Lets Give Them Something to Talk About

Duct Tape Fairy Wings…   That is right, I am reclaiming my title as the Duct Tape Diva!   It is funny how over board we end up going for birthday parties and celebrations.   The amount of money that people spend on weddings and parties, anniversaries and events that will only last a few hours.   I think I spent around 45 hours preparing my younger daughter’s birthday party and I will be on-course to do the same with my older daughter’s if I do what I am thinking.   What a first world problem.   Much of the rest of the world is just trying to make it to their next birthday and here I am, making a HUGE deal over my daughter’s 5 th .   Society has told us that so much is normal now.   A “cheap” wedding costs at least $10,000, although the average amount spent is ridiculously higher.   People spend so much on a short amount of pleasure.   Society gives us these norms, tells us our birthday parties have to be over the top, that girls’...

I have made it my goal to start reading through the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament.   Books that I don’t think that I have ever read before.   I have said their names before and heard specific verses from them, but I have never sat down and read through them with the history going on in that time in my head.   Today, my lovely dogs barking asking to go outside woke me up before dawn.   Finally, after yelling at them, shushing them and lying in bed for 2 more hours, I got out of my soft, warm bed at 6:00.   I said goodbye to my husband who was going to play some basketball, made my pot of coffee, candied my personal cup and sat down ready to read the book of Amos (I am reading from the New Living Translation in all these).   Amos was a shepherd and a fig farmer.   He was not an educated priest, a servant, a born prophet…   He was just an ordinary guy doing what God told him to do.   He was sending a message.   The message...