going to the HoP like I usually do on a Thursday night.  Well, I guess I did  over to the hop after the game but it was almost done when we got there.  Ah well, the game was good.  I was sooooo excited that NE Governor Dave Heineman was there!!!  I think the Lord blessed me with that one.  We supposedly passed Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey on the way out, but I didn’t see him.  I’ve seen him many times before though.  I really wanted to say hi to Governor Heineman, but I didn’t see him afterward.

I’ve really been digging that Justin Rizzo song Gift of God lately.  It’s soooo good and I guess he just got a myspace so you can listen to it on there.

<>But You saw me there, because of Your great love                                                                 But You saw me there, because You’re rich in mercy