no media...ugh

Well, I must admit I didn't think this would be so hard.  Being away for the first week helped.  The first three days at home have been HORRIBLE!  this STINKS!  All I want to do is watch tv.  We don't watch that much tv.  All I want to do is plug the kids in front of the tv.  The weather stinks.  We can't play outside.  It is so stinkin QUIET in my house.  The QUIET is LOUD.  How am I going to last for three more weeks?  Lord grant me peace.  Give me strength.  Make me deaf, blind and oblivious to EVERYTHING around me!!!!!!!!!!!That is SCREAMING out my name.  The siren call of the cake has switched to the siren call of the electronics.  I will not be able to do this one on my own power.  Who knew how addicted to media we were?  Ugh....

Random Acts

This is our last week of possessions.  I want to encourage everyone to take some time and commit at least one random act of kindness this week.  Then write back and let me know what you did.

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Wow a lot of time has past!  Christmas, New Year's, birthdays, sickness...This month has gotten off to a rocky start for us.  We have been chipping away at giving stuff away.  Clothes, shoes, food.  We had a family meeting and have decided to sponsor a child in Haiti.  Each family member is going to give up a few dollars a month and we are going to send it to Global to send a child to school in Haiti.  This is a long-term project.  One that will continue long after our 7 month experiment is over, but I think it is good.  Good for the kids to give to another kid and good for our family to give outside of our sphere.
Next month is our media fast.  The NHL lockout is over, winter will be in full force and I will not be popular I am certain.  Little by little I hope we are whittling away at ourselves and seeing more of God in each other, but mainly inside of us personally.  How are you being reshaped through this process?  What is your new shape for the new year?