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October’s Post-a-Day Challenge: Mission Accomplished!

Posted in Joy in the Journey, October Challenge, Promoting Friends, Writing on October 31, 2011| 3 Comments »

I did it! I mean WE did it!

My friend Don and I took this challenge together and we both managed to write every day this month. I’d like to think we’ve created new habits and formed new neuro-pathways in our brains that will spur us on to seeing the world from writer’s eyes, compelling us to share our visions with our readers. Not that we’re all about the numbers game, but both of our readerships have increased with our consistency. Fluke? I think not.

There is such satisfaction in seeing this challenge through because I’m not a great finisher. I’m a great starter, but I quickly lose interest and find the next thing to start. For instance, I have a new challenge for November. It’s a weekly challenge rather than a daily one, and I’ll announce it here tomorrow. Gotta keep the momentum going, but for today, I feel a sense of accomplishment and I’m going to bask in that for a while.

Go visit Don’s blog and read his rebuttal (not really) to my 2011 De-cluttering Challenge, and congratulate him on seeing the post-a-day challenge through to the end. I know there were many days that neither of us had the time or energy to blog, but we pushed through anyway.

 

 

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October’s De-cluttering Challenge: Auction Items

Posted in De-cluttering, October Challenge on October 30, 2011| 6 Comments »

Have you ever heard of a Virginia Auction? Neither has Google, but our school holds one every year.

Virginia Auction [ver-jin-yuh] [awk-shuhn] noun  1. An event held each year to raise money for the scholarship fund at Family Academy of Christian Education. Families buy tickets to bid on new and gently used donated items. Whoever has their name drawn out of the bag next to the item, takes it home. Tickets are .25 each or 5/$1.00 with a maximum of $50 per family. Items are donated by families and local businesses.

My favorite was a $30 gift card for Texas Roadhouse. Sadly, I didn’t win.

What I did do was donate several items for the auction. I grabbed a box and raided the school stuff first. Electronic educational toys, a desk lamp that no one was using, stickers, children’s books, and a cute backpack all went in the box. Then I scavenged through the kitchen and decided to donate our kettle corn popper.We hardly ever use it and we prefer our air popper, but it made one of the other families very happy.        Let’s see…there were a few items I had bought on clearance for a quarter each, 3 cd players, a Spiderman table-cloth, 3 board games, and some other miscellaneous things. I haven’t heard how much was raised, but I know my family only brought home 4 items, and the item I won, I gave to a friend. Yes, my de-cluttering is still going strong. Now if only I could figure out what Virginia has to do with the auction.

Are you still de-cluttering too?

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Prayers for Eddie

Posted in Homelessness, October Challenge, Prayer Requests on October 29, 2011| 4 Comments »

Yesterday I got a text from a friend who had heard about a stabbing in Boulder involving 3 homeless men. She wanted to know if we knew them. I read the article and looked at the thumbnail picture of the suspect and was thankful that no, I didn’t recognize the face or the name. But one of our other street friends posted something on Facebook today that made us investigate further and we were shocked to find out that the suspect was in fact our friend Eddie. I hadn’t recognized him because he wears his hair differently than the picture and because you couldn’t enlarge it to see it better.

Eddie, who plays the guitar left-handed on the mall. Eddie, who has 2 sweet little girls that live with their mom. Eddie, who Tanner met when he was here for Spring Break and reconnected with this summer while he was here interning with us. Eddie, who visited church with us and wept through the service. Eddie, who is grateful for everything he has. Eddie, who I happily introduced my parents to last Sunday. Eddie, my friend.

Benny is doing his best to get in to see Eddie, but we have heard, and the newspaper has now run this as well, that he claims it was self-defense. He is not a violent guy and the other street people know this too. Many have given that statement to the police. It is still under investigation, and I would appreciate it if you’d pray for my friend. Even if it wasn’t self-defense – and I believe in my gut that it was – I would stand by Eddie through this process.

Being homeless isn’t easy, and it’s not a choice for everyone. I’ll end this now before getting on that particular soapbox. I’ll update this when I know more. Thanks for praying.

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