Please Pray

A while ago I told you about my favorite blog...well Nate and Tricia are in need of prayer. She has developed cancer on her transplanted lungs. They tried a "chemo light" and it didn't work. So now she has to go for the big stuff. Please pray for Nate and Tricia and the wisdom of the doctors. Sometimes when stuff like this happens it's hard to see where God is...when that happens I think of this song :

Blessed Be Your Name
by Matt Redman
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Blessed Be Your Name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name

Blessed Be Your name
When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed Be Your name

Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
Blessed be Your name

When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be'
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name

Every blessing You pour out
I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord
Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord, blessed be Your name

Win this quilt

You could be the owner of this beautiful quilt. I really hope I'm the winner, but you can be too. Just go to here to enter.

Love this game

Today on Google there were how to instructions on how to play MASH. I must have played this game for hours, maybe even a day or two, if you add up all the time together. In case, in your childhood years you missed out here are the instructions.

I hope you all get mansions :)

Bad Week :(

So far this week my hard drive on my Mac crashed :( I have a horrible on its last leg PC that I am using. I HATE PCs :( Hopefully, I can get a good deal on a new Mac off ebay. Refrigdgerator was leaking water into the neighbors and I had to deal with my idiot landlord. That meant I couldn't cook my meals for the week when I had planned-so that has been all off. And I've lost my camera. I know its somewhere, but I have no idea where. So I can't take pictures on bentos. But on a happy note...we all thought my grandfather was on the brink of death but he seems to be making a great recovery! He is one VERY tough guy :) Well the oven is blaring at me...I have an old oven-it doesn't beep...it blairs. Hopefully, bentos will be back up next week.

PS-I changed my inspiration to green/healthy living...I'll try to put up more sites...if you have any good ones let me know.

One Word Meme

I saw this on another site...

You’re feeling: productive

To your left: a snoring Roxie

On your mind: completing my purging (of stuff...not lunch :) )

Last meal included: Pepperoni Pizza

You sometimes find it hard to: not to buy SO many books

The weather: steamy

Something you have a collection of: shot glasses

A smell that cheers you up: my mom's cooking

A smell that can ruin your mood: eggs

How long since you last shaved: today

The current state of your hair: wavy

The largest item on your desk/workspace (not computer): organizers

Your skill with chopsticks: moderate

Which section you head for first in a bookstore: bargain/fiction

Something you’re craving: First Watch Blueberry Pancakes

Your general thoughts on the presidential race: We Can Do It :)

How many times have you been hospitalized this year: none

Favorite place to go for a quiet moment: outside

You’ve always secretly thought you’d be a good: doula

Something that freaks you out a little: heights

Something you’ve eaten too much of lately: Chips Ahoy Chocolate Chip Chewy Cookies

You have never: watched a Star Wars Movie (not interested)

You never want to: live where it snows

Twilight

Disclaimer: This coming Tuesday I start my summer job and will resume bento postings :) Stay tuned :)


This is the second in my series of alternatives to Harry Potter. If you are a girl especially you have to read the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. I know it's about high school, but the series is SO addictive. It's about a girl named Bella who moves to Washington to live with her dad. Bella is typical, unassuming, and clumsy. Bella meets a beautiful boy named Edward and beautiful family the Cullens. Bella soon learns that Edward and his family are vampires. And the plot thickens and expands to 4 books (the 4th and final will be release on August 2nd). When you start reading Twilight it is a little slow, but just keep with it. If anyone local wants to borrow my copies let me know :)

Quick Review:
Stars: ***** out 5


Summary: Bella has come to the small town of Forks on the gloomy, rainy Olympic Peninsula live with her father, Charlie. At school, she meets a group of five extremely beautiful teens, who sit together in the cafeteria but never eat. She meets Edward and starts to like him. It is then that she learns their secret they are all rescued vampires. The head of the family, Carlisle, trained them to reject human prey for animals. The Cullens welcome Bella, but the family is divided when a roving group of tracker vampires fixates on Bella. The Cullens must protect the fragile human in their midst.


If you like: Harry Potter, Vampires, Anne of Green Gables meets


Smut Rating: I would rate Twilight PG for the violence and high school themes. The other books I would rate PG -13 because they have a little bit more adult themes.

Best Blog EVER!!!!

I want to share with you the best blog I have ever read. It's about a couple in North Carolina (Nate and Tricia) and their little baby Gywneth. It's isn't because of the great writing, although I think Nate writes pretty well and is even humorous. It isn't because they have ultra glamorous and chic lives. It's because daily their lives reaffirm for me the beauty of God's grace. Read this post to get caught up on everything and not have to spend hours reading to get the background, although I'm sure eventually you will. Everyday this blog brings a smile to my face :)