Terror

Joshua 2:9-10
"And she (Rahab) said to the men, I know that the Lord has given you the land and that your terror is fallen upon us and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the [east] side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed."

Wouldn't that be awesome!? That our enemies would fear us because they'd seen God work mightily on our behalf? I think that's what I'm gonna ask for.

Sketches

If any of you are interested in having a sketch done by our friend, the artist in Asia, let me know. If you're wanting it for Christmas, we need to do it quickly. The cost is $50 per face and it is about an 8x10. This includes the sketch and shipping from Asia. But if you order more than one sketch, you can reduce the price by $5 per sketch after the first sketch. They make great gifts for parents, grandparents and friends! You can see what they look like above. The photo has to be a close-up with great detail of the face. And you can do a photo of 2 people together as long as you can see details in each face. They're still $50 per face. I'm sorry I didn't think to offer this sooner for Christmas, but if you're interested, let me know! You can email me the photos at dietzbecky@hotmail.com and I can tell you if they're the quality she's looking for. We need to move quickly if you're wanting it for Christmas!

Tired

Can I just say, "I'm tired?" This is me with no make-up and no hair color. And the way I feel after I've knitted (crocheted?) for hours and hours. This has been a stressful week and I'm ready for a quiet weekend! Ever have one of those weeks where you're spinning so many plates that you keep forgetting things? I can't even remember all of the things I've forgotten! I hope I can sleep for hours and hours on Saturday. Maybe I can get rid of the scowl around my eyes and maybe I can find some hair color. Can you believe this actually looks exactly like my great-grandmother? She dipped snuff. And we drank juice out of those snuff glasses. Ewww! Yep, I need some sleep.

12th Imam

Yesterday, Glen Beck had Joel Rosenberg on his program and they explained what some of the Shia Muslims believe about the last days. Ahmadinejad continually mentions the 12th Imam (Mahdi) in his prayers at the U.N. I hope you'll listen to it. VERY interesting!

Meet my prayer partners

They would kill me if they saw this. But not to worry....they never read my blog! Meet my prayer partners--Liz Holt (left) and Jodina Plumley (across from me). We've been praying together for about 15 years. When we started meeting, we weren't really friends--just acquaintances with mutual friends. And back then, we met at 5:30 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays to pray. Mind you, this was when we had kids in school--which is exactly why we met that early.

Now we meet at 7:15 on Tuesdays. We usually meet in one of our homes, but on mornings like today when none of us have our lives together enough to host prayer time, we meet at a restaurant for breakfast and share what's going on in our lives and then we pray. You'd love hearing our prayer times in the restaurant. We just make prayer a natural part of our conversation---someone usually just breaks out into prayer when a topic is brought up. You'd never know we're praying. In fact, our waitress interrupted our prayer time and she never knew it. I love that. God is just there with us in our conversation.
And now? Now these 2 "girls" are more than friends, they're a part of me. And guess what? There's a 16 year span from the oldest to the youngest of us. Like Jodina always tells us, "I never would have chosen you for friends!" We're not sure we like it when she says that. (Can you guess who the youngest brat is?) But we like the way God did it.
My favorite quote from our prayer time today? After talking about our pastor's sermon on Sunday when he told us that we should thank God for the gift of tomorrow and all of the promises it holds, Jodina said this: "I sure am glad I thanked God for Monday on Sunday. I'm not sure I coulda thanked Him for it last night!" We're pretty honest with each other, too.

34th Anniversary

When you've been married for 34 years, you've probably done it all and seen it all. Yep, we humiliated ourselves tonight. We reduced ourselves to sticking flashlights up our noses (not the first time, mind you!) and flashing to the tune of Dueling Banjos.

Makes you wonder what we'll be doing on our 50th anniversary....

Joel Rosenberg

I read Joel Rosenberg's 5 fiction books this past year and couldn't read them fast enough---I loved them! And since then, I've been following his weblog. I was convicted by his latest blog....I hope you'll read it. And by the way, you can find his weblog under my blog list to the right. He updates it every day.