Well, we lost power to a big crashing boom this morning. Funny how it happens after the storm goes through -- it's the winds that follow. It took the power company only an hour to have it up and running. And I'd already lit the hurricane lamp, powered the battery TV and started eating the ice cream for breakfast. After all, during our big 4 season we were without power for 12 days.
I realized that we in Central Florida are in a unique position with hurricanes. The coasts of Florida experience true natural disasters, like the floods in the mid-west, like earthquakes on the West Coast, like blizzards in the North. But for us we are observers. We are the place people evacuate to, and we get to feel the storm without being in a hurricane. That's what made the year of the big 4 hurricanes so bizarre. We actually had hurricanes in Orlando. Tree limbs sticking straight out of car windshields and hundred year old Oak trees up rooted.
But this time we once again welcomed the refugees, drove to work in the winds, hung out with the tourists who were waiting it out, and watched it happen around us.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Fay
Hurricane fun is eating all the ice cream and making frozen pizza's so there's nothing in the freezer.
Hurricane not fun is humid with no air conditioning or computers or visual stimuli for Henry.
Hurricane fun is everyone home hunkered down.
Hurricane no fun is me having to go into work anyway.
Hurricane fun is that WDW is the place to be when no one else has power or showers.
Hurricane no fun is getting the entire family into WDW and forcing them to 'hang out' in the park all day long while you get a shower and sit in a trailer waiting to work.
Hurricane fun is making gluten free chicken nuggets over Partylite candles.
Hurricane no fun is the streets running green with pickle juice from throwing out condiments that went bad from power outages.
Hurricane no fun is the season coincides with the opening of school. So when Henry came home from his first day of school and said, "That was great, for to go again tomorrow?" We had to say, 'No. No school tomorrow.'
Hurricane fun is sitting home drinking wine all afternoon while you listen to the wind howl.
Hurricane no fun is listening to the wind howl and wondering what is happening to the car...roof...yard....
Hurricane fun is walking in your jammies through the streets with everyone else looking at what just happened.
Hurricane no fun is seeing what just happened.
It is a strange and delirious world when face to face with the real raw nature of God's creation.
Hurricane not fun is humid with no air conditioning or computers or visual stimuli for Henry.
Hurricane fun is everyone home hunkered down.
Hurricane no fun is me having to go into work anyway.
Hurricane fun is that WDW is the place to be when no one else has power or showers.
Hurricane no fun is getting the entire family into WDW and forcing them to 'hang out' in the park all day long while you get a shower and sit in a trailer waiting to work.
Hurricane fun is making gluten free chicken nuggets over Partylite candles.
Hurricane no fun is the streets running green with pickle juice from throwing out condiments that went bad from power outages.
Hurricane no fun is the season coincides with the opening of school. So when Henry came home from his first day of school and said, "That was great, for to go again tomorrow?" We had to say, 'No. No school tomorrow.'
Hurricane fun is sitting home drinking wine all afternoon while you listen to the wind howl.
Hurricane no fun is listening to the wind howl and wondering what is happening to the car...roof...yard....
Hurricane fun is walking in your jammies through the streets with everyone else looking at what just happened.
Hurricane no fun is seeing what just happened.
It is a strange and delirious world when face to face with the real raw nature of God's creation.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Golden Dreams
Our friend Dave went home to the Golden Streets and is looking in the golden face of our Lord. I'm thinking about his amazing wife and her ministry and her life and her strength to see him through the brain cancer that changed their lives. I am thinking of Dave's voice and how it was heard by so many people and how that will ring through the life of his young daughter. In this video Dave is the 2nd bald guy (Sorry Dirk but it's true.) Dirk is the speaker, Catherine & Jeremi are the soloists. Enjoy .
Monday, August 11, 2008
Hope is a person
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in
him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy
Spirit. Romans 15:13
My friend Carol is reminding me of this and I may have reminded her of it earlier this summer. And it's what I need. Hope is not an ethereal issue out there, Hope is a person. Jesus is the hope of the world. He is my hope. He's the God of Hope. And so in my current and will change hopeless state I am reminded that He is hope. He is. I don't hope in something to happen. I hope in a person. A God. A Lord who is Hope Himself.
I said to a client the other day 'your business is an inclusive club -- you want everyone to join, but to join they have to agree to certain things.' And this is the God of Hope. If you want to experience Him as hope instead of just 'Oh I hope this works out...' You have to agree to who He is. He is Hope. And He's quite serious about it. He is stunning with Hope. But you can't make Him up. You have to agree with Him, you can't pretend you know Him rather you must choose Him.
Hope in Hope. Love in Hope. Live in Hope.
him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy
Spirit. Romans 15:13
My friend Carol is reminding me of this and I may have reminded her of it earlier this summer. And it's what I need. Hope is not an ethereal issue out there, Hope is a person. Jesus is the hope of the world. He is my hope. He's the God of Hope. And so in my current and will change hopeless state I am reminded that He is hope. He is. I don't hope in something to happen. I hope in a person. A God. A Lord who is Hope Himself.
I said to a client the other day 'your business is an inclusive club -- you want everyone to join, but to join they have to agree to certain things.' And this is the God of Hope. If you want to experience Him as hope instead of just 'Oh I hope this works out...' You have to agree to who He is. He is Hope. And He's quite serious about it. He is stunning with Hope. But you can't make Him up. You have to agree with Him, you can't pretend you know Him rather you must choose Him.
Hope in Hope. Love in Hope. Live in Hope.
Summer Read
LeAnne Martin is re-posting the interview we did a year ago (it feels like last month, but I think it's been a year!) She's got some other great interviews up for a creative boost this summer.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Welcome Rho!
Rhonda Jean has entered the blogosphere and I'm thrilled to hear the story of her journey, and get the recipes she features. She's an amazing cook and inspiration!
Saturday, August 09, 2008
America...
Beloved by our family for his comedy, his storytelling, and his life choices of family, friends and God we're thinking of Bernie Mac and his family today. I'll watch his work for the rest of my life and grieve that he won't be creating more each year. Celebrate this great artist by finding his show on cable and watching it this week.
Saturday, August 02, 2008
See Mom, no spell check...
I can't write right now because I'm actually writing again. I'm enjoying it. I'm working hard at it. Letting the work be, per Anne Lamott, sh*tty first drafts. Oh, and I have dial-up and rabbit ears. Primative I tell you! Primative.
It's street festival day in Couer Dalene -- so that means smoked salmon & huckleberry ice cream cones, lots of crafts, some patchouli and a little art. Pan flutes from Ecuador & violining kids from Post Falls.
It's street festival day in Couer Dalene -- so that means smoked salmon & huckleberry ice cream cones, lots of crafts, some patchouli and a little art. Pan flutes from Ecuador & violining kids from Post Falls.
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