"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
I can always tell if I haven’t had a Skype date with my niece in a while. If I’ve watched the video of the song “Perfect” by Colleen Nixon more than three times in a day, then I’m overdue. Today I’ve watched it five times… :-/
My friend Jenna, a life-long lover of Ryan Gosling, sent me a link to Eastern Orthodox Ryan Gosling, a variant on the Hey Girl meme. Here were some of my favourites:
This put a smile on my face this morning, Pope John Paul II singing Taio Cruz’s song Dynamite 🙂
(If you like this, check out the Maccabeat’s version of the song)
1. It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one.
2. People are funny; they want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church.
3. Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited until you try to sit in their pews.
4. Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers.
5. The good Lord didn’t create anything without a purpose, but mosquitoes come close.
6. Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever.
7. Quit griping about your church; if it was perfect, you couldn’t belong.
8. If your church wants a better Minister, it only needs to pray for the one it has.
9. God Himself does not propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should you? We were called to be witnesses, not lawyers or judges
10. Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
11. Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
12. Forbidden fruits create many jams.
13. God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
14. God grades on the cross, not the curve.
15. God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage.
16. The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power behind us.
(Just in case you don’t get the reference, it comes from Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Last month I went to the Catholic Answers Gala. Patrick Coffin was the Master of Ceremonies and introduced Tim Staples, the Director of Apologetics and Evangelization, with a series of Chuck Norris-like praises. I thought they deserved to be turned into memes:
Last night I spent the evening teaching Pam’s Youth Group how to swing dance (my voice has just about recovered!).
We wanted to kick things off by showing them a clip of swing dancing so they could see this style of dance in all its glory. We ended up showing them a clip from Swing Kids. I had wanted to show them another video but I couldn’t find it…until this morning:
I literally cannot watch this video without smiling 🙂