Christ, Coffee, and Cornfields

  Soooooo when I started brainstorming about what to write for this post I was in the middle of a pretty rotten day and my post was essentially going to be a pity party for me. I was super tired, got up late, felt like nothing was quite right all day and finally tonight I was at a gathering of friends where I was not feeling accepted at all. It was sort of the last straw, and I was like, "God, what's the deal here? Why are these people not liking me when I've tried so hard for so long to be accepted by them?" It was rough. On my way home, I realized something that in the back of my mind I knew was the problem.   I didn't give God my life through prayer today.   Recently, I created a solid prayer life and my world has drastically changed since then. Whenever I don't pray, my whole day is off and I feel like everybody is against me. That's what the deal was today. I hadn't really prayed hard core the last couple days, just meal prayers and bedtime pr...

  I was picking basil in the garden today and I started thinking about the movie "The Incredibles" for some unknown reason. Here is what I came up with.    "The Incredibles" is a great movie that has many parallels to regular family life.    Bob and Helen have their own unique love story and are faithful to each other through thick and thin, but they do have spats every once in a while. Their kids are generally well behaved, but they each have their own insecurities and problems and they fight with each other just like normal siblings do. They work, go to school, and eat supper together. As much as they feel like they aren't, the Parrs are a fairly normal family.   Every family has their own secrets. The Parrs are superheros. That's a pretty big secret, but it is a secret all the same. One family might have crazy relatives in an asylum, another might struggle financially. It doesn't matter what the secret is, every family has at least one. The point ...