Archive for January, 2008

A Quiet Moment

{ January 26, 2008 @ 2:55 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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Things in life have picked up a bit and I have finally gotten to a place where I can sit and type.  It takes a quiet moment for me to fully embrace my thoughts.  I plan to spend more time in quiet this semester.

You may think that seems absurd, especially if you are aware that in just a few weeks we will have brand new baby boy twins in our house.  However, it’s not as absurd as you might think.

This semester I have decided to pour myself into more spiritual discipline.  Knowing that this could be hard I have a spiritual mentor that I am meeting with once a week that can keep me accountable.  I will spend time in four different disciplines; solitude, unplugging, mentoring, and Bible study.

I am weary of the kind of life where I turn God off and on and compartmentalize my life.  It’s not working and never has.  God, Christ, and Spirit are in my life all the time.  However, by choosing to do these disciplines I will be more focused on how it is playing out in my life and into others’ lives.

It will be an interesting journey that I’m taking and I will try to keep you up to date on what’s going on.  May God bless my growth and may my growth be growth in the Kingdom as well.

-Mercer

I’m Such a Goof!

{ January 5, 2008 @ 10:29 am } · { Uncategorized }
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Wendy’s Logo

The other day Leah and I went to Wendy’s for frostys.  We ordered, we paid and there were no outrageous incidents or happenings, just your typical visit.  Until we went to the next window for pick-up.  As the wonderful gentleman opened the window to serve our frostys and said “Thank You”, I blurted out, “Curtis!” with some rather high inflection as one does when they know someone.  His reply was, “heh?”  At this point I knew what the score was.  This was definitely not Curtis and I quickly did a look down at the ol’ name tag and saw Jacob.  However, my Idiocy knows no bounds and continued with, “Is your name Curtis?”  and he politely replied, “No.”  Which again on a full run of goofy overload I said, “Oh my mistake I thought you were someone else!”  Then I quickly drove away.

Leah is who is usually extremely composed couldn’t even wait for the car window to go back up all the way or for the truck to be in drive or for me to finish my last idiotic comment before she verbally busted out laughing.  I will tell you that this is extremely hard for a woman 30 weeks pregnant with twins and low lung room.  We both ended up laughing at me and my goofiness of the day.  I can only imagine the stun that came from Jacob and all his buddies as he turned to the cooks, cashiers, and drive-thru help to tell the tale of the idiot in the drive through who couldn’t read a name tag and couldn’t keep making stupid comments and assumptions.  I sure I backed up the line because of all the laughter shared by the Wendy’s workers.

In my defense, however, there is a boy that comes to our church and has been on youth group events before that looks much like Jacob, whose name is Curtis and sounds like him too, at least when they say “Thank You.”

I’m such a Goof!