Katy’s Weblog
Ever have one of those days when you have time on your hands…and you don’t know what to do with it?
I have lots of things I want to do, need to do, and should do. But when the time is finally available to me, I don’t know where to start. My mind is in a million places and I can’t focus on one thing.
Several people came up to offer me help with the graduation celebration I am planning. They were not casually asking if I needed help. They actually offered specific help.
How nice to have people who volunteer without me having to ask.
While planning an event gives me the opportunity to interact with people, I find…
The previews were great, setting us up for a great movie.
It turned out that the previews were the best parts of the movie. The rest didn’t live up to expectations.
Things I liked about the movie “UP” – The dogs were soooo cute. Russel was an exemplary character with courage and compassion. All the…
With my oldest son, everything was a first – first to check out a preschool, if it’s good, the sisters will follow along later. First to enter kindergarten, first to go to one week of 6th grade science camp, first to go through the complicated process of choosing classes for high school, first to write essays for college applications, first to move into the college dorm, first to go through college commencement. I expect he will be the first to move out on his own.
I know, the details do not all fit, but i still liked it. I like the Artemis Fowl series because it’s fun reading, a little humor, a little action, and lots of imagination.
Everyone wants to be Artemis Fowl – a boy genius with a criminal mind, but deep inside, he has a soft heart…
I’ve not read a biography of Hudson Taylor until now. I borrowed this book from Bonnie.
Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret by Howard and Geraldine Taylor is apparently a fairly brief version of Hudson Taylor’s life, less than 200 pages. With the full life he lived, I can imagine how big a book his life story can fill.
This news story of a gunman charging into the First Baptist Church in Illinois reminded me of a similar incident many years ago when I was in college when our pastor was shot and killed.
Greg Owyang of First Chinese Baptist Church of Los Angeles was a up and coming Asian American pastor. This was…
On Sunday at church, our speaker Daniel told us of a conversation with a man he had in China. Daniel asked him how he would like to be different in 10 years. The man replied, “I would like to be less selfish.”
That is a tremendously insightful answer.
When I was in my 20’s, I wanted to go on a missions trip. But I didn’t have a strong conviction to go. It went along with being immature and lacking in confidence. The church I went to didn’t encourage short-term trips. I didn’t hang around people that went on short-term trips.
I find it hard to measure success without counting numbers.Â
Graphs, Dow Jones, number of sales, dollars in revenue, number of homeruns, scores on a test. We seem to always measure performance by some sort of counting.Â
What I am saying is, I think I’ve lived a good life, I am happy with my life…