March 24, 2009
New Blog!!
I'm blogging again... but not here!
http://angiefrerichs.wordpress.com/
enjoy.
Posted by Angelina at 12:43 AM
January 06, 2009
guilty pleasure...
I've completely elevated into a world where I can cook about anything, and am known to make up new recipes for fun.... but I have to admit that I have this soft spot for generic hamburger helper lasagna. Nothing sounds better when it's cold out to me that this tasty one pot wonder. I've been known to eat it before the noodles even get a chance to cook because I'm so excited, even as I type, I am awaiting the magic moment of being able to taste the deliciousness.
Posted by Angelina at 10:20 PM
December 25, 2008
Thoughts on Christmas Eve Church....
Going home for Christmas inevitably means going to my hometown Lutheran church's Christmas Eve service. This year in particular I was really excited! I'm not exactly sure why, but I was looking forward to the comfort of the piano, the hymns and even the paper like communion wafers. It's such a change from church now with its guitars and fresh baked communion bread.
Good, better, and best, these are the highlights:
1. Cousin singing 'What Child Is This''... she's young, but has an amazing voice
3. Older lady who I still don't know, raising her hand during worship hymns... there still isn't any clapping during the service (even for special music) but at least this lady was being expressive.
4. Grandfatherly usher wearing Mr. Rodgers like sweater with tie and jeans... does this even need explaining? It was priceless.
Posted by Angelina at 09:33 PM | Comments (1)
December 02, 2008
Being nice
So who are the people who are going to change this? I was reminded today of what I've already been convinced of: it's not going to be the "nice guy."
Nice guys don't stir up trouble.
Nice guys don't get arrested.
Nice guys don't break the rules.
Nice guys certainly don't have the guts to risk losing their "nice status."
Nice guys don't change the world.
Nice guys don't die on crosses.
If you're nice, congratulations. You've become exactly what most churches are trying to make you. Grab your pew seat and fasten your seatbelt 'cause you're not going anywhere.
*This is quoted from an article in Radiant Magazine, and has been making me think. So often my aim in life is to be nice... but there is a difference between nice and showing the true love of Christ.
URL to article: http://www.radiantmag.com/2008/11/and-other-thoughts/
Posted by Angelina at 09:43 AM | Comments (2)
December 01, 2008
A lot to think about....
So, I've been thinking a great deal in the past weeks. I think it's time I take up some form of extra curricular writing to make sense of it all, though I'm sure this won't be widely read, and that's not even the point anymore....
I've been thinking a lot of the composition of my life. Until recently, I've been living such a hectic life over the course of the last two years that I've lost track of some things very important to me, and I'm trying to figure out where they've gone. I've spent so much time getting caught up in work, service activities, hanging out with groups of people, being so immersed in the lives of those immediately around me that I've lost sight of some very important things... the things that I value the most in life.
I took a vacation, and got to sit and think, and think a lot about things. I rediscovered a deep and abiding relationship with God that I've let the erosion of the busy of my life wear away. I remembered the love of my family and lifelong friends... a set of relationships that I could never have been who I am without. I recalled how happy I am in a place of obedience and devotion to the LORD.
Back in real life, I find that it's so easy for me to continue to forget the things I hold most dear. And I find that without them, I am nothing. Circumstances have begun to chisel away at the exterior of my life to bring me to a place where I have no choice but to surrender. To accept all the ways in which life has gone so wrong, to allow myself to be pruned down to the point of near death so that I can again take root downward in the heart and soul to again grow in season to live more fruitfully than my pride and insecurity has allowed.
Isaiah 37:31 "The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward."
Galatians 3:6 "just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"
Posted by Angelina at 04:23 PM | Comments (4)