Monday, June 11, 2012
Friday, June 8, 2012
SOME QUESTIONS FOR YA....
Is it really choosing if you think you have no other choice?
Is it willing submission if you see no other alternative?
Do we sometimes choose to be "slaves" of God instead of "servants"?
Or our jobs?
Or our spouses?
Or our jobs?
Or our spouses?
Blow those comments up peeps!
Thursday, June 7, 2012
UHM.... YEAH....
I really have no good reason for not writing. In my head I totally just quoted Lane Frost, well Luke Perry as Lane Frost- I got no excuses Kel- you did the best you could by me and I failed you. Except I am not sure that is exactly how it went so at 10:45pm I am wavering going over and putting the disc in the DVD player and actually looking up the line. You l know, the scene where he has gotten his act together and he comes back to apologize. I promise I'll look at it tomorrow and fix it if I am wrong. And I completely realize that my drivel here pales in comparison to what he was referring to. So sorry I haven't blogged. Week before last I had a few days at home without the kiddos. Tuesday I did have to go to work, go to vote, and go get something for HH. Wednesday I had a long lunch with a friend of a decade and then some. Boys had half days so it really doesn't give you much time to do much. This week we have all been out. Which means 2 weeks of my summer vaca is gone.
(This morning) In the past two weeks, however, we have had some big celebrations. My grandfather turned 95 yesterday & we had a big blow out for him on Sunday. Not many 95ers still live in their own house and get around without some help. He refuses a walker of any sort because "it's absurd & for old people". Also on Wednesday we welcomed a new nephew, which gives my in-laws a grand total of 6 grandsons and 1 lone granddaughter. Bless her heart. We have cleaned house, mowed the yard, picked a ton of peppers and cucumbers from HH's garden. We have spent two days with two different sets of cousins.
Best of all, most days we have slept late. I mean it's not often we get to sleep till 7:15. You know those people whose kids sleep till 9 or 10 and go to bed at 8, well, we don't have those kids.
The MCs are up now, and I assume will want to be fed soon, so off I go.
Have a great day!
(This morning) In the past two weeks, however, we have had some big celebrations. My grandfather turned 95 yesterday & we had a big blow out for him on Sunday. Not many 95ers still live in their own house and get around without some help. He refuses a walker of any sort because "it's absurd & for old people". Also on Wednesday we welcomed a new nephew, which gives my in-laws a grand total of 6 grandsons and 1 lone granddaughter. Bless her heart. We have cleaned house, mowed the yard, picked a ton of peppers and cucumbers from HH's garden. We have spent two days with two different sets of cousins.
Best of all, most days we have slept late. I mean it's not often we get to sleep till 7:15. You know those people whose kids sleep till 9 or 10 and go to bed at 8, well, we don't have those kids.
The MCs are up now, and I assume will want to be fed soon, so off I go.
Have a great day!
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
WHEN CHOOSING...
stinks and is stinking hard.
I know it sounds flippant some days, just choose Jesus, just choose this or that, but I am all to aware of how hard that can be. The sinful me has its own choices it wants to make. The hurt me wants to protect me and mine. The wounded me wants to bite back when you mess with her. The insecure me wants the praises of peeps because they are tangible and drown out the what I am not ramblings in my head. Over the weekend I had the opportunity to work this out and let me tell you, it was difficult. I was mad, old wounds (that I thought had healed) ripped open, and I had a full scale debate raging in my head and my heart. I will tell you there was a point when I felt the burden lift. However, it only came after I confessed to the Lord the deepest, ugliest truth I had hid in my heart about the whole thing, and even then, I had to keep choosing.
I guess I want you to know two things:
First, if you find choosing difficult today, you are not alone. Choosing is hard for many of us, if not all. Whether it is choosing not to have that next drink or next cookie or next hit or next snarky comment, you are not the only one.
Second, it is only when we come clean with God about the truth in our own hearts are we able to move forward. Freely. You can tell Him. He can handle it. It does not change the sacrifice Christ made for you. It is the very reason for it.
If you and I choose nothing else today, let us choose to lay it all before Jesus.
He has chosen to carry it.
All the way to the cross.
Monday, May 21, 2012
EVERYONE...EACH and EVERY ONE
I have been having a little mini Jeremy Camp concert in my head over the last few days.
It has been both humbling and encouraging. The kind of lyric that brings you to tears of gratefulness and makes your heart burst with determination.
It has been a week of seeing this verse lived out. Last week, I was blessed to read a beautiful testimony of God's deliverance for one of His precious children. Friday, I received impromptu notes from some of my students thanking me for being there this year and sharing what I meant to them. Trust me, when a 16 year-old uses the word "godly" in reference to you, it brings you to tears. It is part of my testimony to them. Sunday was a day full of testimonies at church as we watched people being baptized. Women who had been serving right alongside the church, but realized they didn't have a testimony. A woman who was moved by the testimony of a boy less than 12 years old. A testimony he was willing to share. One he asked to share with her. I think the one that moved me the most was the man who came forward for the open invitation for baptism. The humble obedience to do what God called him to do RIGHT THEN was so tender. His testimony has power.
I know I have said it before, but I will say it again.
If you don't have a testimony, you can. Christ Jesus is waiting.
If you have one, when you have one - share it.
It has power. It has hope. It has Jesus.
Jesus has overcome.
We will overcome.
Share your testimony.
Each and every one.
Choose to overcome.
It has been both humbling and encouraging. The kind of lyric that brings you to tears of gratefulness and makes your heart burst with determination.
It has been a week of seeing this verse lived out. Last week, I was blessed to read a beautiful testimony of God's deliverance for one of His precious children. Friday, I received impromptu notes from some of my students thanking me for being there this year and sharing what I meant to them. Trust me, when a 16 year-old uses the word "godly" in reference to you, it brings you to tears. It is part of my testimony to them. Sunday was a day full of testimonies at church as we watched people being baptized. Women who had been serving right alongside the church, but realized they didn't have a testimony. A woman who was moved by the testimony of a boy less than 12 years old. A testimony he was willing to share. One he asked to share with her. I think the one that moved me the most was the man who came forward for the open invitation for baptism. The humble obedience to do what God called him to do RIGHT THEN was so tender. His testimony has power.
I know I have said it before, but I will say it again.
If you don't have a testimony, you can. Christ Jesus is waiting.
If you have one, when you have one - share it.
It has power. It has hope. It has Jesus.
Jesus has overcome.
We will overcome.
Share your testimony.
Each and every one.
Choose to overcome.
Friday, May 18, 2012
WE MAY NEED DR. DREW....
Donkey's intervention did not go well.
He was herded toward the way out.
He made it to the narrow gate. Then we heard,
" No DONKEY! NO!!!!!".
Then we saw Donkey in our front yard.
Where he has been ever since.
Seems he likes the grass on the other side.
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