The Name Meme (or how to procrastinate when there is lots of stuff I should be doing...)

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME (first pet, current car): Clover Odyssey
2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME (fave ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe): Coffee Clogs (uhhh...yeah.)
3. YOUR NATIVE AMERICAN NAME (favorite color, favorite animal): Red Dog
4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name, city where you were born): Blanche Jacksonville
5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME (the first three letters of your last name, first two of your first name): MumQu
6. SUPERHERO NAME (2nd favorite color, favorite drink): Green Latte
7. NASCAR NAME (the first names of your grandfathers): Johnny Ray (I can see it.)
8. STRIPPER NAME ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy): Lavender Reeses Cup
9. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME (your fifth grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter): Hiett Hollywood
10. SPY NAME (your favorite season/holiday, flower): Fall Tulip
11. CARTOON NAME (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now): Strawberry Shorts
12. HIPPIE NAME (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree): Waffle Willow

Revelation Friday Five

With this Sunday's gospel reading in mind, that wonderful revelation of Christ to the companions on the Emmaus road. Sally at RevGals wonders where we might have been surprised by God's revelation recently.

So with no further waffle here is this weeks Friday 5:

How has God revealed him/herself to you in a:

1. Book
Most of the books I've been reading have been of the "let me escape" variety. Designed to entertain, and so long as I don't have to think too hard, I'm good. I did enjoy "Bread and Wine", what I read of it, and am glad I will have it for next Lent, as well. I finished "The Testament of Gideon Mack", and found in it God and the devil, both, so I'll leave it until the discussion to say more.

2.Film
Lately we've been watching the "Planet Earth" series. There is a segment where they show the Iguazu waterfalls on the border between Brazil and Peru, pictured above. The first time I saw it, it took my breath away. Living water, indeed.

3. Song
Here's a fun one someone pointed me to recently:
Billy Jonas, "God is In." Click on the little icon that says "Play."
http://www.billyjonas.com/index.php?page=songs&display=47

4. Another person
Yes, frequently. In my family, most of all.

5. Creation
I am looking out my window at the damp spring. Overcast and chilly again today, but, as SuperGirl likes to say lately, "it is really greening up out there". I can see a white-flowering Bradford pear tree, and a pink cherry blossom tree in the side yard, though the birch(?) tree nearest the window has nothing but bare branches yet. We are in the between time. Spring on the calendar, and the allergy producers are heating up, but the weather is still iffy every day, and there is a mixture of old and new life in the landscape. I can focus on the chill damp when I step outside, and grumble, or give thanks for the birds already singing and the green and pink and white, and the knowledge that the rest of the greening-up will come. It always does, thanks be to God.

Oh, and the Grand Canyon....

Bonus answer: your choice- share something encouraging/ amazing/ humbling that has happened to you recently!
The biopsy I had at the very end of January was benign scar tissue left over from my mastectomy and reconstruction. I am only now realizing that I had been holding my breath, and am starting to breathe deeply again....It took me getting through Easter to really shake the lingering fear I hadn't even acknowledged. And my mom is still healthy too....Hallelujah!