The Crown Room
06 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment
in Blogging, Life, Uncategorized
I’ve been on too many flights to count in my short life. It’s mostly because my extended family lives in Connecticut (my momma is from there originally). Sometimes I wonder how many planes I’ve been on, how many miles I’ve flown. One day I’ll try to do the math (it would definitely be a rough estimate).
The Crown Room
My father is what some would call a “frequent-flier.” Because of his status as a traveler, as a family we would always be able to use the Delta Crown Room during long layovers. The place is full of entitled businessmen (and women) who think that the world owes them everything, including a nice place to rest on their exhausting business trips across country…okay maybe I’m being a bit harsh, that’s just the major vibe I get when I sit in there. All of the politics of shared space are tested here..there are comfy chairs and not-so-comfy chairs. So when someone walks in, they try to stake out a spot with big cushy chairs. Sometimes people get greedy and put their crap over chairs surrounding them so that they won’t have to endure a stranger sitting next to them. When you do share an area of armchairs with fellow travelers, there is a general rule that you don’t talk about where they’re going, etc. IGNORE ME is the expresson on most people’s faces. On the bright side, they have an open bar, little snackies, fancy bathrooms and comfy mood lighting.
Sidenote cool story about delta crown rooms: my dad met Hulk Hogan in a Crown Room in Atlanta (I think). They chatted it up for a few hours over some Jack and Cokes, pretty cool.
Maybe someday I’ll meet a celebrity in an airport.
I happened to luck out on this trip to AK for spring break. As part of a Christmas gift my dad gave me a one-time Crown Room pass so I could go in while traveling by myself (THANKS DAD!!). I’ve been saving it up for a layover that’s longer than an hour…and here I am…in SLC…for two hours..sippin’ on baileys….people watchin’…and bloggin’…
I spent the past weekend in Denver with my family, and now I’m headed to Alaska to visit a dear friend, Christie Stassel–SO MUCH EXCITEMENT!!
<3 Shay
As fire burns away all the lies
01 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment
So FOCUS retreat 2011 was of superb quality.
A song (“The Invitation” by The Followers) I heard at Winter Conference illustrates well what I learned alongside friends at the good ol’ BLTC (Bear Lake Training Center).
dangerous, destructive, beautiful
Oh that you’d come, tear open the sky
That you’d come down, that’d you’d come down
Oh that the mountains would tremble inside
That you’d come down, that’d you’d come downas fire burns away all the lies
Won’t you come down won’t you come down
your fire brings our souls alive
Jesus come down Jesus come downWe have come to meet with you
To follow and love, to take hold of you
we have come here to worship you
to honor and know to bow before youJesus come down
Jesus come down
Jesus come downYou are the father and we are the clay
That you’d come down that you’d come down
you are the potter so mold us today
That you’d come down that you’d come downJesus come down
Jesus come down
Jesus come down
This weekend I was challenged to cross out the lies, burn the lies, put the lies to death. BURN the lies, set fire to them, incinerate them. When one burns something, it is obliterated, gone forever. I want to burn the lies that I hear about myself: you’re fat, you’re ugly, you’re unlovable, you’re not worth loving, you’re too obnoxious, people can’t handle you, you’re too loud, you’re a failure, you can’t do anything right, etc.
So every day I must: Burn the lies. Replace with them with God’s truth. Abide with Jesus. Rinse. Repeat. Live.
<3 Shay
