3 Blogs in one night!

I must be making up for lost time. Julie tagged me so I guess I have to do this...

5 things I plan (Lord willing) to do before I die:
1. Stand in time Square
2. Have Children
3. Dive in Australia
4. Own a home with lots of land
5. Write a novel

5 things I can do:
1. Make people laugh
2. Make Great Desserts
3. Talk to 50,000 people at a time without the least bit of nervousness.
4. Tell a great Story
5. Tell others about Jesus

5 things I cannot do (yet):
1. Create a decent phoner out of the people that call me at 3 in the morning... Drunk
2. Keep my car clean
3. Paint
4. Talk slowly on the air.
5. Find out who my dads grandparents were.

5 things that attract me to the opposite sex:
1. Sense of humor
2. Great eyes
3. Good Teeth (Smile)
4. Strong Christian
5. Smells Good

5 things I say most often:
1. Whatever
2. You know you love me
3. I wub you (with a really cute face)
4. ? (whatever) Rocks. (ie the click five rocks, you rock, i rock)
5. Groovieness

And since Julie and Ricky are the only one with blogs... I tag ricky!

Things to do while watching Lord of the Rings.

Ok, so I stole this off another blog but thought it was great. And had to post it here.

Block the entrance to the theater while screaming, "YOU.....SHALL....NOT..... PASS!"

Finish off every one of Elrond's lines with "Mis..ter Ander-sonnn."

Talk like Gollum all through the movie. At the end, bite off someone's finger and fall down the stairs.

Dress up as old ladies and reenact "The Battle of Helms Deep," Monty Python style.

Every time someone kills an Orc, yell: "That's what I'm Tolkien about!"

Release a jar of daddy-long-legs into the theater during the Shelob scene.

When Shelob comes on, exclaim, "Man! Charlotte's really let herself go!"

And my all time favorite thing to do...

In TTT when the Ents decide to march to war, stand up and shout, "RUN FOREST, RUN!"

Purity Part 2

Ok, so it's been a while coming but I've been really really busy. But, here's my second post on purity.

I want to start by saying I believe there are two levels of purity. The inner level of purity Gods grace gave to us when we become saved. Nothing can take that away from us. The second level of purity is what I am talking about. It more of a bodily purity, a purity above the salvation from sins that we received from God. (Having a hard time finding the right word... Above the salvation from sins does not mean that I think it is more important then the salvation from sins... It means in addition to, a purity not required for salvation but something we should do... If that doesn't make sense, please comment and I'll try to explain better)

In Oswald Chambers' My Utmost for His Highest it says, Purity is not innocence, it is much more than that. Purity is the result of continued spiritual harmony with God. That just completely speaks to me. I mean think about it. When most people think about purity they only look at the acts that make youimpuree. It's an innocence... Not doing something. This view of purity is very short sighted. I love the definition that Oswald Chambers gives, if it's a continued spiritual harmony with God, it's more then not doing something. It's workingtowardss a goal. I love the idea of taking a passive thing like most people think of purity, you know where nothing is required of you except not doing something, and turning it into an active step. It's reading the Bible, to be closer to God. It's praying always, to be closer to God. It's living a life that you don't mind being close to God with. The more you do the things that will bring you closer to God, the more purity you obtain.

I am still trying to wrap my mind around this concept of purity...It'ss not one I have thoughta lott about other then "Don't have sex before you're married." and "Porn is bad" But the idea that purity is not just not doing something...It'ss actually doing something...Iss very new to me. Give me time...Maybee I'll be able to explain it better.

What's going on in my life.
Ok, now on to normal stuff...What'ss going on in Wendi's life? Well, I am workinga lott. Our national headquarters for Metrotraffic is in Houston so it will make my job very difficult as all of our servers are there, and we only have enough backup power for 4 hours. Not to mention all of the people that keep that stuff up and running are evacuating. So if you're traffic isn't as good as usual, Sorry, blame it on Rita. Also, please pray for the people there. A lot of them are good people that I would hate to see something happen to.

VERY cool contest coming up on WAPE. I can't tell you what it is but you should all listen next week. And the new Harry Potter movie is coming out in Nov. (Yes I am a Christian who likes Harry Potter... sue me) I can't wait. That's about it... not much excitement going on here.

Purity

So, a friend of mine, who believes in saving sex until marriage, just met a new girl. He likes her but is kind of worried cause she's more experienced then him. Although they have only been on a few dates and are not exclusive (they both are they just won't tell each other that... LOL) they have already had "the talk" You know the one where he explains that he's a virgin and is going to stay that way, with out making her feel like a whore for not being one. He asked me today what to do because she keeps wanting to come over to his apartment, but he is afraid that if they are alone there together something might happen. My first thought was, don't date a girl who doesn't have your beliefs and morals and you won't have that problem. But, I'm not exactly an expert on dating so I told him the only thing I knew to, tell her the truth. What girl wouldn't want to hear that he likes her so much and finds her so attractive that he might not be able to control himself if she wanted to. His solution is to just keep taking her out places and meeting there or at work or anywhere that's not his or her apartment. Hey, it works. If they aren't alone they can't do anything they shouldn't right?

So, this conversation got me thinking. Why should we be pure? I'm not just talking about sexual purity, cause most of the people that are reading this are my friends, and they're already married. I'm talking about purity in general. Purity in what we do, what we see, what we think. Why is that important? The Bible says in Philemon 4:8 "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things." So, the Bible tells us to, and that's a very good reason. But, why does the Bible tell us to be pure? I am a firm believer that God didn't just put stuff in there to be mean. He had a purpose for every word in it.

One reason God wants us to remain pure, (as in sexual purity) is because of the many many problems that comes along with sex. I have been told by almost everyone, that when you have sex, even casual sex, that there is a bond that occurs. A closeness to that person. The more people you have casual sex with, the weaker that bond becomes each time. So, who wants to have a lot of casual sex, then miss out on the special bond with the one person we love enough to marry? Not to mention the diseases, and pregnancy that can occur.

I think the main reason we should strive to be pure though, is because once we see or do something that is impure, it's very hard to stop thinking about it. I mean, almost everyone has seen porn on the internet, whether we have meant to or not. Or maybe your friends buy a Play Girl mag and trick you into looking at it. (Sorry Julie) Or maybe you lied to a friend or cheated someone at work. Every time you're around the person you lied to, you remember that time. God doesn't want us to dwell on those things. He would rather we dwell on Him. So He tells us to be pure.

If we do what's right, think what's right, we'll spend more time thinking about Him. And lets face it, Honoring God is the greatest reason for remaining pure.

I may erase some of this if the person that it's about reads it and sends me a nasty email about posting his personal conversations for all to see. I'll probably do some more blogs on Purity... Cause it's really interesting to me right now. We'll see.

Thank God for the problems.

So much has happened since I posted last. I FINALLY got my computer up and running. It's SUPER FAST! It took sooo much to get it working, (mostly cause I'm kinda slow) But now that it is... all of the hard work was worth it. That's kinda what I was thinking about today. How most of my life I have had stuff handed to me. I am usually pretty good at whatever I set my mind to being good at. (Except singing... I can't wait to get to Heaven so I will have a good voice!) But I feel like those things that I have to work the hardest for, like getting my computer working, are the things I appriciate most.

So much of our time is spent complaining about how hard something is. Everyone always wants things to be easy. Staples even has a commercial about the "easy button". We all want one. But I think that all that time we spend complaining about hard work, would be better spent thanking God for allowing us to have tribulations. Yes, it can be hard, but if everything was easy, you would never know the satisfaction of acomplishing something. There's a little thrill I get every time I work hard to figure out a problem and come up with a good solution. And as frustrated as I get when I have problems. I try to be thankful for them because they make me realize how good the good times really are.

My new car!

One of the first things you learn in radio is that if you're going to tease the listener (and if you want them to keep listening you're going to.) you have to come through with whatever you said you would do. So... Here's my new car.

Ok, I don't really have it yet, but I have decided which one I am getting...

This is the front of it!


This is the Back of it.



I personally think it's the coolest car in the world. Now I just have to find it with the right options. I may get a blue one instead of a red one.

My heart hurts.

Well, I thought and thought whether I should post this or not. Because it's more personal then I would normally post on a public blog site. But I am actually hoping that the person who this is written about finds it one day and thinks a little. I recently read a blog of an ex friend. One who used to be my very best friend in the world. I won't go into the whole why the friendship ended thing, but basically, we just went our separate ways. She said some really hateful things about me, things that are not true, but I guess she can change the past in her mind if she wants to. Apparently her and her new best friend think it's great fun to make fun of me and other people neither of them really know on her blog. I happen to know one of the other people she wrote about very well, and she is an incredible person. I am going to take a note from Julie and use the letter A to talk about her, because unlike A I am not writing this to publicly humiliate her. Now, to A.

I am sorry if you are not a happy person. In case you didn't know, my life is going pretty great right now. I am working at a job I love, doing what I have wanted to do for a long time. And I am succeeding at it. Hopefully one day your life will be as good as mine. Then maybe you won't feel the need to hurt other people. You and I both know that the only reason you wrote that is because you are an unhappy person and wanted to hurt me. Nothing else could have come from it. It served no useful purpose. Even though we are no longer friends, I still cherish the memories of stuff we did together. Apparently you don't, and that's ok. I will pray for you that you find the happiness in your life that you deserve so that you won't feel the need to bring other people down to make yourself feel better.

I'm at work again!

Well once again I am at work. Different job this time. Now I'm at WAPE on the air. It's a great job. But I think I have said that in every single one of my posts. Is anyone else seeing a pattern? LOL. On to more important things.

So I've been really convicted lately that I haven't been attending church regularly. I tell myself that I'm just not comfortable at any of the ones I have been visiting, and I work overnights on the weekends so that makes it really difficult to get off work at 7 Sunday morning, then go to church. But I know that those are just excuses... And bad ones at that. I read my Bible all the time, like that will make up for not fellowshiping with other Christians, and learning from a preacher. I don't know, sometimes I think I should just go to the church that's closest to my house or the one closest to my work... I mean, we share a parking lot with a church for crying out loud... Shouldn't be too hard to make it there on Sunday... I can walk. But I find that most of the ones I visit don't follow my beliefs... Like women preachers or deacons. I just don't believe in that. Or they are too slow and boring... Or to upbeat and not worshipful enough. Or if the worship service is nice, the people aren't friendly enough, or they are too clingy. Ok ok... I know more excuses. Other then the not following my beliefs most of the other things could be overlooked. It's odd, sometimes I think that it is Satan putting those thoughts in my head to keep me from finding a place to worship, other times I think that maybe God is telling me that's not where he wants me. It's times like these I wish I had a husband... Not because I particularly want to be married right now (although I'm not opposed to the idea) I just want someone to tell me what to do. I want someone to make the choice for me. I know the only one who can make that choice for me is God, so I just pray that He will show me where He wants me to worship. I sometimes wonder if God would rather you not worship in a church at all or worship in one that doesn't follow His commandments. I'm guessing no church is better then one that's not Biblical. But I could be wrong. Who knows. I'll have to think it over some more and pray about it some more before Sunday. I'll let you know if I come to a conclusion.

My Life.

Well, here's my second post. And look, it's only taken me a month to do it. LOL. I am working at the traffic center right now, and it's completly boring. I hate paperwork. But it's better then being unemployed. Plus, I get to be on the air after 2 and that just rocks. So, what's going on in my life right now... hmm.

Went to dinner at Emma's and Ricky's last night. It was yummy and fun. I got to see Julie and Roy and their 5000 children. Ok, they only have five (this week) but it seems like five thousand. They are sweet and adorable kids so it's ok that there's a million of them. I also got to see Keith (Emma and Ricky's son) he's getting so big now. I had a really great time and hope we can all get together again soon.

I had to buy a new motherboard and processer for my computer. P4 3.4Ghz with an MSI motherboard and 512 megs of ram. $400 dollars. Seemed like a good deal to me. I could be getting ripped off cause I really didn't shop around. Just ordered it. LOL. We'll see. But I am very excited about having a MUCH faster computer.

And just so I don't put all the information in one post. (I'll have something to post about tomorrow) here's a teaser. I'm getting a new car. I'll post all the details of what kind, and if this thing will let me, I'll even post a pic. Now that's worth coming back for RIGHT?