this inquiring mind wants to know

Not that I was really working on it, but this morning I think I realized I know one of the first questions - if not THE first question - I want to ask God (after of course spending millions of years prostrate in worship) when I get to Heaven.

It's actually a two-part question:

1. What did he put in coffee that makes it so dang fabulous?
   
   
2. Did the person who thought it might be a good idea to grind up the beans, steep them in boiling water and then drink the juice love Jesus back? ...because I'm gonna want to hug that person for about a hundred years.

random Monday thoughts

I know I'm supposed to be in a montage (which I'm very much enjoying by the way), but I've already had some AHA! moments, which don't usually happen mid-montage. Yay!

I'm falling in love with my church. Double yay! I was already deeply in like with my church, for the record.

I never read To Kill a Mockingbird*, and I HATED Mockingbird: A portrait of Harper Lee. But there is one thing about Harper Lee's life that I absolutely am jealous of...and it's that someone gave her money to quit her job for a year so she could just write. That's amazing.

You can learn a lot from hanging out with 2-year olds.

Specialized and I are going to survive the hills to Austin.


And finally, the John Stott daily email hit another home run today:

A paradox of Christian living:
It is one of the great paradoxes of Christian living that the whole church is called (and every member of it) as much to involvement in the world as to separation from it, as much to 'worldliness' as to 'holiness'. Not to a worldliness which is unholy, nor to a holiness which is unworldly, but to 'holy worldliness', a true separation to God which is lived out in the world -- the world which he made and sent his Son to redeem.

--From "Christ the Controversialist"

*Don't freak out. I didn't read most of what I was supposed to in school. I'm also the girl who never saw Gone With the Wind or Casablanca, etc.

along came dovie

Have you seen "Along Came Polly" with Ben Stiller and Phillip Seymour Hoffman?

In the film, Phillip is a washed up child actor who hires a camera crew to follow him around and tells people that they are doing an "E! True Hollywood Story" about his life. Bless his heart.

I often find myself thinking about my own life as if someone were making a movie of it. I haven't yet pulled together funds to hire my own camera crew, though I'm sure - with the right advertising campaign - the ticket sales would be off the charts.

So, on this whole 'movie about my life thing'...I started to write a post about entering another music montage, and realized I've done that twice already, originally in 2006. But here I am again - nothing new under the sun and all - and looking forward to the next few weeks of music and seeing highlights reel someday.

If you can remember that they really are the stuff of life, montages can be so beautiful.