Songs of Praise

I love music and I've always loved to sing. (Even as a baby my dad used to call me his "la la girl!") We have been starting to sing Christmas songs in my church choir the past couple of weeks. Christmas music is wonderful, though I think some radio stations do start playing it a bit on the early side. (If it were just the songs about Christ's birth and life, I could gladly listen to it all year. It's the Jingle Bells and Ho Ho Ho that gets to me. I play a lot of CDs instead.)

Anyway, we are singing, "My Shepherd Will Supply My Need" for church this next Sunday. It's so beautiful!! I love the melody and harmony in it and the words are fantastic! I kind of wish the women got to sing the first part, but these words are only for the men in the arrangement we are doing:

"My Shepherd will supply my need, 
Jehovah is His name.
In pastures fresh He makes me feed,
Beside the living stream.

He brings my wand’ring spirit back,
When I forsake His ways.
And leads me for His mercy’s sake
In paths of truth and grace."

I'm so grateful for our Savior. I love Him! He is the light and life of the world. It's always a good time of year to think of Him, strive to follow Him, and sing praises to Him. 

My Love/Hate Relationship with the Computer

Okay, so is it just me, or do you have a hard time getting off the computer once you get on it? There's the e-mail to check, write and clean up, the facebooking to do, the blogs to write, the family history I'm supposed to work on, tons of websites to visit and things to learn about and look at.

This morning I spent two hours cleaning out the 700 plus e-mails in my inbox. I was happy that my Yahoo account now has a feature where I can click and drag and don't need to check every little box or select all of them to move them to a folder or delete. Finally I got showered and ready for the day.

Then, four hours ago, I started out thinking, "I have places I need to be this afternoon, so I should go find a good crock pot recipe for my family. (Obviously I didn't go those places.) I googled crock pot and pasta and quickly found some good ones. I printed a couple off and bookmarked the site. Then I remembered my friend has a blog with recipes. I started looking at those and looking at the pictures and thinking about her blog. Then I started clicking on other people's blogs that she has links to on her blog.

Looking at all those blogs made me think about this blog and how I've been trying to get started with it.  I'd been changing and changing my background and wanted to create a nice banner for it. I didn't know how to do that, so I hunted around for information. After trying out several sites, I finally gave up and made my own in Word. Unfortunately, it wouldn't convert to an image that blogger could read. In the end I got it to paste into Photo Shop and was able to upload it as an image into my header. Of course then I spent forever playing more with text colors and finally went mostly white. The computer can definitely suck up all the time in my day.

One way I usually avoid this is by using a free alarm I downloaded onto my computer. It at least wakes me up to the fact that time is passing by and I have other things I need to be doing. I have a Mac computer and the alarm clock I downloaded can be found at: http://download.cnet.com/Alarm-Clock/3000-2094_4-88713.html for free. Of course, it only works if you actually get up when it goes off! When I get really absorbed I just snooze it several times and then stop setting it. :D Yes, the computer is something I love, but it also mesmerizes and then frustrates me.