My new small group at LCC is challenging us with memorizing verses. I think the easiest ones to memorize are the ones you pick yourself. Here's mine for this week:

Psalm 119:9-11

9How can a young man cleanse his way?
By taking heed according to Your word.
10With my whole heart I have sought You;
Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!
11Your word I have hidden in my heart,
That I might not sin against You.

I'm not very good with memorizing verses, but I don't think it's due to a bad memory. If I can remember like 200 episodes of the Simpsons and all the dialogue from Monty Python's Holy Grail, then why can't I memorize some short passages from the Bible? It's a discipline.

I'm kinda hooked on the picture thing. I wonder what the limit on space is? Pictures in blogs are fun for those times when you want to read a blog, but you don't want to read alot.


Guess which one is my brother?

People often ask me if I'm the funny one in the family. I think we all have good senses of humor, but my brother, Micah, is the funniest person I know. He's been making me laugh his whole life.

Last weekend I went to an outdoor wedding. A lady played this song on a keyboard and had her sheet music just sitting there shaking in the wind. Wouldn't you know it just as she finishes the intro and the vocalist is about to begin, the sheet music falls down and now she has to go by memory. Luckily the music didn't blow away, so someone in the front row was able to set it up again fairly quick, but the damage was done. The music was a bit off and so was the vocalist. They both seemed to try to find each other in the song. Sometimes the music was ahead and sometimes the vocalist was ahead. The wedding was really low key though so I don't think it really mattered that much to the couple getting married. I think they were just happy to finally be at their wedding day. I still can't get that song out of my head though.

I don't know about you, but at a lot of weddings, I get these refrigerator magnets with a picture of the couple on them with the date of the wedding. Over some time, we collect quite a few of these (sometimes multiples of the same couple since my roommates get one too). So I'm staring at these magnets on our fridge and realize, "these people do not have a picture of me on their fridge", and I don't talk to them nearly enough to warrant having them on mine. So the solution is not to take theirs down, but to make a magnet of me and my roommates (or just me) and give it to them to put on their fridge. I figure some of these people owe me a couple years of display time at this point. Ha ha. Can you imagine, what would people think when they see 3 guys on a magnet? What would the date be? Or if I just made one of me, I could have a cool pose like the one in my profile pic, and the date could be my birthday or something. Yeah, watch out you married couples, I'm gonna be on your fridge soon! You owe me!