You might live in North Carolina

My Dad sent me this forward since he lives in NC and I used to, and i didn't have anything better to blog about today :) so i deleted the ones that i hadn't really experienced (and the ones that are more appropriate to Michigan than NC), and am posting for you my summarized "You might live in North Carolina if" list.

Things I have learned living in North Carolina

• Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air
• It is not a Shopping cart, it is a buggy.
• Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.
• People actually grow and eat okra.
• "Fixinto" is one word.
• Ice tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar!
• You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.
• You use "fix" as a verb. For example: "I'm fixing to go to the store "
• You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm".
• Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as "goin' Wal-martin" or off to "Wally World"
• Fried catfish is the other white meat. (And it is good too!)

The magic expanding sermon topic

So, once again the sermon idea that i thought i could never talk on for longer than five minutes has managed to grow to full size. Amazing.

Discipleship

Maybe a lot of you have noticed this too, but i'm becoming more and more convinced that too few people, even in our churches, understand what it means to be a real follower of Christ. I'm afraid that we've put so much emphasis on getting people "saved," that once they ask for forgiveness we breathe a sigh of relief and move on to other people.

This is hard to write because i don't want to just rail at people - the teachers or the hearers. But i keep running into Christians who don't seem to understand or accept that to follow Christ is to live to serve Him, not just to give Him our sins and then live a "good" life.

Samson's Song

Don't cry for me.
Don't cry for me.
Don't cry for me,
I am spent for the thing that I love.
I am spent for the thing that I love.

I have seen many a shame in my days,
I've seen broken instruments no one could play.
I've seen the widow, and I've seen the slave.
And I've seen the bodies that didn't have graves,

But don't cry for me.
Don't cry for me.
Don't cry for me,
For this reason is why I was made.
For this reason is why I was made.

Some will grow old and they'll teach all the young
The wisdom they've gathered while under the sun.
And some will be mothers, and some will be kings.
And some will be craftsmen of bracelets and rings,

But don't cry for me.
Don't cry for me.
Don't cry for me,
I am spent for the one that I love.
I am spent for the one that I love.
I am spent for the one that I love.

Arrgh! Yahoo Time Capsule!

Every time i get on my yahoo mail there is a link to this time capsule thing that they're doing. And when i click on it i just keep looking at the stuff. I just love people and life - its addictive - but i've got work to do!