old blog

Got an email from a GIAL friend and visited her xanga blog. Remembered that I had had a xanga blog myself a few years back. I kind of forgot about it. I guess I'll probably forget about this one too, someday.

Anywho, it's a neat little flashback - my old xanga blog.

we survived

So, we had a feast last night with all the VMS students and staff, potluck style. I had time after babysitting to whip up Italian lentils, then off to Jungle Jumpoff. People hung out until about 8PM, then went home. I took it upon myself to keep the fire stoked while Rob, Tom and I chatted, until about 9PM. Then, Rob set up our air mattress and sleeping bags. We both slept reasonably well; the bags insulated us. The only place on my body that even got cold when the temperature dropped was my nose. I even had an extra sweatshirt and socks in the bag with me, keeping them warm in case I needed them, but I never did.

It was hard to get out of the bag in the morning. We had turned our shoes upside down to keep condensation out but they were still chilly, not much could prevent that. But, we did crawl out at 7AM. Chet had come to relieve us so we could go home and grab a shower, get dressed, have breakfast, make lattes ... all the basics. The fire had gone out overnight but I managed to eke enough of a hot coalness to revive it before I left to go home.

Last morning of recording. Recording is exhausting work. I kind of knew this from my song-sessions for Rob in the past. But then I've been able to quit when I feel like it. For this project, everything was "go, go, go!" It's just reading, waiting, hitting buttons and acting but it takes a lot out of you. We were all well ready to call it quits at noon. They're tearing down this afternoon but I don't think I'm going out to help. In all the excitement, I kind of let the apartment go to seed over the past few days. I'll probably pop over to the classroom for debriefing, though.

We're planning on seeing "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy" tonight; the first movie worth seeing that we've seen advertised in a while.

Jungle Jumpoff

What a morning! I was out at Jungle Jumpoff with the VMS class yesterday afternoon for the first round of recording sessions but I didn't spend any time in their makeshift studios because I was watching a couple of the kids while their parents did recording. This morning, though, I was a prompter and a recording assistant. I was also a chaser away of noisy birds at one point. Not much we could do about the planes circling overhead though, just wait for a break in the racket.

This afternoon, I'm going to do childcare back here at the apartments. Better access to potty facilities. Plus, no campfire to watch and the bonus of a fenced-in playground. But I'm going back to spend the night tonight. The VMSers are taking turns spending the night with the gear so they don't need to tear down every evening. Rob and Paul Closius are taking a shift for the evening and I've agreed to stay too. After all, we did get cool sleeping bags for the Guatemala trip a couple of years ago. Might as well get some mileage out of them.

Marshmallows ... mmm.

Solomon's prayer and the Lord's prayer

I was looking into the verse where Solomon says "you and you only know the hearts of man", which has been used to support the idea that only God can read a person's mind and that demons can't know what we're thinking. While I didn't make a whole lot of headway on that, I did notice how similar Solomon's prayer-before-the-people was to the Lord's prayer, albeit much longer (by at least 25 verses).

It's an interesting study, to see how they line up, side by side.

Solomon – 1 King’s 8:23-53
Jesus – Matthew 6:9-13, Luke 11:2-4

It was also interesting to me how Solomon surrounded the prayer, in his addresses to the people before and afterward. Sort of a little model for corporate prayer:

BEFORE:

• Declaration of God's prior works; 1Ki 8:14-16
• Reminder of God's promise; 1Ki 8:17-19
• Assurance of personal place in the promise; 1Ki 8:20-21
• Turning eyes toward God; 1Ki 8:22

PRAYER

AFTER:

• Turning eyes toward the people of God; 1Ki 8:54-55
• Reminder of God's promise; 1Ki 8:56
• Blessing the people of God; 1Ki 8:57-60
• Reminder of personal responsibility in fulfillment of the promise; 1Ki 8:61
• Sacrifice; 1Ki 8:62

Color therapy

I've really been into light greens lately and was wondering what that said about me. Tripped over these little gems:







From Mariam Nour's website. Not that I know anything about Mariam. Just thought these pictures were fun. Some people may remember my orange phase. Rob is, as always, turquoise/blue.