I have been so exhausted as of late…Mostly because I have NO voice and three little munchkins who now have a REAL reason not to hear mommy!!! This is my third day of laryngitis and I am ready to have it over with to say the least!…So please bear with me..I will get back to regular postings when my voice gets back to normal and I can relax a bit….Funny how I don’t need my voice to type yet I am so exhausted from straining all day long…There is no resting a voice when you have two toddlers!!! HMMM I need a wife! you know to do the cooking and cleaning and to take care of the children so I can get better!…No such luck here I guess I’ll just have to make due . At least I don’t have a cold or the flu or anything but the lack of a voice and the tiredness from straining. Maybe I’ll post tomorrow how I get the kids attention when I need them AND maybes I will still use it when I get my voice back…LOL
A NEW SONG TO BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY!
I was going to post this yesterday but when you read the lyrics you’ll know why I couldn’t!! Sing it out loud to Old McDonald had a farm!
Happy mama Had a home e-i-e-i-o And in this house she had two sick kids e-i-e-i-o with a barf barf here and a barf barf there Here a barf there a barf Everywhere a barf barf. Happy Mama had a disgusting house e-i-e-i-o
I really could come up with more verses but then I ask myself SHOULD I?
Update and a Burning Question
Hey guys..Thanks so much for praying!!! I feel so much better!!! Hubby Got sick too but his passed faster..So I think we are still on the mend… A a quick question those of you who have toddlers or had as the case may be did your kids ever during a meal prayer in which they were praying start to talk about bodily functions…TO GOD!!! I had to stop tornado this morning during his breakfast prayer with an abrupt
God created you He knows how it works
…LOL It was getting REALLY GROSS!!!
NO TACKLE TODAY!!!
Phase two of this awful sickness kicked in today…Yuck..I have a feeling not a thing will get done for today either..At least I had a two day reprieve RIGHT!?!
Humility (In Prayer)
In Words that directly apply to prayer Peter says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you” Note the progression: humility, the step down, makes possible God’s lifting us up. By trying to be strong, I may even block God’s power.
I have been reluctant to blog a problem I have been having with someone who used to be a very close friend.. I still battled over it until Sunday when I read th above quote. I must admit that when I first got married I was very “opinionated” in how life works. In both my faith and my marriage and my children. My most humbling experience–having a strong willed child!
This past week I received a phone call from the afore mentioned friend. I haven’t spoken with her in the last 4 or 5 weeks and I must admit that the last few weeks have been very peaceful and enjoyable. I have not worried about conforming to that friend’s opinionated ways.
So when this friend called i was shocked to say the least and amazingly I didn’t even think twice about answering the phone. Within the first 10 minutes I was completely shocked. This is why:
My friend is working on finishing her bachelor’s degree at a Bible college…She had planned on taking a philosophy class but it was online and she and her husband do not have the internet in their home….her only other option was a ministry class that deals with marriage and motherhood….I have taken this class and learned a ton from the prof. HOWEVER this friend of mine had to persuade her husband to let her take the class because he thought..”you won’t learn anything,you could teach the class”. He finally said she could take the class so i asked her if she has learned anything to which she replied “no not really I already know what my philosophy is and I am pretty opinionated about that”
I was livid!!! The arrogance and pridefulness that exuded from every word! I talked then for the next 110 minutes and amazingly she didn’t say a peep!
I said what I had to say in love but yet there is a certain air of righteous anger. I have ENABLED her to continue on this path with us fro some time and i am called to hold my brother’s and sister’s in Christ accountable for their sin…especially when it affects me in causing me to sin.. I at some point will have to let her know that we do not stand for such arrogance and pride and that it is sin. Opinionated is just another way of saying arrogant or prideful in trying to make it sound as a spiritual sort of way.
I will share with you some of the same things shared with her. Churches today are opinionated so much so that they alienate new people and those already in the church. Most things in the Christian walk are boiled down to how the Holy Spirit convicts each person parenting and so on are some of those things…however there is One basic thing through which we can be certain is not based on conviction i our faith and that is Salvation By GRACE!!!
GRACE is the thing missing from most people and churches…Yet we have accepted Christ’s grace laden gift of Salvation!! I think it’s about time Christians start basing their encounters with other believers and those who are unsaved with grace and mercy rather than “opinionated attitudes” or their testimony is severely going to be damaged and friendships will be lost.
I think these words are extremely important in our walk with God. Because what wiill affect those most are our actions…Do we practice the grace that we preach!!!
God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
