a goofy movie... and related stuff

if you are too "grown up" to watch A Goofy Movie, you are not grown up at all. yeah, i said it. what? just go watch it.

also i'm told that Tiny Toons: How I Spent My Summer Vacation is phenomenal, but i have never seen it, i'm sorry to say.

melissa is making lasagna right now and i have basically nothing to say but here i am saying stuff anyway. so since i'm here... if you've never read C.S. Lewis' "The Great Divorce" you must get off the internet RIGHT now, go to borders, buy two copies, give one to your best friend, go home, lock your door, sit down and read it immediately.

but hey. God is good. today i was sitting in my car, being ... well, let's just come out and say it ... a GIRL. and someone called me who i hadn't talked to in a long time. i didn't vent all my problems to her or anything, and it was really no big deal at all. but it was so sweet and it changed everything. it was like God saying, "hey i'm thinking about you. I'm not going to change anything right now. but I know. and it's okay."

but recently He's been talking to me about praising Him and loving Him not because of what He does for me, but for who He is. If I worship Him for what He's done that's thankfulness and it's good. But it's kind of become my focus lately. What He's done and what He's promised to do. Even believing in His promises can be a bad thing if His PROMISES is all your thinking about and not His PERSON.

Soon you will find yourself trying to do the right thing only as a means to achieving blessings and not to please Him because you want to please the one you love.

So keep that in mind. Believe in His promises. But believe more in Him. be thankful for His blessings. and be thankful in your dry seasons because God is still God. He is God no matter what your situation. And everything in His nature is good and according to the psalms, all His works are wondrous. that means ... that's right ... ALL His works.

Don't call His blessings a curse just because you don't always know what a blessing looks like. you think it's not good because you, with your carnal eyes, don't know how to recognize good.