10 Random Questions You'Ve Never Thought of Asking

1. Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?

2. Why is the man who invests all your money called a 'broker'?

3. Do bald men wash their head with soap or shampoo?

4. What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?

5. Why are the obituaries found in the "living" section of the newspaper?

6. Are one handed people offended when police tell them to put their hands up?

7. How can sweet and sour sauce be sweet and sour at the same time?

8. I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

9. If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP?

10. What if you're in hell, and you're mad at someone, where do you tell them to go?

Life is Random

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie
7. Send it back to me please and to all your friends with your songs in it!!

OPENING CREDITS: Not to us - Chris Tomlin
WAKING UP: Breathe - Anna Nalick
FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL: Everybody wants you - Josh Kelley
FALLING IN LOVE: I can't make me - Butterfly Boucher
FIGHT SONG: Barrel of a gun - Guster
BREAKING UP: Goodnight and go - Imogen Heap
PROM: Harness and wheel - Kingsbury Manx
LIFE'S OKAY: Tear by tear - Sister Hazel
MENTAL BREAKDOWN: Staple it together - Jack Johnson
DRIVING: Found - Hillsong
FLASHBACK: Tell me what it takes - Lucero
GETTING BACK TOGETHER: Before he cheats - Carrie Underwood
WEDDING: For blue skies - Strays Don't Sleep
BIRTH OF CHILD: All kinds of time - Fountains of Wayne
FINAL BATTLE: Outside - Staind
DEATH SCENE: She will be loved - Maroon 5
FUNERAL SONG: Suddenly I see - KT Tunstall
END CREDITS: Love song - Jason Morant

What Every Girl Should Know

Her face is a map of the world
Is a map of the world
You can see she's a beautiful girl
She's a beautiful girl
And everything around her is a silver pool of light
The people who surround her feel the benefit of it
It makes you calm
She holds you captivated in her palm

Suddenly I see
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see
Why the hell it means so much to me

I feel like walking the world
Like walking the world
You can hear she's a beautiful girl
She's a beautiful girl
She fills up every corner like she's born in black and white
Makes you feel warmer when you're trying to remember
What you heard
She likes to leave you hanging on a word

Suddenly I see
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see
Why the hell it means so much to me

And she's taller than most
And she's looking at me
I can see her eyes looking from a page in a magazine
Oh she makes me feel like I could be a tower
A big strong tower

She got the power to be
The power to give
The power to see
Yea yea
Suddenly I see

Suddenly I see
This is what I wanna be
Suddenly I see
Why the hell it means so much to me

-Suddenly I See by KT Tunstall-

(Thanks Sarah for sharing this song with me and make me look again and again at the lyrics!)

I Hope You Dance

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty-handed
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance...I hope you dance

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin' might mean takin' chances but they're worth takin'
Lovin' might be a mistake but it's worth makin'
Don't let some hell-bent heart leave you bitter
When you come close to sellin' out reconsider
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance

Mountains

Let's talk about mountains. You start
climbing one, you toil, you sweat, you finally
reach the top, and what do you get? Well,
along with a sense of accomplishment, of
peace, of a job well done, along with the
satisfaction of doing what you set out to do.
...you get a great view of the next mountain.
Looming. Challenging. Calling your name.

But wait! Don't feel like you have to take on that next
mountain yet. Let's dwell on this one for a while. Lay
there with your hands stretched out behind your head.
Watch the clouds running across the sky and tell yourself
you're on top of the world because in a sense you are. Just
be for now, for you. Then, when you're ready...pick
yourself up, dust yourself off, put that pack on your back,
and start climbing down. One foot in front of the other,
that's all you can do. This walk never ends, you know.
There's always another mountain. That's what makes life
thrilling and you breathless.

There are days, there are times, when you feel like you've
walked so far, when the voice inside you is complaining that
it's all uphill, that it always will be. And then, after all
that, way beyond your blue horizon, you see the biggest
mountains you've ever seen, and you think, "I can't do that."

Well, I hope you always have somebody who tells you
that you can. Like I'm telling you now.

You know, I don't have any more answers that you have.
I waited until the end to tell you that. I'm as scared
as you are of just going through the motions in Life, of
not getting anywhere. All I know is that time really is a
wheel in constant motion, always rolling us along. Raise
your hand if you want to look back on your years and
wonder where those years have gone. You have to carpe
the diem. You have to seize the day. That is what I
hope for you, as you live ad as you love and as you
fill up your life's pages with your story. And it doesn't
matter if it's good enough for anyone else to read.
That's why it's called YOUR story.

And I Hope...

And I hope life's been treating you fair,
although it surely doesn't have to. And if it
hasn't, I hope you've been writing down those
troubles and travails. Because if you deny or
hide or stuff all those sharp edges down
inside, they're just going to keep cutting.
But if you deal (some might say duel)
with them, and put them in their place,
and tell them,
"You are not going to haunt me,"
they'll give up. Troubles are stubborn,
but you must be a little stubborn too or else
you wouldn't still be here.

That is why I like you.

What He Means

if there is grace in this world
if there is life on this earth
let us use it
let us see it
starting right now

can we be down with ourselves
respectful and mindful of one, of one another
your significant other, your sister, your brother

peace, love, more tolerance
faith, hope, trust in the same name of god
peace, love, more tolerance
faith, hope, trust in the same god in whose name we die for
take an innocent life for
that's not what he means
and it doesn't matter what book you read

is there a leaf, a prayer
cause judging and hearing your way
a weight on our minds to bear
a shame on our heads to wear

where is salvation in love
now that we have what we want
now that we have our world

peace, love, more tolerance
faith, hope, trust in the same god in whose name we die for
take an innocent life for
that's not what he means
and it doesn't matter what book you read

with a little bit of peace and a little bit of calm
acceptance is the key to all we know
what about a stir of compassion and lenience
what about some understanding
what about some sympathy

peace, love, more tolerance
faith, hope, trust in the same god in whose name we die for
take an innocent life forthat's not what he means
and it doesn't matter what book you read

freedom, kindness, warmth, deliverance
comfort, mostly redemption, redemption

peace, love, more tolerance
faith, hope, trust in the same god in whose name we die for
take an innocent life forthat's not what he means
and it doesn't matter what book you read

Things Who Strengthens Me

To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose. The earth spins at a 1000 miles an hour as we desperately try to keep from falling off. Like the first blush that winter signals a good migration, is there any warning of their arrival? A sign. A single event that set the chain into motion? Was it a whisper in God’s ear? Survive. Adopt. Escape. And if we could mark that single moment in time. That first hint of the prophecy of approaching danger. Would we have done anything differently? Or is it been stopped? Or is the die a long ago cast? And if we could go back after its cause to stop it from happening. Would we?

Philippians 4:13 --- I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

The road to success is not straight. There is a curve called Failure, a loop called Confusion, speed bumps called Friends, red lights called Enemies, caution lights called Family. You will have flats called Jobs. But, if you have a spare called Determination, an engine called Perseverance, insurance called Faith, a driver called Jesus, you will make it to a place called Success.

Risk Everything, Regret Nothing

Yesterday was just amazing, it felt if I live in this fairytale. After a really tough week, I just need that me-time. So I risk everything and went snowboarding...my wrist still a little stiff, just taped it up with a bandage from ski-patrol and I'm ready to go. That was the most amazing feeling, going down that trials, it's snowing the same time as the sun is shining, a true miracle. I felt so close to God. He made me smile from ear to ear!!

That was good quiet time, a pray, and talked to God while I'm in this beautiful nature of ours, snow and sun, can you ask for more?? That truly was a "regret nothing" day!

That reminds me of Zephaniah 3: 17 "The Lord, your God is with you, he is mighty to save. he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing."

The Weight Is A Gift

I'm listening to this song by Nada Surf called, "Always Love" and there's this lyric..."To make a mountain of your life is just a choice." How true is that, lately I've been making mine into Mount Everest. There's a lot of stuff happening and I've been letting it get to me. Have you ever had something that you just knew it was true, so then you never wondered about - it just is, and then all of sudden, it turns out to be a lie?

So Nada Surf was like that for me. There's this cd called, "The Weight Is A Gift." It's been on my iPod like forever, I really, really like that song, "Always Love." I got this theory that there's two kinds of people in the world: There are lyric people and music people. You know, the lyric people tend to be "analytical," all about the meaning of the song. They're the ones you see with the CD insert out like five minutes after buying it, pouring over the lyrics... interpreting everything. Then there's the music people, who could care less obout the lyrics, just as long as it's got like, a good beat and you could dance to it. I don't know, sometimes it might be easier to be a music girl and not a lyric girl, but since I'm not, let me just say this: sometimes things find you when you need them to find you. I believe that. And for me, it's usually song lyrics.

So... I'm in the middle of a good life, but a rough few days/weeks and what shows up among all this stuff ? A Nada Surf album called, "The Weight Is A Gift." Weight like, W-E-I-G-H-T weight, as in heaviness. And just like that, I'm reminded that - you know what, it's probably gonna be okay. If it doesn't kill me - and it won't, then it'll make me stronger. So listen, I don't know anything about your world, wow I barely know about mine but if you're carrying around something difficult or something that nobody seems to see or get or can help you with... just remember: The weight is a gift, and we're not going out like that.

Listen to the song: http://www.melindacluster.zoomshare.com/files/04_Always_Love.m4a