What Girls Get Wrong

"Make me understand the way of Your precepts; So shall I meditate on Your wonderful works."  ~ Psalm 119:27 NKJV Mondays are tough. But they're awesome. Monday is the most common day for heart attacks . If you don't like your job, it can be tough to get out of bed on Mondays. At the same time, Monday is a day full of possibilities, where our strength's been recovered by the weekend. It's a busy day. An exciting day. A day where we can be overwhelmed, yet thankful for the fresh start. My posts tend to be long (I'm naturally wordy). But for the month of September, I'm going to try to make this series brief. A verse to think on. To meditate on. A few thoughts. That's it. I hope to keep them under 250 words. Because we're busy. And our busyness (at least for me) tends to make us push aside God. But if we just take the time, we find that God can help us get through the crazy hours, the crazy days,

Let me tell you about one of the times* I failed to make Resident Assistant at my college. You see, my college had several hoops you had to jump through to make the cut. First, because it is a Christian college, we had two Bible tests to pass. Of course, because I can skunk an elephant at his own game, I passed those. Then was a super long, dreadfully boring and probably kind of useless application to fill out (I wonder how much they actually used any of the info they asked for in their decision, and how much they just wanted to see who'd be willing to sit the tortuous hours to fill it out). Me being me (by which I mean I usually don't know when to quit) of course spent who knows how long filling it out, then rereading it and reworking it until I got sick of it and decided it was good enough.** Then came the fun part. If you filled out the application, and weren't judged to be totally inadequate for the job, they put you through the ringer. Also known as RA Qualif

Time for a Sunny Saga! Sunny: cheeky little bird If you read this post , you probably remember I have two pet birds. Today I'm going to tell you a little more about Sunny. Sunny is quite spunky. We found him one day inside the fence of the pool, crawling along on the stones and trying to eat grass seeds (by the way, stones are worthless for keeping weeds down). After a futile search for his owner, my parents let us keep him. He eventually became my bird and my responsibility (eventually my other bird came into the picture, but that wasn't until later). That was about sixteen years ago. He's still hopping along, being a regular nuisance. And since cockatiels can live to be thirty, he promises to be a pain-in-the-tail-feathers for quite a bit more (think carefully before you get a bird from the parrot family). The average age is fifteen years, so technically he's already pushing it. But for being an old dude, he's still rather sprightly. I take both birds