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Creative Love Letters

January 7, 2010

Sunday morning I woke up early (rare) and had so many thoughts on my brain, I simply could not wait to share them all with hunny bunny. Sooooo, the techie-wife that I am, put my creative skill to good use and announced my love and all my “lets talk about this sometime” thoughts into a document which I saved to his desktop. clever. cheesy. silly. romantic.

My version looked a little something like this:

When he embarked on his daily – Shower, Coffee, Desk, Email, Weather, News, Reading, Quiet Time routine….there I was pasted right on his screen, showing some love in the first part of his day.

Those who know me understand that simply finishing a project is never enough. Noh-way! We must go overboard, over-the-top, above and beyond to get our point across (as expressed in my usual lengthy blog posts). So I continued to meddle on his previously customized Citation 10 desktop and decided I truly needed a background graphic with a giant cupids arrow pointing the way, to make my efforts well established.

So I created from scratch, the jenn-style background – perfecting my love note mission (which he *loved* by the way!).

To add to the fun, a friend on facebook asked me how in the world I did it. And the one semester in college teacher wanna be came bubbling out. I put Jing Project, (a free video cast tool) to good use. I also had to use ScreenCast to publish the file, but all in all my little sweet-home-alabama video tutoral took about 15 minutes, and was surprisingly fun!

It’s a slightly rough round one for my video tutorials – but here it is….enjoy!

50′s sleeves and 80′s songs

January 6, 2010

Today, my eyes are burning and I’ve snuggled myself into the big pink robe on the couch, for yet another day. I’ve just downed round 14 or so of the Mucinex, w water, while choking out the nasty bronchial cough and sore throat with halls and hot tea. I think the winter flu is trying to get the best of the Hudson home – but it will not win!! *cough, cough*. Hunny Bunny wasn’t feeling par Monday as he left for his first night-shift back to work since the holiday break.

We have been so sick, we used up all the kleenex in the house and have resorted to using rolls of toilet paper. I know we are not the only ones in the world who have been so sick that you actually sleep with the toilet paper roll by your pillow and unroll during the night at leisure. Yes, it’s that bad, for about a day we were just not up to going to the store to fix our situation. It’s also hilarious to me how many places you can come up with to stuff a mound of tissue to keep on hand for future sneezing….rolled up in a shirt sleeve, in the elastic band of your sweat pants, hanging in the collar of your t-shirt, or for the very sneezy desperate kind – just left hanging in your nose. My G’ma, a.k.a. ‘Ramblin-Rose’ taught me the tissue rolled up in the shirt sleeve thing when I was little….maybe it’s a throw back to the greaser days of rolling up boxes in your t-shirt sleeve, I don’t know.

Speaking of sleeves, we do actually have something new up our sleeves, and we are praying it all works out this week!! It will be a huge answer for a really big prayer…(no, we are no pregnant –yet) We are praying to get back on days! It’s not all final yet, but I will post when it is.

When he took this job last summer, I accidentally fell into the night-shift sleep pattern with him. The first few nights were fine, but I began to find myself laying half awake/half asleep until I heard the car pulling into the driveway and door unlocking with his safe arrival home. It’s about 20 minutes south of Montgomery, in the not-so-great part of town. Maybe I’m a worrier. Maybe I’m just used to having the personal heat-pump system laying next to me. I don’t know. But 4 a.m. has become a new sweet spot in our day….I mean night. It’s our new “hey hunny, how was your day? what’s God doing in your heart? you love me how much? what’s for dinner, i mean breakfast?” part of the day. Then just as the sun starts to crackle across the sky, the twilight fever catches on and it’s time for beddie bye. And then we wake up to the sun setting in the sky.

Now, the problem with living the life of a vampire is two fold. one: the rest of the world is alive during the day, and two: once u get bitten by the night bug, like the 80′s Pat Benatar’s song says ‘We-ee Belong, we belong together…’ The past two weeks, I have tried desperately to ‘switch back’ and become human again…with no avail. One half of those tiny little Melatonin pills dad gave me knocked me out for a good 16 hours…yes, that’s how long it takes to fly to China! And yet, midnight, I’m waking up ready to eat my mid-day meal and to start baking something. I’m open for suggestions on how to get my schedule repaired.

Anyway, in the spirit of 80′s music, which helped shape our 30′s generation today – I leave you with a Journey goodie (*understandably, “Faithfully” will always be the defining song of that era, but this one may be my 3rd favorite, 2nd’d to Rick Springfield’s ‘Jessie’s girl’…ok, I’m going to have to create an entire new post for this sub-point obviously).

Oh Sherry!

Summer Blueberries

June 19, 2009

We went blueberry picking early this morning.  It was my first official “blueberry pick” – which started out around 8 AM on a nearby farm.  Keith and I picked until our hearts content.  It was super warm and continued heating up the two hours we were out there.  It was such a peaceful and fresh morning.  There was such an abundant harvest of these berries that our 20 pounds of picking did not even make a dent in those berry bushes.  We could probably go back every morning for the next two week and still have more left.

God really revealed himself to us this early morning.  Keith kept having revelations about finances and the principles of sowing and reaping.  I kept thinking about  the God of the harvest – the Lord of the Breakthrough.  As I reached my hand up to the vine to grap a bunch, one or two would often slip to the ground before I could get my hand back to the bucket.  I kept hearing him whisper, “I am willing that none should perish.”  I kept thinking about the parallels of harvesting souls, capturing them before they fall to the ground.  Also when I came home they had to be washed, weeded of bugs and plucked of the stems that held them to the vine.  Then laid out to dry, and stored…quite the process.  But just like Christians, there are several processes we must go through post salvation – or lest we may fall.  Thank you Jesus for keeping me always in the palm of your hand and teaching me something new and beautiful today on the blueberry farm.

sushi date night

April 5, 2009

Tonight we had a blast of a date night eating Sushi & then on to Starbucks.  I love watching my husband devour his favorite Japanese delicatessen.   He really loves the Sushi – I do too!  Orlando changed him into a cultural junkie!!  Maybe it was walking around the world at Epcot, staying at the luxurious Portfino Bay Hotel at Universal or sneaking into Hard Rock Hotel with mom and dad, just to eat ice cream or watch a late night movie by the pool and say we did it!  Those were really, wonderfully good times!

But, now we are on to new adventures and new discoveries, as we take Wetumpka and Montgomery by storm. Ha!  We have found several great local restaurants and nature spots that we have been embracing as our new home.  The scenery is becoming more familiar and the new friends are keeping us busy.

Keith was reading a book tonight that a friend handed to him six months ago, “Velvet Elvis” by Rob Bell, pastor at Mars Hill Church.  It has really shaken his world, and dare I say changing him.  Recently, as recent as in the past 48 – 72 hours, the Lord has been churning us like butta’ (with my NY accent) – but all for the better to fashion us into His best.

We do have a great commission and a great commandment…they are very clear, and from the Lord.  Our journey now is one of preparation and transition, a daily process that demands our full attention.  It seems the days we try to sneak past the discipline of our calling – those are the worst days ever.  But the days we actually quit running from what seems like too hefty of a giant to face, the moment we face it and discipline ourselves “under the anointing” and accept our calling, those are the mightiest days ever…the most rewarding…the days we dance and celebrate in the streets.  Spiritual victory is the greatest success we can ever experience.

This Heart.

April 17, 2007

Searching for a love like no other,

in a world full of many trials and choices,

this heart had wondered far too long and nearly lost the race.

Once again hoping to find the one who would journey along side

to the endless depths of my tomorrow,

knowing the prize ahead, and promise from before,

I accepted God’s unfathomable grace.

A stolen song had been returned,

many ageless scars had been made new

when I released my heart to the Fathers eternal trust and care.

He simply said ‘wait’ and sent his peace;

my heart had found its resting place

and from there I began to discover the fullness of living.

Not knowing all along,

God’s perfect timing had began to appear.

He took me to the point of needing only Him,

for my future was trusted to his keeping.

There were nights still I wept for longing,

I prayed for patience when He showed me once again

that I simply needed to wait.

It was in that waiting of many nights and days

that I found my place of perfect peace and true surrender

in the Master’s plan.

As silent as a whisper and as perfect as the rain,

the waiting was over and the journey began

with the one who is now holding my hand.

His faithfulness and patience resemble that of Christ.

His loving arms and warm embrace show me each day

how deeply Christ loves his church.

I never knew the many ways of this perfect three chord love,

for I had only held the untrue fame of belonging without Love.

This love will stand the test of time,

this love will never fail.

The test of patience,

the test of trust,

in due time have revealed

that Love outlast the greatest pleasure

the world will ever fill.

written:  4.17.07

Epilogue: I began this piece sometime in the fall of 2003. It was edited and added to a word document April 29, 2004. Tonight April 17, 2007, I completed the last few paragraphs to give closure to “This Heart.” It began in my heart as a confirmation to my love for Keith and the total trust that had been developing in my heart for him. Keith and I had been dating for just a few months when I wrote this piece. I had been broken and unloved so many times before, that I was not able to trust my heart or any one else again. I had fallen in love with him and I knew that my heart was totally beginning to trust him and I became afraid of being hurt. I was in his office one night praying for him and our life together. I remember he was at the church setting up working. In my time with the Lord, praying for our future and knowing the Love I had in my heart for Keith, the Lord showed me a strong vision of a church and the powerful role Christ plays with his Bride. He impressed upon my heart his total unwavering love that he pours upon His church and the oneness that we are in Christ. He then ‘proved’ to me that Keith loves me like no other man has ever loved me before because God had planted a love for ME inside of him – the kind that He gives to men – to love their wives as Christ loves the church, and Keith now possessed that for me. I knew that this kind of Love was pure and knew God had confirmed in me to trust him as the Church should trust Christ.