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Name: Isaac
Country: United States
State: Indiana
Birthday: 6/4/1982
Gender: Male
Interests: The Jar Community Church, People, Music.
Being where I'm supposed to be, taking it one step at a time.
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AIM:  isaac pellerin
Member Since:
7/12/2004
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| Every once and a while a little thing within our economic system will tick me off. Today it's service charges.
I'm getting ready to move so I called the Electric company to transfer service.
In order to do this they need a $130 deposit...I'm ok with this. They spread it out over 3 months and once you've paid your bill for 6 months in a row you get it back.
I had to pay $44 dollars of that deposit today...the fastest option was to go to lo-bills and pay in person.
So I got in my car and headed over to Lo Bills
I get there and they inform me that there will be a $2 service charge. (Ok I guess I'll take the hit)
I go to pay with my Debit Card and the lady gets upset with me and says, "we only accept cash or check, no credit or debit cards"...her attitude bothered me. But I wasn't going to make a big deal about it since there was a nearby ATM machine.
So I walk up to the ATM machine and there's a note saying that there will be a $2.50 charge to get cash. This is where I decided out of principle, to drive to my bank and use the ATM machine there to avoid the $2.50 charge.
So I drove to my bank and put my card in the machine, and it gave me an error message and took my card. What the heck. I'm just getting electricity for my house and trying to avoid service charges.
I came back home and began to wonder how much of my money is directed to service charges? I'm sure within a given year I spend at least $100 in little $1.50 fees.
Then all of this triggered a thought...How many of the things do I do in my life that I believe to be necessary or good, but in the midst of doing them, find that there is something taxing about it. There's a hidden "service charge" if you will. Last week I took a personal retreat at the Catholic retreat center. I find that once every three months I need a whole day to collect myself. To find all the pieces of my being that got broken and scattered.
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I've lost the drive to maintain this blog...but overall life is good. I couldn't ask for more. I'll be going to Mississippi this week to help with some hurricane relief and I'm looking forward to that.
I'll be getting licensed so that I can perform my first wedding (that's weird for me to think about)...but it won't be a bad gig to have every once in a while.
I'll be preaching again in May and I'm excited about that. | | |
| So this past Sunday I gave my first sermon. It was a tag-team deal with Jana, our Family and Children's Ministries Coordinator. If you interested in hearing what I had to say click the link and give it a listen.
The Water Into Wine Project
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| I've been really enjoying some Mason Jennings lately. I like this song.
Keepin it Real
It was bound to happen and it happened today
Life turned to us to say "i'm about to go your way"
And it's a simple situation now that we became us
There ain't no rust on the happiness bus
And it's wednesday, thursday, my day, friday
Saturday, sunday, all the rest are fun days
From now on until the very end
Never gonna spend another day without you again
Here's the proof, i'm telling the truth and it's
Oh yes, my oh my, the earth shakes when you walk by
It's a fairy tale that we made true
I can't believe that i found you
And it's oh yes, my oh my
People turn and look when we walk by
It's a big fat love we feel in our hearts
We're keepin it, keepin it, keepin it real
Now the sun is going down over our troubled times
We can free our minds and leave it all behind and
It's a common stipulation that there ain't no hope
But there's a tire swing baby on the end of our rope
And it's wednesday, thursday, my day, friday
Saturday, sunday, all the rest are fun days
From now on until the very end
Never gonna spend another day without you again
Here's the proof, i'm telling the truth and it's
Oh yes, my oh my, the earth shakes when you walk by
It's a fairy tale that we made true
I can't believe that i found you
And it's oh yes, my oh my
People turn and look when we walk by
It's a big fat love we feel in our hearts
We're keepin it, keepin it, keepin it real | | |
| I'm so quick to criticize and dismiss.
I just bought the new switchfoot album. I'd have to say I did not have high hopes for the album. It's different, but it's really good. Jon is just a great lyricist, that's all there is to it. I like the vibe of the album. I've determined that I still hold their first two albums way above anything else they've done...but that probably has more to do with the point in my life where I was discovering the richness of music and they gave me something that was different from what I had been exposed to (which wasn't much at that point in my life).
Although time will have to tell with this one. I told a friend recently that as much as I was dissapointed with their last album I would still buy this next one and be excited about it...but it would probably find it's way to the bottom of the cd pile after a few weeks. We shall see.
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| I really want to go to this conference. Who wants to come?
http://www.isntshebeautiful.org/
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