I'm still here!  Anyone out there?

Hello Xangaland friends!  K~ so I have to show you all the cuteness of these Chucks!!!  Awww!  They're so little!  Thanks to Sylvia...our baby's gonna have the coolest shoes in town!  Baby's due in 5 days...I think some are praying for tomorrow! 7/07/07

I've sorta been taking a sabatical from the computer...I don't like that I spend so much time staring at it...and I don't think it is good for my eyes either.  Do you ever feel like you are getting one sided information?  Even if it is not purposefully done, but the people you hear it from have also heard it from someone who heard it from someone else and on and on until you reach the ultimate single sided informant.  Not even just hearing it but reading one-sided information...I have steeped myself in evangelical 411!  Do you know what that has made me?  An evangelical clone!  (When I say evangelical I mean whatever information that is acceptable to the general evangelical belief approved by E-Free, Baptist, Non-denominational, Berean, etc.)  I'm sorry if this offends some of you...it isn't on purpose and I am not saying that I entirely disagree with evangelical scholars, but I have realized that there are other opinions worth hearing.  Those opinions may also be one-sided, but at least then I have two sides of the story!  When I first became a believer I was so open to hearing whoever wanted to tell me their opinion and I didn't always believe them, but I did listen and processed the information.  Then I started going to an evangelical church and slowly (I suppose some may say quickly) became less and less open to listening and more and more one-sided.  When someone suggested something that opposed evangelical information or was slightly off, I would immediately become irritated or defensive.  For this I was often supported and sometime praised for my way of thinking.  First of all--not loving.  Second of all--what did I learn?  Nothing!  Because I refuse to listen.  Since I have been thinking about these things I have also noticed that there is an evangelical lingo...Most evangelical scholars sound the same...they speak the same!  A little disconcerting.  But I suppose it happens in many different circles.  I have resolved to let Jesus be my guide...which I should have done in the first place, but somehow it slipped away amidst the bombardment of information. 

"and anyone who does not take his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me.  Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses His life for My sake will find it." ~ Matthew 10:38-39

O.k.  I'm done!   ta ta for now!  for those of you who speak computer, ttfn!