Jonah

The story of Jonah from Corinth Baptist Church on Vimeo.

Such passion! How do you read the Bible? Memorize Scripture? Internalize the Word?

This girl is amazing! I love love love how passionate she is about the Word of God!

It's muh birthday, fixed my bumper, new tail lights, it's muh birthday...

How weird is it that this song keeps going through my head?  =0)
(I just learned how to post videos like up there. ↑ )

Actually, we are buying a new air sensor thingy for my husbands car today. woo-hoo! Happy birthday! =0) The mechanic actually called to say that we could buy one part for $308 or another one for $483, which one did we want? Really? That is a crazy question! But thanks for not assuming, I guess.

Today is a milestone birthday. 4.0.

It's just a number, people. Get over it. Maybe it'll hit me tomorrow, but today just seems like a normal day, with LOTS of people wishing me happy birthday on facebook. It's nice to feel loved. Grace brought me a bagel with cream cheese on it for breakfast and I begged her to share it with me (I didn't want it), the bagel and the 12 hugs were very sweet! Micheal drove me to work since we are sharing a vehicle today so no long walk in to work. A very nice morning so far!

My birthday is a day I miss my mom more than any other. If I let it, that could easily overwhelm me.

I may spend my birthday money on cuddle duds - because our town looks like the *NEW BANNER* above (don't you love it?I love how stark & still it is!) and I want to ski ski ski! Now stop thinking of me in my long underwear.

I spent last night researching the benefits of rice hot therapy packs and I am a little too excited to make some. I started looking into them for my grandparents, but I want one for me, for the foot of my bed. See about the benefits here, and start making some for your family now! A local feed store has stove corn in 50# bags which is triple cleaned and not dusty like feed corn, for less than $10 - that's quite a few therapy bags. Everyone might be getting them. Micheal may think I'm going over board, but he hates when I put cold feet on him at night. I try to tell him that he is duty bound to warm me up:

...if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
   But how can one keep warm alone?
 ~ Ecclesiastes 4:11

It doesn't work. Soon, my darling, I will snuggle up to you with warm feet!  =0)
(Yup, he just called and asked what in the world we are going to do with 50# of corn. Lucky deer in our neighborhood will probably get the left-overs!)

Someone wrote on my facebook wall today: I hope you get everything you want today! I don't even know what I want for supper, let alone everything.

** Freedom for Life Update **

I started Freedom for Life to try and get a handle on this run-away food habit and some of the side effects of my depression, like sleeping & reading too much, burying my head and avoiding painful things... like life. It is interesting to me that God is not addressing it. At all. Yet. Instead, there seems to be an agenda that Someone made without consulting me! The lessons seem to be all about stuff that happened to me growing up, who I need to forgive, what kind of generational sin I have inherited (This is going to be a fun, uncomfortable sex talk with Micah, yay.), area's I've gone off track in response to all kinds of stimuli, coming to terms with belonging in this giant family of God...

So. not. my. agenda. at. all. But in truth (Truth?), it is all such good stuff. I can feel myself stretching & growing as I consider things I have avoided with my whole being for years and years. And I can see that God has more planned for me than I ever expected, and I am amazed at the wide chasm I see between my idea of whole and healthy and His. His idea is way more work, with different priorities than I would have planned. I definitely want His.

David's Psalm (56), My Prayer Today

... the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.
Romans 8.26

and also reminds us of His Spirit breathed Word, like today when I am reminded that God keeps track of my sorrow, of all my emotions, and holds them dear:

O God, have mercy on me,
for people are hounding me.
My foes attack me all day long.

< Papa, please come >

I am constantly hounded by those who slander me,
and many are boldly attacking me.

< Help me be meek and gentle, turn the other cheek >

But when I am afraid,
I will put my trust in you.

< Remind me of Your presence, You are trustworthy >

I praise God for what he has promised.
I trust in God, so why should I be afraid?
What can mere mortals do to me?

< You are in control, I give You control now >

They are always twisting what I say;
they spend their days plotting to harm me.
They come together to spy on me—
watching my every step, eager to kill me.
Don’t let them get away with their wickedness;
in your anger, O God, bring them down.
< I feel so beat up & bruised, come protect my battered heart >

You keep track of all my sorrows
You have collected all my tears in your bottle.
You have recorded each one in your book.

< With You, I am never alone and I am SO THANKFUL.
I can't even breathe without You >

My enemies will retreat when I call to you for help.
This I know: God is on my side!
I praise God for what he has promised;
Yes, I praise the Lord for what he has promised.
I trust in God, so why should I be afraid?
What can mere mortals do to me?

< I trust in God, I trust You, God >

I will fulfill my vows to you, O God,
and will offer a sacrifice of thanks for your help.
For you have rescued me from death;
you have kept my feet from slipping.
So now I can walk in your presence, O God,
in your life-giving light.

< I walk in Your presence, Your life-giving light, I walk with You. >

I am encouraged today. Hope you are, too!

Thankful for an Old Friend

I was flipping through a Bible a couple nights ago.

I pulled my first 'real', not paraphrased Bible off a shelf.
It's a big study Bible and I don't use it much anymore.
I have others that are less cumbersome to bring anywhere,
but it was so fun and encouraging to look through it!
Do you ever do that?
It's like reconnecting with an old friend,
looking through old photos and
talking about, "remember that time...?"

Here's a few shots from it.

Could I circle 'Do Not Worry' a few more times?
I need to remember and walk in this every day!
Where is my fruit?
What is my fruit?
Love God. Love people. Period.

THANK YOU for everything we need.

My good friend, Colossians.Do everything as unto God.

I want to be like Mary, definitely Mary.

How can I show extravagant love? (Love) Intentionally.

I thank my God every time I remember you!

and we rejoice!let us be THANKFUL, and so worship God

acceptably with reverence & awe,
for our God is a consuming fire.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
I hope you recognize something new to be thankful for!