Lucas shared something last night at Mezzanine that really blew my mind. He related something one of his seminary professors had told him. He talked about God being omnipresent. He is geographically omnipresent...He is all around every piece of His creation...around every blade of grass...over the whole earth...around every star and galaxy in the entire universe... That's a sizable chunk of reality to grasp in and of itself. But since God is omnipresent, He is also in every piece of the past and the future right now. Yeah. Wow. So since that is true, God may be working out a prayer I'll pray tomorrow for the past 25 years of my life. I know that makes little sense, but it's amazing. Lucas used a story like this to illustrate the point. Let's say a man is in an airport about to board a plane to fly home. He arrived three hours prior in order to check his baggage, etc. As the airport employee was driving the cart of luggage to this particular plane, the man's bags fall off. Three hours later, the man prays that God would allow him a safe trip home with now hang ups, lost luggage, delays, etc. So...God taps the luggage car driver on the shoulder and makes him look back and notice the luggage that has fallen off so he stops and picks it up. All this happens in a three hour time span...in our frame of reference...but for God, since he is not bound by time and space, it is different. He is fully there in that last three hours as well as being fully in the present as the man is praying and fully in the future. Wow. So who am I to say that God isn't listening to me or that He doesn't answer me. I'm finite. He is not! That is simply amazing. I know I've heard stuff like this a million times before, but for some reason, last night it just hit me...that's how big my God is! Makes me thankful that I belong to Him. While this may not make much sense, I don't suppose it is really supposed to. I don't really think it can be coherently explained. It's just more proof of how God confounds the wisdom of men! My Dad is Amazing.

a kid broke into my office today. nice. luckily, nothing was missing...as far as i know. but the state requires my records to be kept behind 2 locked doors since they have to be kept confidential. but that means nothing if these teenagers can break into my office...they could certainly pop the lock off the door that is presently securing my records. lovely jjaep students. what a monday.

So I typed a post and then my computer started wigging out and now it is gone.

But the building my office is in smells like something died and is now rotting. Therefore, my office smells like that as well. Lovely.

So the post I lost ended up posting itself about 10 times...amazing. My computer is possessed.

It's been awhile...

Anyway, it has been a crazy week thus far. I spent two days in Grapevine at a conference for the Texas Alliance for Drug Endangered Children. It was fascinating...and I'm not being sarcastic. It really was. This is a much needed alliance of law enforcement, CPS, medical, and mental health professionals coming together to help kids who grow up in the presence of drugs or drug manufacturing so they don't become our next generation of criminals. It was heartbreaking, but it is a cause I'm glad to be apart of. In fact, it has only spurred me on to greater career aspirations. It's exciting stuff. But it is a long, long story.

Anyway, that is all. Thank you and have a great day.

random bits and pieces

t minus 28 days until the concert of the century...Kelly Clarkson...
so maybe it isn't the concert of the century, but emily and i are sure excited.

my new favorite book is called Redeeming Love...it's fabulous. right up there with some others.

i'm currently listening to dean martin's greatest hits on my i-tunes.

last nights episode of 24 severly stressed me out. i just don't know how jack bauer will save the world from certain nuclear diaster by terrorists this season. especially with president keeler out of commission from the crash of air force one. gee...i'm glad this isn't actually real.

i've heard more references to the snl cowbell skit since easter sunday than ever in the history of the world. if you haven't seen it visit emily's website...there's a link to the video.

...and that emily bryant is so hot right now.

Main Street Arts Festival
...this weekend
...downtown
...all day
...and it's free.

I typed a really long post and now it's gone. Curse you, internet, for not behaving.

*this is strange since I typed this yesterday, but it wouldn't post...and now here it is. You crazy blogger program you.

Yea for the Baylor Lady Bears and their first NCAA Championship Title...
Yea for the Big Twelve...
Yea for the Baylor girl who tackled the Baylor Mascot in an effort to save a ball headed out of bounds...

I do wish it had been my Texas Tech Lady Raiders, but at least it's a win for the Big Twelve. Nevertheless...GO BIG TWELVE!

Since gas is so expensive now-a-days, I thought I'd explore my options.

1. Stop eating so the grocery budget can be used for gasoline.
2. Stop driving altogether and brave my germaphobia induced fear of public transportation.
3. Walk everywhere...even to Arlington once per week for supervision.
4. Get a new job that pays more money so I can afford to drive...or at least a second job to defer the cost.

I think I like option 4...

Somebody do something about the stinking fuel crisis!!!!!!!!!

April Fools...

It's April Fools Day. In light of today, I thought I'd share the last prank that got pulled on me one year ago today.

I was finishing my graduate internship at a residential treatment center for teenage boys. The house only held nine boys, and all our beds were full. I had two individual clients and did groups with all nine boys daily. There were several other interns there as well.

I walked in to prepare for group...completely oblivious to the fact that it was April Fools Day. Too bad the boys remembered. Two boys came around the corner to meet me with the news that one of my clients had run away. Now, this was an open door facility...meaning they could leave at any time, but we'd call their probabtion officer and the police so they never got far. Anyway, they told me the story of what had happened, and I bought it.

At that moment, Erinne--a fellow intern--came in. She was helping me with group that day. We walk into the office, and I relay the information to her. Immediately we start restructuring group in order to process with the other eight boys what has happened. As we were talking another inter walks in. I asked her if she knew about my client. Debbie looked at me strangely and said, "But I just saw him." Then, like a lightening bolt, it hit me...the boys got me.

In disbelief, I could feel the anger rising as all the blood in my body rushed to my head. I hate to be embarrassed, and embarrassed I was. The joke was in bad taste considering I had been at the center for almost a year and during that time, we all became attached to the boys. We poured everything we had into trying to help them work through their junk, and this is how they repay us! So goup that day was on why that was so mean...ending with a homework assignment. I had them write a five page essay on why that was mean and how sorry they were. They kept asking me if I was joking, but I was dead serious. If they didn't write all five pages of the essay, which started out as a 10 page essay but Erinne talked me out of that, there were serious consequences.

That's the last joke they played on me. I'm not good with practical jokes, but I would never tell a counselor her client ran away...especially when they know it only ends in that kid going to jail. It's just not nice.

That's my April Fools story. It's the only prank anyone has ever tried to pull on me thus far...not a good one, but a prank nonetheless.

So what's the best April Fools prank that's been pulled on you?