I feel icky, as you can tell from my sidebar. In searching through my quote books, I found a sentence from Moby Dick by Herman Melville that seems to fit.
"O, woe on woe! Oh, Death, shy canst thoug not sometimes be timely?"
Okay, that's a little extreme. I don't really feel like dying, but I do feel completely exhausted and...well...icky. This week has been the busiest one of my life - so it seems. I went to bed too late last night and to top it all off, I had to get up at 5 and be at the dentist by 7:00 a.m. Yep, you read that right, a dentist appointment literally first thing in the morning. She did five fillings on the right side of my mouth. It's now 8:36 at night and my mouth is still sore, my stomach is still queasy from all the gunk draining down the back of my throat for two hours. I know by the end of the weekend I'm also going to have two nasty canker sores where she gave me the novacaine.
Okay, I'm sorry if that was too much info. Fortunately it's Friday and I have the next two day off. Hope next week goes better. Thanks for stopping by to read my blog and hopefully I'll be more upbeat next post.
Friday, November 19, 2004
Saturday, November 13, 2004
Time really flies
Wow, I thought it had only been a couple of days since I last posted. Instead it's been an entire week. Where has the time gone? Oh wait, it went to work, Bible Study, choir practice, and a Mary Kay holiday sale. I'm surprised I got any hits this week with my lack of updating. I'm going to have to get more commited to updating this or you all will stop coming here.
Anyway, speaking of choir practice, we are doing an excerpt from Handel's Messiah. It's the "For unto us a child is born" part. I love listening to Handel's Messiah. It's one of my favorite things about Christmas and makes me think of the following Bible verse:
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ. Philippians1:6
Lately God has changed a lot about my attitude lately, especially at work. I mean I've really been humbled lately and am seeing the kids I work with in a whole new light. I'm definitely at a point where God can use me to work in the lives of the kids I work with. In other words, He has begun a good work in me and who knows where it will end.
What does all this have to do with Handel's Messiah you ask? Well, my parents met for the first time while singing with a choir in a performance of this magnificent piece of music. It causes me to wonder, what would have happened if for some reason or other Handel had never written The Messiah. Would my parents still have met? Probably, but still...
If there hadn't been The Messiah, would there be a Juli? If no Juli, who would be the one working with these kids today and how would they turn out?
The point is, The Messiah was composed, there is a me, and I can't wait to see how God perfects the work he began in me until the day of Jesus Christ.
Anyway, speaking of choir practice, we are doing an excerpt from Handel's Messiah. It's the "For unto us a child is born" part. I love listening to Handel's Messiah. It's one of my favorite things about Christmas and makes me think of the following Bible verse:
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ. Philippians1:6
Lately God has changed a lot about my attitude lately, especially at work. I mean I've really been humbled lately and am seeing the kids I work with in a whole new light. I'm definitely at a point where God can use me to work in the lives of the kids I work with. In other words, He has begun a good work in me and who knows where it will end.
What does all this have to do with Handel's Messiah you ask? Well, my parents met for the first time while singing with a choir in a performance of this magnificent piece of music. It causes me to wonder, what would have happened if for some reason or other Handel had never written The Messiah. Would my parents still have met? Probably, but still...
If there hadn't been The Messiah, would there be a Juli? If no Juli, who would be the one working with these kids today and how would they turn out?
The point is, The Messiah was composed, there is a me, and I can't wait to see how God perfects the work he began in me until the day of Jesus Christ.
Saturday, November 06, 2004
I'm laying here on my living room floor tonight watching an old episode of Three's Company and flipping through one of my quote books. The following quote struck me as being very true, and actually rather amusing (of course I'm functioning on 5 1/2 hours of sleep, so maybe that's why it amused me).
This comes from The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas:
"'As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.'" ~Athos~
Have you also discovered this to be true?
Cheers,
Juli
This comes from The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas:
"'As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.'" ~Athos~
Have you also discovered this to be true?
Cheers,
Juli
Monday, November 01, 2004
Here's a Good One
In looking through my quote books tonight, I came across a quote from the book The Paradise War by Stephen R. Lawhead. (I think I've quoted this book before) It seemed to sum up the whole upcoming election for me:
"Nothing is assured...Nothing ever stays the same."
No matter who gets elected president tomorrow, there will still be changes in this country. New mayors will be elected, new councilmembers and senators will be elected. New propositions and ballot measure will pass, or fail. Either way, life as we know it will change tomorrow.
Isn't that the case every day, though? The only thing certain in life is change. We can either fear it or embrace it. If you're a control freak like me, you probably fear change. Really though, change can be good. You will experience new horizons in life and they will most likely make you a better, stronger person. In tomorrow's election, may the best people win and may we emerge as a better, stronger nation.
Cheers
"Nothing is assured...Nothing ever stays the same."
No matter who gets elected president tomorrow, there will still be changes in this country. New mayors will be elected, new councilmembers and senators will be elected. New propositions and ballot measure will pass, or fail. Either way, life as we know it will change tomorrow.
Isn't that the case every day, though? The only thing certain in life is change. We can either fear it or embrace it. If you're a control freak like me, you probably fear change. Really though, change can be good. You will experience new horizons in life and they will most likely make you a better, stronger person. In tomorrow's election, may the best people win and may we emerge as a better, stronger nation.
Cheers
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