Staying Aware

Well it Tuesday. Made it thru the Monday daily chaos of life and work. Have fallen behind in my reading of the dare book. I have finished day 1,2, and 3

Day one - Patience
Day two- Kindness
Day three- Selfishness

We are doing things slowly and taking each day and accomplishing them in our marriage and in the daily lives before we go on.

It just amazes me that the devil thinks he can slide in anywhere and at any time when you go to doing something for God. The point I have become to realize is that he can get in and easily anywhere if we let him. We must always stay aware of the devil and his lurking when we are trying to strengthen ourselves in our Godly life. When you try to work on something the harder he tries to sneak on in.

Stay aware and stay prayed up.

God's Blessings

Had a friend call me this afternoon with proof and relief that God is still working. Just goes to show as I put in my earlier blog that God works with small blessings all around us.


Praise God!

It is Friday folks

As I am sitting here working away, I catch myself thinking of wanting to be outside in the sunshine. As today is the first day of spring, I can here the birds singing, see the flowers blooming and here the lawnmowers working. It is just another sign of how God is still at work, we must never be to busy to stop and think of the small things that He blessed us with that makes everything seem wonderful.

Guess I will have to settle for opening the door and wait for Saturday to be able to go out and enjoy the sun for awhile.

Everyone have a good, safe, and blessed weekend !!!!!

Everything Green

Well we had our green day at church. The kids had a good time some calling it the green party. Food was interesting. I made green "fat free" cupcakes-- not, but the idea everything green is good for you was a thought; and of course green tea(not really a good idea for southern sweet tea - kinda changes the taste) and of course the green hamburger pie. Who new you could die hamburger green! Glad it tasted better than it looks. We all had a good time and to be in Gods House was wonderful once again. I thank God for all my family and friends.

The Love Dare Book

As you all know my family and I have seen Fireproof. It was great- suggest all who have not seen it watch it. Well I had not been able to get out of my mind The Love Dare book. Purchased it the first of this week and have started it. My husband has chose to do this with me. We just started it and we both have decided to start journals of our own for each day. Our marriage is good, strong and faithful. I believe there is always room for improvement. Will keep you posted on how the dares go. So far we are one for one. Only have 39 more to go.

The first day is patience.

"Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger." (James 1:19)

American Dream

Tuesday morning on the way to work listening to the local radio station, they were talking about the prefect women or man. The man was one that check in and gave the wife the daily schedule, talked with the kids, gave her the time she needed, etc. The women was one that never bothered her husband during that football game, loved to fish, hunt, and kept the home peaceful. The comments that were called in said "Where can I find him or her; that sounds like a dream come true." One man called and said that he had a friend that his wife put her husbands clothes out every morning, had his coffee made before he went to work, the friend said that he wish she didn't do this, because she didn't have to. This got me thinking; I put my husbands clothes out, make his breakfast, fix his lunch and so forth most everyday. I do these things because I want to not because he expects it. I do my best to keep my house in peace and orderly. Not that this always happens. LOL. At our M&M Class this past week we talked about are we living someones dream and what it takes to keep our house in peace.

I have given this a lot of thought, and have decided that I am one very lucky women to be living out my dream. That is living out that American dream for earth and living also the dream of the Godly life on earth. What better peace than to have a wonderful Godly husband, a beautiful step daughter that I have the chance to to help raise in the Godly way, and to have friends, family to love and help in many different ways.

YES I AM LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM! AND ONE DAY WILL LIVE THE HEAVENLY DREAM ALSO! THANK GOD I AM BLESSED!

Green Cooking

Good Morning—

Hope everyone has had a good weekend. I was blessed with another good weekend. Well everyone knows that we are having a St. Patrick’s Day fellowship at church this week. Okay I decided to see what my meal would turn out and how it would taste so I tried it early. Well I cooked it before we went to church it looked interesting then. When we got home from church, I dipped some out and put it in the plate to heat it and it was all over with from there. I looked at my husband and he looked at me and the laughing began and continued on for some while. It looked really gross, as if it had been in the fridge for months--- looked like something that you would see in the college student’s fridge.

However the taste was not bad, the look however is still to be determined.

Friday the 13th

Well as all know today is Friday 13th. I have heard people talk today and be discouraged because it is the 13th day of the month and it is Friday.

I am having a good day, because I got up each morning as I normally do and thanked God for another wonderful day. If He blesses us with the day, but we make of it what we want. Hopefully this is always in his plan.

I am one of those people that would be horrified of a Friday 13th, but as my faith has grown I look at it as being the 13th day of the month and it just happened to fall on a Friday.


Let us all take a moment today and say an extra special pray for someone and thank God for another beautiful day.

Cooking Green

Hope everyone’s week is going well, have been trying to figure out something all week. We are having a fellowship at our church for St. Patrick’s Day next week, but there is a catch to this you have to cook something green. Do you know how hard it really is to come up with something green that is unique and that everyone else will not be cooking is? HARD. If anyone has any suggestions will be glad to take them. I will let you know next week how this turns out. This will be fun and interesting.

Do you ever have one of those days that you just would like to stay with your head under the covers all day long with no one to bother you?

Well today was one of those days for me for no particular reason. But with God’s grace and hand I got up because I knew that he had given me a great opportunity called family and that they needed me to take care of them. You know sometimes we think of the daily chores of fixing breakfast, lunch, washing clothes, making the bed, cooking and general picking up as a chore but I have come to learn through my studies with God, a women’s class, and friends in general that the are not have to they are blessings that we get to do them and that we have someone to do it for. I have started trying to look at by daily duties not as chores but as because I Love my family. It really makes things easier when you are having one of those days.

Just remember that God has a plan for us and everything that we do in our lives. So we need to always try to do everything to our best and do it for God.

Thank Gooness it is Friday

I am so glad that it is Friday. I work inside for a living so I have not been able to enjoy these past few pretty days(but from the inside). I am so glad for the weekend to almost be here and that it is going to be a pretty weekend. My family has a fun and packed weekend as usual, but to me there is nothing better than enjoying the days that the Lord has made with family, friends and sunshine. Hope everyone make the best of the weekend and stops to think about God giving us the strength to make it through another week and enjoy each day

Cartoons

Just thought this could be a thought for today. Hope everyone enjoys this. I will try to put some more up later this week.

Be Blessed

Listening to a local radio station this morning on the way to work-- they were asking people to call about what they were eating when they were poor. Some were funny and some were just gross. But was amazing is that most people called and said that they did not think they were poor, they just thought it was common. Most callers would say even though we were eating this or that, we were a blessed family.

This is another example of how we do not always have to have the best or the finest things to make us happy. God, family and friends go a long way to making people happy and life wonderful.

A lot of times just throwing a meal together and having friends or family over is usually better than having that expensive meal (isn't that right, Everybody's Mama and Mama Hen).

If you just take time to stop and look we all have blessings all around us. Lets take time today to stop and find at least one blessing.I bet if we look we can find more than one.

Learning to Witness

Good Morning. Hope everyone is doing well today.

Ever feel so close to God that you feel as if you are sitting in his lap. Over this last weekend and the first of this week that is how I feel. I have back that feeling when I first became a born again Christian- saved only by Gods grace. I have had a wonderful couple of weeks, God has blessed me with many blessings as he always does these just have been more visible. My husband and I have communicated more, have that feeling back stronger (like when we first started dating), seen God working in my family and friends lives.

One thing that we need to always remember is that God calls us to witness. We have to witness in many different ways. That can be in the form of a simple smile, a soft hello, talking to someone about your day, listening to someone’s story of there day, having that soft hug, that shoulder to let someone cry on, or talking to someone about Jesus. These are just to name a few. I have been taught something over the past couple of months, that being we always need to be ready to witness. This can be done any many ways and we have to get out of our comfort zone of church and mix with the sinners. Lets face it most of the people in your church are saved, your worldly people are not and they are in many different places. Of course you must be careful were you go to witness because you don’t want to give someone the wrong impression of your Godly character by like going to the bar or something like that, but I truly believe that you can go to someone’s house and visit if there are people there that you know are sinners, for example. Lets face it we all were sinners at one time and someone share GOD with us.

Let’s all make a commitment to witness this week.

Weather in the south

Well this weekend has been a blast and boy did time fly by. We had a intresting weather weekend, we all went from wearing short sleeves and riding horses on Saturday, to waking up to snow on Sunday. It was a intersting weekend.
My country boy and I were talking on the way home from church about the snow; as we were driving home in it; about how wonderful and how alive God truly is if you can just slow down long enough to see and take in the beauty. We do not think much about it when we have the rain becuase we see it all the time. The snow on the other hand we living in the south we don't see very much at all. So when we do the kid comes out in all of us. The beauty of the snow coming home and when we got home was wonderful, flowing like a free bird and all different shapes and sizes. Gods natural beauty of giving us different things such as snow, rain, fall and summer are wonderful things that we need to slow down and take in. Slow down and smell the flowers.


PS-- The snow does not last long in the south - the snow had finally started to stick and by the time we had all finished eating lunch(which the kids did not want to eat because they wanted to go play in the snow) it had started to melt. But however the wind was cold as we olds folks indured the cold for the kids.