Monday Morning Quarterback

Superbowl Weekend

First off, congratulations are due to the Indianapolis Colts on defeating the Chicago Bears. Both Erin and I were routing for them so that made victory even sweeter. The best part of the game happened when Colts coach Tony Dungy gave glory to God. And not just in a flippant way either.

"The Lord doesn't always take you in a straight line," Dungy said. "He doesn't always take a direct path. I think he tests you sometimes to see if you're going to keep the faith and hang in there and I think we did. We did as an organization and it's just such a great feeling to get, to win this game.

"It's not the biggest thing in the world, but … it feels great."

The day before, Erin and Arika headed to a movie while yours truly got to hang out with Arika's daughter Hadassah (pictured). She was fun! I was able to run the whole gammut with her. The eating, sleeping, and pooping. (She could probably see the fear in my eyes when she knew I had to change her diaper because she cooked up a winner for me.) ;)

Bella held true to form concerning her reputation with babies. She was always within a wiener dog's length of Hadassah. She literally never left her side. When Hadassah made a noise, Bella's ears perked up and she had to make sure everything was ok. She even had to sit on my lap when I fed Hadassah. It will be interesting to see what happens when our Isaac/Tegan is born.

Back to Superbowl Sunday...

For those of you who could care less about the big game, many of you probably watched it for the commercials. I believe this year was better than recent year's. Although I still don't think the ads are worth the hype. Anyway, my favorite was Sierra Mist's "beard combover". I laughed out loud at this one.



If you'd like to see more of the Superbowl ads, you can visit several sites but here is YouTube's Superbowl site where you can rank your fav's and post. You can also just view the gallery where all of them are listed



I thought I would bring special attention to the latest link that I added to BEing Designed's sidebar. "Rivers in the Desert" is a blog that has just been started by our pastor's Chris Wachter and Mike Devereaux. They already have a good start on it and in the internet world of filth, it's always nice to see one more weapon for Christ.


A while back I posted a request, then answer to prayer, concerning John Mayer's wife Tri Dey. Well, she has been in Indonesia for almost three weeks for her father's funeral and is due to return to the States. The following is a prayer request from her husband John:

Dear friends,

Please pray and have others pray for Tri Dey in Indonesia. As you know she went there to hold her father’s funeral. They have had rain for several weeks straight in Jakarta and the results is massive flooding of up to 13 ft. high throughout most of the city. 350,000 people are homeless and over 20 have died. They lost power for three days straight. No one has been able to go to work since last Thursday in the city.

Tri Dey is on high ground but isn’t able to leave her house for safety reasons. She needs to get to the airport on Thursday this week to return on Friday. The rain is predicted to last for two more weeks without stop.

This is similar to what happened to New Orleans during Katrina only in a third world country with little resources to combat it. When the flood water reside there will probably be many diseases and food shortages. So please pray for Jakarta and Tri Dey’s situation and safety and that she can somehow make it to the airport this week to leave on time and return to MN. Thanks.

Thanks John, I will add you and Tri Dey to my prayer list.


Monday, February 5th, 2007/2 Samuel chapters 5-7

GOD'S MESSAGE FOR ME TODAY
Then David the king went in and sat before the LORD, and he said, "Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?"—2 Samuel 7:18

HOW DOES THIS APPLY TO MY LIFE?
After all of David's success in battle and now being recognized by Israel as their king, David displays his humility before God. Being prodeful is a very easy sin to succumb to. We have a tendancy to put others' and/or our accomplishments on a pedastal. We need to remember that it was God who allowed them/us to achieve the accomplishment(s).

Copyright 2007, City Vision / John A. Mayer
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