Timing...

Years ago at the farm progress show (noticed the rhyme.. ha), we heard a southern family play some gospel with (roots dipped in bluegrass). This past Christmas Janessa was looking up Christmas music on Youtube when we came across the family. It was cool to see how'd they'd grown and changed as a group.. so I looked them up on Google, Facebook, etc too... and then, of course, using Twitter, I tweeted the one son Emmett about how'd we heard them years ago.. stumbled across them again.. yada yada yada....

He tweeted back... and I pretended he was more of a celebrity so I felt cool getting the Tweet... but then, the next day there was some clean wash on my bed, and one of the items was a shirt with "Got Emmett?"

WHAT! I knew it wasn't from Emmett Franz... but the timing was hilarious! Mom and Janessa had no clue where the shirt had came from... so I asked Luke.. he didn't know either. I assumed one of Luke's friends had left the shirt... and by random coincidence the timing had been hilarious!!

Fast forward a few weeks... I'm sitting talking to my dad as he's heading out the door to work... as he walks by, hes like "Got Emmett? Hey, that's my shirt"

A new guy started working at Caterpillar named Emmett (not the family band Emmett:) ... and he wasn't fitting in the group and feeling out of place. So the team he worked with all decided to get "Got Emmett?" shirts and wear them to work on the same day! Thus, the reason my dad had the shirt and the reason it ended up in my room!

Ah.. hahaha... so funny how the timing played out... well, I'm off to listen to bluegrass... :)

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Timing...

tidbits, jan 20

first off, the color run.. definitely want to do this!

and look at these climbing spaces in St. Louis (below)

St. Louis City Museum.. what an adventureland!

what kind of awesome water slide is this?! (no clue where this is..)

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tidbits, jan 20

It can seem ridiculous...

pulling out a humungous camera for a not-so-large event. For instance, when you're at a wedding, but not the official wedding photographer. I guess either I'm sick of wanna be photographers and don't wanna be one.... or I'm just insecure about pulling out a giant camera. Either option, for some time, I've been wanting a smaller camera (than my rebel) for certain events as I just mentioned!

I've also been wanting a camera with video.. as I'm going to become famous on Youtube. Sooo this was the solution! The Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5. I went with it as it was rated pretty highly on Amazon.. and its supposed to shoot decent HD video. I haven't used it enough yet to go through all the features.. but I'm pretty happy with it just because of the way it looks! Ha. But really. I'm pretty optimistic about my Youtube future (don't tell me if you've had one and hated it just yet :)

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It can seem ridiculous...

Its about time...

2 words.... Greek yogurt!

I know it's more like I'm hopping on a bandwagon.. definitely wasn't one of the first to shout these words... but after needing an on-the-go breakfast for this past week in Phoenix/San Diego.. and Fage being the grab of choice... I'm hooked!

I don't know if Fage is the healthiest or most delicious brand, but I love the fact that you can add as much or as little fruit as you like. It definitely allowed me to adjust to the full-out Greek yogurt taste. I now like it with just a hint of fruit or even plain.

Yum!

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Its about time...

always wanting to reap

Psalms 126:5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

As in... those that sow the Word?

I know there's a balance.... we should be spiritually feed and nourished so that we can go out and plant seeds in the lives of others. I guess this week I spoke with co-workers about God... and its not something I do all the time... but I was just talking to Janessa about how sometimes its hard to know how to share... how to bring it up. And then, oddly enough.. it got brought up the next day with a guy at Macy's. He brought it up as we were talking about music and he said he didn't like Christian rock....

And then he had some things to say about Christians that were kinda depressing... depressing because they were pretty true. He said his friend and him make fun of church and refer to it as the 'fashion parade'..... and yeah.... it kinda is sometimes. And he was frustrated with professing Christians who can't defend their faith.

I don't like making the excuse, yeah, well.. look at Christ cause Christians are human. Ha.

I guess it should be reassuring that God doesn't need me to prove Him... He doesn't need me at all. But instead it kinda frustrates me... like my own inability to show God to this guy frustrated me.

But maybe its about sowing in frustration and in tears... maybe the sowing is excruciating. It isn't just throwing seeds around.

And I know its a balance... we need to be out sharing and sowing. But sometimes, I just want to be surrounded with a roomful of believers. I need to share my faith.. but sometimes its just reassuring to have my faith shared.

I guess that's what church is for....

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always wanting to reap

bind my wandering heart to thee

music

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bind my wandering heart to thee