Coloring is not as frustrating as when I was a child, but not as fulfilling either

Coloring project for the office. Hope everyone is as impressed with my coloring sheet as my wife was.... I guess it's like riding a bike... But seriously, how many things can you pick up after a 25 year break and actually be better than in your heyday?!??

It's much easier than it used to be to stay in the lines...but it isn't nearly as fulfilling as it was when I was a kid. Special thanks to the Smithing kids for unwittingly loaning me their crayons. Note: you have a lot of obscure colors...not many of the traditional primary colors. Consider hitting up Hacienda del Sol to replenish your supply of the basic colors.

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Max on Life is an primer for spiritual conversations

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Max Lucado shares answers to letters that he has received.  In the small questions and the hard ones, Max is gentle and encouraging.  I love the way he takes a practical approach to helping answer the issue at hand, but each response is rich with spiritual depth.  The letters are organized into the categories of Hope, Hurt, Help, Him/Her, Home, Haves/Have-Nots, and Hereafter.  On a side note, I've wondered what will happen if we get to heaven one day and discover that God hates alliteration?

This book is one to read and make notations because the situations and questions that are brought up are very "real world."  And Max's answers are a great foundation for a conversation that you or I could share with a friend or neighbor who is facing the same thing.  He has a great way of taking big theological truths and making them applicable and understandable.  My favorite thing about this book is how the truth of the gospel and the things of God are presented in an approachable, non-threatening way.

Lucado's books are generally "easy to pick up and read" and this one fits that description too.  But like the last one I read and reviewed, it can be easy to read but harder to put into practice in life.  His pastor's heart and years of experience are combined here for another great book.

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I just found out you can add tasks to RTM via SMS

Where has this been all my life?  Apparently it has been around for a few years .... because they blogged about it on the RTM blog in '07!

http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/2007/07/twitter-your-tasks/

For those of you who use Remember the Milk as your to do list application, there is a way to add tasks via SMS that is even easier than the RTM app.  I actually looked for this functionality before, but didn't find it until I stumbled across it today.

It just requires connecting your Twitter account to your RTM account, and then you can tweet private messages to RTM and they are added to your to do list.