Saturday, March 18, 2006

Happy St Patty's Day!!

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adopt your own virtual pet!



Check out http://fullydevoted.blogspot.com for a St Patty's Day quiz

posted by jana @ 11:04 AM 2 comments

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Guess What..

"Nepal observes the annual Day of the Dog, when every dog in the nation, including strays, is fed, marked with a red sign on their forhead and decorated with a garland of flowers" -uncommon goods

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

"To me, a man is tallest when he's down on his knees in prayer" -beth moore

posted by jana @ 1:35 PM 1 comments

a glimps into Jana's churning mind-

Oooh, lots to say today!

I’ll do this like I’m writing a paper for college so that my ideas actually make sense to the reader =)

What is Humility?
Original word: “tapeinophrosune”= “the confession of sin and a deep realization of unworthiness to received God’s marvelous grace”
That is all right and good, but where is the JOY in a definition like that? Are we aware of the Good humility offers? Not just the down-and-out unworthiness that we bear?
-My view of Humility- being so aware that God is doing His thang with us, that we simply don’t even Think to notice ourselves! Not necessarily “putting others first” consciously (though that’s how growing in humility starts)…
Ok, “It isn’t thinking Bad about ourselves, it’s not thinking about ourselves at all!” Does that make sense to everyone??
(btw, I read that in a book but can’t remember what book and when…)
Humility= NOT self-bashing. If God loves you as you are, who are you Not to?

Humility= Freedom! Freedom from working up a latter (social latter, whatever!) with hot clothes, the right friends, $$, good and perfect body, work skills, athletic talents, artsy talents, the right interests, the right music, the right movies and tv shows, saying the right thing, knowing when to say it, … on and on and on!!
Humility- it’s not being Aloof and “Above” that stuff, but simply not considering it. Those aren’t bad things in and of themselves, but they turn into IDOLS when used for personal Gain!

Humility enabled Paul to proclaim: “but I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.” in Acts 20:24

What we do in this life will not be failure. The book The Mists of Avalon pulls it together in the end- King Arthur is dying, and war is coming thru his land again. He’s in his sister Morgains arms, asking ‘Did I Fail? I was supposed to bring PEACE.’ He lays this on her when she’s asking the exact same thing about her work, just as I, Jana, ask the same thing about mine. Here’s how it goes:
“It was my own question, and I had no answer; but from somewhere, the answer came. ‘You did not fail, my brother, my love, my child… None of us knows how [He] will do [His] will—only that it will be done.’ And I knew not, even then, whether what I spoke was truth, or whether I spoke to comfort him, in love, as with the little child Igraine had put into my arms when I was but a child myself…”

and in the end

“No, we did not fail… I did not fail. I did what [He] had given me to do. It was not [He] but I in my pride who thought I should have done more.”

Short version, it’s basically as Adam says, “get over yourself!”

So, My Prayer: May the Lord bless us with humble spirits, that we celebrate humility not in awareness of it, but in the freedom it gives us. Thank you Lord for such a precious gift!

posted by jana @ 12:14 PM 1 comments

Monday, March 13, 2006

wanna see my attempts?

My work-in-progress blog can be found here:

http://www.jkat.blogspot.com

posted by jana @ 10:35 PM 0 comments

Again... blog issues

SO I decided I was tired of my old blog and wanted a New one. but these templates just weren't cooool enough, so I searched elsewhere.
for way to long
And now I am quite content w/ this blog template (for at least a day!) because I would have lost heaps of info if I switched. no comment space, no profile.... who wants that!!
so enough is enough. Below is what the new blog Would have looked like! *sigh*

posted by jana @ 2:58 PM 4 comments

back at ya Sierra =)... cause i suddenly can't get enough

Have you ever said out loud, in front of people, “wouldn’t it be cool to have a monkey?” There’s always that one person who has to chime in, “uh, ‘scuse me, that wouldn’t be cool at all… first of all, they crap in their own hands and then they throw it around in a festive manner… they demand things… they make faces that are unacceptable…”
I don’t want a nice monkey! I want an evil, f-ed up monkey. I want to put him on c…, put a little armor on him, give him a sword, have fights with him inside my place. How pumped would you be driving home from work knowing someplace in your house there’s a monkey you’re going to battle! Just walk in…… “MONKEYYYY…… Where you at Monkey??” He’s hiding in the closet, “I’m in the closeetttt..” “I hear you! Who wants some banana sandwich?” “I do”














http://www.danecook.com/

LOL, they throw it around in a festive manner. genius

posted by jana @ 12:45 AM 2 comments

Everybody's doing it!

Okay: my blip for myspace. go get one. http://www.myspace.com
coo'

and here's mine http://www.myspace.com/janabean14
no mine isn't exciting, but it's interactive. not like lamb said about blogging- just looking into some world that you aren't really a part of..












Random Photo that I happen to love... was my background for a brief interlude.

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Sunday, March 12, 2006

my idea of a very good day:

12:55am,
there's Thunder and Lightening outside,
I have the computer to myself =)
-Eggs for Breakfast! scrambled w/ string cheese. yum
-Ultimate Frisbee action. everyone pray for adam's shoulder injury! and the sun peeked out
-mexican food + good old friends + spoons/scum/mafia
-did I mention good old friends...
-myspace profile overcoming one more major hurdle
THUNDER and LIGHTENING
my warm bed.

posted by jana @ 12:55 AM 2 comments