Received Call List

It's 11:36pm and I just plugged my phone into the charger. Before it went to the home screen i saw my received phone calls list for today. I saw a list of names that warm my heart and put a smile on my face. Don't get me wrong, I like everyone that calls me (for the most part-haha:), but as the screen popped up and I saw several of the names, I thanked God for my received calls today. It's always a gift to talk to the people that you love. Check out your recent call list, and for those that stick out to you, thank God for those people in your life!
Goodnight!

"Highest Place"

I absolutely love this song!!!
I put it on repeat in the car! Here are the words!
Beautiful song!!

"Highest Place"
Light Up the World
Desperation Band

VERSE 1:

Lord you search me
And you know me
You hear all of my thoughts
No point in hiding
Lord you’ve found me
So completely in need of you
I can not run from you


PRE-CHORUS:

If I go to the heavens or down below
You are right there waiting
If I rise on the wings of the dawn
You are there, I will find you waiting

CHORUS:

You are in the highest place
You are in the falling rain
You are in the mountain peaks
And valley's speak wonders of your name


You are in the perfect sky
You're in every breath I breathe
You're in every moment
life seems to pass me by
you're my prince of peace


VERSE 2:

In the glory
Of your glory
I become like you are
Its over whelming
In the presence
Of your presence
I finally see
All your love, for me


Bridge:

You're everything
You're in everything
You're in every cry
It all ends and starts
with you my king

A Real Moment With Maggie :)

I'm having a "I wish I was on a deserted island" kind of day. I don't think it's a full blown one of those, because I think there are a couple people I would want to go with me, but yeh, an island would be nice.

I think when I have these kind of days, it's a me thing more than anything else. I'm either upset because people don't act a way that I would expect them to act or do what I think they should do. The truth is I have absolutely no control over someone else-and boy is that a hard one to grasp!

I remember getting in trouble growing up and my Dad letting me have it, and the thing he would always say was "you want things YOUR way, and only YOUR way, and that's your problem Maggie!" He was so right every single time-even when I didn't want to admit it.

So, yes, I do have "deserted island days", but I know it almost always goes back to the sin that I am dealing with in my own life. People do get on my nerves, but if i really stepped back and asked myself why they get on my nerves, it seems to go back to the fact that they don't do and act how I would want them to act, and thinking like that ALWAYS gets me in trouble.

But doesn't the deserted island seem so nice sometimes!haha
-brought to you by "A Real Moment with Maggie" :)

A Great Book!

This book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, is amazing! I am almost done with it, and have really enjoyed it. Ben read it two weeks ago. He came home one night and we had the best conversation over dinner about this book. He said I should read it, and I am.
If you haven't read it, you need to! Donald Miller is an awesome author!

(on a side note: i took this picture on our ironing board, but was looking at this picture and thought, "that would be a pretty pattern for bed sheets." and there ya have it! haha )

Stone Age Runner

First let me start this out by saying that I am in no way a runner.
(Ok I feel like I can blog about this now that we got that out of the way-haha!)

Check out these new running "shoes". Runners are now using these for their runs/jogs. They are designed to wrap around your foot and just be a protective layer. Their is a group of runners that now run with either these shoes or nothing at all. They are saying that there is less pain and better for you to run barefoot.
Running in general is a slim option for me let doing it barefoot!
I think these things are pretty cool!

Here is their website: www.barefootrunner.com

Food for Thought

I really love eating asparagus! BUT, I noticed that after I ate it, something strange happened!
It's crazy how the human body works! Read the article below to find out what I am talking about. This is just crazy, gross, and kinda cool all at the same time!

"Asparagus-induced aromatic pee is an event that has always amazed me because it happens so quickly. When you eat asparagus, it goes into the stomach to be broken down by acids in the stomach, just like any other food. The nourishing elements of the meal are absorbed into the blood stream and the food molecules travel through the bloodstream to the liver and kidneys for purification. This is all normal and good. Waste that is collected in the kidneys is excreted in urine. Asparagus, unlike other vegetables, contains asparagusic acid. It is the breakdown of asparagusic acid that creates smelly byproducts.

Here are the details….digestive enzymes break down ingested asparagus and produce methanethiol (or methyl mercaptan), which is believed to be the aromatic culprit in stinky asparagus urine. (However, some scientists believe that a different family of thioesters that are the byproducts of acid reacting with sulfur-containing alcohol are responsible.) The methanethiol waste product is then (somewhat mysteriously) transmitted through the kidney to the urine. Ironically, asparagus is a diuretic, which contributes to the rapidity with which the scented urine exits the body. The aromatic nature of the methanethiol is due to the fact that it is released as a gas when you urinate."

-Excerpt fromthe article "Why Does Asaparagus Make My Pee Smell Funny?" by Dr. Molly Nickerson from the website Talking Science

"Nobody Puts Baby In a Corner"!!

That's right we went dancing! Tonight we went to the Fred Astaire Dance Studio here in Fort Myers! I knew we would have fun, but not that much fun! I love to dance! We went with our awesome youth workers. Here are some pics of the night!

The instructor started us off in this big line to teach us the basics. Here we go!

Then he split us up guys and girls across from each other.

The next three are of me and Ben cutting the rug! My hair went up at this point.
I was gettin' serious! haha Everybody caught on real fast.
We had a GREAT time!

Of course some of the guys saw the costumes the studio had on display. It led to this!
After our 2-hr session was over, we asked the instructors if they wouldn't mind showing us a dance! They were amazing!

After the session, we all headed over to Famous Dave's for some BBQ.

Ben and I absolutley loved this youth worker event! Everyone, ALL the men included, said that the dancing was awesome and that they had a blast! I would encourage everyone to consider this as part of their next get together with their small group, life group, or just as a group of couples! An amazing time was had by all!

Number 1

I was in Walmart today, and as I was checking out I used my debit card. It dawned on me, as I was punching in my pin, that the number 1 on the pad was the most worn out number. So I started thinking that I bet for the majority of people, somewhere in their pin is a 1. Most people have a one within their four number pin, and that's why it is so worn out!
Kind of random, but that's what came to my mind, and I thought it was a cool observation!
I bet you'll never look at the pin pad the same after reading this! haha

Paula!

Kind of like this post, this woman just reminds me of home. Every time I see her on the guide, I always click it. Even if I don't sit there and watch, her voice through the house does it for me.
My Mom always had her on in the kitchen when she was making cakes.

Foods to Enjoy!

I really like this cereal right now. I cut up bananas and put blueberries in it too. Really good!

These chips are excellent. When we have been to the store, I have left the chip selecting up to Ben, so I can't take credit for getting these. They are really for his lunch that I have been packing faithfully almost everyday! I ate some for lunch yesterday, and oh my goodness, you have to get these! We love anything kettle!

My favorite drink at Starbucks is the Chai Tea Latte! I asked Ben to pick up some chai tea from the store so that I could have it in the mornings. This has definitely taken the place of coffee in my book. And it's really good for you too!
I love this stuff!

Alarming Surprise!

Last night I woke up from a deep sleep because I heard this ear piercing sound. Being dead asleep my heart started to race and my mind was getting into "someone has broken into the house" mode. Not sure why the beep caused my mind to go there, but that's just me. It only took me a minute to realize that our smoke alarm was going off because the battery was low. How annoying that it decided to go off in the middle of the night. So I tell Ben, but he is out. I decide that I would take care of it by blindly going into the kitchen and getting the broom. Now in my mind at this time, is that I am just going to ram the broom stick and knock it off just so that we could go back to bed. Didn't work. At this point Ben gets up when he sees that my method is ridiculous and in no way working.

Ben being the logical person that he is, is super annoyed that some genius decided to put the detector where it was. Ben asked for a kitchen chair. He had to put it on the chest of drawers to get to the edge where he would then have to crawl on to get to the detector.
(All the while half dead asleep)

I am now down below shaking laughing watching Ben get over to the detector.
I'm just thinking, "this is really happening right now"! haha
(You can kind of get the idea of how high he had to go to get to
this thing by seeing the top of the bedroom door)

I went to the kitchen to get a 9volt battery and threw it up to Ben. He was trying to get it all changed over, and the annoyingly loud beep would keep on, so I just told him to leave it undone, and he could go back up there later. Hopefully no fires in the near future, because we left it undone so we could just go back to bed!

The excitement never dies at the Fleming's!