Monthly Archives: January 2010

January 31st: Good news keeps getting better

January 31, 2010 in Missions by michael
The good news of the gospel isn’t a static thing for me.  It expands in my heart and soul as I’m able to receive it and it never, never, ever disappoints.  I believe it’s perfect, and though I cannot yet understand it perfectly, I’m happy when I get little moments of insight, little nuggets of [...]

January 30th: Dancing for Sadie

January 31, 2010 in Missions by michael
Finding happiness on a Saturday (particularly when you’re off work) is like finding sugar in a candy  store…It’s everywhere!!! Sleep in=happy    Buckwheat Pancakes at Chicks Cafe Breakfast=happy   Goof off=happy    Watch cartoons with Grandson=happy  Skype your friends in Norway=happy  Read an interesting book you got at Christmas=happy  Learn a new game for game night at your next-door [...]

January 29th: What a concept

January 29, 2010 in Missions by michael
Tonight, I tasted the best wedding cakes EVER!!!  Let me repeat.  Tonight I tasted the BEST wedding cakes (that’s right, cakes with an “s” as in more than one) that have EVER been served at a reception.  Have I been to every wedding reception that’s ever been? No. But that doesn’t change the truth. If [...]

January 28th: The joy of cheering others on

January 28, 2010 in Missions by michael
Today I had a chance to cheer some others on.  I was able to hear of their successes, and the struggles that almost prevented them from succeeding.  Throughout the conversation I’d occasionally interupt because I thought something they’d said was quite remarkable and I’d give some verbal applause.   I was lucky enough to see in [...]

January 27th: All the jobs I don’t have to do

January 27, 2010 in Missions by michael
Today I’m really happy about all the jobs I don’t have to do.  And I’m not talking about the small jobs of life like taking out the garbage or shoveling the snow.  I’m talking about BIG, BIG jobs…like being President of……ANYTHING!!!   Obviously as I listened to the State of the Union address tonight I was [...]

January 26th: Rescued

January 27, 2010 in Missions by michael
10 miles from home I think my eleven year old car became possessed by an electrical gremlin that just started shutting everything down.  The headlights started dimming, the dashboard lights were blinking erratically, then flickering, then disappearing.  It was cold outside and the heater quit heating. Finally the engine started losing power and just as [...]

January 25th: Cyber thievery

January 26, 2010 in Missions by michael
A moment ago, as I was about to publish my January 25th entry I pushed the wrong button and my musings on the day’s happiness disappeared.  Irretrievable, it seems, and now I’m reviewing the M2B:) handbook to see how I get something positive out of this, or at the very least keep myself from throwing [...]

January 24th: Enough for me

January 25, 2010 in Missions by michael
My headache started coming on late morning and by mid-afternoon it was threatening to rob the day of any realistic hope for finding an authentic happiness. Feeling lousy can do that to the most dedicated M2B:)  missionary.    Hurt bad enough and all you can focus on is escaping the pain until it either stops [...]

January 23rd: Vacuuming my way to heaven

January 24, 2010 in Missions by michael
Friday night I got a call reminding me that a few weeks ago I signed up to help clean the church and that the volunteer janitors were to meet at ten in the morning. The major tasks were emptying all the trash cans, cleaning the bathrooms, washing some of the glass windows [...]

January 22nd: Filling the jar

January 22, 2010 in Missions by michael
We have been remodeling our kitchen on the pay-as-you-can plan.   It’s little by little, piece meal process, get a bid here, get a bid there, here a bid, there a bid everywhere a bid bid.  Last November before the Forgotten Carols tour began in earnest we got a very cool, distressed black, massive cabinet [...]