Tuesday, February 24, 2009

LOOOOVE


We had a really good small group tonight. It was the first one so it was kind of awkward.. people werent really talking at first because noone knew each other... but it started to open up after awhile. 
It was actually a really good teaching. We watched this video by rick warren (we are doing 40 days of community) and it was all about love and how it is the greatest commandment. We read all of 1 Corinthians 13.. and its really interesting because we hear part of that all the time... at weddings, at funerals, in greeting cards- ya know that love is patient, love is kind etc that whole verse. What we dont hear (at least i havent really) is whats before that verse... hold on maybe i can google it and paste it in here...
1If I speak in the tonguesa]" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0.5em; ">[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,b]" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0.5em; ">[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.
I thought that this was so powerful, that its really saying that we can be all these things and still gain nothing. to me it was very eye opening. This is really what Jesus wanted to get across the most... and how many times a day am i rude to other people, or ignore people, or am just too busy or even DONT care to think of other people.... I could probably make a difference if I started loving other people like christ loved us
and the thing is, ive been hearing this my whole life... but now i want to make it more practical. I want to let someone budge me in the grocery line, i want to not litter, i want to send someone a gift when i am thinking of them, i want to listen to people when they are talking, i want to BE NICE to customers i dont like.
Ha i may be going a little too far, but tonight during the meeting i thought it would be cool to get a tattoo of it too... of the word love, to always remind me that that is first... I included a picture of one i found on google :) 

Monday, February 23, 2009

SO BORED

Tonight I had one of those nights...

I was SO BORED!! Most people would give anything for more down time, or more sitting around watching tv time. I really do like my down time, but tonight it was just too much.

I was so bored that I didnt want to watch tv, didnt want to work out, didnt want to clean, didnt want to get off the couch, no eating, cooking, doing laundry... ANYTHING. 

I kept saying i was so bored yet I couldnt get myself off the couch.

I hate days like this! It makes me feel like my life has no meaning or that I am going nowhere. I know thats not true, and other days I am so busy that all i want to do is sit around. Tonight was just too much though.

Maybe tommorrow Ill be productive... I want to work out, go tanning, do my laundry, clean the bathroom... that sounds like a good start so far.

hello

Woo hoo! So my first official blog!! Hello... I decided to start one the other night, and I did. What happened was, I told my husband that I was going to start a blog, and he got all excited and wanted to do one for us together. I thought that sounded like a good idea, so i started one... johnandjenchappell.blogspot.com. Just a few days later though, i realized that i really wanted one of my own too. I wanted to make sure that my thoughts and ideas etc were getting written down!! I needed a place to vent, to write when im happy, to talk about my day... so this is it.

I am bad at typing, so if anyone reads this and likes words being spelled correctly, then you can get over it. Im no so hot at capitalizing letters and using punctuation correctly.

So seeing that it is my first blog, I dont really know what to write about... hmmmm

maybe the fact that my tahoe has 2 flat tires and I have to go deal with that soon..

or maybe that I have like 6 loads of laundry to do (since ive been gone for the last 2 weeks)

or maybe that I just had really good mexican food....

I have to go look at the house we just bought in a little bit... It was foreclosed and we are getting it fixed up so we have to go bring a contractor over there so we can show him what needs to get done.

New carpets, new paint, new windows, new ceramic tile, HARDWOOD FLOORS, new counter... its going to be exciting. Im sure the before and after we will be completely different.

Anyways, I am off from work today and tommorrow, nice have a break! 

I am definitly excited about watching 24 tonight... and the finale of True Beauty, which is a reality show where these really pretty people think they are competing for whoever is the best looking, but its really for who is the nicest and best "on the inside". corny i know, but its still mildly amusing.

Ok I think thats all for now... adios!