October 29, 2011

Sometimes I wonder why I keep this blog going.  I will post frequently, then just stop and not write anything down for several weeks.  No reason, just haven't taken the time.  Chris and I celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary last week.  It is so hard to believe that 26 years have past.  I can remember being a teenager and thinking that anyone married that long had to be really old!  And now I find myself at that point in life.  

Chris seems to be liking his new job better.  At first he found it fairly boring which made for long days.  But, the past couple of weeks he has been enjoying it much better and is having more responsibility and things to do.  He still does not have health insurance, so we both just pray each day that he stays healthy and injure free.  We keep a watch for other jobs that may pop up in the newspaper.  Times are tough and jobs are hard to come by.

Things at church keep me busy.  Being on the worship team, helping with a program we do on Wednesdays that runs for about 6 weeks has kept me busy this past month, then last evening was Trick or Trunk.  Busy, but very fulfilling activities at church.  We are a small, but busy and mighty church!

I do find myself being very down and depressed at times.  I have had well meaning people tell me it's common during "the change" as women like to call it.  I actually wonder if I am suffering from a mild clinical depression.  I have always been a moody person, but lately it is sometimes to the extreme.  One thing that helps is walks and I've tried taking the time for more walks this past month.   I know one thing, this winter my mood light will seriously need to be used to help ward of the winter time blahs.  

Ok..enough rambling.  I'm actually waiting for some bread dough to rise.  The cooler weather means homemade bread.  Can't wait to smell it baking in the oven. 

October 5, 2011

Here is a really cool video our minister showed us this evening in church.  Just has to share it here.  It is 9 minutes long, but is well worth watching.

October 4, 2011

This picture is circulating Facebook right now and I just really like it.

October 3, 2011

A good friend of mine did a post at her blog today on some of the earlier Christian music she remembers.  That got me to thinking about when I was first introduced to Christian music.  I can remember being in Junior High.  The youth group at my church went to another church that was having a youth group get-together.  The highlight of the evening was a performance by a local Christian band that was in northern Indiana at that time. They were called Isaac.  They were great and I loved everything they played.  I did a quick google search just to see if they were by chance still together, but didn't come up with anything.


I remember my first Christian record album. Yes, an actual album.  It was by Don Franscisco and it was his Live Concert album. My favorite song on that album was He's Alive.  This album was really the only Christian album I can remember owning.  I did not buy many record albums when I was a kid.


Something I often challenge myself in is to find Christian themes in secular music.  There really arn't very many of those, but if you look there are some.  An old Queen song called Jesus.  It is odd that Freddie Mercury wrote such a song as he was not a Christian.  And the song is typical Queen fashion, but the words are interesting.  They did another one called The Prophet's Song which is on the darker side.  The words in that song, I think are an interpretation of the book of Revelation.   Here is their song Jesus.  As I said, typial Queen rock.



Quite a few U2 songs have Christian themes, then there is Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven and others if I think on it enough.  Also, John Denver recorded a song called Gospel Changes.  Good song.

Ok..enough rambling memories for the night!

October 2, 2011