Thieving on a Sunday afternoon!

Welcome to Sunday Stealing. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Cheers to all of us thieves!

This week, we're stealing from Steph, aka Cry Baby. She loves Taco Bell and asking questions like these.

I tried to answer these questions on Saturday, like I normally do, but I just couldn't get my act together!

1) Think about the last person you forgave. How long did it take you to forgive them? I'm sure I have forgiven people for smaller things over the last few years, but I must admit that there is a thing for which I had to forgive someone that was HUGE. It took me years and years and more years to be able to forgive this person. It also took therapy. I was finally able to forgive the person, but I never wanted to be reconciled with that person. I actually talked about this incident just this morning when I was teaching Sunday School. I realized that the offender could have cared less whether or not I ever forgave them BUT the angst/anger of holding on to the lack of forgiveness was eating me up from the inside out. I forgave the person for my own well being. I don't think Mark was ever able to forgive the person, but as he said today -- the person is now dead. I also used this story from NPR this morning. It is worth a read and it is a powerful story of forgiveness.

 

2) Steph's favorite fast food is Taco Bell. What's yours? On his blog, Roger said that he liked Wendy's. I do think Wendy's has a great cheeseburger (hold the onions). My favorite french fries are from Milo's and I need several of their dipping sauces because I want to dip each fry - sometimes more than once. Mark nor I eat a lot of fast food but we both love the salads at Chick Fil A. If we "pick up" food, we might get a meat and three from the local Piggly Wiggly (grocery store) deli or we might grab some chicken salad from Ashley Mac's. I love Papa John's pizza but I only order it if Mark isn't home or if I'm ordering it for our Young Adult group. We have several "fast food/casual" places where we like to eat like Taco Mama or Urban Cookhouse. Those are places where we can grab a healthier version of to go food or we can actually go inside.

 

3) Who was the last friend you hung out with? What did you do? We hung out with several different friends and family members over the last week. I will recap all of that in my week/weekend in review tomorrow.

 

4) Did you do anything this past week that will still seem important a year from now? Yesterday, I was leaving my WW (Weight Watchers) meeting and one of the other ladies fell. I called 911 and several of us waited with her until the paramedics arrived. Her husband is partially disabled and she is raising her 16 year old grandson. One of the other ladies drove her to the ER where the doctors had to use 8 stitches to put her pinky finger back together. She busted (burst?) her lip and she texted us that she has three broken bones and will see an ortho doctor this week. All I did was run to her as I dialed 911 . . .but that might still seem important next week.

 

5) Will this coming week be better than last week? How so? I hope so. Our family is ready for some good days.