What I Learned In Kansas:

When you get in an elevator on the first floor, push the button for the first floor, and then the door close button, the elevator doesn't go any where.

Not even when you try the same thing later in the day.

Oh yes I did.

It will not get you to the third floor where you really want to go.

Oh my. The stress is getting to me, I'm thinking.

Psalm 92:12-15

The righteous flourish like the palm tree
and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
They are planted in the house of the LORD;
they flourish in the courts of our God.
They still bear fruit in old age;
they are ever full of sap and green,
to declare that the LORD is upright;
He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

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We cannot, Lord, Thy purpose see,
But all is well that’s done by Thee.

My Middle-Of-The-Night Prayer

Generous in love—God, give grace! Huge in mercy—wipe out my bad record.
Scrub away my guilt,
soak out my sins in your laundry.
I know how bad I've been;
my sins are staring me down.
You're the One I've violated, and you've seen
it all, seen the full extent of my evil.
You have all the facts before you;
whatever you decide about me is fair.
I've been out of step with you for a long time,
in the wrong since before I was born.
What you're after is truth from the inside out.
Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.
Soak me in your laundry and I'll come out clean,
scrub me and I'll have a snow-white life.
Tune me in to foot-tapping songs,
set these once-broken bones to dancing.
Don't look too close for blemishes,
give me a clean bill of health.
God, make a fresh start in me,
shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.
Don't throw me out with the trash,
or fail to breathe holiness in me.
Bring me back from gray exile,
put a fresh wind in my sails!
Give me a job teaching rebels your ways
so the lost can find their way home.
Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God,
and I'll sing anthems to your life-giving ways.
Unbutton my lips, dear God;
I'll let loose with your praise.
Going through the motions doesn't please you,
a flawless performance is nothing to you.
I learned God-worship
when my pride was shattered.
Heart-shattered lives ready for love
don't for a moment escape God's notice.
Make Zion the place you delight in,
repair Jerusalem's broken-down walls.
Then you'll get real worship from us,
acts of worship small and large,
Including all the bulls
they can heave onto your altar!

Psalm 121

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Another Weekend - or - The Post Of Links.

The end of July brought a great weekend for Pete and I. It started off with the wedding of a daughter of some very good friends of ours from church. It was a beautiful outdoor wedding followed by an air-conditioned reception. (It was a tad warm outside.)

See how gorgeous the bride is?

The bride's dance with her father was to "Butterfly Kisses". Oh man. What a tear-jerker!

And I just had to include a picture of the flower girl. She was adorable and so loved the dancing! It was so much fun to watch her!

After the wedding we stayed with some dear friends (Dan & Cheryl) that moved away from here a few months ago. We enjoyed spending time with them in their new home and worshiping with them on Sunday morning.

Dan helped Pete find a car part to fix Caleb's run-in with the mountain.

Cheryl and I caught up on our lives. We found the sheets that Megan wanted for college. Those pesky extra-long twin beds that almost every college has...

Then Pete and I took off ALONE to celebrate our 24th wedding anniversary. We found a quiet hotel for some alone time.

We went to a play at The Guthrie Theater. It is a beautiful theater. We had an "adventure" finding the theater in downtown Minneapolis. Let's just say there is no way we could repeat the route we took there. :) From the theater we could see the new I-35W bridge almost completed.

We saw the play The Government Inspector. It was pretty funny. A few too many inappropriate innuendos (if you know what I mean...) for me though. It is a re-write of a Russian play called The Inspector-General.

We had a wonderful Sunday night and Monday morning of just relaxing and enjoying some time to just talk.

Monday we ran some errands in the Big City. Pete bought some new running shoes.

We ate lunch at a sweet little Italian restaurant that is right next door to the running shoe store. It was yummy! I had seen the place several times and had bought something to drink there, but had never ate the food. I'm glad we did.

I dropped my camera off for repairs since I managed to drop it and break the tiny switch that holds the battery in. :( So I am without my camera for 4-6 weeks. Sad. I may have to resort to "borrowing" pictures from Megan and/or Caleb. :)

It was a very fun weekend. How could it be anything else? I got to do my favorite thing --- hang out with my husband, my best friend. :)