Enjoying again William P. Smith’s Caught of Guard–Encounters with the Unexpected God. It’s probably helping me the most this morning because I just had to endure (endure sounds like too strong of a word) … experience (??) an embarrassing (but necessary! and loving, gentle, gospel-infused!) confrontational conversation with Fred. He has observed a sin in me and has been praying about how and when to talk with me about it. And this morning was the time. I was and am so ashamed. Ahhhh–but this is good shame. Godly shame–conviction!–that leads to repentance and faith and helps me to a) SEE; and b) TURN AWAY FROM sin. But as loving and…

Just a quick note to say a hello and THANK YOU to all of the wonderful FLORIDA ladies that I had the joy of serving yesterday. It was SUCH a joy to be with you all! I made it home around 11PM (1AM Florida time–EEK!) and Fred and I stayed up way too late talking and canoodling. Ahhhhh — it was a nice, sweet tired this morning at Sunday school class and church. 😉 My laptop is charging up nice and fine on my secondary A/C adapter … so I’ll try get on top of all of my “final final wrap up” Florida stuff tomorrow (including your orders!) because I…

Just a note to let you know that I am going to be OFFLINE for a couple of days. (What will I DO?!?!) I’m in Florida and my A/C power cord for my laptop just COMPLETELY DIED. I have like 22 minutes of battery power left–and I’m kind of freaking out about it. I didn’t even bring a book to read!?! That I’m freaking out is not a good sign, eh? Maybe I’m “hooked” to my email/blog “connectedness” just a LITTLE TOO MUCH. Anyway … not for long.  I have all day today and 5 hours of flights tomorrow to find something else to do with my time. Blergh. I…

Oh my STARS! Big ol’ boxes were just delivered to my back door … my DVD series is actually HERE! Living the Gospel in Relationships I’m a little freaked out. Feeling very vulnerable. (I think I feel like, “Why in the WORLD do I even TRY to do stuff like this!?! There are like a ZILLION people who teach this material better than me. I can’t believe I let myself be VIDEOTAPED. Eek!” etc. etc. But then I just say, “Oh well! All we can do is our best. Let it go, Tara. And just do the next thing.”) ANYWAY … if I can get packed for Florida (Hi Florida!)…

OK. Seriously. I would do an INFOMERCIAL for this thing if I were asked … Do you guys know about THE FURMINATOR??? Because OH MY STARS!!! It is just the most amazing dog-hair-removal-thingy-EVER!! My dear friend Nancy L. (also a GOLDEN LOVER!! Hi Sadie!!) told me about it and I immediately ordered one off of Amazon. MONEY WELL SPENT!!! We didn’t even think that Lilikoi was all that hairy! (Her coat is much “thinner”/ligher than our Choza’s.) But check out the hair that THE FURMINATOR removed in (no kidding!) MINUTES: I just can’t even IMAGINE how much LESS HAIR there will now be on our living room pillows (that occasionally…

HT to Pastor JollyBlogger for posting this video by Derek Webb!