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The Remains…

…i shouldn’t be writing - i should be cleaning, or resting or anything but writing…

It’s just been one of those mornings…difficult, and I don’t even really know why.  I found it hard to sing this morning…hard to give…hard to love…harder to forgive.

There’s just a lot of junk in my mind…..usually Sunday mornings overshadow all the distractions - I guess I’m just in a funk…a selfish kind of funk. I feel a little more like just sitting around and licking my wounds than what I really should be doing…

And lunch has been a domestic disaster…sorry Barry.  I fixed lunch to celebrate Barry O’s 23rd (Happy, Happy!), and proceeded to drop a glass pan of enchiladas all over the floor…burning myself and Ashley in the process (sorry Ashley!)…

Then, when it was time for cake, discovered that the ICE CREAM cake had been inadvertently placed in the fridge rather than the freezer……..

….you do the math!

So, I’m sitting here waiting for the cake to refreeze…I guess I’ve got a good hour or so at least.

Oh well, Happy Birthday Barry - my heart was in the right place even if I’m no Martha Stewart…

The house will be full of people in just a few hours…hence the necessity to clean (especially after dropping dinner and melting dessert!)…but, I just feel a little weary….

I don’t really know why this morning was hard…I do know that I need to get over myself - and I know that witnessing people getting baptized is a great way for me to do that.  I can sulk later….

…tomorrow’s Monday, after all - the perfect day for sulking.

But, I won’t today - not on Sunday.  Not with my C3 family.  Not on Barry’s birthday…

Not when I’m celebrating what God has done in lives…..

There’s plenty of time for the junk on another day.

So..not today.

Peace.

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angiebledsoe
on September 28, 2008
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The Remains of the Day…so far

so there’s still a good bit of the day “remaining” for me…but by the time it’s over i probably won’t feel up to writing about it…

so here goes…

it’s been a whirlwind the past few days…graduation parties, end-of-the-year concerts, financial learning experiences, baby showers…and baptism…at our house. i love all of the fun - i adore entertaining…

i’ve just been having a little trouble…lately…with…myself…

it happened again this morning…during the last service. i could feel it coming like a cold chill. i tried my best to shake it off. i was doing okay until i got back up under those crazy lights on the platform. my ears starting ringing so loudly that i couldn’t hear josh to harmonize with him…i had to try to harmonize with the ringing instead - sorry josh…sorry people who had to hear me…

i kept picturing myself taking a nose-dive off the platform. i kept praying…thinking that people needed to hear about God, they didn’t need to be distracted by crazy blonde woman flying into the front row…

at one point i steadied myself by leaning on the snake crate…that would be the tank holding a six foot python!…yeah, like i said there were all kinds of possibilities for “distractions”.

i don’t remember walking off the stage, i only remember standing in front of byron…trying to understand the words that were coming out of his mouth from the tunnel i was in…

…and all of this without drugs! who needs drugs when your morning can feel like a carnival ride…complete with reptiles and lots of psychedelic colors.

anyway, some little preschooler will now be without a juice box since it was all that was available to get my blood-sugar back up - sorry, preschooler but it’s better than if i had crushed you by falling on top of you…especially now that i’m not the skinny girl i used to be. :-)

but i digress…

now i’m just back to my “doozy” of a headache. lesson learned: i’ll carry raisins in my pocket or wear bubble wrap just in case…

now, c3ers and their friends and family will be here in a little while to be baptized…that’s so exciting to me - much cooler than the ringing in my head and all the pretty colors…

and on the up side - i now can explain the process of compounding interest thanks to c3’s financial learning experience with joe sangl…seriously, i think compounding interest is my new favorite thing!!

so it’s all good.

peace to you all…and to all the pretty colors. :-)

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angiebledsoe
on May 18, 2008
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The Remains of the Day

What a beautiful day.

C3 Day at Moss Park was wonderful! I’m too tired to properly express what it meant to see all of the C3ers come out to have fun and witness new Christ-followers professing their faith through baptism….

It was beautiful to stand on the beach and witness such a profound declaration….

It was beautiful to see families having time together….

It was beautiful to watch a community of faith connect with each other and deepen their friendships…

It was beautiful to watch children running and playing and learning that church is about love…and can also be about having fun…

It was beautiful to see the gorgeous tapestry of diversity that is C3….it was like a Florida sunset - breathtaking!

Moss Park is special to me. I remember going there as a child. When I hear the cranes, I’m right back…I’m 10 years old all over again. It brings back many happy memories…

Now it’s even more special to me. It forever will remind me of C3…of new Christ-followers being baptised on a day that was supposed to be filled with thunderstorms…of little children laughing and playing…of a church family just being…

…and being happy just to be!

It was a day to remember.

Thank you so much to all of you who shared it with me…

Peace.

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on March 30, 2008
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The Remains of THIS Day…

Many have tried to define C3…what C3 really means.

They’ve tried to tell us what we are and what we are really about.

This morning we told them…loud and clear - lest there be any confusion.

Last month we baptized 16. This month…this morning we baptized 21.

Twenty-one lives changed. Twenty-one new Christ-followers. Twenty-one more who are so C3…

So, if you’re confused or searching for a definition of what C3 means. Hopefully, today will help you in your search.

Define us by what we are passionate about.

There are now 21 more to be reckoned with.

C3 is a movement…a journey of Barbaric Grace. We won’t stop. We won’t quit. Nothing will cause us to back down now.

And this is just the beginning of the story.

So, if this causes you to experience any emotion except sheer and utter joy, well…

Fair Warning.

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angiebledsoe
on December 2, 2007
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