Something Different, Something New (to me)

I (joey) had the opportunity to attend The Great Emergence conference here in Memphis this past weekend. I only attended 1 of the 2 days because I unwisely chose work in Nashville over taking Friday off to attend the event. It was held in the St Mary's Cathedral which was beautiful, and attended by many different flavors of practicing Christians. Though I disagree with several comments made during the day that I was there, I am glad that I attended. In this postmodern society, we will be different Christians than we have been in the past. The world is different. What do we do differently? At the event, I worshipped in a different way, I spoke with and broke bread with people who are different than my normal community, I listened and learned of different than my normal ways of serving, praying, thinking, and worshipping. It was refreshing and funny at times, yet weird and uncomfortable at times, but I emerged with a few thoughts in my head and realized how different the Christian community is compared to mine, so it was worth it. Now I just need to apply some of the things I encountered/learned/saw examples of:

- more relevant and effective ways to serve the poor
- different avenues of worshipping and praying
- being in community with those who are not like me

How all of this looks is unknown for the most part, but I am starting to think divergently now, and that is good.

Oh, and I got to write a verse in the Handwritten Bible (1 Samuel 28:1) so next year, when it comes out, turn to my verse. :)

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Pro-Abortion Obama: Good info

Just thought I would post a little something about Obama. There are some scary, scary, Halloween/Jason/Freddy type things in here that you should be aware of. Really its scary.
This will take you to Pastor Sam's site that has a summary of an essay. This will take you to the essay.
Have fun reading. I have decided that I know who I am not voting for.

Thanks, Liz!!!

My best friend, Liz took our pics last weekend at the Collierville Square...she did an INCREDIBLE job!!!! I'm SOOOO excited!!!

You've GOT to check it out!!! (and the sweet story she wrote about how we came to be such lifelong friends!)

Thanks, Liz!!! You're the bestest!!!

http://elizabethwiggsphotography.blogspot.com

Tag I'm It

My sister, Angie, tagged me and so I have to do this crap.
She is an amazing mom, sister, and friend. And I can't begin to say all that she means to my family, and personally to me. So I won't :)

She did this tag thing, so I have to be a good sport...I have to write 6 random things about myself and then tag 6 other people.

1. I can touch the tip of my nose with my tongue
2. I scored 30+ on English, Math, and Science on the ACT, but a 15 in the Reading section.
3. I went to the following schools in K-8

• K - Ross Elem
• 1st & 2nd - Germantown Elem
• 3rd - Benefield Elem (GA)
• 4th (Semester 1) - East North Street Elem (SC)
• 4th (Semester 2) - Ridgeway Elem
• 5th - Germantown Middle
• 6th - Crump Elem
• 7th & 8th - Germantown Elem

4. Joanna turned down my date requests for several months before giving in to going to a DC Talk concert. HAHAHAHA
5. I have Crohn's disease
6. I often wear shorts under my jeans/pants, and two pair of socks

I don't know six people to tag that haven't done this, but here are a few

Clay...
Zach...
Heather (or Benjamin)...
JR...

Here are the rules.
1. Link to the person who tagged you
2. Post the rules to your blog
3. Write 6 random things about yourself
4. Tag 6 people at the end of your post and link to them
5. Let each person you have tagged know by leaving a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is posted.

5 YEARS!!!

Happy 5-Year Anniversary to Us!!!

I can't help but think that I have the most awesome husband in the world. God has made Joey so unique and special. And as we have grown and journeyed through the ups and downs of our ever-changing life together, these 5 years, my love for him has grown deeper and stronger. I am so blessed....so, so blessed.

Well, our lives have pretty much been constantly changing since we got married! Here's the run-down:

2003-Married

2004-Expecting 1st baby

2005-Ella was born

2006-Expecting 2nd baby

2007-Seth was born
2008- 5 YEARS!!!

Here we are in 2003...

Here we are in 2008!...

So we really wanted to "get away"for our anniversary...and we did...sort of. The kids spent the night at their Honey and BB's house, and Joey and I were off to downtown Memphis. We checked into the Madison Hotel, got dressed all fancy, then went to Grill 83 (in the Madison). All the food there was great...Joey and I both had steaks (of course) and they were delicious. It was nice and quiet...and we had lots of time to talk and reminisce. It was so nice going out "just us".

After we ate, we went to the rooftop and watched the sunset...it was so peaceful and beautiful. Perfect weather.

Okay, so we got a little bored up there...

Doesn't he look like a hot-air baloon? (check out the lightpole)...

I tried it, but it just wasn't the same.

I like getting pics of ALL face...it reminds me of the hilarious time a while back when we noticed one of Joey's mom's multi-picture frames on the wall at her house...where she put a big close up picture of him in a tiny circle.

It was kind of like this...

Sorry for the randomness.....

Okay, so after that, we rode the trolley down to this quaint little hole-in-the-wall place called, Cheesecake Corner. I tried to eat a yummy cheesecake brownie, but I was so stuffed from dinner, that I barely made a dent in it.

A few trolley pics...

Then we trolleyed on down to Beale...we almost decided not to b/c we were so tired after all that food! It was only like 10:30 or something, and we were both yawning! Man, we must be getting old. Anyway, I'm so glad we kept going, b/c we ended up randomly running into our friend, Brock (who we hadn't seen in almost a year) and his new fiance, Grace. So we hung out with them at the Flying Saucer for a while.

Then Joey and I headed back to the rooftop to relax for a bit...we just could not get over how awesome the weather was! It was a perfect ending to a perfect night!

hello again

hello blog world...

we are still here... just crazy busy this summer.

i'm in the process of posting stuff, but thought i'd say hello first. :)

more to come! :)