A Painful Fairwell

On July 11th we said goodbye and laid to rest our sweet little worrior Isaiah. It was a sweet graveside service. There were many tears as we remember a life taken far to soon.

The picture above is of Isaiah and his buddies. It was taken at the Burgers & Buddies party thrown at Isaiah’s request.

Please lift these little men up in your prayers as they try to deal with the grief of losing their friend.

ISAIAH RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ :: 12/20/96 – 07/02/2008

Early this morning, at approximately 1:27am, Isaiah Rafael Rodriguez went to be with Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, in a peaceful, sweet passing with friends & family at his bedside…

Isaiah’s story continues in the lives of others he so profoundly touched.  Today, Isaiah truly…

OVERCAME!
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http://www.overcomeaml.org/

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Good bye sweet little man, we love & miss you. Rest now in the arms of our Savior.

Don’t call me hon, sweetie

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people call me hon, sweetie, ect.  I get especially annoyed when it is a man or someone who is younger than I.

I wrote about how I thought Walmart may be hell, and the pharmacy tech there has added fuel to that thought.

I don’t really know what it is about pharmacies, but it seems that a quality you must pocess when working in one, is to as snooty as hell heck, and pretend like you’re blind and can’t see that someone is standing at the counter glaring at you, and then when you finally do decide to look up, you have to act as though there is nothing as irritating as the fact that you actually have to do your job and help someone!!!

There is one tech who every time I come to the window and she is helping me, she greets me with “can I help you hon?” I could probably deal with it except for the fact that she is maybe 19 or 20 and I am old enough to be her mother! I find myself wanting to scream “yeah, you snot nosed brat who is young enough to be in diapers, you can help me, check your bad ass bottom attitude at the door, get my damn darn medicine and smile and wish me a nice day, how does that sound sweetie?” But, of course I don’t, I smile through gritted teeth and say thank you and walk out cursing under my breath.

Ho Hum!!

 

Todd Hunter has a new Blog & Ministry

I got an e-mail from Todd Hunter today letting me know about his knew blog. Todd was President of Vineyard USA after John Wimber, he worked for Allelon for a time and has been President of Alpha USA for the last several years. He has recently left Alpha to start a new ministry called Three Is Enough. 

Todd and his wife Debbie are good friends of ours and I would love for you to check out his blog and see what you think.

So, here’s the link. http://www.3isenough.org/   

Diamond in the Rough.

 This guy is so amazing. He gives me goose bumps. His name is David Potts. He went on to win Britain’s got talent. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

 

Peace in the midst of Chaos.

I heard this song while driving the other day and I felt like it may be prophetic for those of us that have found ourselves outside of the main stream church.  It is by Sanctus Real.  Listen to it and let me know what you think.

 

That settles it, I’m gonna do it!

So, I was flipping through the channels the other night, and stopped on Beauty and the Geek.  I’ve never watched the show before, but for some reason I watched for a bit.

As you have probably guessed from the title of the show, there are geeky guys and beautiful women who live together to learn from eachother. 

They were interviewing the geeks, and they were REAL geeks.  They also interviewed the Beauties, and there is a reason the show isn’t call brainy beauty and the geek!

So, the girls are your run of the mill airheads, but one stuck out more than the rest.  She comes on the screen and proudly says “yeah. I had a boob job.  It was a financial investment.  It will totally pay for itself when you think about all the drinks that will be bought for me, they will pay for themselves.”

Well, that was a convincing argument don’t you think?

Why old people shouldn’t drive.

And why I should watch where the hell I’m walking!

So, after work today I had to stop by Walmart, which by the way, just may be HELL! I pull into the parking lot and there is a crowd gathered outside the entrance.  As I get closer I see that there is a woman on the ground and that the crowd are looky loos.  Of course there were a few people tending to her, but most were just there to see what was happening.  I drive slowing by because I , like most of the people crowding around this poor woman, am a looky loo too.  As I’m driving around cursing trying to find a damn parking space, and still trying to see what was happening with the poor woman, a maniac driver pulls into my path so I have to slam on my breaks.  Of course I shot her a “what the hell” look, not because I was mad that she pulled in front of me, but because it distracted me from my looky looing.  She of course promptly flipped me off, and my son of course had to promptly point it out.

So, I finally find a space, and I’m walking to the entrance, trying to watch what is up with the poor woman, when all of a sudden I feel hot steel on my leg and hands.  I turn to see what’s up and realize that an old woman, in the handicap space none the less, has just backed into me.  I’m a little stunned, and pissed off that I had to miss them loading the poor woman into an ambulance, when the old lady rolls down her window and says “I’m sorry, I didn’t see you.”  HELLO YOU’RE IN A PARKING LOT WITH PEOPLE WALKING & TRYING TO WATCH THE POOR WOMAN ON THE GROUND!!!!!  I off course didn’t say that to her, I’m much to kind, I just said instead “I’m glad it wasn’t my son you hit!”

I turn to the guy walking next to us for sympathy and say  “she just hit me”, to which he replies ”crazy”.

It is then that my son informs me, “mom you hit her, she was already moving and you hit her car.”  To which I inform him “hush, children are to be seen and not heard!!!!!!!”

Some days I wonder why I ever leave the house…

 

Top Ten MeMe

I was tagged by Sonja a while ago with this meme, but just got around to doing it.

Here’s how it goes:

1. Your top ten movies, (in no paticular order).

2. If tagged, write a post and tag 3-5 other people.

3. Tag back, (shout out link), to the one who tagged you.

4. Give a hat tip (HT) to Dan.

 

Green Card- first movie I saw with the hubby…(Thanks Sonja;-)

An Affair To Remember-Um…Cary Grant….Hello!

Chocolat- love the story of community and friendship…and of course Johnny Depp

Princess Bride- who doesn’t like this movie

The Note Book-great love story

So I Married an Axe Murderer-woman wooooooooman!

Little Miss Sunshine-so wrong, BUT soooo funny

Love Actually- just a great moving film

Anne of Green Gables-love, love, love those movies

Pride and Prejudice- Mr. Darcy of course

So, who to tag.

Brother Maynard

Cindy Bryan

Peggy

 

 

 

The Pain and the Beauty

Friday we recieved word that our friends son, Isaiah, was back in the hospital. He had had two siezures and the Dr.s didn’t know why. By Friday night the Dr.s had told his parents that he may only have 24 to 48 hours to live.  Our community rushed to the hospital to rally around Isaiah and his family. 

There was a sense of unbelief, sorrow, and confusion lying heavy in the air. People went in a few at time to see him and came out visibly devastated. We talked amongst ourselves about Isaiah and the things we loved about him, comforted eachother and tried to pray.  It was raw and emotional.

Isaiah’s real mom was there, who has not been a good mom to say the least, and I found myself broken hearted for her.  One of the gals from our community and I spoke to her.  We told her that we were there for her too, and that if she needed to talk, scream, or have us pray with her just let us know.  It was uncomfortable because she is not very likeable, but she needs to see Christ, and if not in me then who.

My friends 2 teenage daughters were completely undone after seeing Isaiah, and my friend asked me to comfort them while she turn her turn.  I had no answers to their questions of why.  Why was he suffering, why was God allowing this to happen, all I could say is “I don’t know”.

These are painful, but beautiful snap shops of what it is to live in community, and what being the church is all about.  We take on some of the burden to lessen the load of others. 

As of today, Isaiah seems to be improving, but as always the roller coaster that takes you to the peak of hope to the depths of despair.

As always, I would ask you to please pray for Izzy, (Isaiah), for complete and total healing.  Pray for wisdom for the Docs and his parents.  And please pray for his real mom, that she will find her way back to Christ.