Sunday Verse

Ephesians 5:19-20

speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I wanted to bold and underline the 'always giving thanks to God the Father for everything'.  I'll also add that we should always give thanks even when things aren't going our way.  It's easy to praise Him with the skies are sunny and we are "fat and happy", but the times we really need to lift His name up is on those dark and gloomy days or when you're just having an overall bad day.  It's amazing how petty we can be and how we act sometimes.  It's on those bad days I'm reminded to continue to praise God no matter what.  The ska bad The O.C. Supertones summed up all of this perfectly in their song "Jury Duty"...

5 am on tuesday
Why am I up so early
Drive out to santa ana ’cause I’ve got jury duty
No breakfast short tempered
And I cut my head shaving

Ten miles out I hit traffic
Some days just aren’t worth saving

You know I haven’t had the best of days
But I want to stop and thank you anyway

At the courthouse I waited
And waited then I waited
At lunchtime my car stalled out
I couldn’t get it started
Had a book by C.S. Lewis
I finished the last page and
Slept on my desk for three hours
Just like my high school days

Cuz every single moment whether sleeping or awake
Is your creation
And what you’ve made is good
I don’t always thank you for the rough days and
The hard times in my life
Even though I should

Got home and decided I’d be in a bad mood
My shy and quiet wife said she didn’t like my attitude
Got a call from my mother
Forgot my sister’s birthday
I’m a lousy older brother safe to say I’ve had a bad day

 

PC Addition: Rey Ordonez

A few weeks ago I shared a few new Rey Ordonez cards...something that just doesn't happen very often.  I don't know the exact percentage of his cards I own, but it's gotta be over 90% if I'd guess.  Just like before when I ran across a card of his I knew nothing about (1997 UD Folz Vending), a few days later my auto search e-mailed me a listing for a lot of 4 1997 New York Mets Panini stickers - 2 of Rey, 1 of Todd Hundley and 1 of Bernard Gilkey.  The latter two are up for trades if any Mets collector is interested.  What I'm focusing on are these two!

#s 59 & 99 respectively

PC Addition: Brandon Beachy

I'm starting to calm down from my team's exit in the playoffs this season and I'm beginning to wonder how much the Braves really missed Beachy.  For a couple of different reasons I added him to my list of Player Collections earlier this year, but thus far I've only got a handful of his cards.  I'm still trying to get his RCs scanned, but here are a few gems I managed to pick up in the last month or so.  If there was one good thing that came from his season ending injury was that his cards were uber cheap online!

2012 Topps Mini Relic

2012 Topps Triple Threads #20/27

2012 Topps Triple Threads Emerald #17/18

2012 Topps Triple Threads Emerald #16/18

2012 Topps Triple Threads #12/36

2012 Topps Chrome Black Refractor #085/100

2012 Topps Chrome Sepia Refractor #31/75

PC Addition: Matt Diaz

Matt Diaz doesn't seem to get a lot of time on the field w/ the Braves even when he's not hurt, so I was a little surprised (and elated) to see that Topps included him in the new 2012 Topps Update set...and gave him a Silk card too!  And that Printing Plate is kinda cool too!

  

Heart of the Order

Just a short post tonight since it's already later than I thought...

I really, really miss the simple days when baseball cards were about the base cards and simple inserts like this awesome 1997 Score Heart of the Order.

Sunday Verse

Psalm 51:12

Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

Ever since I started my Sunday Verse theme a few years ago I haven't missed posting until the last 2 weeks.  Personally I've been going through a lot between work, home and finances...you know, adult crap.  I guess you could say I've been in one of those proverbial valleys.  Last weekend however we got a chance to escape it all for the weekend as my family took it's first ever camping trip.  It was great to get away and spend some quality time w/ my wife and daughters outside of our home.  I definitely need more of that.

So I'm trying to get back on track here w/ my Bible verses and for me Psalm 51:12 is perfect.  Funny how you run across the perfect verse at the perfect time.  Coincidence?  I think not.

Have a great Sunday everyone! 

SEGA!

When the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Braves my collecting season kinda ended.  I've only bought 2 packs of Update.  I was turned off when I saw that retail packs of Bowman Chrome were $3 and some change and only had 3 cards per pack.  I'm questioning if I even want to set build future releases.  Money is tight.  I have mountains of cards to catalog and scan.  I'm I on the edge of burn out?

All is not lost though.  I still get a thrill out of adding new cards to my player and team collections, especially odd ball cards.  Take these for instance.

  

I ran across a seller in Japan that had a lot of these 2012 Topps Sega Card-Gen cards during a search for Tim Hudson.  Unfortunately I wasn't able to get the Hudson card I really wanted (or Chipper), but I did pick up this Francoeur and a few Braves.  I have no idea what these cards were for, but with the Sega cross branding I'm guessing these were video game related some how.

I love how Jose Constanza got a card in this set.  As I mentioned earlier the seller had just about every card for every team.  Apparently it's a big set.  Wish I knew more about these.  The only thing I could find was this Japanese website.  I guess for now I'll just enjoy my latest 4 pick ups.