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So I’m doing a show after all. The problem with me (and I might not be alone in this) is that I have a hard time imagining anything between close to perfect and nothing at all. I’d been planning to do a first show featuring material from my columns, and it was overwhelming. A fully realized show involves a lot of preparation and getting every detail down all at once. A close-to-perfect show requires a ton of rehearsal and usually a lot of help from others to make it happen.

I found myself making yet another trip by a familiar church sign which reminds us all, “Let your lives be filled with thanks and giving.” Each time I pass, that sign serves as a good reminder of what’s important.

I am quick to criticize other people’s luxuries.

Thursday was a hoot. Downtown at the Trunk-or-Treat, there were more young kids dressed up in some wonderfully cute costumes. There were store-bought that had people saying the cutest, most innocent things. Make-up and wigs, fake this and that, bright clothing, some lit-up and others were blinking. And those were just the dogs on leashes.

One of my church members recently shared an article with me that contained information about the latest Barna research concerning Christians and the election. The results of this survey were absolutely shocking to me. According to Barna, 41 million evangelicals will simply not vote in our upcoming presidential election.

When the thermometer dips ever so slightly, I grab the biggest pot I can find in my kitchen, and cook the life out of something. One week, it was potatoes for potato soup. Often, it’s a carcass which we’ve picked to the bone, to which I add all the leftovers in the refrigerator, as if I worked at a school cafeteria or something.

I remember the day Madeline said to me, “I like watching the squirrels scurrying around in my backyard, looking for acorns or stopping to eat one. I wonder what they’re thinking…” the former teacher said with her perfect diction and uplifting voice, as if she were telling the story to a gaggle of fourth graders gathered around her feet.