Things that go bump in the night...on my car

Om.....I'm just wondering if somebody shot at my car 23 minutes ago on my way home....a bit shaken up. On the freeway, shortly before my exit, I was in the left lane, and another car was in the right lane. About a half mile before my exit. It was either slow down to 60 and ride this person's tail, or speed up to 70 and go in front of them. I did the latter. And I wasn't a jerk about it either. Turning right off the freeway onto 162...the person takes the right, too, and they're behind me. They don't act mad or aggressive. They're not tailing me. But then I hear a LOUD metallic sound like something hit my car on the right. Did my tire blow out? Did I get shot? The people behind me take a right (but they weren't screeching, nor did I notice someone leaning out a window. It didn't look like a gangster car, either. And this is Orting, not east Tacoma) into a subdivision and I keep going... wondering what the heck and will my tire go flat? I'm still shaky. I get home and look over my car. Tire seems fine. There is a mark on the right front side, above passenger door. Was that there before, or did a bullet leave a groove as it skimmed by? I didn't want to wake up Chris. I'm glad I'm ok, but frustrated by thinking the worst and knowing I may never know the truth.

Has anyone heard of letterboxing...or geocaching? Geocaching involves using a GPS device to "treasure hunt" stuff people have hidden and recorded. I always thought it sounded fun, but never wanted to spend on the GPS. Well, recently, Zach stumbled across a letterbox find. We were walking on the levee nearby, and he was looking under boulders for critters. He found a salamander under one, and under the other one was a small, clear plastic box. Inside it was a tiny homemade? notebook and a homemade shamrock stamp. There were pages which people had stamped with the date and their own homemade stamp. At the end was a website, Atlasquest.com. When we checked it out, we found out there were quite a few other letterboxes hidden along the levee--a shamrock series. The website listed the clues, and when you find them, you log your finds. And of course, you're supposed to make your own stamp so you can stamp the little books. We got a kit for 12.00 at Michael's. I thought Zach would want to do it, but I ended up making a stamp of the back of our dog's head and another one with our user name, Naturefreak. After that one find, we did go back and found 3 more. There's still a few more to find, and I printed the clues for some other series of letterboxes in Orting and nearby Graham. Even though there is no cash, it's really fun...and free! Atlasquest.com is an international thing, so anybody that looks would probably find something in their area!

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new!" A. Dean
From one of my favorite blogs at http://www.xanga.com/resolved2worship

I am sitting down with my dinner of birthday cake and ice cream after resting for 3 hours--my Sunday highlight of the week nap. Hannah Montana was as difficult to sit through as I was afraid it would be. We went there at 1:00 and watched 5 minutes of it before the fire alarm went off. And it really was a fire. I think maybe the popcorn machine burned, because there were bad burned popcorn smells when we arrived. So, I had to take everyone back to our house and GO BACK LATER at 7:30. I punched out as soon as I got home. Headed,exhausted, straight for a bubble bath.
Kristi and Dennis stopped by at 3:00 and had coffee and cake with us and watched Zoe open her gifts. Good to see them!

The realtor will stop by Tuesday to take pictures of our house so it can be listed. Yikes!

Our pastor talked about the fight of faith this morning. I do stumble with the faith thing, because I ask myself, What am I trusting God FOR? What am I believing about and for? You can't really say, Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and He will work out YOUR plans and WISHES as quickly and as smoothly as possible. The definition of faith the pastor gave today, that he had us repeat after each verse he read about faith is REALLY GOOD:
Faith is complete TRUST in God, His CHARACTER, His WORD, and His WILL for me; because of His LOVE for me, regardless of the OUTCOME.
He talked about the people in the Bible who died without seeing the promises fulfilled, and how God WILL "disappoint" us....when we hope He will meet OUR expectations.
During first service, He was saying something like, "When we lift up our worship and praise to God, it's like incense going up to God, and He causes lightning to be hurled upon the earth." I was like, "What?!" I looked it up, and in Rev. 8:3-5, it does talk about it. There was a man I don't know there, who didn't want to be there praising, because his daughter has kidney failure, and it's a serious, scary thing, with "no hope." Well, after pastor said the thing about the praise and the lightning, this man had a vision that lightning came down from Heaven to/on his daughter! I expect we will hear an exciting update on her health.

Zoe is 10 today. I am taking her, Jessie, and 3 pals to the Hannah Montana 3D movie on Saturday. Oh joy. No, I am not looking forward to it. I got her all excited about it, because, duh, 10 year old girls like the chick. And then I find out that tickets are 15.00 instead of 7.50 cuz of the 3D. Sheesh!!!!

I asked God if He could break off just a chunk of my eternal reward that I could enjoy NOW, if there could be some prosperity and easier times around the corner. I was talking to him on my way home from work, in the dark, wee hours, as I often do. I asked Him if I whined too much, and what he looked like, and was he in the car with me, and could he say something, anything, to me. I told him I really looked forward to seeing him someday, and how was my mansion coming along. That I don't really deserve or need a mansion. That just to BE THERE, safe, in a beautiful, peaceful, perfect environment, where HE WAS, and where there was no worry or extreme fatigue, or sin, or ugliness, would be worth SO MUCH!!!! Does anyone else have outrageous conversations like these at Jesus? I really want him to like me. I hope I make him smile sometimes.