Christmas Decorations

That is not our house.....

But in preparing to decorate for Christmas today, we remembered that a whole large plastic container of our Christmas decorations was stolen out of our driveway last year. So, if any of you have any extra decorations that you aren't using, we would love to borrow them for the holidays! You can send me an email @ wes@rockthecross.net if you do!

Merry Christmas everyone!

W

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Holiday Traditions

So, after a little bit of excitement tonight, the girls and I are settled in watching ELF, preparing to trim the tree and start decorating the house tomorrow afternoon. Over the past few years we have tried to make a conscious effort to start our own holiday traditions, including:

Waffle House and It's A Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve
Walking Nativity at a local church
and our favorite new tradition, The Brawner Family Congloma-feast (everyone picks a food item, no matter what it is, and we eat)

So, what are some of your family traditions?

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Holiday Traditions

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So, after a little bit of excitement tonight, the girls and I are settled in watching ELF, preparing to trim the tree and start decorating the house tomorrow afternoon. Over the past few years we have tried to make a conscious effort to start our own holiday traditions, including:

Waffle House and It's A Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve
Walking Nativity at a local church
and our favorite new tradition, The Brawner Family Congloma-feast (everyone picks a food item, no matter what it is, and we eat)

So, what are some of your family traditions?

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Follow Friday 2.0 #ff

I've noticed that Follow Friday has become a way for some people to shove as many twitter names into 140 characters as possible. I personally like the route some of my friends, like @dmosley have taken, actually giving a reason to follow someone. So, this is my first attempt at a little deeper follow friday.

1. @dmosley:for suggesting the new follow friday. Great guy, with a big heart for God

2. @chownage:his simple plan helped me clean up my inbox and de-stress my digital life. Also, doing some awesome work with Help Portrait

3. @ashleybrawner: shes my wife, shes hot, and shes a totally rad photog....

Thats all for now!

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Do we really need....

a "christian" twitter....

Do we really need a way to isolate ourselves from the world even more? ChristianChirp.com opened earlier this week, to much controversy. And after watching his "podcast" (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2489665) and hearing James Paris, the founder of CC, compare himself to John Rambo... I'm convinced that we don't need it...

What about you?

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Perspective

(Inspired by Carlos Whittaker's post of the same name http://www.ragamuffinsoul.com/2009/09/perspective/ )
If you follow me on Twitter or are a friend on Facebook, you know that the last few days have been pretty difficult for myself and my family. Some of it culminated on Sunday night, and the result is shown above. After picking up Kaeleigh from class at church, my Macbook fell out of my backpack, which I had neglected to zip up....

But see, I think it was to teach me a lesson....

You see, earlier in the evening, I was concentrating on all of the wrong things in Small Group (books-a-million ordered the wrong book, should i get my fan fixed tomorrow, how much I needed to work that night, etc.) and not on the fact that I was there to learn, listen, and set an example for others. So, in my distraction I caused 1200 in damage. And after careful consideration, I won't be fixing it right now for obvious reasons. It serves as a reminder...

My computer can break, be stolen, stop working... Is that more important than Christ?
My work may be overwhelming sometimes to the point of exhaustion... But am I spending time with my family?
People may make mistakes... but should that change my mindset when I worship?

That dent serves as a reminder to me that Christ is in control. Through all of the good times and the bad ones. And through that, Christ has helped me find a new focus in life, and put me on a new path, for a new journey.

I'm ready for the journey... are you?

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