Gracias Mateo

“Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in their mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.”
- Miguel de Unamuno

I got some publish action!

If you didn’t get the email, check out the site to see my article on Radiant Magazine. It’s on the front page!

Oprah can stick it.

They used the word “Phelpsian” this morning on the news. Imagine that. One day you are just splashing around in a pool trying to avoid bullies that chide you for your freakishly disporportionate body and a few years later, there’s a word coined because of you. Funny how things happen.

I was chatting this idea up with my new office BFF. I posed this question. Lets say that you just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Some major world event occured and you ended up in the center. (For example, you were taking a nice family photo, and happened to catch an international criminal in the shot, which led to his arrest.) Now, its your name on the lips of news casters across the world. Everyone wants the exclusive.

Who would you grant your interview to?

Move Over Chuck Norris

“Michael Phelps doesn’t swim. The water gets out of his way.” - Some high school kid.

The most frightening thing I’ve ever heard at a wedding

“Not everything that comes out of my mouth is predatory.”

Here’s another one…

You know how people say that God knit us together and took great care to make us who we are? But then when a baby is born with defects or whatnot, people say “God knew this was going to happen and He is going to bring beauty out of it.”

Why is it when things turn out the way we want, we give God the glory for His hand being in every detail. But when they go off course we just talk about it like He was watching on the sidelines waiting to fix things, but was uninvolved from the start.

What gives?

What happens when you work in a room of files

CW: Do you like Batman or Superman better?

KA: For a last name?

I’ll go first

I was at my brother and sister-in-law’s house the other nightand I checked out the new baby’s nursery. I looked in the crib and saw a sweet little satin pillow that he lays he precious little head on every night. He doesn’t know to be grateful for it yet, but I was grateful for him. My family is not extravegant by any means, but even in our middle americanness, we can put our babies in comfy beds with satin pillows.

This past year has been the hardest of my life, rich, but hard. Lori told me to start writing down the things that I am grateful for. She told me she didn’t want to know about the normal stuff -family, freedom, relatively good health. She told me to start thinking about the things that I rarely think about that are blessings.

Much like my nephew, I think we go through the day with little recognition of the things we are grateful for. But we don’t have the excuse of being 4 months old. I pass on Lori’s challenge to you. Start paying attention to the things you use every day that we never really take the time to be grateful for. If you have trouble, think about the people around the world who don’t have…

Toilet paper
Air conditioning
Tape
Ibprofin

Quote of the week

“My husband is a staunch agnostic.”

So I just want guys to comment on this. Unless I want to comment, but it’s my blog. So there.

I was talking to this guy I work with about this girl he likes. They have known each other for a few years and are totally BFF. He adores her, and is planning to tell her that he would like for them to be more than friends. (side note: She lives about 9 driving hours away)

Anyway, at lunch I asked if he had talked with her the night before. (this is not the DTR, just wondering if they’d talked on the phone.) He said that he doesn’t talk to her much because he doesn’t want to be inconsiderate of her time. He doesn’t want to interupt her if she’s in the middle of something. I asked if this was something most guys think, or if it’s just him. He said it’s a common thing guys think about. I told him that even if a girl is busy, it’s still nice to get a call. Whether or not a girl like to be interupted by a guy is not the point.

Gentlemen, is it common for a guy to avoid calling a girl they like simply because he is trying to be courteous?