packing for an ego trip

AlphaSigma · 07-27-2009, 03:21 PM

Yeah well. There always be haters. I'd check him out. He's not my favorite and I certainly disagree with him on several things, but overall it's good for devotions and easy to watch.

OiBoyz · 07-28-2009, 01:31 AM

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The woman who is going to get the baby was flying in, calling every hour or so to check how mom and baby are doing. She may just make it in time to see the birth. I hope she does. She and her husband are so excited about this baby.

She made it by about 40 minutes. When I stopped by this evening (I had the night off) the new daddy was in the nursery giving his new son a bath. Very sweet. He's gorgeous and perfect even if he was 3 weeks early.

Both mom and babe are fine. And both families are doing well. God is good.

AlphaSigma · 07-28-2009, 09:17 AM

Premes are so tiny, but you said that he was healthy size?

OiBoyz · 07-28-2009, 03:34 PM

Yes, he was a little over five pounds. Breathing is good, peeing, pooping, eating. All the stuff a baby needs to do.

OiBoyz · 07-29-2009, 02:43 PM

This is one of the reasons I love this place. Where else can you talk about Total Depravity, Arizona Iced Tea and WinXP problems?

OiBoyz · 07-30-2009, 03:07 AM

Ah... today's my Friday. I'm off til Saturday. Which is a mixed blessing at best. Work is my sane place. Home? Not so much.

**dogfood** · 07-30-2009, 05:15 AM

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This is one of the reasons I love this place. Where else can you talk about Total Depravity, Arizona Iced Tea and WinXP problems?

least you have experienced Arizona Iced Tea, im only second guessing.

AlphaSigma · 07-30-2009, 01:15 PM

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This is one of the reasons I love this place. Where else can you talk about Total Depravity, Arizona Iced Tea and WinXP problems?

Don't forget beer. We had a gentlemen on that thread in GD who couldn't understand how a Christian forum site could talk about smoking and drinking. He then decided to spam his own Christian guitar site. Kinda funny, actually.

OiBoyz · 07-30-2009, 03:08 PM

He spammed his own site?

Beer... I kinda think Jesus would enjoy a good beer now and again. Ice cold after a day of walking on the Galilee.

OiBoyz · 07-31-2009, 02:00 PM

My boss asked me last month to attend a meeting. My hospital (and pretty much every other hospital and financial institution) is having to have deal with the federal Red Flag Law. Basically it deals with identity theft protection. How you know if your customer files have been compromised and what you do when/if your security is breached.

So this "meeting" was actually a committee, and it sounds like it's going to morph into a committee that will be dealing with a lot of HIPPA and EMTALA policies. Oh joy. Hey, just bookmark this post when you need something to put you to sleep.

I guess it's a good thing when your boss values your opinion, and is willing to authorize extra time. But I'd rather be on the Code Review Committee. (Reviews respiratory/cardiac arrests, trauma cases, how they were treated, what was done right, what could have been done better.)

But no... my committee is just a big ol' snooze. And worse than that I had to listen to 20 minutes of our IT guy going over an outline of his "security" procedures (only three of the nine or so steps he outlined has he actually implemented.) This little outline probably took him two minutes to type up. He left it vague so we could fill it in later as needed. Translation: I just whipped this up in a couple of minutes because I knew I had to have something for this meeting that I've been blowing off. So I'll just throw something together and hope that no one notices that I expect the committee to fill in the details of what I do later, because I can't be bothered. And it's not like the computer security is a huge piece of this whole thing. Oh wait. It is.

OiBoyz · 08-01-2009, 02:09 AM

Have I mentioned how much I love Friday night worship and Bible Study? It's probably the highlight of my week. Tonight was no exception. Once a month we do Communion. Tonight was the night. But I had forgotten to ask one of them to be prepared with something to say. So as I was driving out, I was thinking about it and asked the Lord which one I should ask tonight, who wouldn't be too put off at having NO TIME to prepare. Then I thought about "Gary." He's one of those guys that doesn't talk much, but when he does you really should be taking notes. And he's not shy, so he'd probably be willing to do it.

I walk in the door, and "Gary" practically runs out to talk to me. "If you don't mind, I have something I'd really like to share tonight." So I told him about my little talk with the Lord on the way out. He thought that was wonderful.

So he showed me what he wanted to share. He wanted to talk about The Shema, and sing it, and talk about it's significance. He also wanted to talk about the Moshiach Blessing. Which I hadn't heard before, and I can't find it online to share. He talked about how listening to God (the Shema) and the coming of the Messiah are all tied up in the Lord's supper. Then he sang the Shema. I wish I could have recorded it, because my description doesn't do what he said any justice.

Then we had Communion and a wonderful, sweet time of worship. It's been such a stressful week, and the weather's been hot, and everyone's temper is short. But just being able to have a great time of fellowship tonight just refreshed my spirit.

I also had a really interesting discussion with one of the guys. I was telling him about some of the discussions we've been having on the forum here about Calvinism and Arminianism, and we talked about how we understood these doctrines and the Scripture regarding both ideas.

He explained to me that he doesn't have a problem reconciling both things. He sees Calvinism as being from God's point of view, Arminianism as being from the believer's point of view. We had a great discussion. It's not often that I've been able to dive into the deep end and talk Scripture. I can probably count the number of times in my life on both hands and have fingers left over. It was fun.

Yep. I love Friday nights.

Oh, forgot to add... "Andy" gave me the copy of the speech he wrote for the volunteer appreciation service.

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I just want to thank (list of names.) You all provide an invaluable service to all of us. You bring us a ray of sunshine in the darkness of prison. Without the services and time you provide so selflessly to us, many of the people here would stray from their walk with God. I know that I myself would not be the person I am today if it had not been for all of you. Frankly, without your help, everything would fall apart here in the chapel. While you could be out doing anything else with you time, you choose to be here with us and show us that someone cares. Thank you so very much.

Love and Respect,
"Andy"

**dogfood** · 08-01-2009, 06:03 AM

i used to be involved with prision ministry here in new zealand.
the thing i like about church, is that you can go anywhere on earth meet with really different people who are so really different and yet find a common bond with them.
and prison was no different to the churches i have been to in other countries.

AlphaSigma · 08-01-2009, 02:37 PM

That's the wonderful kaleidoscope, which is the body of Christ. So many different perspectives, traditions, and rituals. I love getting outside the 'western' church to see how other people process their relationship to Christ. ALl too often, I think theology centers on European history and tradition.

I think it's cool how you guys incorporated The Shema. Especially when you can explore the significance behind it to bring yourself and others into a closer relationship with God, Father, Christ, YHWH, etc.

OiBoyz · 08-03-2009, 03:02 AM

It seems like I've been seeing a lot of hurting people lately. I don't know if I'm just more sensitive to it recently, or if more of them have been crossing my path.

A 19 year old kid, diabetic, nearly died at our hospital yesterday. He had found his mother dead just a few days before. He was in really bad shape in our ER, and his step dad was just yelling at him about not needing to put up with his bullsh@t now, and he was going to just leave him and go take care of his business.

Both of them were so clearly hurting and desperately lost.

AlphaSigma · 08-03-2009, 08:58 AM

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It seems like I've been seeing a lot of hurting people lately. I don't know if I'm just more sensitive to it recently, or if more of them have been crossing my path.

A 19 year old kid, diabetic, nearly died at our hospital yesterday. He had found his mother dead just a few days before. He was in really bad shape in our ER, and his step dad was just yelling at him about not needing to put up with his bullsh@t now, and he was going to just leave him and go take care of his business.

Both of them were so clearly hurting and desperately lost.

Reminds me of Matthew 9:12-13.