Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Just another manic...Tuesday?

The life of a parent is never dull. But the life of a mom, well, it's never not semi-chaotic.

Yes, there is a double negative.
No, I don't care.

The flu and other nastiness is running rampant.

Yesterday I had to pick up my oldest red head from school with a very slight fever and stomach cramping.

Today he stayed home.

20 minutes after dropping off the youngest red head at school, the nurse called because he was in her office.

Now, I do not want to say he is faking, but, he is faking.

So I am home from work today and have LOTS to do and unable to focus or concentrate on any of it!!

This may be part of the problem


Sunday, January 13, 2013

Wrecked heart=open heart

Saturday nights, my church offers a time to come together and intimately worship The Lord, fellowship with great people from several churches and to be challenged. God wrecked my heart tonight. During worship, I quickly had to grab my iPad because God was laying some thoughts on me...

We sit around and complain and shout that this world is a wreck because God has been removed from the classroom. But I guarantee that students all over our country talk with God while they are at school. He doesn't have to be taught from behind a Teacher's desk! No! The issue is that His people have grown complacent and unwilling to fight the battles! Unwilling to stand in the face adversity. Too quick to pass blame. Too quick to make excuses!  I am sick of the pitiful excuse of "no prayer in school'! A relationship with God is as much caught as it is taught! We have got to live it out! We have got to stop giving only lip service! He deserves more. Your family deserves more. Your church deserves more. GOD DESERVES MORE! This world is so lost and unfortunately we are seeing the same attitude in the church! No more excuses. No more blame unless we are looking in the mirror first. I can do nothing about the heart of the person next me unless I first take care of my own. When will we take some responsibility ourselves? When will we stop and realize that the church no longer has the same influence because it has allowed others to influence it? 

Paul says it best.


But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus—the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God. (Acts 20:24 NLT)

Yet preaching the Good News is not something I can boast about. I am compelled by God to do it. How terrible for me if I didn’t preach the Good News! (1 Corinthians 9:16 NLT)


Friday, January 4, 2013

Lazy Friday

This has been my view today.

















 
Bassets are such lazy dogs. Exept when they are running out of the back door with your undergarments to spread around the back yard. Then it's game on.
 
 
Anyway........I found this cute and easy idea on Pinterest the other day that I thought would be a super cute and easy way to raise money for Speed the Light.


cute, huh? So here are what mine look like.


















I googled "flags of the world" and what came up was the information on the Olympic rings. They represent the colors of the flags of the world. So, running with that, I am making my bracelets in the same colors. STL supports missionaries all over the world to reach the people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The intent is that every time you look at the bracelet, you will be reminded to pray for the missionaries and the people they are trying to reach. The bracelets are $2 each. $1.50 of each bracelet will go towards the STL goal of Project365 Student Ministries. To order, comment here or contact me via the P365 Facebook Page.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Hello New Year!

I decided that this year I would blog at least once a week. I have high aspirations of blogging more than that and owuld love to get to a point where I blog every day, but let's face it, that is probably not going to happen.
I am supposed to blog weekly or bi weekly for our church's page and I am hit and miss on that one, too. I am such a slacker.

As I have thought about what I wanted to blog about this week, I was stumped. And then, I came across a video that I just have to share.

Anyone else a fan of a little show on A&E called Duck Dynasty? When I first heard about this show, I refused to watch it. I mean, how much more red neck can you get? But when I actually sat down and watched, I LOVED it! I mean, this family is hilarious! Every family has an Uncle Si. Every family has a Jep. Every wife can identify with Kori and Missy at some point!
My favorite thing about this family is their love for God.

This video is found on Godtube and Willie shares how every believer needs to think and be ready at a moments notice for sharing their faith.


Reality TV Star Speaks Out About His Beliefs from sharethemessage on GodTube.