Ah....but it's not me.....I can't take credit for anything. God has to show me that all the time. Pride is an issue with me...so I have to toss it aside all the time---failing constantly. I'm one of those goody two shoes type persons....which my family thinks is hilarious for some odd reason! So I have to watch myself all the time in that way. Not saying that I'm always good.....but my personality runs along the lines of follow the rules and stay on the line type of thing.
I say all of that--but know too about being a St. Helen myself (once in a great while)--at least when my daughter was living at home and knew how to push my buttons like no other could! But you got God's grace and mercy......
Ok so I have some more quotes for you from the other day. Not sure which book I took this out of since I'm reading like 4 or 5 of them all at the same time...and I didn't mark it.
"Being thankful in the midst of chaos is always a challenge." "But as you discipline your heart to the truth and choose to be thankful for what He has done--your obedience will kick up a breeze of the Spirit's breath in your life."
"A thankful heart is your best first step, a step that begins to give your sanity back as you wait for God's work to be done."
I like the part where it says it will kick up a breeze of the Spirit's breath in your life.....that is an encouragement in and of itself.
Keep plugging along is all I can say!
__________________ __________________________________________ "Faith is trusting God's heart when we can't trace His hand."
I choose joy today no matter how hard the day may be!
We can't always be on the mountaintop.....life is lived in the valleys......
...funny...you should touch on thankfulness...have to be reminded daily to be thankful and to take warning not to be ungrateful. This week has been a little piece of hell at home, work and physically...but there are things in that to be thankful for. Getting ready to go to mens study and really don't want to but know I need too. This weekend is my folks...we are 100 % diametrical to each other on the topics of, what else, religion and politics and looks as though I will have to take some time off to watch over my mom while my step dad recovers from knee surgery...prayers appreciated.
same bat channel...just a little later
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Will be praying for you......I know it is not always easy to take care of someone you don't always agree with!
So I read this statement in a book and I didn't want to go back and read over all our posts...but the person wrote..... "I choose joy." Another one of those things that has stuck in my head. I try and make it a priority to say every day....that and thankfulness and praise.
Hope all will be well in your bat cave!! OH which reminds me---we found out that we have bats (like over 100) in our attic!! So I guess I am the one living in a bat cave!
__________________ __________________________________________ "Faith is trusting God's heart when we can't trace His hand."
I choose joy today no matter how hard the day may be!
We can't always be on the mountaintop.....life is lived in the valleys......
Oh man, thats just wrong, I've heard of infestations of various critters but that's really out there. Have been killin' widows in my house and they are not suppose to be up at this altitude...I hate spiders...actually, fear is more like it...not afraid of doing jobs that could and in some incidences nearly killed me but show me a black widow, brown recluse and I'm so gone there's little but a vapor of where I was standin'.
Thanx for prayer...gettin' beat real good..."do not become weary in doing good for if stay the course you will be rewarded in due season"...quitin's easy, onward and upward takes grit.
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Now down here--to find a black widow is not that uncommon. My nephew collects them....don't know why!! He ended up having a jar of one that laid an egg sac and then little ones crawling all over in the jar--my girls had a fit! So he took it out and put it in his truck. But he is so used to working around them--he did air/heat conditioners so he would have to crawl under houses. Anyway....you can survive a bite if it ever came to that. A teacher in our school got bit when she was out at recess--she ended up in the hospital for a couple of days but she was fine! That was all said for your encouragement!!
We could hear scratching but we thought it was squirrels--then one night they were outside and saw them leaving out house--so they counted! So now we have to figure out how to get rid of them.......
You're Welcome for the prayers.....I have plenty of time! Keep on keeping on and you will be blessed!
__________________ __________________________________________ "Faith is trusting God's heart when we can't trace His hand."
I choose joy today no matter how hard the day may be!
We can't always be on the mountaintop.....life is lived in the valleys......
Hope all is going well! It's been a little while since we have written!! So this past week has been about the mountain tops and the valleys. How we can't stay up on the mountain but have to live in the valleys....it was just what I needed for the week!
__________________ __________________________________________ "Faith is trusting God's heart when we can't trace His hand."
I choose joy today no matter how hard the day may be!
We can't always be on the mountaintop.....life is lived in the valleys......
...crash and burn...got past over for an office job...didn't even get an interview within my dist. Winter is upon me and there is so much I have yet to do...just so overwhelmed...just want to quit...how much longer Lord till we get to come home....
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Sorry that you got passed over. But don't give up!! Remember He never gives us more than we can handle.....I don't say that flippantly either. It has been a pretty tough month for us too and I have to keep reminding myself of that. Keep praising I will pray that God gives you grace. His grace is sufficient!!
Oh, I found this smiley and thought it funny! It's title is pimp my wheelchair! Hahaha....this is what I ride in!!
__________________ __________________________________________ "Faith is trusting God's heart when we can't trace His hand."
I choose joy today no matter how hard the day may be!
We can't always be on the mountaintop.....life is lived in the valleys......
hmm..lol. better today...only 24hrs to get over disappointment this outing...thats a record considering how big it was...but now I am ready I think to trust Him to move us, change my job, take care of us...the ppl on our access road have drug their feet all summer again and we still do not have a new snow blower to do the road with...I am more afraid of what the snow will bring than the changes the Lord wants to do.
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Well, I guess we will pray that the Lord will bring someone along to plow your road and take care of that for you!! He can do it!
I'm glad that you are getting over your disappointment....I guess we will just wait and see what God is going to be doing and bringing into your life!
__________________ __________________________________________ "Faith is trusting God's heart when we can't trace His hand."
I choose joy today no matter how hard the day may be!
We can't always be on the mountaintop.....life is lived in the valleys......
That was all said for your encouragement!! 
I will pray that God gives you grace. His grace is sufficient!!
It's title is pimp my wheelchair! Hahaha....this is what I ride in!! 
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