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Welcome to my new digs!

By Lisa B on November 28, 2011

This weekend I managed to get my new design up. If you’re reading this in email or on Facebook, then click here to view the website.

I hope you like it. It’s really me, and I haven’t been able to say that about any designs really! You’ll always find me in jeans, with a Coke, and my phone is probably not too far away I am always leaning on God and trying to remember in the busyness of life that I just need to be simply His.

Of course time got away from me and I didn’t write all that I had wanted to write. Tip: Don’t wait to write! Ever! If you have the thought, get it written down because I did not. And when I had the time to write, the thoughts, they left me! I’m sure I’ll be making slight adjustments here and there

My new tagline is “fighting the slow fade.” I’ll write more about what that means this week.

Come hang out with me! You can see the many places to do so in the right column over there. Of course, Pinterest and Google+ are new to me and I don’t know how much I’ll use them. I’m somewhat regular on Facebook and Twitter though. Hope to see you around!

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What do I do with excellence?

By Lisa B on December 3, 2010

As the email disappeared from my screen, I wondered how it would be received. Surely this blogger, this pretty famous Christian author, would have quite a few people who could help fix her blog. I mean, I know I put a pretty compelling line in there — you know, the one where I’m not a creepy stalker (like a stalker would admit it?) and promise not to destroy her blog.

I was drifting, wondering what I was supposed to be doing for God — how am I supposed to be serving him with my time and talents? That seems to be an ongoing theme for my life though.

Then the email came back. It had her username and password for her blog and a big ol’ thank you so much for fixing this.

That was how I got started with Lysa TerKeurst and Proverbs 31 Ministries. There were a few things I would fix here and there, but this past year and a half has seen me doing more and more for them. They affectionately call me their Tech Dudette. I kinda like that

A couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of attending a meeting with Lysa, LeAnn (Queen Bee of P31), and a few others to talk about the redesign of the P31 main site. I had looked at all the content, all the sites that P31 has in different places and was simply overwhelmed at how best to pull that information together and organize it effectively.

Lysa brought up the question, “what do we [Proverbs 31] do with excellence?” This question totally caught me off-guard. When she posed that question, things became suddenly clear for me. There were ideas that had come and gone. There were other ideas that were maybe hanging on by a thread, but those weren’t what we needed to focus on. The ideas that P31 does well, those are the ones to concentrate on.

The question haunted me for a few days. What do I do with excellence? When I thought about how that question is phrased, I could immediately say I develop sites in WordPress with excellence. Do you know how major that is? I have never, ever liked titles or really to tell someone that I’m an expert at something. I would never tell you that I am the best or the most experienced with WordPress, but I can say that what I do, I do to the very best of my ability — with excellence.

What this question also has done for me is let me know it’s ok to let go of things that I’m not so good at or that I don’t enjoy as much. I should just concentrate on what I do with excellence.

So, what do you do with excellence? Maybe it’s taking care of your home — I definitely lack in that skill. Maybe it’s cooking — you know I’m the Queen of Take-out.

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2009 Recap

By Lisa B on January 6, 2010

Procrastinate much? Me neither

I’m having fun looking back through my archives. Initially I was thinking not much happened in 2009, but when I went back to read, I realized a lot happened in 2009! My memory sucks so it’s just validation as to why I should be blogging in the first place — to help me remember!

I’ll try to keep this short and painless for you

January

I hate resolutions. In January I picked 3 words and I’d still pick the same 3 words for this year! I was reminded of a day when I was ready to lose my cool, but Doodle was the voice of reason. I finally wrote out why I big-red-puffy-heart-love WordPress.

February

The beginning of February had me preparing to go to BlissDom ’09. When I got back, I had way too much to say. Good news? I’m going back to BlissDom ’10 in a few weeks I did my usual tribute to Valentine’s Day (which I hate by the way). I still feel like I’m way cooler online than in person. The most wonderful transition of all occurred — PC to Mac.

March

I still see hurting people. The State of Doodle address is pretty much the same.

April

The Invis-a-shield is still always up. The tears fell and Duck left a longer comment than my post.

May

Robin made me do it — or at least she really encouraged me to sponsor a child. Those types of conversations started in the car on the way to Chick-fil-a. Played some ball.

June

Another Mother of the Year moment. I went into a funk I’m not sure I ever came out of I celebrated Doodle’s 10th birthday and 13 years of salvation.

July

First day of fifth grade. My conference going advice. More conference going advice. Totally embarrassed myself with a real, helmet-hair, no make-up picture during a Blog Hop party.

August

She Speaks brain dump that links to all the other brain dump posts. Wondering just how I can get back to exuding peace again. I shared what I’m missing in conferences and lo and behold, someone comes up with a Christian Women Blogging Conference this year (glad someone was listening — and hoping I can go to that one too!).

September

A mild crisis was adverted when I had to get my own Cokes. Remembered 9-11. Catching up and going horseback riding.

October

Celebrated 13 years of marriage to My Genius Better Half. The joys of giving anonymously. Arguing with God … again.

November

I asked if you can do ministry online. God’s sense of humor. I asked questions about Women of Faith.

December

My parents celebrate 41 years of marriage. I keep beating myself up over mistakes. Took a break from online things to do life offline.

This has been a blessing for me even if it’s not for you. I went back and remembered, cried, laughed and also thought — who in the world wrote this? Oh yeah, me! I remember I like to write. I need to get back to writing on here. Why I need constant reminders of what God’s taught me, I’ll never understand. Sometimes I look at the Israelites in the Old Testament who walked in circles for 40 years and scream “why don’t you remember?” Then I realize I don’t remember either. I’m so thankful God’s forgiveness and grace are new every day — because I need it!

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I’m too techie for myself

By Lisa B on January 3, 2010

Yeah, so I posted the message about taking a break — and for the most part I did. But I was a little down because no one commented. I honestly was thinking no one would miss me. Then I realized in the midst of transferring some of my sites to a new web host, that not all of my email was working the way it should have been.

So, checked my email on the old server and saw messages from my buddies and My Genius Better Half hoping for more tv time. Then I felt guilty for feeling bad in the first place, ya know? I got back on Twitter some yesterday and then I saw all those familiar faces popping up to tell me hi. I missed ya’ll and I realized that I have more virtual friends than I realized. I was blessed last year.

Anyway, thanks for the comments. I’ve been thinking a lot about my blog and the coming year. I’m going to make some design changes (well, a designer buddy is working on graphics for me) and I actually have a lot rattling in my head to write. I hope I just make myself follow-through to get those thoughts out of my head and onto the screen.

I pray you had a good Christmas and safe, happy New Year!

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She Speaks 2009

By Lisa B on July 13, 2009

I’m going to She Speaks in a few weeks. I’m getting excited because I’m taking Especially Heather with me and have even met up with another blogger/tweeter nearby that’s going to carpool with us!

Friday Bloggers Luncheon

I want to do another lunch — so even if you’re not going to She Speaks, and would like to meet up, please join us! If you would, leave me a comment here to let me know you are coming or email me at lisab (at) simplyhis (dot) org.

Friday, July 31st � Lunch 12:00 pm
Chili�s Grill & Bar (not the one at the mall ladies!!)
1365 Concord Pkwy N
Concord, NC
Exit 58 off I-85
Phone: (704) 721-3859

Link up to your blog and Twitter ID!

I started a new page here for She Speaks 2009 Bloggers and Tweeters to leave information. There are 2 different MckLinkys on the page. Add your blog link to the first one and your Twitter ID to the second one. That way we can get to know each other before we go — and also check it out afterwards if (like me) you remember meeting someone but don’t quite remember their blog name

Check out the She Speaks 2009 Bloggers and Tweeters page.

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Lord, have mercy. Look who’s reading my blog.

By Lisa B on February 23, 2009

Over the past few weeks, I have found that a couple of people are reading my blog that I never would have thought would be reading.

Early last week I participated in Jo-Lynne @ Musings of a Housewife‘s Mister Linky for What I learned this week. Through that Mister Linky, a woman I know IRL (in real life) found my blog. Turns out that Duck and I coached her daughter this year in Upward basketball which just ended. So, how cool is it that I meet one of the basketball parents on the internet? I told her I don’t normally run into people around here who even have a clue as to what a blog is, much less have one! Stop by and tell Kellie “hey” for me

Since my journey began on Facebook just a few short weeks ago, I have been finding family that I haven’t seen since the last death in the family and before that — way too long. One of my cousins sent me a message on Facebook saying she reads my blog and complimented me on my writing. How weird can that be? I don’t know if I’d rather just believe in my own little world here where Mom, Dad and strangers read my blog — oh yeah, and of course Duck. Here’s a shout out to Debbie — we need to get you started blogging

Going on vacation — sort of: For those of you who have seen my tweets or updates on Facebook. I am getting a MacBook Pro. I’ve been waiting for it for 2 months now (it’s one of the newer models). Well, it’s on the truck as I’m typing this “out to be delivered.” This means a few things. One, I’m going to be caught up playing working on transferring everything over to my new Mac. Two, I’ve decided to change up some things here on my blog.

I realized that I blog about several different things that are all me — but may not be all you. So, I’m going to be working on a redesign here and I’m going to add some sections. One section will be for Harleys so you don’t have to read about motorcycles if you’re not interested. Another section I’m going to start is PC-to-Mac. I’m going to write about my transition from PC to Mac (it’s been 12 years at least since I worked on a Mac). I’m also going to log all the tips and everything I find about how to do stuff on the Mac, because well, my memory sucks. Thanks to Secret Agent Mama‘s great advice at BlissDom, I’ve picked up my camera again and started taking pictures. She told me something along the lines of I should take pictures at the conference too because I am not going to see the same things as she does. Well, I went around snapping pictures this weekend and trying to figure out my camera (some of the manual settings) and failed horribly. Seriously, I have some very bad pictures. But I’ll share them with y’all if you’re interested in the Photo section.

I’m probably not going to be blogging here a lot this week — and when you come, things may look different. Hang with me through the changes. I think you’ll like them.

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Here I am

By Lisa B on September 18, 2008

***Edited: Friday, September 26th to make this a normal post. Finally got to fix my blog!***

Thanks to my buddy Amanda who actually called my house yesterday, I realized I’d better post. She mentioned something about it already being a month — and I thought, surely it hasn’t been that long. But, yes, it has.

This is not a normal post. It seems my blog is mad at me for not visiting it for awhile. When I tried to log in this morning, it wouldn’t let me in. Doodle and I are heading to the beach this morning with Grandma. Duck’s staying home because he’s on call at work. So, fixing my own blog will have to wait until I return. I’m typing this in the actual template — that’ll teach my blog to act up.

The reason I haven’t posted here is really because I have been going through an identity crisis. Who am I? What exactly should I write? There are so many other cooler writers than me out there, why bother? Ok, so I guess I’ve thrown a pity party for myself too.

Truth be told, I feel anything but “simply His” and felt so incredibly bad everytime I thought about coming here to post — because I must be spiritual or encouraging or inspiring. All the things I have not felt like being.

About a month and a half ago, the pastor at the church we were visiting turned in his resignation. He felt God calling him to a church back in TN. Can’t argue with God calling him back, it just sucked because we liked him, a lot. We were back to visiting again, and again — except we stopped going for awhile. That and no quiet time can really drag a person down into the dumps. That’s where I’ve been

We visited a church last Sunday and it was nice. I don’t know that it’s “the church” for us right now, but it was good to be in a place to hear God’s Word. Doodle and I will be at the beach and so we probably won’t go to church this weekend, but it’s a start back in the right direction.

So, unfortunately you will not be able to leave comments on this post because it’s not actually a post. Feel free to rag me on the post below if you’d like, and I’ll get back with you next week. Maybe I’ll even write some posts while I’m at the beach — since I’ll have *gasp* no internet access all weekend. Geez, how do people do it?