Cross Examination

Mom: "We are going to clean out your closet today."
Me: "Ugh"

We go down into my room and open my closet door.

Mom: "What is all this stuff!?"
Me: "I told you"
Mom: "Why is there a box of empty soda bottles and what is the deal with the piles of sheets?"
Me: "Like I said before, I told you."
Mom: "This closet is horrible. I mean you have boxes from when we moved."
Me: "So."
Mom: "We moved six years ago."

She digs deeper.

Mom: "So this is where all of suitcases went."
Me: "I didn't feel like taking them back upstairs.
Mom: "Why are there power tools in here?"
Me: "Dad gave them to me, and I didn't know what to do with them."

Mom: "I quit. You can do this yourself, or never. I don't even care anymore."

All people have things to hide.

The Sun (modeled after Red Wheelbarrow)

people every where
depend

upon you for his
or her

own strength
yet

they fear your
rays

Celebrate

I recently was confirmed into my church. This is a great cause for celebration, because I have become a more active member of my church.



Confirmation, for those of you who do not know, is a renewal of your vows to God. You have already made these vows at your baptism, but your parents made them for you. In other words, confirmation is a re-baptism. In our church, a bishop is the only person who can confirm people into the church. Since the Bishop of Arkansas only comes to our particular church once every other year, confirmation does not happen very often. I am also my parents first child to be confirmed into our new church.

Confirmation may not be a great cause for celebration for other people, but for my family and myself it is.