I've started this entry several times but come up with nothing more than a blank screen. But seeing that my last post was from November motivated me. So here are the top ten things I want to say: 1) If you haven't already, go see "THE NATIVITY STORY". I was prepared for them to mess up the biblical account but they really stay true to the gospel. The music is wonderful and incorporates our Christmas Carols with a middle eastern sound. Plus it humanizes the birth of Jesus. I think too often I picture the birth without blood, without dirt and with clean people and little fluffy sheep around. Go see this movie to get a closer glimpse of reality! 2) My favorite color is green. 3) Our church's huge Living Christmas Tree production is this weekend! Woot! This really makes it the most wonderful time of the year. Already given out around 100,000 tickets for the 4 performances and usually about half that number comes so pray for us while we share please...that God would be lifted up and glorified, not us. 4) If I had been born in the summer, my name would have been Summer. I can't see me as a Summer, can you? 5) My last day of work is next Wednesday. I am looking forward to the break but man it is going to be a long one before i get on the plane on January 30th! I will miss my co-workers and my students a lot but they sure have prepared me for Cambodia well! 6) I H*A*T*E coffee but love Starbucks - Chai Tea, fruit smoothie or hot chocolate all the way. Course I like Panara better  7) I had a problem with my car engine this week - 6th cylender (sp?) missfire to be exact. Or a plug wire problem to be even more exact. And since my brother and dad are both out of town, I attempted to fix it. Attempted being the key word here. Ended up having to call my Papaw and drag him across Knoxville just to have him tell me, "Well honey, the wire is stuck to the metal plating which is causing the sparking which will lead to a missfire. And you need to change your oil." 8) I think Wikipedia is the best thing since sliced bread. Period. 9) I just finished re-reading Corrie ten Boom's "The Hiding Place". What an inspiring woman! I always forget that she lived a normal life until her late 50's and then "boom" all of the sudden God called her up to the front lines. How much effort she put into knowing him during those 50 years though; am I doing that? And I must confess that yet again the only place in the book that makes me cry is when the man she loves shows up at her door with his fiancee....geez, suffering no problem but unrequited love and the tears flow. 10) Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes wedding weekend cost about 3.5 million dollars according to People Magazine. Think about what you could do with that kind of money...feed the hungry, educate the masses, put a decent roof over a family, offer medical help to the suffering. Yes, I know all weddings are lavish...but seriously 3.5 million???!!! | 
