Friday, 27 June 2008
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Give it a try Friday: Puzzle
I thought I would give us all a little brain exercise. I got this in my email inbox not too long ago. How many can you get? Without giving anything away, comment and let us know how many you got …
You have to work out what the letters mean. According to Mensa, if youget 23 of these, you are a “genius”. Hmmm…Example:24 H in a D - 24 hours in a day1) 26 L of the A -2) 7 D of the W -3) 7 W of the W -4) 12 S of the Z -5) 66 B of the B -6) 52 C in a P (WJs) -7) 13 S in the USF -
18 H on a G C -9) 39 B of the O T -10) 5 T on a F -11) 90 D in a R A -12) 3 B M (S H T R) -13) 32 is the T in D F at which W F -14) 15 P in a R T -15) 3 W on a T -16) 100 C in a R -17) 11 P in a F (S) T -18) 12 M in a Y -19) 13=UFS -20) 8 T on a O -21) 29 D in F in a L Y -22) 27 B in the N T -23) 365 D in a Y -24) 13 L in a B D -25) 52 W in a Y -26) 9 L of a C -27) 60 M in a H -28) 23 P of C in the H B -29) 64 S on a C B -30) 9 P in S A -31) 6 B to an O in C -32) 1000 Y in a M -33) 15 M on a DMC -
Saturday, 21 June 2008
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Call for action: can I shoot you?
Just wondering…
Now that summer (vacation) is upon us, I have been feeling the need to get my eye into the camera more, and practice my portrait-making skills.
So, can I shoot you? I’m looking for people who don’t mind a camera pointed at them. You don’t even need to “look (supermodel) good”. You just need to be available to let me come by and set up a couple of flashes around you and hopefully make you laugh a bit at my corny jokes.
I don’t need a long time, either. I’ll take whatever time I can get, at this point. 10-15 minutes at minimum. More if you are having fun.
Please comment and let me know if you are willing.
Friday, 20 June 2008
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“give it a try” Friday: Onyx
Last week, I told you all about iStat Menus, a cool app to check the health of your Mac. But what do we do when we find out our Mac is really sluggish? How about a little spring cleaning? I mentioned Onyx in last week’s post. Onyx is a nice little free app that runs a whole slew of maintenance scripts to clean out, correct and check things “under the hood” of your Mac system. I typically run the “Daily”, “Weekly”, and “Monthly” scripts to clear out the memory not being actively used by the apps, and I occasionally run the permission scripts to check the integrity of things like preference files and stuff. If your Mac hasn’t been “cleaned” in a while, it may start acting up, or worse. It may start NOT acting at all (can you say, spinning-pinwheel-of-death?).
So, it’s worth checking out. If you like it, let me know…
Tuesday, 17 June 2008
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a quote worth talking about
I’ve heard this quote a couple of times now, and there is truth hidden in it:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.’ We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.” (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3])
I was excited by this quote from a movie and wanted to find out more. Apparently it comes from Marianne Williamson, minister of the Unity Church. She does not believe what I believe. But just like there have always been glimpses of the reality of the gospel message hidden in all of creation, there is truth hidden in these words.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Ms. Williamson may have written this because she ascribes to the beliefs of the Unity Church (”There is power in affirmative prayer, which [they] believe increases our connection to God”). The truth is that we have the glory of the person of God because Jesus Christ died to make us infused with his presence. This God-essence is not just some etherial dust that is worked into every created thing, but a real thing that Jesus had paid a real price to put into your real life. When you receive this gift of sonship or daughtership from the person who bought it for you, you are forever changed. This transaction (repenting of your sin and receiving Jesus’ new life) actually cancels/stops/destroys the reign of terror over your personality.
Jesus died to cancel the fear that you won’t make financial ends meet. He died on the cross to stop the cycle of drug addiction. He felt the full measure of judgement for sin in your life so that you can be free from the nagging anxiety/insecurity that everyone is looking at you. Jesus died to infuse you with himself and reveal your newly created glory. After receiving Jesus, you are a child of God. Not in some feel-good, general, everything-is-godly, superficial way. You are the son or daughter of a real person, God the Father, who has real love that you can experience in your real life.
This is not some “love” that you have to squint your eyes and say, “I-am-loved-I-am-loved-I-am-loved” and try to convince yourself of. God himself can lavish love on you in a way that you know is not being generated by yourself. He is so eager to fill your whole daily experience with His love, He has killed his son to do so!
We were born [again] to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
The glory that Jesus has melted you into is hope, faith, joy, peace. It is the trust that even though your bank account has a zero balance, this months bills will all be met. It is the complete and miraculous healing of your body of disease and addiction. It is the joy that you exude because you know that you are living permanently affirmed and accepted by God. It is the glory of all things wrong made right. That is the glory of the cross of Jesus Christ.
So, receive a new revelation of the finished work the Jesus on the cross. If you haven’t received Jesus and his cross, my heart’s cry is that you talk to Jesus right now and receive the gift he is holding out to you in his open arms. These are the arms that stretched out on the cross and are open to embrace YOU. Receive an even greater view of the power of his cross working even now in your life. Let this person (not some wispy, fog-like, general force) invade your heart and wash it inside and out with his love.
That’s my desire for you.
Friday, 13 June 2008
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“Give it a try” Friday: iStat Menu
Hey all, I’ve been finding some really cool things over the last few weeks, so I thought I would start sharing. This weekly blog will be about neat things to try.
Today, I just installed iStat Menu from iSlayer.com. It is a quick way to give you an update on how your Mac is doing. It installs into your preferences pane. Once installed, you can enable graphs to watch your system resources. Why? Well, I want to know what’s happening with my old 12-inch PowerBook G4 because I’m trying to squeeze every last drop of performance out of this fairly obsolete laptop.
In general, it’s a good idea to know if the cause for a slowdown in your computer is because your CPU is really working hard. Or, it’s good to know if the (5 or more, if you’re like me) apps that you are running is taking up all your memory. That could also cause a slowdown. (At that point, I take a few minutes to run Onyx to clear all that up).
All my Mac-toting friends, give it a try.
Monday, 09 June 2008
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no fear
Did you know that there is no need, nor no place in our lives for fear and anxiety?
Jesus died on the cross so that we would die with him and let him take our lives and live it out better than we could on our own. That means things that look unclear, unfinished, or otherwise unremarkable (when you want them to be) in your life is really being worked out for you by heaven itself.
All so Jesus will get all the glory and you’ll receive all the blessing.
Tuesday, 03 June 2008
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too good to (not) be true!
I’m sorry for not being more current lately with blogging the goings on lately, but no time for that. I’ll prostrate myself and ask for your forgiveness later.Right now, I feel like I’m about to burst. I just came back from our latest Cross Immersion group, and I am just totally lit up by the truth of the cross of Jesus Christ.
If you have any acquaintance with this cross I’m referring to, open your ears and heart to this: the gospel message of the cross is good news. No, not just good news, stupendously amazing and wondrous news! God has just shown me how huge and far-reaching the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ really is.
I mean, he died on the cross to make everything right. Everything. Right. And like TMBG says, there’s only one everything. So, it was God the Father’s idea to send Jesus to the cross so that all our junk is made right. Yes, that junk too. I know what you’re thinking, and yes, really, that junk too! All you have to do is receive it with an open heart.
How can that not be good news? You and I are given a gift, such that when we receive it, we get off scott free! Nothing in the past, nor any future impending danger can take away this make-everything-right-power. This power that comes straight from Jesus. Not from me trying to apply some principle, or exert my own sweat to therap-ize the junk out of me (yes, I know I made up a new word; proud of it too).
Good news, I tell ya! And I don’t have to just tell ya, God’ll prove it to you. He wants to prove it. He wants to back up HIS message with miracles and signs. Look at what is happening in Lakeland, Florida. I’m looking and expecting him to prove it to me and everyone around me. I’m praying for Him to move in all my spheres of influence. I hope you are too.
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
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If you’re a web-app geek like me …
Then you might want to check out Buzzword. This is a web app built by Adobe (you know, the same company that made a little application called “Photoshop” - which also has a version on the web).
I think the most exciting thing about Buzzword (and Photoshop Express, for that matter) is that the barrier to creating something (like a text document or great pictures) is being broken down for people who can’t or don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars for software that can only be accessed on one computer. Granted, these web-based apps are not as full featured as their software-based counterparts. But then again, how often has the typical consumer (not high-powered business user) needed to use mail-merge to create his document? Or VBA scripts? Or extensive commenting and versioning?
For the day-to-day stuff, web apps are quickly filling the need for everyday use. Yay for the internet!
Do you use a web-based service that takes the place of software you used to use? Tell me about it. I’d love to hear.
Thursday, 24 April 2008
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Staying up too late, but it’s worth it.
The problem with being a pistons fan is that you stay up way too late. Maybe it’s just this Pistons fan.
I’m honestly hoping that this will be a “long-term” problem, if you get my meaning… go Pistons!
The other thing that kept us up last night was a revival conference we attended. Jos, Tonya, and I attended the Lakeland Florida healing revival while our kids slept. You might be thinking, “wha? How can they be doing that? I thought they were here in Detroit? What did they do with the kids?”
No, we didn’t jump on a plane (yet!) and fly down to Lakeland Florida. We instead pointed our browser to Ignited Church’s live UStream.tv feed (click here) and gathered around watching Tod Bentley give words of knowledge and visions and saw people being healed from all sorts of ailments. The “virtual” link via the internet did not filter out the power of the Holy Spirit, as we got touched by the Holy Spirit just sitting on the couch watching and praying. It was awesome! They have/broadcast meetings every night a 7pm, and each morning at 10am. Check it out!
God is doing exciting things in our days!
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008
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A hot date!
Here’s what I do after the kids go to bed:
Can you believe the geekiness?
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A little Spring Cleaning …
It’s getting warmer here in our hometown (yay!) and as such, many things are stirring.
What a blessed confluence it is that there are new things breaking ground in my insides at the same time that new things are breaking ground around our home.
Which brings me to thinking, my blog needs a little freshening up. I could use a little help, though. Click over to it and let me know: what makes you think “Spring newness!” I’d love input about colors, imagery, etc.
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Welcome old friends…
It’s been a while since I’ve last blogged. And I feel badly about it. So, I’m sorry, my old friends.
The truth is that there has certainly been lots of things happening. I don’t know how much to catch you all up on. So here’s the thirty second version.
I’ve been sick.I’ve been ill.I’ve been lost.I’ve been found.I’ve been preparing.I’ve been growing.I’ve been planning.
And now, I’m ready to start again.
So, welcome back old friends. Or perhaps, welcome back, me.
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