Well, it is Saturday morning and I am just finished with my Bible study and it’s not 6 a.m. yet! Oh, how I love these early mornings with the Lord. I have really grown closer to the Lord through this study—90 Days with the One and Only by Beth Moore. I am on Day 75 so just a couple of weeks left. When I started this at the first of December, my prayer was that I would grow to love Jesus more and to truly understand what others meant when they said that they loved Him. I knew that I loved Him because of all He has forgiven me, but I didn’t understand that deep emotional agape love that I saw in others. Now I realize that the reason that I didn’t understand was because I wasn’t spending enough time with Him. I know that I am still not nor will I ever be close enough to Him (this side of Glory), so I will have to keep striving and grow closer and fall more in love with Him every day. Sometimes, I will wake up before the clock goes off at 5:15 in anticipation of spending this time alone with Him! My family and friends can’t understand why I would get up at 5:15 on a Saturday morning. Four months ago I wouldn’t have understood it either!
I have also started another study—this one with a group of ladies from church. I was approached and asked to be a part of this study on becoming a mentor. At first, I was sure that I could never be a mentor but I went to the meeting just to see what it was all about. I was assured that if at the end of the study I didn’t feel the Lord’s call, I would be under no obligation to become a mentor. It is a good study so far.
Eddie and I are into the 2nd baby step of Financial Peace. One of the main reasons I wanted us to take FPU was so that we would both be on the same page where our money is concerned. When he would ask me about the finances, I would get defensive and think that he thought I was not doing a good job. In our almost 28 years of marriage, most of our disagreements have been about money.
I am so fortunate to have such a Godly husband—the Lord has truly blessed me beyond measure! I hope that LA and Trav will one day have a marriage as happy as ours has been. I pray that the Lord is working in the lies of their future spouses right now—that He is preparing them for each other.
LA has made some canvasses to supplement her (lack of) income while she is in school. She made one for a baby shower gift last week—well Julie took it to work and LA received 3 orders for more! She showed a girl at school a picture and she ordered one—when she took that one, another girl ordered 2 more! She has so much talent—I am so proud of her, I know that she will be a great hairdresser. I let her cut my hair last week for the first time—I think she did a great job (saved me $25 too!!).
Travis has decided that he is going to use his income tax refund to build a computer. Boys and their toysJ I guess they don’t understand my love of decorating and scrap booking either! He is spending most evenings working at Whiteford’s—just like in high school! A girl at work said that she saw him in there the other night and she said that she thought he seemed so much happier working there than he did at the bank. I think he liked what he did at the bank, but they didn’t have enough to keep him busy and he was bored. He may still work at the bank again this summer, I hope that he will go straight through and take summer school so he can hurry and finish with school.
I think that Eddie is getting fishing fever—he has been watching so many programs on TV and surfing the net checking fishing reports. It won’t be long until we can put the boat back in the water. The time that we spend together on the water fishing is so precious. Sometimes I think that we shouldn’t have gone into debt to buy that boat, but it is something that gives us time together and strengthens out marriage. We both have such a love for fishing—now if we could just catch some fish!
Well, I hope to get some scrapping done today. I am working on catching up my Christmas album and then I will go from there. It is so overwhelming to think of how many pictures I have—I wish I had started this when my children were small. Oh well!
1 comment:
We are always on a journey with Him. He's working on us always. Each in different ways and we are called to sereve Him as such.
This is a lovely blog with your true, heartfealt thoughts on life in animperfect world. I too have to work to make time to be with Him and sometimes, I fail, but I think as long as we try, He sees.
Blessings,
Ella
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