church and random

here are a couple things from church on sunday that i really liked:

The next time you feel like GOD can't use you, just remember...
Noah was a drunk
Abraham was too old
Isaac was a daydreamer
Jacob was a liar
Leah was ugly
Joseph was abused
Moses had a stuttering problem
Gideon was afraid
Samson had long hair and was a womanizer
Rahab was a prostitute
Jeremiah and Timothy were too young
David had an affair and was a murderer
Elijah was suicidal
Isaiah preached naked
Jonah ran from God
Naomi was a widow
Job went bankrupt
John the Baptist ate bugs
Peter denied Christ
The Disciples fell asleep while praying
Martha worried about everything
The Samaritan woman was divorced more than once
Zaccheus was too small
Paul was too religious
Timothy had an ulcer
...AND Lazarus was dead!
NOW, WHAT IS YOUR EXCUSE?!

Have You No Scar?by Amy Carmichael

Jesus speaks to us:
Have you no scar? No hidden scar on foot, or side, or hand?
I hear you sung as mighty in the land.
I hear them hail your bright ascendant star.
Have you no scar?Have you no wound?

Yet, I was wounded by the archers, spent, leaned me against the tree to die,and rent --
by ravenous beasts that encompassed meI swooned.
Have you no wound?
No wound? No scar?

Yes, as the master shall the servant be,
and pierced are the feet that follow Me, but yours are whole.
Can he have followed far -- who has no wound? No scar?
Can she have followed far -- who has no wound? No scar?

Romans 1:17
“The righteous shall live by faith”

Ecclesiastes 9:10
“Whatever your hands find to do, do it with all your might.”

now, story time...
since my internet is complete crap and i am taking an online course, i decided that i really need something more reliable. and, since i formerly got two tv channels but currently don't even get those i decided i would get cable tv to go with it. i called time warner and got it all set up and then called dad to confirm if what i did was right. he told me that time warner offered a much cheaper cable that the lady hadn't told me about. so, i called them back to switch my service. here is the gist of my conversation:

Amanda: "i just set up internet and cable television and would like to switch from the standard package to the basic."

sales lady: "but that only has twenty channels. you would have no espn, no lifetime, no mtv, no food network (and so on, she kept listing what i wouldn't have"

Amanda: "that is fine, i'll switch"

sales lady: "are you sure you only want twenty channels as opposed to eighty?"

Amanda: "yes ma'am. i used to get two channels and currently don't get any. twenty channels will be plenty."

sales lady: "you do still want the cable box?"

Amanda: "do i need the cable box?"

sales lady: "if you want eighty channels you need the cable box."

Amanda: "then i don't want the cable box"

sales lady: "okay, well, when you find out that twenty channels isn't enough, call us back and we'll switch you to eighty."

**typed out, this doesn't sound as rude as the lady really was. i don't need eighty channels (technically i don't need twenty, but whatever) and i didn't appreciate her attitude. i almost told her how rude i thought she was, but i didn't**