ok
so…
it has been a while since i added a post
and even longer since i posted on a regular basis
i felt a tad guilty about it
for a little while
then i got over that
and just did not care about it
now i am starting to care about it again
and caring is a good feeling
so
it may not be as regular as it was
or even always profound
but i am on my way back
*and in case you didn’t catch it, i’m not just talking about blogging
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i am forty-two today
i did not realize what a significant number this was in scriptures
one Jewish scholar describes it this way…
“Whenever the concept of forty-two comes up, it usually alludes to an opportunity to become more spiritually elevated, to return to what we were before the fall. “
i love this!
it speaks of restoration
a word that God has been hammering into my spirit for the past year
restoration is about us being transformed
into what God intended us to be at our creation…
i am believing and proclaiming that this year of my life
will be the time that I step into the destiny for which God created me
Posted in john
my dear friend Brett Jones posted the following on his blog…
brettjonesonline.com
it ruined me…
I MISS JOSHUA RAGSDALE
I miss Joshua Ragsdale and I never knew him. Joshua died a year ago, and his brother, John, is a good friend to my family, and I know about Joshua through John.
I miss the pithy statements that Joshua succinctly expressed because he often published my thoughts better than I can. He’s like the clean version of Lewis Grizzard, a distillation of thoughts random, now compressed to Twitter soundbites. He messes up proper grammar just enough to let you know that he knows what he’s doing.
I miss someone who could say things like,
• What would we do if God got the blues?
• I just had a bone marrow biopsy and a bone punch while looking at pictures of my doctor’s new baby on her phone.
• You can spend too much time alone and too much time with people…it’s such a fine line.
• Chemo and Cap’n Crunch…that’s what I call balance.
• I’d burn your picture if it wasn’t still in my pocket.
• I love people who are strong. People who can bend steel with their spirit, and then be strong enough to tell you they need to go home and take a nap.
• My platelets are up so I am tweezing my eyebrows.
So I have a couple of questions:
• Who do you have in your life that can challenge you?
• Why would a bone marrow donor back out after knowing they are the chance for someone to live?
• But here’s a bigger question – why am I not a registered donor?
• Gotta go. It’s time to register to see if I can save the next Joshua.
I miss Joshua Ragsdale.
Posted in joshua
The Hills Fellowship
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174 Rains Avenue
Nashville TN 37203
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Posted in THE HILLS
i am on holiday for the next week
with my family
and our dear friends the Remedios’
i call it holiday
because it sounds much more classy, relaxing and british than vacation
plus nobody shortens the word holiday like they do vacation
come on… “vacay”?
is it really that hard to add “tion”
and i always feel like i need a vacation after my vacation
it is so much work
so this year i am on holiday…
see y’all in eight days
today my heartbeat and i celebrate
eighteen amazing years of marriage
i still look at her in amazement
and thank God for His grace
that he allowed our lives to converge
she is the girl of my dreams
and this is the marriage of our dreams
i am so excited about the next eighteen years
when our 36th rolls around
i will be 59
she will be 58
Evan will be 31
Davis will be 27
The Hills Fellowship will be 19
and we will be at least 18 times more in love than we are now
Posted in family
#RememberingJoshua
Joshua’s Journey [in tweets] 6
April-June 2010
I’m so happy to be home…just sat down and cried cause I gotta leave soon-
12 Apr
Back in Bethesda…home of free bone marrow-
18 Apr
Just got a call to meet and discuss my donor…mmm-
19 Apr
I’ve never had more offers for a contract killing in my life- I love my friends!!!
19 Apr
At Baltimore airport…can’t believe I’m already going home- amazing what one idiot can do:-)
21 Apr
Dear Lord…I’ve got the noggin cancer 
24 Apr
I am so worried about what people think of me, i don’t have a truck and my body looks terrible and my songs aren’t gettin cut… Hahahahaha
24 Apr
Every goodbye ain’t gone-
25 Apr
My hair just won’t part right, Clark!!!
27 Apr
I ain’t flooded…I ain’t mad. Just broken hearted and that ain’t bad-
6 May
you can spend too much time alone and too much time with people…it’s such a fine line-
7 May
My new opinion…if you aren’t loving somebody or helping somebody then you are just taking up space! shallow water love doesn’t count-
10 May
Nothing like pre-admitting the day before surgery with strep throat and 2 kinds of cancer with a woman that is still mad about Katrina!!!
11 May
The Price Is Right rocks away the pain!!!
13 May
no handbook for this 2nd cancer…just the routine. eat, throw up, sleep sleep- i learned early not to have a white towel laying around-
22 May
What would we do if God got the blues?
2 Jun
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#RememberingJoshua
Joshua’s Journey [in tweets] 5
March 2010
I’ve always believed in the Red Sea and Lightning Strike God. Lately I’ve been introduced to the Master of slow motion miracles…
1 Mar
out of surgery and on chemo
2 Mar
i’ve had the hiccups for 6 hours!!!
3 Mar
Approaching 8 hours of hiccups!!! I think I might have broke a rib:-)
3 Mar
Gonna try to fight the effects of this chemo off and take my mama on a well deserved date-
8 Mar
32 on a heart floor…that’s like 6 and on a date!!!
9 Mar
the only women all over me are chemo clad angels…and that is so perfect with me!!!
9 Mar
don’t we all at some point feel like the guy in the runaway Prius?
10 Mar
TAKE ME UP TO HEAVEN THE PLACE I WANNA BE TAKE ME UP TO HEAVEN AND WASH THE WORLD OFF OF ME
11 Mar
Fever followed by frosty platelets and 3 units of warm blood-
12 Mar
breakfast is government issued fruit loops-
15 Mar
I just have a sneaky feelin’ I could whup Harry Potter’s butt-
16 Mar
When I get past beating this leukemia… I’m gonna drive to Mississippi, climb to the top of a magnolia tree and tweet!!!
20 Mar
6 months ago docs said I had 38 months to live. Now they are tellin me what to tell my grandchildren! Is there anything too hard for God?
27 Mar
I slept all day. Hickman line was bleeding and i was throwing up. Glad to be home… but today I look and feel like a cancer patient.
27 Mar
Admitted to Baptist hospital, getting 4 units of blood. Could barely hold my head up…my body just stopped making blood- cancer sucks!!!
29 Mar
i dropped 3 golf balls in my front yard and hit 3 perfect wedge shots at a tree across the field…i need to lay in bed for weeks more often
30 Mar
Headed to Sony for a visit with my publisher…then on to Dr. Couriel and his crew stabbing me with needles- both trying to keep me alive!
31 Mar
Just had my finger stuck to check sugar levels…my ultra cool nurse gave me a Spiderman band-aid!!! (I swear I feel stronger)
31 Mar
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