With tomorrow being election day (here in the US), I found this prayer for our nation by Billy Graham that I wanted to share.  I believe, as citizens of this country AND citizens of Heaven, our most important responsibility is to pray for our own hearts, our nation, our leadership and our culture.  One cool benefit of our heavenly citizenship is that even though in the US we have to be 18 to vote, there is no age restriction on prayer!!

OK, here it is:

Hey everybody.  Just wanted to give you a heads up that Lori and I just recorded a podcast!!!!  Look for it to be posted later today or first thing tomorrow.

I also want to give you a heads up that this would be an ideal podcast for all of you kids to listen to WITH your parents if possible.  Lori and I wanted this particular podcast to be a chance for us to talk about just general things that God had put on our hearts, so one of the things I felt the Holy Spirit prompting me to talk about was internet safety.  Don't worry, I didn't go into any gory details, but just talked about the importance of families having open dialogue about how to handle use of the internet and what constitutes appropriate interactions on the web.

With that in mind, I referenced some resources for parents to help keep their families safe on the internet.  Here are links to those resources:

Thought I'd give you a mini-blog post...

Currently I'm doing revisions on episodes 9 and 10 and doing outlines for 11 and 12 and when I spoke with Steve last, he was doing the VO on episode 4.

And let me tell you right now - this season's going to end where no other season has EVER ended before. And no bulldozers!

Had to say it. It's my duty and responsibility! So happy birthday -may you be blessed with a year full of God's grace and mercy as well as His blessings on you, your family and everything you do!

And have an awesome day! :) Glad you're there to pave the way before me! *grins*

I finished the second drafts of 7 & 8 this week, we put some more work into the military project, and next week we're going to be brainstorming 9 & 10. AND we have some surprises coming up for you that I think you'll enjoy. ;)

You know, I just turned in a first draft of 11-8 and let me tell you, this might very well be my favorite episode of this season. It's exciting!

:)

How is everyone out there in Gileadland??? Have a good Summer?

I've been working all Summer long on some new things at CBH as well as Season 11. In fact, right now I'm working on episodes 11-7 and 11-8.  The first four episodes have already been recorded and I know that Steve's working on the post production on those. 

And speaking of S11, what do you think should happen this season?  Any storylines you can't wait to find out about?

And there's this new thing that CBH has put together - I'm working on that too. Hopefully you'll be seeing what that is soon.

So there's the latest from me...how about everyone out there? What's up with you guys?

It's up. Anyone out there? Just checking!

Well, we've ended Season 10--the recording part of it, anyway!  We still have to do all the editing, sound design, music, mixing, mastering, mailing, etc.  If you listened to the last Coleraine Connection Funcast, you're probably here looking for pictures of the session as I promised.  Well, I guess I should have taken a look at them before I made that promise.  There weren't any taken of the whole huge group of people that I was expecting.  But there are a few I can share...

Who's foot is that in the foreground?  (hint: it's not a Morrison)

Wow, something is REALLY funny!

I know I know - two blog posts in two days from Lori. It's almost too much to consider!

I thought you all might be interested in knowing that we had a brainstorming session today. As you may recall, Mr. Fornof and I are currently working on finishing up Season 10 - and this morning we had a discussion of Season 11. Where do we want to go? What do we want to achieve by the end of the season? Where are we looking for future seasons?! Future seasons? Really?!

Well, we came up with a lot of VERY interesting things that I'm sure you're going to enjoy in the season! And that's as Cheesy Teasy as I'm allowed to get before Steve O'Dell gets on a plane and makes a trip to Texas to stop me!!

But I just thought you all might like to know that. It was VERY interesting!

Now - go have a great weekend - and enjoy episode 10:4! That's an order Good Buddy! :)