My
sister and mother were always good about giving me a fun birthday party when I
was small, later in junior high, I was allowed to have slumber parties.
My brother messed it up for me on the boy/girl party in high school,
because his party ended up like that movie with Tom Cruise, “Risky Business”
when he was supposed to have a small gathering of his friends. It was
probably 200 people that showed up at our house. Someone threw something
through the family room picture glass window, sat on the sink in the bathroom
and broke the sink off the wall, etc. That was the end of the boy/girl
parties at the Brannon house while I was growing up!
Anyway,
weekends are not enough for me so I have the worse reputation right now as a
single widow that I was going to four single Bible studies a week. I’ve decided
to cut back, because I’m getting too wild.
I’m trying to avoid those women talking about me when they go draw their water
at the well (at church). I was just putting too many logs on that fire so
I’m cutting back on Bible studies. “Let’s give them something to
talk about. Talk about love, love, love, love.”
Many
rock stars live a life of alcohol and drugs. It’s a lifestyle not conducive
of a healthy life with traveling around on a bus, they eat a lot of restaurant
food. Reminds me of the single lifestyle. My husband had tickets
one time to see John Melencamp, but he had to cancel his concert at Verizon
because of a heart problem due to his rock star lifestyle.
I
like to have single parties at my house now. I’ve always wanted to host
events at my house, but with teenagers when I was married and my step-son had
this smelly big dog, it was too much to try to do that in the past.
My
friend Brandy and I went to New Zealand on this single’s match-maker flight
with the ABC television crew and Jason “The Bachelor” October of 2009.
Someone was asking if anyone matched up with anyone. I told them, “Who
cares, it was an excuse to travel and see New Zealand.” Same way, who needs an
excuse to have a party?
Jesus
liked a good party, or he would have not left ministry to go to a
wedding. It says that the wine he made was better than the wine they
first put out (stronger). Since his mother was at the wedding, it leads
me to believe that it must have been a relative or someone close to the
family.
His mother said to the servants,
"Do whatever he tells you." John 2:5
It’s
a good philosophy to follow whatever Jesus tells you to do as Mary had
learned. The Lord spoke to me over two years ago that he wanted me to
“strip off the robes” of my pride like David danced before him with a ephod,
and post blogs. It stripping off the pride, that means to get to the bare
bones of being real with people. I find that a lot of Christians put on
“airs” or rather a phony persona of who they are and don’t really get down to
the real nitty gritty of life.
David, wearing a linen ephod, danced
before the Lord with all his might, 2 Samuel 6:14
The
children of Israel liked a good party too, they had the Feast of Passover,
Feast of Unleavened Bread, Feast of First fruits, Feast of Trumpets,
Feast of Pentecost, the Feast of Tabernacles (Harvest), and Feast of Yom Kippur
/the Day of Atonement.
I
did some wild partying and I’m very capable of being a free spirit and
once in a while I am pumping my car gas and I hear that Jimi Hendrix song,
“Purple Haze” and I just remember that there was some stuff I was feeding my
brain and it was not exactly tuna fish or “brain food.” The
scripture below rather sums up my life back then so there is just something
to this Christianity stuff!
For the time that is past suffices for
doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions,
drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. 1 Peter 4:23
One
reason I married my husband is that he was one of the few Christian men that
believed in having fun. From sun up to sun down he loved to go boating
and try to squeeze all the fun out of the life that he could. I’ve never
met such a free spirit in my life who lived life to the fullest. I think
it was because of all the close calls he had with death in his life due to
asthmatic attacks.
For, "Whoever would love life and
see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful. 1
Peter 3:10 and Psalm 34:12-13
I
laugh when I watch Chevy Chase in the Vacation movie, because life with my
husband sort of reminds me of Chevy Chase, by golly come hell or high water,
“We are going to have fun in life.” I believe we should have that
same determination in serving the Lord, although it’s not a struggle, because
God does the willing and the working in us to do his will.
For it is God who is producing in you
both the desire and the ability to do what pleases him. Philip 2:13
It
says we are to serve the Lord with gladness and come before his presence
with singing. Psalm 100:2
I
can understand why the apostle Paul said we can use our availability or
singleness for Christ.
Party
Like A Rock Star
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