Dad with Peyton at her first doctor's appointment
Peyton got a visit today from Grandma (she hasn't decided on a name yet), Grandpa, and Uncle Josh. Hopefully she will be getting a visit from her other Grandma & Grandpa soon!!
Psalm 46:10a - "Be still and know that I am God!"
Have you ever heard this verse and thought um ok sure. What does this mean?
In order to shed some light on this I want to look at another verse and see if it sheds some light on things:
This is right before the nation of Israel was about to cross the Red Sea. The Egyptians were literally chasing after the slaves that they had just let go. Israel was having doubts about weather they should have left at all. They came to the edge of this sea and thought this is it. End of the line now is the part of the movie where they come kill us. In short they were scared.
Exodus 14:13-14
13 Moses answered the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. 14 The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still."
What does “being still” mean? It means that you trust God. We usually don't have a nation chasing after us. When God says be still and know that I am God. He is saying “STOP”. Trust me. Let me speak into your life. Let me show you how I want to move in your life.
When we stop and spend time with God we are saying. I trust you. I trust you to give me enough time in the day to get everything else done and spend time with you.
So what does that look like? I want to challenge you to make a choice. It's not a one time thing, but it can start that way. Choose today to say I'm going to make this relationship a priority in my life. The thing is you have to make the choice on a daily and weekly basis. I challenge you to schedule time with God every day.
Well...here is the pic some have been waiting for...11 weeks to go. We got a digital camera yesterday & Farah snapped this pic while I was over at her home. Thanks, Farah.
Post a link to favorite moments of your team! WAR EAGLE!
Invincible
The Nativity Story
Taladega Knights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Little Miss Sunshine
X-Men: The Last Stand
href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343737/">The Good Shepard
If you haven't seen this movie then you need to know that it was probably the most poorly marketed movies of the year. It was billed as a romantic comedy, and while it has some funny parts, I wouldn't call it a comedy, and it's not really that romantic.
Ed Norton and Jessica Beil, did a good job in pulling off this tale of romance and intrigue. However, Paul Giamotti was worth the price of admission. The plot was so, so but the cast made up for it .
I've been a admirer of Garrison Keeler since i was in college. I love tails from lake Wobegone, and thought this would be an interesting show. It didn't dissapoint! It has a good pace to it and has lots of good individual moments.
This was the biggest suprise of the year to me. I expected a "Dangerous Minds", "Stand and Deliver" type of knock off. But Hillary Swank did a tremendous job of being a real person, and true to her character.
(yeah I know this came out in 2004, but I just saw it)
This movie is really gritty. It is a film Noir (detective) set in a High school. It's complete with a murder and a good bit of violence. The lead is the kid from "3rd Rock from the Sun". If you have the stomach for it, it does a good job of capturing the high school mind set and putting a n interesting twist on it.
CHILDREN OF MEN
ERAGON
Now let me say that this is only the movies I have seen. There are a ton of movies that I’m really interested in seeing that I just haven’t been able to get to, many of them are up for Oscars. I’ll list those at the end so you know which weren’t under consideration
Let me just say this is MY favorites. Meaning these are the movies that I enjoyed watching the most, not all of them are “great movies”, but I really enjoyed them.
So over the next week or so I’ll give you my top movies for 2006 (so far) and the ones I was most disappointed in, and what really peaks my interest for the coming year. Also, Beth is going to join the fun as well so she’ll be posting her list as well.
For now let me start with a couple of movies that “Surprised me”. This simply means that I didn’t really expect the movie to be as enjoyable as it was for me.
Cars – The guys are Pixar are incredible, but for whatever reason I just didn’t really like the concept behind this movie. However, the opening scene had me hooked. It was really incredible from a visual perspective. And this is from my 27 inch non-hi-definition sanyo. The story was well paced, and the message of the movie (life doesn’t have to be lived at mach 12, slow down and enjoy the journey) was first-rate. It’s not a movie I’d watch a lot but I enjoyed it and would say it’s worth a viewing
The Holiday – I wasn’t really thrilled with the cast, and was really leery of a romantic comedy with Jack Black in it. But it was a lazy afternoon and this was the best thing playing so Beth and I went.
Typing this now I want to rewatch it just to see those again. It’s not a perfect film, but it definitely surprised me and I'll catch it again soon.
Ok, well that's it for now, more to come later in the week!
This will be the next phone I own! I'm already a Cingular customer and I can't wait till next Christmas!
ORLANDO, Fla. — Lying in bed, staring out the window, he had no idea what the haunting hollowness was about.
Just more than 36 hours earlier, Darren McFadden had gotten into a fight. He had lost a shoe but kicked one more time, and when he was pulled back by friends, his big toe was hanging by two or three tendons at the first joint.
It wasn’t just the thought of his football career being over that was eating at him that Sunday afternoon.
“I didn’t know what it was, but that it was something real,” McFadden said last week after a practice for the Capital One Bowl. “Something was missing, and I knew I needed that something.”
McFadden was missing God.
Like millions of others, he thought he was OK. He made some boyish mistakes, such as the fight, and he sometimes pushed the envelope, but he was polite to his elders and nice to youngsters.
“I was raised to treat others like I wanted to be treated, but I wasn’t raised in the church,” he said. “I really didn’t know much about religion or God. I thought it was enough to be a decent person.”
The fight, now known as the incident, was his wake-up call.
Football had been his God, and he didn’t know that afternoon if he would have the game he loved so much anymore.
“The thought of not playing any more bothered me, but I knew what was going on in my heart and head was bigger than that,” he said.
Within a few days after returning to Fayetteville, with his future still unknown, McFadden was approached by Marcus Carruthers, who started Dwelling Place Church in November 2004.
Carruthers was engaging and unchallenging, and McFadden became intrigued.
It didn’t take long for McFadden to realize the incident may have been a mistake, but some good was going to come out of it.
It had been a wake-up call, and he was paying attention.
His spirit began to heal faster than his toe.
McFadden had a multitude of questions, and Carruthers had an answer for every one of them.
To the surprise of almost everyone but himself, McFadden started the season opener against Southern Cal, although his play was limited and he spent more time as a decoy than a threat.
A week later, he rushed for 184 yards against Utah State, and at that point it would have been easy to decide football really was a god.
He followed that with games in which he rushed for 71 against Vanderbilt and then 112 against Alabama, and he was almost 100 percent physically.
Spiritually, he was still growing, meeting regularly with Carruthers and attending church at Dwelling Place.
In a 27-10 victory over Auburn — a game that set the tempo for the season — McFadden ran for 145 yards.
The team arrived home late Saturday evening, but McFadden was up bright and early the next morning.
To the delight of the small congregation, McFadden was baptized that morning.
The next two months became a whirlwind for the sophomore. He was a late entry for the Doak Walker Award, given to the best running back in the country, and his name was coming up in the same sentence as Heisman Trophy.
After he bullied LSU for 182 yards and two touchdowns, he was a legitimate contender for any and all awards.
The Wildcat formation had thrust him into the college football spotlight. He ran, passed and handed off like a veteran quarterback, and the experts were impressed.
He was invited to Orlando, where he won the running back award, and then flown to New York, where he finished as runner-up in the Heisman balloting.
Through it all, he did not change.
His foundation is now solid with spirituality.
“Darren has always been a little quiet, but after he was baptized, he became very humble and that never changed,” Keith Jackson Jr. said.
That doesn’t mean he’s perfect, and last week, with a smile, he said: “I have to ask for forgiveness a lot.”
Now he gets it.
Dear Warranty Holder,
Thank you for your email or fax. We have confirmed receipt of your claim form.
While we make every effort to accommodate and satisfy our consumers, we regret to inform you that your claim has been declined for the following reasons:Per the terms and obligations of your limited product warranty, each occurrence of stains and damage must be reported to Stainsafe within the time frame stated on your limited product warranty certificate. Unfortunately, any claim reported outside this time frame must be declined.
(I only saw this on thier web-site after i filed my claim and it's no where in the pamphlet I recieved upon purchase.)
If you require a technician’s referral to assist you with this issue, please call our warranty center at the telephone number referenced on your limited product warranty certificate or reply back to this email. Please note that any service provided by an authorized Stainsafe technician on a denied claim will be at the expense of the warranty holder.
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The Time frame FYI is 5 days. The companys 1-800 # simply tells you to fax or e-mail them your claim. I still have no idea how to talk to a person.
My warning to you is to Never Buy any thing with a Stain Safe Warranty. It's a bad deal, if you have any doubts google stain safe and you'll see what I mean.
Mom and Dad with the Peyton
