Yesterday I had an epiphany.
When God instructs us to "wait on the Lord" he really means just wait.
I have always heard preachers toss in the phrase "wait upon the Lord" or I've sung it in hymns at various services. But it wasn't until I was a 29 year old non-working non-children having wife of six months I finally realized what He was saying.
This last month has been a month of emotional change for me. I am ready to make some changes and move forward in my life and the question has been "In what direction Lord?" So I have been fervently praying and trying to seek God's guidance for this next stage in my life and trying to be all full of patience, self control, goodness...yada yada yada. And truth be told I'm sick of it! I am ready for something, anything to happen.
Yesterday I spent some time literally on my knees with tears in my eyes asking God what I should be doing with myself these days and even offering up the spirit filled whine of "God I'm bored here. What in the world is going on? When can I expect to hear from you about which of these steps to take?"
To which God replied "Wait upon the Lord, Sarah. I want you to wait."
My eyes shot open and I said aloud to my two dogs "Oh that's what that means."
Then I realized what had happened. I have spent several months asking God to make me patient....and now he's letting me have my way and letting me learn to be patient.
So now, I wait.
"God's timing may seem slow, but he is never late."
Friday, October 24, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
4 Things
4 things...
My first tag! I was tagged by Julie. Here we go...
4 THINGS I WAS DOING 10 YEARS AGO:
1. I was a freshman at Seattle Pacific University and still fervently reading every page assigned and going to bed at a reasonable hour "because I have class in the morning."
2. The foundations of GLOW were being set. The GLOW girls are my friends of a lifetime from SPU and we were just beginning to meet each other and realize how awesome it would be to live 8 girls to a house, 4 girls to a room, 1 rocking Halloween party and not a single chick fight.
3. I was learning the hard way that the cliched high school romance story is true. You are not going to stay together through college and get married...and thats a good thing. My friend Emily and I still laugh about how we were both breaking up with our high school flames at the same time and how funny it was that we thought that was it. We are both married now to great men, whom we didn't date in high school.
4. Ten years ago I was wearing the same puffy, black, down winter coat that I still love.
4 THINGS ON MY TO-DO LIST FOR TODAY:
1. Walk to the new neighborhood "Little Green Grocery Store" and get something fun to add to dinner. I found some incredible cheese and a polka dot bottle of wine!
2. Visit my old condo and check to see if the carpet cleaning did its job {It didn't}
3. Sew on the button that popped off of my husband shorts. Let it be noted that it was merely a weak button, they button did not pop due to extreme gravitational pull.
4. Contact the Oregon Zoo to see about having a corporate Christmas party there. Turns out there is actually a date in December still available!
4 RANDOM THINGS I LOVE ABOUT MY HUSBAND:
1. His eyes, his dimples, his lips....this may sound schmoopy but hey, we're still newlyweds! 6 months next Sunday!
2. They way he wears a pair of scrubs. I tell him that as far as I'm concerned his days look just like McDreamy's. He, of course in all humbleness, tells me that its not like that and he's not noticed that much. Then I met him for lunch once at his office cafeteria and the lunch lady says to me "Oh you're Dr. Benson's new wife...well I guess McDreamy is off the market."
3. They way he believes I can do whatever I want to do and refuses to let me settle for less.
4. How he loves my Pollyanna-esque approach to life. I am eternally optimistic and often people will assume me to be ignorant or to be ignoring the cold hard truths about reality, when in truth I choose to be this happy. And Daren loves me that way!
4 JOBS I HAVE HAD:
1. Janitor for the school district. Yes, I was a janitor the summer I graduated from high school. The job sucked but I can clean now like nobodys business!
2. Waitress at Red Robin. I still sing the birthday songs to my friends every year.
3. Manager of an Alzheimer and Dementia Care Unit. I loved the residents! It is assumed that when a person has Alzheimer's they just disappear, but they so don't. These people have feelings and romances, fears and favorites, and memories- at least stories they believe to be a memory in the moment. The relationships you create with these people while you are there is so interesting and moving and unpredictable. I was only punched in the face twice.
4. Event and Promotions Coordinator. I love planning and packaging events. The combination of a creative mind and a business mind is strategic, fast paced, and all around awesome.
.4 MOVIES I HAVE WATCHED MORE THAN ONCE:
1. Singing in the Rain
2. How to Lose a Guy in 1o Days
3. Shag
4. Anchor Man
4 PLACES I HAVE LIVED:
1. Pendleton Oregon. Home of the Buckaroos.
2. Salamanca Spain- one summer in college
3. Sherman Oaks, California- the longest 18 months of my life.
4. Seattle Washington- one of my three favorite cities
4 PLACES I HAVE BEEN:
1. Tahiti for our dream honeymoon
2. Ketichcan Alaska- for a wrestling tourment my brother was in during high school.
3. NCY baby. I, too, heart New York.
4. Dublin Ireland- mutton anyone?
4 PLACES I WANT TO VISIT:
1. Venice.
2. Where my parents lived in Germany
3. Sally in Nashville
4. Rome
4 TV SHOWS I WATCH:
1. Pushing Daisies
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. The Today Show
4. Two and a half men
4 THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT ME:
1. In junior high my mom had me write about a 3 page list of everything I wanted in a husband. She found the list two months after Daren and I were married and sent it do Daren in the mail. He matched all but two! He's not a musical dynamo and he is actually taller than I had specified.
2. I eat vegetables now.
3. I have shared dessert with one man and one man only. Its how my Dad knew I was going to marry this man.
{ If those of you who have known me well have a sudden urge to duck in order to not get hit by a wayward snowball flying in from hell, fear not. Hell has not, in fact, frozen over. I just got married. Who knew?}
4. My dog is my longest running relatinship to date. Six years and no breakups!
4 people I tag...
1. My Mom
2. Emily King Wing
3. Kara Studlow
4. Katie's In Italy
My first tag! I was tagged by Julie. Here we go...
4 THINGS I WAS DOING 10 YEARS AGO:
1. I was a freshman at Seattle Pacific University and still fervently reading every page assigned and going to bed at a reasonable hour "because I have class in the morning."
2. The foundations of GLOW were being set. The GLOW girls are my friends of a lifetime from SPU and we were just beginning to meet each other and realize how awesome it would be to live 8 girls to a house, 4 girls to a room, 1 rocking Halloween party and not a single chick fight.
3. I was learning the hard way that the cliched high school romance story is true. You are not going to stay together through college and get married...and thats a good thing. My friend Emily and I still laugh about how we were both breaking up with our high school flames at the same time and how funny it was that we thought that was it. We are both married now to great men, whom we didn't date in high school.
4. Ten years ago I was wearing the same puffy, black, down winter coat that I still love.
4 THINGS ON MY TO-DO LIST FOR TODAY:
1. Walk to the new neighborhood "Little Green Grocery Store" and get something fun to add to dinner. I found some incredible cheese and a polka dot bottle of wine!
2. Visit my old condo and check to see if the carpet cleaning did its job {It didn't}
3. Sew on the button that popped off of my husband shorts. Let it be noted that it was merely a weak button, they button did not pop due to extreme gravitational pull.
4. Contact the Oregon Zoo to see about having a corporate Christmas party there. Turns out there is actually a date in December still available!
4 RANDOM THINGS I LOVE ABOUT MY HUSBAND:
1. His eyes, his dimples, his lips....this may sound schmoopy but hey, we're still newlyweds! 6 months next Sunday!
2. They way he wears a pair of scrubs. I tell him that as far as I'm concerned his days look just like McDreamy's. He, of course in all humbleness, tells me that its not like that and he's not noticed that much. Then I met him for lunch once at his office cafeteria and the lunch lady says to me "Oh you're Dr. Benson's new wife...well I guess McDreamy is off the market."
3. They way he believes I can do whatever I want to do and refuses to let me settle for less.
4. How he loves my Pollyanna-esque approach to life. I am eternally optimistic and often people will assume me to be ignorant or to be ignoring the cold hard truths about reality, when in truth I choose to be this happy. And Daren loves me that way!
4 JOBS I HAVE HAD:
1. Janitor for the school district. Yes, I was a janitor the summer I graduated from high school. The job sucked but I can clean now like nobodys business!
2. Waitress at Red Robin. I still sing the birthday songs to my friends every year.
3. Manager of an Alzheimer and Dementia Care Unit. I loved the residents! It is assumed that when a person has Alzheimer's they just disappear, but they so don't. These people have feelings and romances, fears and favorites, and memories- at least stories they believe to be a memory in the moment. The relationships you create with these people while you are there is so interesting and moving and unpredictable. I was only punched in the face twice.
4. Event and Promotions Coordinator. I love planning and packaging events. The combination of a creative mind and a business mind is strategic, fast paced, and all around awesome.
.4 MOVIES I HAVE WATCHED MORE THAN ONCE:
1. Singing in the Rain
2. How to Lose a Guy in 1o Days
3. Shag
4. Anchor Man
4 PLACES I HAVE LIVED:
1. Pendleton Oregon. Home of the Buckaroos.
2. Salamanca Spain- one summer in college
3. Sherman Oaks, California- the longest 18 months of my life.
4. Seattle Washington- one of my three favorite cities
4 PLACES I HAVE BEEN:
1. Tahiti for our dream honeymoon
2. Ketichcan Alaska- for a wrestling tourment my brother was in during high school.
3. NCY baby. I, too, heart New York.
4. Dublin Ireland- mutton anyone?
4 PLACES I WANT TO VISIT:
1. Venice.
2. Where my parents lived in Germany
3. Sally in Nashville
4. Rome
4 TV SHOWS I WATCH:
1. Pushing Daisies
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. The Today Show
4. Two and a half men
4 THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT ME:
1. In junior high my mom had me write about a 3 page list of everything I wanted in a husband. She found the list two months after Daren and I were married and sent it do Daren in the mail. He matched all but two! He's not a musical dynamo and he is actually taller than I had specified.
2. I eat vegetables now.
3. I have shared dessert with one man and one man only. Its how my Dad knew I was going to marry this man.
{ If those of you who have known me well have a sudden urge to duck in order to not get hit by a wayward snowball flying in from hell, fear not. Hell has not, in fact, frozen over. I just got married. Who knew?}
4. My dog is my longest running relatinship to date. Six years and no breakups!
4 people I tag...
1. My Mom
2. Emily King Wing
3. Kara Studlow
4. Katie's In Italy
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Free Health Care
An agreeable take on Free Health Care as stated in the book Stuff White People Like by Christian Lander.
In spite of having access to the best health insurance and fanciest hospitals, white people are passionate about the idea of socialized medicine. So much so that they have memorized statistics and examples of how for-profit medicine has destroyed the United States
.
But before you can exploit this information for personal gain, it’s important that you understand why white people are so in love with free health care.
The first and most obvious reason is “they have it Europe.” White people love all things European, this especially true of things that are unavailable in the United States (Rare Beers, Absinthe, legal marijuana, prostitution, soccer). The fact that it’s available in Canada isn’t really that impressive, but it does contribute to their willingness to threaten to move there.
These desires were only heightened in 2007 when Michael Moore released “Sicko,” a documentary that contrasts the health care industry in the United States with that of Canada, France and Cuba. As a general rule of thumb, white people are always extra passionate about issues that have been the subject of a Moore documentary. As a test, ask them about 9/11, Gun Control, or Health Care and then say “where did you get that information?” You will not be surprised at the results.
But the secret reason why all white people love socialized medicine is that they all love the idea of receiving health care without having a full-time job. This would allow them to work as a freelance designer/consultant/copywriter/photographer/blogger, open their own bookstore, stay at home with their kids, or be a part of an Internet start-up without having to worry about a benefits package. Though many of them would never follow this path, they appreciate having the option.
If you need to impress a white person, merely mention how you got hurt on a recent trip Canada/England/Sweden and though you were a foreigner you received excellent and free health care. They will be very impressed and likely tell you about how powerful drug and health care lobbies are destroying everything.
Though their passion for national health care runs deep, it is important to remember that white people are most in favor of it when they are healthy. They love the idea of everyone have equal access to the resources that will keep them alive, that is until they have to wait in line for an MRI.
This is very similar to the way that white people express their support for public schools when they don’t have children.
In spite of having access to the best health insurance and fanciest hospitals, white people are passionate about the idea of socialized medicine. So much so that they have memorized statistics and examples of how for-profit medicine has destroyed the United States
.
But before you can exploit this information for personal gain, it’s important that you understand why white people are so in love with free health care.
The first and most obvious reason is “they have it Europe.” White people love all things European, this especially true of things that are unavailable in the United States (Rare Beers, Absinthe, legal marijuana, prostitution, soccer). The fact that it’s available in Canada isn’t really that impressive, but it does contribute to their willingness to threaten to move there.
These desires were only heightened in 2007 when Michael Moore released “Sicko,” a documentary that contrasts the health care industry in the United States with that of Canada, France and Cuba. As a general rule of thumb, white people are always extra passionate about issues that have been the subject of a Moore documentary. As a test, ask them about 9/11, Gun Control, or Health Care and then say “where did you get that information?” You will not be surprised at the results.
But the secret reason why all white people love socialized medicine is that they all love the idea of receiving health care without having a full-time job. This would allow them to work as a freelance designer/consultant/copywriter/photographer/blogger, open their own bookstore, stay at home with their kids, or be a part of an Internet start-up without having to worry about a benefits package. Though many of them would never follow this path, they appreciate having the option.
If you need to impress a white person, merely mention how you got hurt on a recent trip Canada/England/Sweden and though you were a foreigner you received excellent and free health care. They will be very impressed and likely tell you about how powerful drug and health care lobbies are destroying everything.
Though their passion for national health care runs deep, it is important to remember that white people are most in favor of it when they are healthy. They love the idea of everyone have equal access to the resources that will keep them alive, that is until they have to wait in line for an MRI.
This is very similar to the way that white people express their support for public schools when they don’t have children.
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