You know, when it's summer break, I tend to lose track of the days. I start mixing them up. Only Sunday has anything worthwhile - church - meanwhile the rest all feel the same. This got the better of me to day. My first day of work was supposed to be Tuesday, 4 June. However for some reason I got the notion that it was today in my head. It wasn't until I arrived at the restaurant that I was hired by that I realized I had come a day early. Sigh I was actually looking forward to having something to do. Guess I'll just have to wait another twenty-four hours.
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G
Funny how my new stock stuff doing is going a bit sour right now but God, in His own, comforting way, sweetens my other work . It's kind of like God closing one door and opening another, except I don't hear Him telling me to close the 'stockroom' door, yet. I am not sure what God wants me to do right now, He's definitely blessed me with this time to really think more about Him and just try and fend off the Enemy attacks, which I am happy to fend because I know that IF I mis-block or feign wrongly God will have my back, or, in this case, my front 
The Lord leads .
The Lord leads .
If the flighty sloth commander could check on the motion detecting popcorn froggy, then when can we answer the half note, upon which the amateur lance ginkgo sits? Flying across the sky with a choking quail, the shiny, polka dot cracker wished he could moon walk down from the tallest water spout in New Orleans. Again with the squishy falling salamanders?! That's it! I'm calling the stretchy doggies!
Hoping and praying this job that I'm interested in is something obtainable...this is the only job I could think of that I could do great at. And it's a permanent position, so it wouldn't be just something seasonal, and I could work through my senior year, and I don't think I'd have as many legal hoops to jump through if I started in the Summer.
If you see this, please say a prayer for me.
If you see this, please say a prayer for me.
C
When is it time to take yourself out of people's lives?
Is it the moment you realize your lack of trust is hurting those
around you?
Is it when you don't know how to be anyone but who you are?
Is it when you no longer hear joy in their voice when they talk to you?
Is it when you hurt them and don't know how to pray away the fear
that causes you to hurt those around you?
I think I just answered myself. I think it is time to walk away from places
where I put myself in the position to hurt those who only want trust and
honesty. I am sorry for anyone I hurt from not trusting you to enter my life
and my world, enough to get to know ME. I pray you will learn to forgive
me. I just wanted to make friends and somehow get a piece of me
back a little at a time. I can't expect trust and faith to be given to me
when I haven't shown those things to the wonderful people here who
have touched a part of my heart in ten months. The past two weeks and
most especially the past 24 hours has shown me so much about myself
and I am not happy with what I see. I have to break lose of these shackles
of fear that bind my life. If you think of me, please just pray that I allow
God to do a miracle in my life and change me into who I need to be for
Him, because without that miracle how can I ever show the world God's
unselfish and trusting love.
Is it the moment you realize your lack of trust is hurting those
around you?
Is it when you don't know how to be anyone but who you are?
Is it when you no longer hear joy in their voice when they talk to you?
Is it when you hurt them and don't know how to pray away the fear
that causes you to hurt those around you?
I think I just answered myself. I think it is time to walk away from places
where I put myself in the position to hurt those who only want trust and
honesty. I am sorry for anyone I hurt from not trusting you to enter my life
and my world, enough to get to know ME. I pray you will learn to forgive
me. I just wanted to make friends and somehow get a piece of me
back a little at a time. I can't expect trust and faith to be given to me
when I haven't shown those things to the wonderful people here who
have touched a part of my heart in ten months. The past two weeks and
most especially the past 24 hours has shown me so much about myself
and I am not happy with what I see. I have to break lose of these shackles
of fear that bind my life. If you think of me, please just pray that I allow
God to do a miracle in my life and change me into who I need to be for
Him, because without that miracle how can I ever show the world God's
unselfish and trusting love.
G
Hark, a lark, flying through the park. Splat ! \\
I think if we quit looking on our own for things and start just praying to God for things, hoping in Him, there will be no question we will get, like Nestle says, 'the very best,' as God does give us the very best. I'm trying more often now to end my night down on my knees and start my day from my knees, that is, after, first, getting from off my bed . There is hope in the name of Jesus and there is power in His name, praying in His name, in the name of Jesus, in our Lord, I pray for all here wanting God to do things in their life as they look for what to do this summer, and, I pray that you hope in Him
\\I think if we quit looking on our own for things and start just praying to God for things, hoping in Him, there will be no question we will get, like Nestle says, 'the very best,' as God does give us the very best. I'm trying more often now to end my night down on my knees and start my day from my knees, that is, after, first, getting from off my bed
. There is hope in the name of Jesus and there is power in His name, praying in His name, in the name of Jesus, in our Lord, I pray for all here wanting God to do things in their life as they look for what to do this summer, and, I pray that you hope in Him 
J
the comparison is in need of a comparison ..... the car is simply a car......it has no free will . it simply performs the function for which it has been designed.....that doesn't apply to the driver of the car. our bodies are the vehicles with which we 'drive' around this world. our bodies simply perform the functions for which it was designed. it has no free will. this is important to know because if you don't know it you will be subject to guilt and shame over things your body does automatically because of the way it has been designed....bed wetting as an example. sometimes our body/vehicle malfunctions and needs to be repaired or adjusted and people that don't realize that our bodies are not ourselves can suffer unwarranted guilt or shame for that as well. when learning to operate your car you can make a wide variety of mistakes. some even fatal. the same is true of your body. the key is to distinguish between the two.
M
Sometimes people make no sense. Ok, a LOT, they make no sense. Particularly people who hoard things, though. In this case, I mean some of my husband's family...
The house we live in belongs to my hubby's grandmother. It was built by HER father, I'm not sure what decade that was. But the thing is, this house, and the piece of property it sits on, and the couple of sheds and everything in them, needs some serious TLC.
For instance, the floor inside the house is wood. But it has never, never been SEALED. Sanded and stained, yeah, but it's just...open to all the damage that can be done to a wood floor. I can't even mop it because the water would warp the wood. Anything that gets spilled on the floor leaves a stain. It scratches easily.
And my husband's grandma doesn't WANT to have the floor done properly because her dad "built the house this way, and it's going to STAY this way".
For that reason, she also is very hesitant to allow my husband to redo the electric (which is just downright dangerous and soooo very outdated). She doesn't want us to put a railing around the porch, even though I have 2 little kiddos that could fall off. She let us put hand rails by the stairs outside ONLY because the insurance company said it had to be done.
I just...
I sincerely appreciate what she's done for us by letting us live here, I really do. We needed a place to live while my husband was on unemployment and I was pregnant with my son, and the Lord provided for us.
I just don't understand why she won't let us do things that would preserve this house. What good does it do to hold so tightly to something that is falling apart? Why not keep it in good shape and make it last?
The house we live in belongs to my hubby's grandmother. It was built by HER father, I'm not sure what decade that was. But the thing is, this house, and the piece of property it sits on, and the couple of sheds and everything in them, needs some serious TLC.
For instance, the floor inside the house is wood. But it has never, never been SEALED. Sanded and stained, yeah, but it's just...open to all the damage that can be done to a wood floor. I can't even mop it because the water would warp the wood. Anything that gets spilled on the floor leaves a stain. It scratches easily.
And my husband's grandma doesn't WANT to have the floor done properly because her dad "built the house this way, and it's going to STAY this way".
For that reason, she also is very hesitant to allow my husband to redo the electric (which is just downright dangerous and soooo very outdated). She doesn't want us to put a railing around the porch, even though I have 2 little kiddos that could fall off. She let us put hand rails by the stairs outside ONLY because the insurance company said it had to be done.
I just...
I sincerely appreciate what she's done for us by letting us live here, I really do. We needed a place to live while my husband was on unemployment and I was pregnant with my son, and the Lord provided for us.
I just don't understand why she won't let us do things that would preserve this house. What good does it do to hold so tightly to something that is falling apart? Why not keep it in good shape and make it last?