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How Truly Blessed

Posted on 2/7/2010 at 11:14:52 PM

I was wondering how many people out there realize how truly blessed we are? I know that I am with out a doubt blessed beyond measure. Are you?

Saturday

Posted on 2/6/2010 at 10:16:43 PM

Early this morning I got up early and helped Henry with the Sausage Gravy for the mens bible study / meeting at church. After depositing Henry at the church and getting the biscuits out of the oven there, I left with Joyce she and I took advantage of the time go out for breakfast at Shoney’s ( so much better than what the men were having I so dislike biscuits and gravy).

Finally after errands and all I got a much needed nap and slept over 3 hours this afternoon it felt so good to just
crawl in my warmed bed (thanks again Lisa that mattress pad warmer is the best thing in my world when I am freezing cold and tired) I woke to find my dear hubby quietly picking up the house and trying to clean with out waking me. So sweet to hear but I had to get up eventually.

We have spent a restful day doing things at a slow speed and enjoying the moment of not having to worry about having to do anything other than breathe. I so like it when we can just go in slow mo and just breath and let all the things of the week sort of melt in the back ground and just savor the moment of not having to be somewhere and do something.

A Woman’s Heart

Posted on 2/5/2010 at 11:00:09 PM

“A woman’s heart should be so lost in God that a man needs to seek Him in order to find her.”

This says it all!!!

PET Scan

Posted on 2/4/2010 at 11:11:04 AM

I was supposed to go have a PET scan this morning and I woke up and could not do it. I just am so over having tests, needles and scans right now and was not looking forward to having more nuclear medicine for yet another scan. I have called and moved the test out a month for now. I just needed a break from all the drs and scans and time to think.

No longer lopsided

Posted on 2/2/2010 at 11:05:23 PM

Well I am no longer lopsided on top you have no idea how much that means. It was really getting on my nerves and was very grateful to walk out of the boutique today with a solution to that issue.

Yet another Scan

Posted on 2/1/2010 at 11:00:45 PM

So they want to do yet one more scan. Ugghhhh I am so over scans trust me on this one. So I had it for Wednesday but I forgot they changed my work schedule to earlier so I have changed it to Thursday. I am really not in the mood for one more scan to be honest.

Weekend

Posted on 1/31/2010 at 10:27:37 PM

Our weekend was filled with snow, rain, sleet, ice, temps in the teens then the sun came out today and it was awesome. However we did not have church this morning because of the over night tempatures and all the ice. Thankfully tonight we were able to be out and amongst the few that braved the remaining elements. There is just something about hanging out with believers that is so refreshing. We were bummed about the weather causing the cancelation of church this morning and talking to some others they were relieved that they did not have to get up on a Sunday and I thought how sad. One does not have to go to church but we get to go to church because of what Jesus did for us.

God is my Refuge and Strength

Posted on 1/29/2010 at 10:33:30 PM

Psalm 46:1 God is my refuge and strength and ever present help in trouble.

This Psalm has been on my heart all day. It was just one of those days when the struggles of life hit you and reality sets in and one gets overwhelmed and one would just want to crawl under the covers and take a nap hoping what had just happened had not, what had been said had totally blown my mind and it felt like a nightmare that I was hoping a nap would get rid of but it could not.

Vitamins Supplements, Religion vs Faith

Posted on 1/25/2010 at 11:04:58 PM

This morning I was looking at all the vitamins and supplements that one has to take to recover from a mastectomy and get on the road to preventing cancer in the future. There is so much information out there to weed thru and figure out what is just a quack theory and what is not. I had to laugh at some of the things that were suggested to be the cure all of all cancer. And then how one product is the best over anything else and you know I sat here and thought about how man has made religion the same way. And I am saying religion because man has forgotten that it is faith that God asks for not religion. But none the less man has set out to make their brand of religion better than the church down the street so they can have the most people with the biggest buildings and all the hoopla that goes along with the best to attrack people. But have you ever gone to one of the big mega churches? We did and no one was carrying a bible into church except us and the only other one we saw was the Pastors. Now I know the mega churches are putting things up on the big screens and have even taken to putting the scriptures up there but does that mean the only time people are reading the bible is when it is on the big screen? I don’t truly know that answer. But it is a concern of mine. What has happen to God’s Word? Have we given it up for the Big Screens, rock bands with flashing lights and for convience and to be in the groove? Does God want us to have the best of course but he would rather we give him our best by giving our selves totally. It does not take the big bands, big screens, flashing lights to give God our best which is us with out the glamour. God is not looking to have us coated with glamour but coated with the blood of Jesus. You do not have to go to a Mega church to be the best you can be for God. When we went to the Mega Church we were overwhelmed but then we started watching the people that went in and out of there and we saw people that were also overwhelmed and no one seem to know anyone else. We all sort of just shuffled in in the crowd and shuffled out and no one said anything it was more like a bunch of deer in headlights at times. Now mind you Mega churches have entertainment and that was good for a Saturday night but is it all about entertainment? It is about a lot more than entertainment people it is about a personal relationship with a Lord and Savior.

Where does that leave us in all this? Well we went to the mega church but it was not us. It was too overwhelming and too impersonal. We started praying about finding a church where the Word of God was preached correctly and the people there would be welcoming. Well we ended our journey to find such a church here in East Tennessee in the Knoxville, Oak Ridge area when we found the Oak Ridge Alliance Church. Not every church is for everyone as not every vitamin or supplement works for everyone but what we need to ask ourselves is what I am taking or where I am going to worship enabling me to give my best which is me to God.

Looking Up

Posted on 1/24/2010 at 10:32:43 PM

It is so exciting to see how God works things out in our lives if we keep focused on Him.