I don’t know why I’m so easily amused…or why I laugh at the stupidest things. But commercials make me laugh harder than any joke, comedian, etc… ever could. Here’s a few of my favorites…all hysterical. Got any funny commercials?? Please send them my way. :]
“Still” by Watermark
The more I get alone
The more I see I need to get alone more, more
Cause just when I think that I’m alone
Your Spirit calls out to me
And even silence has a song
Cause that’s when You come
Sing over me
Still, let me be still
Let me be okay
With the quiet in my heart
Still, I want to be still
I’m so quick to move
Instead of listening to You
Shut my mouth
Crush my pride
Give me the tears
Of a broken life
Still
Of this world, it falls around me
And flutters all it’s beauty in my eyes
But let me choose the solitude
Simplicity has always simply changed my life
Cause even stillness makes me move
Cause that’s when my heart
Learns to dance with you
Still, let me be still
Let me be okay
With the quiet in my heart
Still, I want to be still
I’m so quick to move
Instead of listening to You
I’m your child
Tame my heart
Obedience
To me impart
Still
Hold me
Cleanse me
Change me, oh God
Change me while I am
Still, let me be still
And know that you are God
And You’re always enough
Still, I want to be still
To take all that I am
And simply lift it up
Shut my mouth
Crush my pride
Give me the tears
Of a broken life
Still.
I went to see The Bucket List tonight. I decided to rewrite my Bucket List.Suggestions welcome.
1) Throw a huge party and invite everyone i know
2) Learn to speak a foreign language efficiently
3) Buy an expensive camera…and take it to greece.
4) Learn to ballroom dance properly
5) Buy myself a new car.
6) Spend the night in a “haunted” house
7) Have Christmas on the beach.
8. Spend time making a home into exactly what i want it to be.
9) Cimb to the top of the statue of liberty
10) Do something that they won’t expect.
11) Videotape a tornado.
12) Skydiving….maybe
13) See the northern lights
14) Have cappuccino at some street cafe in Rome
15) Change someone’s life for the better.
16) Graduate college
17) Audition and make several plays
18) Participate in La Tomatina (aka Tomato Chunking) in Spain.
19) Send a message in a bottle
20) Perform on Broadway. Or another major event.
21) Ride in a limo
22) Open an orphanage.
23) Perform at a major event
24) Go to Vegas
25) Party it up in the NYC night scene
26) Ride in a blimp
27) See a volcano erupt
28) Be rescued from a very dangerous situation
29) Fall in love
30) Take a boat to Europe
31) Ride in a helicopter
32) Learn to hand toss pizza dough
33) Take a road trip with friends w/out plans or maps, just jump in the car and go.
34) Go deep sea fishing and catch a shark. A real honest-to-goodness shark.
35) Stand at the top of the Eiffel Tower.
36) Visit giant elephant house in New Jersey
37) Finish learning to play the piano so I can worship my Jesus.
38) Go to New York and watch the ball drop in Times Square.
39) Have kids.
40) Make a British guard laugh.
My list goes on. And on. And on….
Feel free to make suggestions.
I’m always up for new & exciting things :]
I want to road trip. I don’t really care where we go. I’m broke. So cheap is best.
I want to go to an Astros game. I want to go see a space shuttle take-off at NASA.
I want to go to Six Flags and ride roller coasters all day long.
I want to go fishing. Preferably in East Texas.
Bottom Line: It’s time for a road trip. Come with me.
Yesterday, an older lady at work came into my classroom and accused me of being too happy all the time. Our conversation went something like this:
K: “Claire, do you ever stop smiling? Do you ever get upset? Do me a favor & stop smiling. You’re annoying me. Nobody is ever THAT happy.” (rolled her eyes.)
C: “Okay, (a) I can’t really apologize for always smiling, because I like to smile. (b) Of course I get upset sometimes…I’m human, right? (c ) What reason do I have to stop smiling? Why shouldn’t I be happy??”
K: “When you smile, it gives me the impression that you’re perfect. And you’re not, by the way. You smile even when people do you wrong…I’ve seen it. You just smile & keep on going like nothing has happened. I don’t like it. You have to learn to deal with your problems.”
FYI: By this time, I’m trying hard not to laugh because this conversation is ridiculous.
C: “K, I am NOT perfect. Sometimes I screw up and make mistakes. Sometimes I get frustrated with myself. Sometimes other people do me wrong. It takes more effort to be upset about it than to just forgive, forget, and move on. I DO deal with my problems but I don’t yell and scream and throw things to deal with them. I don’t gripe at other people when I’m in a bad mood. I pray about the things that bother me and give it to Christ.”
K: “Oh please, like you NEVER throw things when you’re angry.”
C: “Um, no, I don’t. I pray about it & give it to Christ. That’s it.”
K: “Well then you’re the most ridiculous person I’ve ever met. We don’t teach that at my church. We believe that you deal with it in humanly ways to show people how imperfect we are but how Christ is changing us.”
C: “Oh for real? Okay. Well have you read Psalm 37:8? How about Psalm 103:8-10?Ecclesiastes 7:9? Matthew 6:14? Ephesians 4:31-32?”
K: “Well, um, no. I don’t have time to just sit and read. I’m a busy woman.”
C: “I’m busy too. But you have to put God first and let the rest of your plans fall into place.”
K: “Yeah right. Like that would ever happen. Just stop smiling all the time. That’s all I’m asking.”
(she walks out & slams the door…then yelling all the way down the hallway. How professional.)
Ridiculous. Freaking ridiculous.
I’m a big fan of Bill Engvall & the rest of the Blue Collar Comedy gang…partially because I can relate to alot of what they say. What I enjoy most about Bill Engvall is his “Here’s Your Sign” bit. I only enjoy it until it happens to me.
Story: This morning I went into work to pick up something that I had left in my classroom the day before. As I was walking in the door, my supervisor said, “Are you here??” I know that I must’ve given her the “are you an idiot?” look. I couldn’t hold back my sarcasm so I answered, “Nope…I died last night & my spirit came back to pick up my check.”
Here’s Your Sign.
I used to live in a darkened room
Had a face of stone
And a heart of gloom
Lost my hope, I was so far gone
Cryin’ all my tears
With the curtains drawn
I didn’t know until my soul broke free
I’ve got these angels watching over me
Oh watch me go
I’m a happy girl
Everybody knows
That the sweetest thing you’ll ever see
In the whole wide world
Is a happy girl
I used to hide in a party crowd
Bottled up inside
Feeling so left out
Standing in a corner wearing concrete shoes
With my frozen smile
And my lighted fuse
Now every time I start to feel like that
I roll my heart out like a welcome mat
Oh watch me go
I’m a happy girl
Everybody knows
That the sweetest thing you’ll ever see
In the whole wide world
Is a happy girl
Laugh when I feel like it
Cry when I feel like it
That’s just how my life is
That’s how it goes
Oh watch me go
I’m a happy girl
And I’ve come to know
That the world won’t change
Just ’cause I complain
Let the axis twirl
I’m a happy girl
Oh watch me go
I’m a happy girl
Everybody knows
That the sweetest thing you’ll ever see
In the whole wide world
Is a happy girl.
I’m a happy girl.
I just finished Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller & it was nothing less than phenomenal. I’ve read it before, but it’s been awhile. The quotes below made me think…and think HARD. If you haven’t read it, READ IT. If you have read it, then read it again. :]
“It was as if we were broken, I thought, as if we were never supposed to feel these sticky emotions. It was as if we were cracked, couldn’t love right, couldn’t feel good things for very long without screwing it all up. We were like gasoline engines running on diesel. I was just a kid so I couldn’t put words to it, but every kid feels it. (I am talking about the broken quality of life.) A kid will think there are monsters under his bed, or he will close himself I his room when his parents fight. From a very early age our souls are taught there is a comfort and a discomfort in the world, a good and bad if you will, a lovely and a frightening.” – Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz, 14
“Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don’t even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool things to believe. The problem with Christian belief—I mean real Christian belief, the belief that there is a God and a devil and a heaven and a hell—is that it is not a fashionable thing to believe.” – Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz, 107
“We see those cigarette advertisements with the rugged cowboy riding around alone on a horse, and we think that is strength, when, really, it is like setting your soul down on a couch and not exercising it. The soul needs to interact with other people to be healthy.” – Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz, 154
“I need wonder to explain what is going to happen to me, what is going to happen to us when this thing is done, when our shift is over and our kids’ kids are still on the earth listening to their crazy rap music. I need something mysterious to happen after I die. I need to be somewhere else after I die, somewhere with God, somewhere that wouldn’t make any sense if it were explained to me right now.” – Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz, 206
“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll.” – Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz, 217.
