God's Blog



For all of you blogger heads out there, this is an interesting read. The blogging world consists of people of all backgrounds and walks of life writing about everything under the sun. People write about their every day happenings, experiences, heartaches, hopes, wishes, disappointments...we write down our thoughts, our observations, our opinions, reflections, and whatever else we deem sharable under the curtain of anonyminity...well, for the most part anyways. If it were in any way possible, (and remember peoples, with God, ANYTHING is possible!) ...why would the idea of God having a blog be IMpossible?

God's Blogs is just like any other blog. He shares His joys (and there are a lot of them!) and His disappointments (and there are a lot of those, too...). It's such a creative way to see God in that kind of light...blogging, but that is. But it totally reminded me of a CrossRoads church service that I had attended a couple of times back in Minnesota called Sanctuary. Their whole theme is "embracing the ancient faith, experiencing the present Christ." Basically, it takes all of the truths of what the Bible and Church teach, but making it relevant in today's world...making us connect to God on a deeper level by connecting and crossing the time barrier. The worship services rock out like songs from the WB, but with a God-message in them...the stage area is surrounded by lit candles, and the pastor uses different media to make a statement and get us hooked. It's a totally awesome and innovative way to have Sunday service...and to be quite honest, if more churches follwed this type of repertoire, I almost guarantee that churches everywhere would be filled to capacity.

In any case, not to copy exactly what's been written from the book and risk any type of copyright infringement laws, I wanted to post a couple of thoughts/posts from the book that I find worth sharing. And even if you're not into God or the whole religion thing, check it out anyways...you'll find it's a good read and even at best, highly amusing.

- God's thoughts on creation:
Wow! I really started something this week- I created a Universe!
It's pretty cool!
Toward the end of the week, I made the most astounding creation...it's the closest to Me I've ever created. When my first human being opened his eyes and took his first breath, we just stared at each other in the face.
Then I started laughing and he didn't know what to do (mainly because he had never done anything before).
But he looked at Me and saw Me smiling...it was just natural for him to smile back (that's the way I made him).
It was great, but the whole time, I knew something was missing...and he felt it too.
What happened next almost made Me surprise Myself! I took a part of him and made something...something that made us step back in wonder. SHE was incredible!

God's Blogs by Lanny Donoho
www.godsblogs.org
check it out!

Lil' Mindless Tidbits

Because my blogging has not been consistent in any way...honestly, I've given up blogging via dial-up at my parents...there are so many instances that I can't pass up the opportunity to share, however minor or mindless they are. Some are thoughts, observations, are just whatever comes to mind. Hahhah...I think I'll keep "Lil' Mindless Tidbits" as a permanent part of my blog, adding to it whenever anything worth sharing pops up.

- Serious Gaming. I was at the Serramonte Starbucks last week, reeling from the fact that the barista in charge of making the drinks was extremely LOUD. I swear, the entire establishment would know WHO was getting WHAT drink, I mean, for goodness sake, on a volume control, he'd be off the charts. While I was patiently waiting for my name to be yelled out, I noticed this one guy seated in the corner with his headphones on wearing this serious look on his face. Since he was sitting sideways, one can't help but notice what he was working on and from what I could tell, it was a reconnaisance mission of sorts or possibly one of those SoCom-esque games. This dude was so into the game that he wouldn't have blinked if a lil' hootchie mama walked in barely dressed! I even want to say, though I'm not sure if I imagined it or what, that he was wearing some gloves without the fingers gloves. I mean, first of all, he was totally focused on his laptop complete with headphones...but he was doing it at a Starbucks! I don't care if it is free wireless, dude...next time, put your back against the wall and keep that lil' dignity you have left intact. I'm not against gaming at all...but as crowded as that Starbucks get, you just end up looking like a gaming geek for all it's worth. Ha.

- Starbucks Tidbit #1. I had NO CLUE that you could actually order your hot coffee drinks "extra hot." When I was about to order it like that for the first time, I almost said "super hot" which, btw, I think may have been somehow construed differently by the barista at the time. Hmmm...."extra hot"....who would've thought?

- Starbucks Tidbit #2. I'm addicted once again. During my SFState days, I was functioning on two coffees a day- one in the a.m. and one in the p.m. Shortly after graduation, I stopped..probably because it was an expensive addiction! Fast forward to last Christmas where my sister sends the hubby and me some Starbucks gift cards...which we totally took advantage of during the cold winter snowy nights! And after those cards rang out, we were right there to recharge them back up. Night after night, we'd head to the local SB and get our usuals. Now that I'm back in the Bay, psychologically I cannot function without a cup of hazelnut mocha. The news gets worse...I've graduated from ordering a TALL to a GRANDE!

- Shower Singing. My niece was taking a shower after school today and I had to stop and listen when I heard her singing. It wasn't the usual Disney songs that she's usually rocks out to, instead this is what I heard:

"Open the eyes of my heart, Lord. Open the eyes of my heart. I want to see you, I want to see you. Holy, holy, holy...holy, holy, holy, I want to see you."

Bless her heart, this girl was rocking out to some Christian songs!

- Weather Alert. What is with the tornado warnings in the Sacramento area today? We were bombarded with buckets and buckets of rain last night complete with horrendous winds that blew the doors off my sister's shed! Thankfully in our area, there were no hailstorms and lightning shows in our neck of the woods that were reminiscent of the anxieties that would come with those lovely tornado siren warnings we'd hear in the middle of the night. But still...tornadoes in CA? Man...talk about craziness!

- Il Divo. Okay, yes, I am obsessed with Il Divo, why aren't you??? Just had to share. My sister and family, and my aunties attended their concert at the Davies Symphony Hall in the city this past Sunday. They were blown away just as I was! But get this...my auntie hung out near the Musician's Entrance afterwards and got to see them AND get a pic with Carlos! OMG, OMG, OMG! Wow...man, I gotta start hanging out with my auntie more often! Lucky gal!