I really don’t have all that much to post about – well, in actuality several things come to mind, but let’s just say I’m not at liberty to disclose them at this particular moment. *sigh*

Yesterday my day was composed of sitting in a colorless windowless room ten foot square in dimension for two hours, eating an apple and five crackers for lunch because my mind momentarily flew south for the winter, babysitting a sleeping two year old for three hours and spending the rest of the night wandering around the church eating pizza and eventually watching Akeelah and the Bee.

It wasn’t all that bad, and the movie was surprisingly good, but it was kind of depressing thinking about how little I accomplished. Phil has a croupy cough.

The week’s forecast

Today
Clean house

Tomorrow
Clean house again, Christmas party that night

Friday
Go see a Lamp-Lite play, Fearing’s party that night

Saturday
Babysit the kids during choir practice, call Erin

Unfortunately I’m not able to add visit Italy, write a Bible commentary, become a certified Scuba Diver, or build a twenty foot Eiffel tower out of marshmallows and toothpicks.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
Talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
We were born to make manifest the glory of God
That is within us. And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people
Permission to do the same.

-Marianne Williamson

P.S. The phone just rang; it was a neighbor. A man in our neighborhood murdered his wife this morning. They have five children; three were at school when it happened, two little ones saw it all. The man is still at large, so the police have been advising everyone to stay indoors. If a family ever needed the hand of God, it’s this family. Oh God, how horrible.