Quotes from Beth Moore's Esther study tonight:

"We can 'protect' ourselves right out of our calling. We must be willing to move from self-preservation to brave determination."

"Make decisions out of wisdom, not fear."

"Courage is not denying your situation but denying its power over you."

"The most frequent command in the Bible is 'Do not fear'."

La cucaracha, la cucaracha...

Ya no puede caminar;
Porque no tiene,
Porque le falta
Una pata para andar.

The cockroach, the cockroach
He can't walk anymore
Because he doesn't have,
Because he's missing
A foot to walk with.

I was awakened at 3:11am by a weird scratching sound in my room. My first thought was "mouse!", but upon turning on the light, I discovered a cockroach crawling up a box that I had just removed from my closet and was sitting in front of my bookshelf. I ran to the bathroom for the ever handy Bengal Roach Spray (shameless advertisement here-this stuff is the best ever and it has no odor!!).

Roaches are amazing, because even after you spray them and you know, and they know, that they are dying, they manage to travel great distances...like from the box to the printer, to back behind the bookshelf...

Naturally, I couldn't go to sleep until he was dead, so I'm up at 3:56am typing a blog about him and waiting for him to die...he's behind my bookshelf now, so I can't whack him with a shoe. And repeated attempts to flush him out with Bengal are failing, so I wait...

I submit that whoever coined the phrase "Everything's bigger in Texas," had just seen a Houstonian coackroach. I wonder...do they have roaches in Venezuela?