Same Kind of Different As Me

Logan gave me this book when I was looking for jobs in Fort Worth last May...and I am so glad she did!! It is a true story about a millionaire art dealer (Mr. Hall) and a homeless man (Mr. Moore) and how their lives come together. Its a great story, and if you haven't read it, you SHOULD!! There is a paper-back version available now.

Last Saturday, Sammie and I went to see Ron Hall and Denver Moore at the World Missions Kick-off at Second Baptist Woodway.

Mr. Hall spoke first. He was definitely the business man/sales person. He re-told important parts of the story...added personal accounts...retold other people's stories about their expereinces and life changes from the book...etc.

One of my favorite things he said was: if you are going to worry and fret about giving cash to a homeless person on the side of the road, don't do it. But if you are going to give cash away, not stress out, and let God bless that person, then give freely! He had a neat story about how $20 cash turned around a homeless man's life -- the homeless man used it to go get drunk that night but met a woman at the bar who reconnected him with his mother and two years later that once-homeless man came back to the woman's house and thanked her for giving as the Lord led!

He was very interesting but the real star of the show was: DENVER MOORE

At the beginning, Ron said "I don't see Denver, but don't worry, he'll show up, he always does." About 20 minutes into Ron's part of the presentation, Denver came in and Ron said "Oh, look, theres my co-author!" Denver had come in a side door and as soon as Ron called him out, Denver ducked down and sat somewhere. At the time, it seemed really staged to me, however, I really don't think it was b/c when Denver got onto the stage he was VERY uncomfortable. I think he was uncomfortable with 500 white people staring at him; I think that because he said so. He also said that he knew where every exit in that place was and that he was going to end in a song that way no one can ask him questions at the end and he can get off the stage quickly.

Denver was so focused. He was all about knowing more about the Lord and sharing his word. It was sooo interesting. He was on the stage for about 15 minutes (5 minutes was closing in song). He spoke about how he enjoyed hearing the pastor speak at Second Baptist and what he had learned from him. Then he spoke about Miss Debbie and how everyone needs to read the Bible and live by it like she did.

(BTW: Denver learned to read and write in the last 2 years. He is also living on the Ranch with Ron - they built two houses out there.) It was a little bit hard to understand him because of a combination of mumbling and poor grammar, but it was so interesting and I am so glad I got to hear him speak!!

At the book signing part, Denver was not interested in being there. He signed each book without making eye contact. I dont think he was trying to be rude. It was just not his scene, and it was not what he wanted to spend his time doing! He was definetly a wise and focused man and it showed through his get-to-the-point-attitude!

YOU SHOULD READ THIS BOOK!!!! Here is a quote to get you hooked:

One Month Later...

I don't know where time has gone...actually I do... Mr. Ike....YIKES!

I left for Dallas on Thursday Sept 11 - my afternoon clients all cancelled, so I left after my 11:30 client...I thought I would be in Dallas for a few days and then come back...actually, I was supposed to go to a wedding on Saturday, so I brought a dress and shoes etc so I could leave Dallas dressed and go straight to the wedding...NEEDLESS TO SAY...the wedding was cancelled...

I was going to post a bunch of pictures, but they would be the exact as the ones on facebook...since I am friends with most of yall on facebook, i will tell you: Just go look at them there! :)

Hurricane Ike came right up I-59 -- straight through Kingwood. :( There was quite a bit of damage in Kingwood...but not my apartment (Thank you Lord) or our office (Thank You Lord!)...

Electricity came back on 11 days later, and I came back to Kingwood on Monday, September 22. I left Dallas at Noon and there was no power at my apartment, but by the time I got to Kingwood, It had be turned on! :) yeah!

Work started noon on Tuesday. Clients came Wednesday. I had clients on Monday Sept 27 without electricity still :( I think everyone I know has electricity now...execpt one block of 5 ppl in Kingwood whose transformer was shot and is on back order -- that sucks!

That is basically where September went. Oh and to cleaning out my stinky fridge ( i wish there was sometype of way to share the smell of it over the internet...)

I was running

I was running late to work by like 5 minutes…so I just dropped my stuff and grabbed the kid out of the waiting room – we'll call him "A" - as soon as we sat on the floor in my room I saw a bug that was about 2 ½ inches long behind me and I stressed out…

I put a game box in front of it to block my view of the bug – out of sight out of mind right?! – at the end of the session, "A" said “I want to play the bears game.” So, I tried to get the game out without him seeing the bug, but it didn’t work – he said “Ahh! Ms Amy there’s a bug” I said “Its okay – you go put the book up and I’ll get the bug.” I was stressing out and got as many Kleenex as I could wad up in my hand because I didn’t want to feel the bug - it was “crunchie” looking but had not moved at all during the whole session…

I picked it up and started high-stepping it to the trash can – but about half way there I can feel the bug start moving around in my Kleenexes - I dropped it and probably screamed – in the process I hit the table and pushed over the chair and grabbed "A" whose eyes were about to pop out of his head – and walked us into the corner of the room….

My heart was beating soo fast and I could feel A’s beating just as fast as I held him up – He said “Ms. Amy you scawed me”
“I know buddy, I am sorry.”
“Dat bug was awive!”
“I know buddy, it scared me…”
Then he turned in my arms and looked at me with huge eyes and said: THAT WAS A BIG WOCKWOACH!

I said – “Let’s go play in another room.”

He ran out to his dad saying “There was a big wockwoach in Ms. Amy’s woom…Dad!…I saw a wockwoach!!”

olympians i would want to be friends with:

laura wilkinson

carrie walsh natalie coughlin

Synchronized Swimming....

...is my alll time favorite thing about the olympics! (have you ever tried to do it -- its REALLY hard!)

in case you didnt want to go look it up, here is the Synchronized Swimming NBC coverage schedule:
Day 10 - Monday, August 18 - 3:00pm Duet Preliminary
Day 12 - Wednesday, August 20 - 3:00pm Duet Final
Day 14 - Friday, August 22 - 3:00pm Team Event

too bad its during the middle of the day...maybe i will take off work to watch it!

olympics!

i

love

the

olypmics!

www.nbcolympics.com (i dont have DVR and this website is AWESOME! and has saved my life!!)


i saw a commerical for SYNCRONIZED DIVING>>>WOW!

so long...farewell...

good bye 705:beltway

our church is rearranging to maximize the gifts god has given us unfortunately that means our thursday night bible study group on the beltway is ending :(

when the girls get together...good luck getting a word in...sometimes i don't even think we ever finish a thought...and of course, there is alot of laughing!

705:food committee

this is one of my most favorite parts of 705:beltway

we tried to give ourselves titles as committee member #1, #2, #3 but we couldn't decide if we should rank on age, who made desserts first, who initiated the email chains, who made the best cakes etc...too many feelings getting hurt

so, we decided on un-rank-able titles such as color and shapes.