The Middle

Hello world-wide-web, Thank you Heavenly Father for all your blessings. Dear Lord, bless all the people who are falling in love, or think they may be; Heavenly Father work through me to help my friend who is contemplating divorce; Holy Spirit give me the words to console a friend who recently dumped her long time bf b/c she knew the relationship wasn't good. Jesus, give me the strength and courage to understand the friend who stayed in bed all weekend b/c of 'the blues'; and Heavenly Father, teach me how to encourage a friend to let you work your miracles with her upcoming surgery. God is watching. He knows our trials, pains, and happy moments. Sometimes the good gets BETTER; all things are possible with God. In Jesus Name. Amen. Why have I had such a hard time writing about something? I'll tell you why: there are way too many topics in my head asking for attention: 1. Talk about the president's talk with Republicans. No, I can't do that, some of my readers absolutely HATE the president and think he is doing a LOUSY job. Any positive comments I might make will fall on deaf ears. Oh well: I think he did a great job and I enjoyed watching the interaction between him and Republicans immensely. Especially watching it with my brother. That was the Best Part! 2. I could have sworn I heard Msgr. Don say that St Catherine of Sienna asked Jesus how she could love Him more and that Jesus said, "I don't need your love; I need you to love my people. Everyone." But for the life of me I can't find anything even closely related to this statement on google. Although I did find out a bunch of cool stuff about St. Catherine of Sienna; you should google her, it's an interesting read. 3. I debated writing about my students. I have bonded really well with my class this year. After tutoring on Tuesday as I was walking out the door with the students, I accidently pushed the play button on my phone and the ring tone for "All the Single Ladies," played. My students and I laughed. But one of them did something cool, "Ms. Bush, play that again." I did and he busted some moves for us. It was hilarious. I asked if he wanted to show his moves to one of the other teachers and he refused. Teachers are pretty possessive of their students, so it took me alot to ask if he wanted to share his dance, which made me happy when he didn't. 4. I wanted to write this whole blog about how being religious or spiritual doesn't make a person a fundamentalist. It's unfortunate how being in a religion and having a set of beliefs seems odd to the outside world. "Church people" get a bad wrap. I don't think you have to belong to a religion to be a good person, but it helps me. Please note: religious/spiritual people are not ALL conservative, judgmental, right-wingers. Remember to be kind - just like my prof says - you can't tell if people are in pain by looking at them; even religious people have feelings. 5. I was trying to think of a bunch of funny things to post since my last post was kind of serious. I didn't know if I was going to write about funny things that happened to me, or post hilarious youtube videos. I've decided to tell you about a couple of funny sitcoms; the first one is "The Middle." If you ever get a chance to watch it, you should, it will lighten your spirits. Chris Kattan is on the show playing a needy, nerdy, very unmanly man who can fix anything, or hook-up any kind of electronic. In tonight's episode, "Bob," Chris Kattan, was falling to pieces about some woman he met on the internet. He's telling the main character's husband about this girl, "She had everything: three kids, a house, and a dog. I could have just walked right in and had a life. Like you." My second favorite show is "Modern Family." Two of the men on the show are gay and they live together, with a cute Asian baby they adopted. One of the gay men played racquet ball with one of the husband's, but the husband (Al Bundy from "Married with Children") tells his wife, "I don't want to play with him. I mean, to a straight guy the locker room is just that, a locker room. To a gay man it isn't a locker room it's a show room." Then the two men accidently bump butts and the gay man is calling it a moon kiss, and instead of a "high five," it's a "low two." I do love Wednesday nights. I can't even begin to tell you how humorous I think "Cougar Town" is... 7. The healing power of forgiveness. This one I'm saving for later. Thanks for forgiving me; you know who you are and I'm truly grateful. I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. Mother Theresa