What a day

Busy Busy Busy!!!!!!!!!!!!! Life can get so hectic sometimes and it is so nice just to sit and relax even though there are millions of things that could be done. :) I watched an autism movie that just about made me cry. It was very touching!

Todd and I will be in Reno, NV from the 1st till the 9th so I will not be on the internet during those times. Anna these pics are for you :)

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I finally got up this morning, but I really needed the sleep. For now the headache that I have been dealing with is gone and I am able to enjoy my morning. :) Very thankful for that. My grandaddy just called and I will be going to lunch with him in an hour and half. I have seen him since Christmas so I am looking forward to the time with him.
I am reading in Amos 6 this morning. I came across a very striking verse, but first I need to help this by actually typing up the verses.
1* Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust i nthe mountain of Samaria,
which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!
2* Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great:
then go down to Gath of the philistines: be they better than these kingdoms?
or their border greater than your border?
3* Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near:
4* That lie upon bed of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat
the lambs out of their flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
5* That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of
musick, like David;
6* That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.


sorry the last verse wouldn't cooporate. But what I see here is a lack of care for the children of God or even the unsaved around us. I am not grieved as I should be with the things going on around me. I have all my needs met and im living good but yet no concern and no grief. Oh how I need to get back to praying with a heavy heart. so many are in affliction around us, can you see them? Are we praying for them? do we expect God to answer our prayers for them? Or are we just praying to make ourselves feel better. HMMMMMMMMMMMM............ This really hits the spot this morning.

Update

ok so its been a day over 2 weeks of our diet! I have only cheated once!! :) I couldnt help myself, but Todd has not cheated and doing great with it. Tonight I drink mint tea with honey in it. It is making me sleepy.
This morning I missed church due to a headache, but I was thankful to go tonight. We have been going through the book of Psalm and I like it. :) So many wonderful truths that you could a billion and one other songs from it. What I got out of the sermon tonight was about prayer. You can pray and pray for God to do something great in your church or elsewhere, but I need to praying that He would show up in my quiet time with Him. We will never have revival unless something changes in our day to day walk with Him, but He is such a good and gracious God!
I dropped American Lit class and I decided to pick up a different one. Not a big fan of how the class was going or the thought and preparation time that was put into it. So I will take that class elsewhere. I am going to pick up the sequel to the one I took last semester. 2nd of Paul's epistles. Should be a good class but just need to make sure I study enough.
So yeah that is what is going on here. We will be going to Reno, NV Feb. 1-9!!! I am super excited about the trip to see my grandparents, skiing, and seeing Anna!!!!!!!!!!!!! Woot!!!!

Amazed!

I only have a few minutes this morning due to going to class (American Lit), but I wanted to write something. I have been trying to get a fire started for about an hour and its been a no go. So I decided to just set everything up in the stove the best I could and lit the paper like I did a ton of times before. I didnt believe I would have a fire so I just bundled up and started reading my Bible. I prayed to my Father about the fire because the wood we have right now is hard to get a fire started, and I said I did everything I could but I need His power to get the fire nice and hot. I found it to be a silly prayer but I didnt mind praying it because I know He can answer if He chooses. Well with it not really in my mind I started reading in Hosea. I read Hosea 10 and then started in 11 and came to a part in 11:9 "for I am God, and not man." As soon as I read it I thought again about the fire and the temp was still cold, but I heard something going on in the stove and lo and behold some of the wood caught and the temp shot up to 300 degrees. I know that may seem crazy and silly but I thought about it some more. God can use us and start a fire so nice and hot that everyone can see us and feel us. We may think we arent worth much but to Him we are! Then I thought about the 2 little pieces of wood that I put in the stove that were better than all the rest. They catch easier and they burn better. They seemed so small though and insignificant but yet that is what was making the fire so hot. I ran outside and got some more of that kind of wood and put it in there. We sometimes only give God the old stuff and the things we dont care about much, but when we give Him the things we care about that is when the fire starts to really get going. God wants everything in our lives. My issue is money, but if I just give it to Him I know that I can burn brighter. Whats yours? Remember dont put God in your little box because you cant! He is not man, He is God! Burn brightly today!!!!!!!!

God is so Merciful!

Reading in Hosea this morning and I was just overwhelmed with God's mercy and goodness. Israel is running from Him and seems to want nothing to do with Him, but yet God will still take them back if they want to come back. "I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early" Hosea 5:15 God is so willing to heal us from our wickedness if we will let Him. Oh makes me consider the parts of me I dont want Him to touch :( Our hearts are so deceitful and desperately wicked who can know it? Hosea 7:2 "And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness" We really dont get away with anything. Wow I stand rebuked.

So the past couple of days have been spent at home. I caught some kind of virus and have been ill since Wednesday. I was going to go back to work today but I was still feeling so weak and dizzy when I tried to walk around. One more day at home and then I hope to get out for a while. I just had my first real meal and it was very good. Chicken noodle soup that my dad brought over. It was good to put something in my stomach and hopefully keep it in there. :)

Todd and started a diet on the 1st of January. You would be surprised how much weight can be gained after being married for a little while. Since I am still having a headache issue, Todd wanted us to go off granulated sugar products (cakes, candies, pies, etc..) and no caffeine. So we will be done with our 1st week tomorrow. Todd has already lost 7lbs this week and I have lost 6lbs (thanks to not eating for 2 days). We are going to start picking up exercise this week hopefully. I am going to pull out the ab lounge and I am hoping to get an elliptical machine. Keep us in your prayers. To be at our healthy weight we both need to lose about 30lbs. We are going to do the diet for 6 weeks and see what happens.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Welcome to 2011! Amazing to think about! God has been good to leave us here this long.
Well I had some answers to prayer just yesterday! Todd and I would love to start saving some money and I have been really struggling just to keep us afloat. I prayed asked God to please let us start saving money some way and some how. Well he answered that prayer in a couple different ways: 1st I got offered a tuturing job 3 days a week after school (I was in amazement because that was 2 hrs after I prayed), Todd got interested in the budget and helped me figure it all out last night (I have been begging and I was so glad to see God answer and it had nothing to do with me), and God showed me He can provide by supplying us with a meal from Todd's mom that we had no idea about until she called us and said she was bringing chicken over. :) God really answered that prayer in all directions for me. He showed me that if I want to save money it is not going to be just handed to me I have to work for it (although He handed me the job), He showed me that Todd does care about the money situation and can be very helpful in it all, and God showed me that if He chooses to not let us save any money He can still provide our every need. :) God is Good!
2nd answered prayer: We were discussing getting a propane heater to have a second source of heat so we dont use up all the wood in the stove. Well I called the propane people we get propane from and the price has gone up exceedingly. We filled up our tank last yr for 2.89 a gal. and it has gone up 3.60 a gal. now. That is a pretty big jump and quite pricy to fill up the tank. I thought to myself and expressed that I didnt see why God couldnt just keep providing wood because He gave us the wood stove. I went and prayed and begged God to provide the wood when needed. Todd called up a guy that has a tree service and just lets the trees he cuts up sit there in his yard and rot away. The guy said we can get whatever we need!!!! Praise the LORD!!!! I may even get some much wanted mulch for my garden for free!!!! I have to say I was in a amazement and quite speechless because that was the second answered prayer in a day. I do not deserve His answers but because of Jesus Christ I am so glad He does. :)
I was told this the other day. We have mixed up theology if we think that God only blesses us when we are right and walking perfect. He chooses to bless and we have nothing in a sense to do with it. We think in our heads how much better we are than others if God has blessed us in some way. But what about the lost people that God seems to be blessing in a sense. This was a real eye opener to me. I have thought this way and I truelly am ignorant in many things. I just want to be thankful when God does choose to bless us! Oh may God be praised in my life today!!!!!