Blogging, it's becoming like life's wee sermons...

Lords, Ladies and Gentlefolk:

you ever felt like you are just not smart enough? This whole blog ring thing plays havoc with my self esteem. Some blogs that I read, some even that I have listed as "people to read," are just entirely too intelligent for simple brains like mine. Either,the people in question, got smacked alot harder with the genius stick than I did, or they have much more time to read than I do (which leads me to jealousy aswell as low self esteem) and therefore their blog offerings are spliced with intelligence of other thinkers. Should I comfort myself with the thoughts that they too cannot come up with something original?

I heard a story where a cadet of the Salvation Army was asking a question of a guest lecturer; the question I cannot remember, but it did reference the Army Mother, and it did cause a bit of a stir in the room, she had challenged the lecturer. The lecturer retorted with, "And which book did you read that from?" The lecturer was then viewed as the "winner" in the interaction, they shut up the brash cadet who dared to challenge their intelligence. It bothered me, so much it bothered me. How many people have actually met the Army Mother and are still living to tell the tale? The lecturer themself wasn't too much older than the Cadet, so how the hang would they have their information from an encounter with Catherine Booth? How else are we to learn of our Army history if we do not read about it in books? My own Mammie, loves to travel, but will never get to do the "Pole to Pole" thing like Michael Palin, so the wee woman gets the book and "Oohs" and "Ahs" over his experiences. How did the Geniuses become geniuses if the didn't sit their butts down to read something relatively intelligent.

I guess I am just licking my own wounds of in adequacy. Even though some of the blogs are too long for my ADD mind to concentrate on, I do enjoy them. I see them almost in the same light as Sunday sermons. You take someone who is more expert in an area then you, and read their notes, it may not make the picture perfectly clear, but it does get you thinking!

Write on my freakishly smart friends, write on!

And for my next trick...

It has been some time since I have sat my bottom down and actually checked my blog. I have not even been on a computer in at least a month - I am dreading Lotus notes tomorrow, it's just gonna be painful. I'm thinking somewhere in the mid 400's - at least 275 will be junk. I hope I don't get any IT stress!

My summer has been rather different. I have an office job; paying dept bills, invoicing etc. and some event planning! YEAH (My favourite bit.) Sitting in the office all summer would may have resulted in a tragic and painful caffeine overdose. One of my bosses assigned my to camp visits for the USE's 24/7 initiative. How awesome is that? I worked Tuesday through Saturday, and had the best summer visiting camps, setting up prayer rooms, meeting with youth from all over the territory - I was in my element! I couldn't have been doing anything nicer.

I had two weeks vacation in Florida with my mammie, daddy, sister, brother and brother in law at our friends villa. We visited all the Disney parks and had our pictures taken with the big vermin. My sister was so emotional, she cried, what a lassie.

Straight from vacation I had to head to Star Lake Musicamp, (They don't realise that music camp is two words, oh well...)where we had a tent for 24/7 prayer. I have never felt so safe at SLMC as I did this year.

Spiritually, God is leading me into some of the places that I never in my life would have expected to be. At best, I thought I would go to church on Sunday, (not the Army, when I was a wee girl I was planning to go to another church cause the Army demanded too much from me during the week,) not drink and not swear, (still working on the last one there!) God is being crazy, I have no idea what to do with Him.

Physically, it looks like I have to head home for a year. I need to sort out some debt I gained for myself while I was a student. It's very bittersweet; even so, God is speaking through that, so please pray for me at this time - He can keep being crazy, if He keeps being faithful.

It's good to be back in the land of the living. I'll post my pictures soon.