Prayer for Veteran's Day, taken from our Sunday morning service

Almighty God, we give you thanks for the men and women of this country who have defended the cause of freedom around the world by serving in the armed forces of the United States.


We give you thanks for their many sacrifices, even to the giving of their lives.

We also commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces who are currently serving both at home and abroad.

Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

AMEN.




Personal prayers and thanks today to Robby and Adam!

The cool weather hits, and I return to blogging...

Not that anyone even noticed I was gone for three months, but I am (tentatively) back.

Bible study's started back up, so Weds is likely to become my blogging day once again. We just finished Mark (and had some spectacular weather effects for the "forgive them Father, they know not what they do" passage) after start Battlefield of the Mind next week. (Looking forward to that.)

My work schedule became more consistent the last few months, but unfortunately the consistency stole my Laura/Rush/Sean time with it. (How out of date I've become with political things lately is shameful, honestly.)

Also, family drama ensued. Yay.

Things while I was gone...

(Excuse the pic quality, my phone wasn't on the right settings for what I was photographing, lol. User error and all that.)

My mother, sister and I went the the Sean Hannity Freedom Alliance concert in Cincinnati a few months back. Aside from the fact that is was 100 degrees and 100% humidity, the whole day was AWESOME! (With an added bonus on good looking Marines in full dress uniform at the concert... Yum!) Hadn't seen Lee Greenwood in concert in many, many years... An Lord, does God Bless the USA still bring tears to my eyes!

Also, I want Indiana plates. (I don't necessarily want to move to Indiana, but their plates are fabulous. Why are all our plates ugly????)

Anyone offended by the word GOD on it? Because that would MAKE MY DAY! :)

My best friend of forever, Adam, also joined the Army (can't remember if I mentioned this before) and has now graduated both basic training and his next stage of training to become a Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist (makes perfect since for a guy who loved LEGOS, etc when we were pint-sized, yes?). For some reason, even though I can't even describe how proud I am of him, this career path will never make me sleep easier at night.

He goes from Alabama to Florida for more extensive training this week. Hopefully, I can either go down and visit him there in the next few months or maybe crash back in my old stomping ground with him/his family when he gets time off for Christmas. (Assuming he isn't called up any time between now and then...)

I keep telling him he's not allowed to go off and potentially get blown up without me getting to see him again, so we'll see what works out there. ;) ;)

Much as Jon Stewart can annoy me, the Hellary video was too good to pass up. Also, now that I know how to post videos on here, I'll probably be doing that a lot. Love it when tech stuff is made easy for HTML-retarded people such as myself!

(Pauses)

Ok, well. My best friend of roughly forever (since we were seven) called me last night to tell me he joined the army and he leaves for training in two weeks.

I'm very proud of him, but the fact that he's getting trained to dismantle bombs will make me lose sleep anyways.

...And now I need to go think about this some more...

PS- Why did I wear heels when it was raining, again?

So, finally figured out what my password was when I changed it (stupid!) to the new version right before Christmas... And I now I need to run so I can get to the bank before work!

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and New Years...

And Maggie, I do NOT want to hear about the singing/dancing/Josh for forever. (It was fun, but no more margaritas for me, lol!) Shame I didn't get a hold of his camera... But my phone is edited down to just one picture of us (as in, you and me), in which- if you didn't know better- I could be totally sober. ;)

Now I have to call Adam back tonight when I won't confuse his friend by being overly friendly on the phone from 1000 miles away...