This has been quite a week.  I may have mentioned before that I do contract therapy.  That means that if I don’t work, I don’t eat.  I was afforded an opportunity that requires me to miss a week of work.  And it didn’t come at a very convenient time.  I already work less days in the month of December because of Christmas and New Year’s.  I struggled, but I decided to skip out on work.  I can’t afford to not work, but I also can’t afford to miss this opportunity. With all that in mind, I realized that I had a doctor’s appointment on this past Tuesday.  Even though I…

How do people do life without cousins?  It’s a foreign concept to me.  As much as they get on my nerves sometimes, I love them.  And I feel like they’re very necessary. I have hundreds of cousins.  That’s not an exaggeration.  Between my mother, father, and stepfather, the numbers add up quickly.  I’m undoubtedly in more day to day contact with my cousins from my mother’s side of the family.  Someone asked me and Bible Study Cousin if we were first cousins, and she said “yes.”  We’re not.  We’re second cousins but in my family that doesn’t matter.  A cousin is a cousin is a cousin. So why do I…

Some years ago, I established a new tradition in my immediate family.  We were all gathered to celebrate my mother’s birthday.  I challenged my mom to tell us something about herself that we didn’t already know.  I then challenged everyone else at the table to do the same thing.  I coined them “fun facts.” We can’t ever fully know someone else.  Everyone has secret thoughts or desires that they don’t necessarily share with others.  It doesn’t even have to be anything deep.  Recently, my cousin shared that at one point in her life she desired to be a professional clown.  And my grandma bought her a kit to help her…

Anyone that really knows me, knows that I don’t do scary movies.  I’m a big baby.  A scaredy cat, if you will.  You probably need a frame of reference so that you know what I mean when I say scary movies. Hmmm…”The Sixth Sense” was too much for me.  “Seven.”  “Pet Cemetery” was not even an option.  There is something about the music.  The suspense.  Waiting for the murderer/psycho/villain to attack.  NO THANK YOU! It might surprise you that, in my younger years, I tried to watch scary movies.  Back in the day, it was what groups of teenagers did.  We might be at a sleepover or going to see…

Thank God for technology!  I missed service Sunday, because I traveled to Mississippi to celebrate my youngest cousin’s first birthday.  Even though I was excited to see her, I was sad about missing service.  It seems like each sermon has been tailored just for me.  Jesus smiled down on me, and the media team put Sunday’s sermon on Facebook. The sermon was entitled “Working with a No” and came from the first chapter of Luke.  Zacharias, a priest, and his wife, Elizabeth, have wanted a child.  Years have passed, and it has become apparent that Elizabeth is barren.  In those days, it was a disgrace to not have children.  People…