Random Thoughts of a Supersmock

Buenos días, me llamo Heather Buck and let me tell you my Spanish speaking abilities pretty much end there.  I have been invited to talk to give you a short testimony of our recent trip to La Ceiba, Honduras… I,  like many of you, I have been following and praying for Shannon Innes de Ordonez (Or Don Yez)’s life and ministry through her facebook, her blog and e-newsletters for five years now... (Back story for those of you that don’t know Shannon, she grew up here at Peace, was a critical member of the youth department, and is now a full time missionary for MTW in La Ceiba, Honduras), So going on the Peace Honduras Mission trip just a few weeks ago has truly helped me appreciate why she is there and what her team is doing to advance God’s Kingdom in La Cieba, Honduras.  When Peace announced sending another mission team to Honduras, both Tim and I felt the uttermost desire to go instantly.  But I had no idea how God was going to use me or what he...

In my weekly work activities I have to validate posts from Blackbaud's Raiser Edge and Financial Edge.  This is something that the database system has set up to make sure what you "set as stone" is correct.  That there aren’t any errors in your action.  It validates the success of your work.  In a way its saying "you got it" or "you are able to proceed."    Wouldn't it be nice if we could "validate" our actions? Prior t o actually making them?    If we could test it out prior to doing something, which could result in either a good or bad aftermath. If only we could have the evidence and proof that our best efforts are good enough (which are really never good enough.)  Furthermore, in life, don't we often look for often look for such validation from the world around us?   We want the world to tell us we are doing it right,  and we are successful in our best efforts.  I know I do.  Yet, deep down I know tha...

Every now and then, I decide to throw myself the biggest PITY party of the year. I start to think of all the things that constantly go wrong with my life.  The kind of things like: I don't get to be a cool stay home mom, like some of my friends. Or why am I always the one that has to run the vacuum? I feel sorry for the things that I don't have. Why won't my hair just look as pretty as hers?  I get sad about not having the same things as others. (Bigger houses or nicer cars)  I also get frustrated at the choices I make which often leave me wishing I had more time or energy to do other things. (going to school rather than a women's fellowship/bible study.) I know that my husband hates when I get this way, because I will want to renovate the entire bathroom and they cry that I don't have a bathroom as it has taken longer to put back together again. Women are such gentle beings and I know that we need to be cared for in special ways.  I know this...

Have you ever done something in your life, and instantly you knew there was no turning back and you made the wrong decision. I recently had a friend make a decision that changed her course on life and at first I thought it was a big mistake.  It's simply amazing how we make decisions and they can be perceived in many different ways.  Right.  Wrong.  Indifferent.   It made me think about some of the things I felt that I have done correctly or wrongly over the course of my life.  Sure, I haven't made any HUGE mistakes that I regret, but I often wonder if God is up there watching our Game Show life... screaming "Pick Curtain A, Pick Curtain A."  Only for us to choose curtain B.   I know we have a choice - free will and most of us learn to make the better choices by trial by error.   Theodore Roosevelt said, “The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.” If you really think about most of the great s...

I get very random advertisements since I click all over the web and I found this one that made me chuckle. It's the Unfriend App. http://www.unfriendapp.com/lp_bold01.html?itype=QC2&pid=267&ts=TS3012&utm_source=Adwords&utm_medium=Display&utm_content=AC3075&utm_campaign=CPN8803 It tells you who on fb has unfriend you and who has deleted their account.  I admit I unfriend people.  A few years back I had gotten overwhelmed with the social networking and I was going to delete my account.  I prayed about it and thought the best solution was to delete half of my 500 so called friends and narrow down to who I really wanted to be friends with.  I think in a way, it backfired on me and I made the wrong decision. I learned that it's not Christ like to unfriend anyone,   ever .  Jesus never unfriend people and when we are called to live like him, we should not accept a friendship without consideration of what it means to be a ...

Do you know someone where just the sound of their voice evokes a reaction?  I have a few people in my life that just hearing them speak makes me   shriek . Want to hide under my desk or run away because it's not that I dislike them, I just dislike when they speak. There have been many times I am sure people felt the same way about me.  I didn't always have poise and grace. And often times, more often than not, I would say the stupidest things.  I am sure my voice, at many times made people shriek. But why is that?  What do we get so consumed by what people have to say or not say, or how the way they say it? Since the beginning of time our voices have gotten us in trouble.  In the garden God rebukes Adam and Eve by saying  “Because you have listened to the  voice  of your wife and have eaten of the tree..."  (Gen 3:17)  I often wondered if I find myself more agitated because of what the person is saying or how the ...

Recently, I attended a celebration event for my place of employment.  This prestigious event was celebrating 50 years of our being a part of the community, and the only reason I was invited was because I was helping put on the event.  Nevertheless, I was required to dress in cocktail attire.  I had no idea what cocktail attire was and I knew that I didn’t own anything in my closet that would be appropriate for this event. If you know me at all, you know that I am not a flashy fashion guru.  I happen to also be pretty cheap and nine times out of ten, I don’t buy clothes brand new either.  So I went online and searched cocktail dresses and I scoffed .  It sort of made me sad to think that dresses these days are not much of a dress at all – short and skimpy.  I was also not about to spend $100 on a dress, that I knew I wasn’t going to wear often at all. So when I kissed my husband goodbye to head to the store, he told me what he thought I should s...