Wednesday, January 6, 2010
I WANTED TO BE A PINK LADY
So last night I started making PW's cinnamon rolls. Sounds exciting right? Except I started about 8 and if you read the recipe you will see that was a bad idea. Plus, HH was late getting home. Late as into early Thursday AM. The boys made homemade pizza which wasn't done until about 8 as well so it was 9 before they even bathed. AND Grease 2 was on which is one of my all time favorites. With all that being said, this is the end of this post. I am going to take a nap.
GOD DON'T TOLERATE NO SMACK!
Don't you hate when you are lecturing your kids about something or telling a moral story and you get kicked in the gut with it?
We were talking about different events from the bible last Sunday on the way home from church and we got into David. I was telling them how Goliath was talking trash and how David was fighting in the name of the Lord. I made the comment that God doesn't like any trash talking about His people and I promise you it nearly hit me in the face.
How often have I criticized a brother or sister in Christ because of how they did or didn't do something. I don't mean the "truth in love stuff" I mean flat out criticized. How many times have I continued to talk smack about it when it was over and done. Too many is how many. Like I told the boys, God don't tolerate no smack talkin' about His kids. He didn't from Goliath and he won't from me.Thank goodness His grace is there to cover me and warn me. The good news He won't tolerate it about me either. Not from Satan. Not from man. Not from myself.
So I will take my measure of chastisement and be grateful for it.
For it means that He loves us when He corrects us.
Here lately, I have been feeling a lot of love.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
THE Y CHROMOSOME
Last night I got a glimpse of one of those special genes on the Y chromosome.
We, being girls and XX not XY, don't have it.
Mom: MC 1 go do your spelling words.
MC 1 : Mom can you read this word for me?
Mom: d-u-t-i-e-s, duties
MC 1: HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!
Mom: Really, son, really?
I just feel really bad for his teacher who has only three girls in the class of 15+.
I am sure going over those spelling words for the rest of the week will be AWESOME!
(The very reason I don't teach elementary or junior high;)
Oh and just an FYI - I totally made brown gravy from scratch today and it rocked! Thank you. Thank you very much.
Monday, January 4, 2010
GO YOUR WAY
First, MC 2 informed me that he was not "naughty", he is FUN! Ohhhhh.....okay.
Second, do you just get sick of yourself?
Frustrated with yourself?
Moments where you go "duh- you dodo brain!"
No?
Well then I guess you will have to live vicariously through me, because I am having one.
I went on a rant a few weeks ago about how nothing I wanted to do for Christmas happened. I was pretty upset about it all. In the weeks since the Lord has brought some clarity about many aspects of my life.
Here it is in a nutshell:
The life I desire is not going to just happen. (Seems a no brainer for a chica who named her blog I CHOOSE and talks a lot about being deliberate; I have no explanation other than I am a flawed human).
See, I had all these grand ideas about my year off from work. All the things I would get done. All the holiday stuff I would do. Visualize a cross between Caroline Ingalls and Proverbs 31. Naive- very. Dreamy, pie in the sky- you bet. I guess I thought I would get up everyday all this stuff would happen. It doesn't. I thought having all the time I wanted would make all this stuff happen easily. It doesn't. What makes all the things I wanted to get done come to pass? Me getting out and doing them. Me being deliberate in managing all the time I have. Me making the effort and planning for them. Don't misunderstand. I am not naive enough to think I can plan out every moment of my life. The Good Lord likes faith way too much for that to happen. On the other hand, I can't just get up everyday and expect stuff to magically get done. I have to do it. If I want Christmas cookies and candies next year, I have to make them. If I want certain memories for my kids, I have to be purposeful in making them. If I want my kids to know Christmas is really about Christ, I have to be deliberate in making that the point. God has shown me where I fallen short in some areas regarding this. Financial freedom will not be ours unless HH and I are deliberate. I will not grow with Christ unless I am deliberate. For the past few months, I have been letting life happen. I have rationalized to myself that I was getting used to being home, or MC 2 needed my attention, or this or that. MC 2 does need me, but he can have me while we work on the pens in the front yard. He can have me while we trim the grape vine that has overtaken my front fence. The boys and I can have meaningful talks while we fold towels. We made fudge the other night. They helped. They had already folded clothes and helped load the dishwasher, a rare feat for them both. When we finished with the fudge, MC 1 asked "Can we just talk?" Sure baby we can. I know those days will go by very quickly. As Kelly said the days are long but the years are short.
So for 2010, however you want to say it twenty- ten or two thousand and ten, I purpose to be deliberate. In many areas. Deliberate in what I do, deliberate in what I pass on. Deliberate in choosing God first, husband second. Deliberate in managing our household, deliberate in keeping the laundry up (that one I have done pretty well on till last week).
It reminds me of the blind man at the end of Mark 10.
He is crying out when the Lord Jesus asks him " What do you want me to do for you?"
The man replies restore my sight.
Jesus replies "Go your way; your faith has made you well."
Christ did not say sit here, your faith will get things done.
Go your way.
Go my way.
Get up and move forward on my journey.
Quit sitting by the pool, get up and get moving, because my faith will make me well.
Holly has a great post along the same lines. Judging by the comments, God is calling a lot of us the be more purposeful in our lives.
May we encourage each other.
May we challenge each other.
May we go our way for our faith has made us well.
Second, do you just get sick of yourself?
Frustrated with yourself?
Moments where you go "duh- you dodo brain!"
No?
Well then I guess you will have to live vicariously through me, because I am having one.
I went on a rant a few weeks ago about how nothing I wanted to do for Christmas happened. I was pretty upset about it all. In the weeks since the Lord has brought some clarity about many aspects of my life.
Here it is in a nutshell:
The life I desire is not going to just happen. (Seems a no brainer for a chica who named her blog I CHOOSE and talks a lot about being deliberate; I have no explanation other than I am a flawed human).
See, I had all these grand ideas about my year off from work. All the things I would get done. All the holiday stuff I would do. Visualize a cross between Caroline Ingalls and Proverbs 31. Naive- very. Dreamy, pie in the sky- you bet. I guess I thought I would get up everyday all this stuff would happen. It doesn't. I thought having all the time I wanted would make all this stuff happen easily. It doesn't. What makes all the things I wanted to get done come to pass? Me getting out and doing them. Me being deliberate in managing all the time I have. Me making the effort and planning for them. Don't misunderstand. I am not naive enough to think I can plan out every moment of my life. The Good Lord likes faith way too much for that to happen. On the other hand, I can't just get up everyday and expect stuff to magically get done. I have to do it. If I want Christmas cookies and candies next year, I have to make them. If I want certain memories for my kids, I have to be purposeful in making them. If I want my kids to know Christmas is really about Christ, I have to be deliberate in making that the point. God has shown me where I fallen short in some areas regarding this. Financial freedom will not be ours unless HH and I are deliberate. I will not grow with Christ unless I am deliberate. For the past few months, I have been letting life happen. I have rationalized to myself that I was getting used to being home, or MC 2 needed my attention, or this or that. MC 2 does need me, but he can have me while we work on the pens in the front yard. He can have me while we trim the grape vine that has overtaken my front fence. The boys and I can have meaningful talks while we fold towels. We made fudge the other night. They helped. They had already folded clothes and helped load the dishwasher, a rare feat for them both. When we finished with the fudge, MC 1 asked "Can we just talk?" Sure baby we can. I know those days will go by very quickly. As Kelly said the days are long but the years are short.
So for 2010, however you want to say it twenty- ten or two thousand and ten, I purpose to be deliberate. In many areas. Deliberate in what I do, deliberate in what I pass on. Deliberate in choosing God first, husband second. Deliberate in managing our household, deliberate in keeping the laundry up (that one I have done pretty well on till last week).
It reminds me of the blind man at the end of Mark 10.
He is crying out when the Lord Jesus asks him " What do you want me to do for you?"
The man replies restore my sight.
Jesus replies "Go your way; your faith has made you well."
Christ did not say sit here, your faith will get things done.
Go your way.
Go my way.
Get up and move forward on my journey.
Quit sitting by the pool, get up and get moving, because my faith will make me well.
Holly has a great post along the same lines. Judging by the comments, God is calling a lot of us the be more purposeful in our lives.
May we encourage each other.
May we challenge each other.
May we go our way for our faith has made us well.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Welcome in 2010.
Happy Birthday Baby Sister.
Hope you have a great one!
Theme for this year...
DELIBERATE.
In worship.
With family.
In finances.
In health.
In responses.
Deliberate.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
SCARED A BIT
I received wonderful Christmas presents this year. A great new pair of black boots that would make Big Mama proud. A fantastic brown jacket. A Scentsy that matches our home decor. The John MacArthur Bible Commentary. However, I received one gifts that scares me. To the point I have avoided it as long as possible. I have actually tried it once, but quit soon after. The culprit... Breaking Free by Beth Moore. Yes, I am afraid of it a tiny bit. When people who have done the study say things to you like,
What is even more frightening is what will be missed if I don't do it. The only way I am going to fulfill all God has and wants for me is to let Him get all up in my business. To allow Him to reach into the very core and start from there. I must admit I am a bit ashamed that I am even telling you I have been dodging it. Almost like I have failed you. Truth be told though, if I have failed anyone, I would be me and Him. It would be easy to let that condemnation monkey jump on my back. I won't. For I know this as well, God's timing is perfect. Perfect. He knew exactly when I would be willing, if not totally ready, and willing I am.
I have not started it yet, but next week when we get back to our regularly scheduled lives I will. I go into it with great expectancy. If what I expect to happen happens, my regularly scheduled life is no more.
Praise the Lord!
P-r-a-i-s-e t-h-e L-o-r-d.
"If something ever happens to me make sure that
study gets burned BEFORE anyone reads it",
well, it makes you a little leery. I know, thousands of women have done it and been blessed beyond belief. I also know it has a way of getting all up in my business and rocking my world. To the very core. Which is kinda the point, but scary still. It is really a silly fear and a complete work of the enemy, but a fear that is still there. What is even more frightening is what will be missed if I don't do it. The only way I am going to fulfill all God has and wants for me is to let Him get all up in my business. To allow Him to reach into the very core and start from there. I must admit I am a bit ashamed that I am even telling you I have been dodging it. Almost like I have failed you. Truth be told though, if I have failed anyone, I would be me and Him. It would be easy to let that condemnation monkey jump on my back. I won't. For I know this as well, God's timing is perfect. Perfect. He knew exactly when I would be willing, if not totally ready, and willing I am.
I have not started it yet, but next week when we get back to our regularly scheduled lives I will. I go into it with great expectancy. If what I expect to happen happens, my regularly scheduled life is no more.
Praise the Lord!
P-r-a-i-s-e t-h-e L-o-r-d.
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