Two Words

Two Words

A poem...  by Britt...  from God

God says:
     Be Still
     Let Go
     Trust Me

I cry:
    Help Me

God says:
    I AM

Happy New Year...1 week Late

Wow.
I'm amazed I remembered my password to get in here!
Time flies when you're having fun.... and that is what I've been doing the past THREE weeks.
Our family went back "home" to Iowa for Christmas. 
While I missed regular doses of Hotmail, Blogger, and Facebook,
it was wonderful having real face time with loved ones - some whom I hadn't seen in over 2 years.


Last January I stated my goal for the year was to have more "Joy of the Lord".  (Nehemiah 8:10)
Happy to say I'm improved .... although still working on that one.

This year, I want to focus on discovering God's omniscient plan for my life and then resting in His timing.

Psalm 1: 3 should be a nice theme verse.
(v. 1,2) "Blessed is the man whose... delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night. (v.3) He is like a tree planted be streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.  Whatever he does prospers."

Catch that?   "...yields its fruit in season"

I wish I could do it all now. 
Gonna need some prayer for meeting this year's resolution.

A couple mornings ago I had an unusual experience.
While brushing my teeth, my toothbrush snapped.
Snapped.
There I was brushing away and suddenly my fingers grasped a headless toothbrush handle!
Shouldn't toothbrushes be dependable?  At least for 6 months until the next dental checkup freebie?
Had I placed too much trust in a physical object? 

I do that with people sometimes.
No - not snap their heads off. 
I mean place too much trust in them.  Depend on them with the attitude they are infallible.

Guess what?
People by nature are fallible. 
Only GOD is completely trustworthy.  HE'll never let me down.

Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.  They are brought to their knees and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.  ~  Psalm 20:7,8

P.S. - There is that "stand firm" again.  I haven't forgotten I want to do a post series on "standing firm".  Just not ready yet ;)

My Latest(?) Bookmark

You might recall my usual choice of bookmark. 
I'm either gaining a little class or else I was downstairs yesterday when something interrupted my reading.

My bookmark choice?  An event ticket stub off the kitchen counter.

The event?  The Rodeo.......in July.

This begs the question:
Would I rather use toilet paper or a ticket stub reminder I am 4 months behind in cleaning off my kitchen counter clutter pile?!?

Tough call. 

At least I cleaned the ticket stub off the counter.  Perhaps next month I'll clear off the kids' summer swimming evaluations ;)

God. The Perfect Planner.

Several of you know that I am my church's Awana Secretary.
 (a youth outreach/scripture memory club).
This is a perfect fit for a DETAIL minded person such as myself. 
(Some might call it control-freakiness)

Tonight at club, the Bible Lesson Lady (official title) wasn't able to be there - unexpectedly.
So I literally last minute volunteered to teach the two 15 minute classes. 
(K-2nd graders and 3rd-6th).

This was not easy for me.
I'm pretty confident in Bible Story knowledge.  That wasn't it.

I had to give up control of the Secretary Desk!  :)

Anyway, 
Since tonight happened to be "pajama night" at Awana, my leader and I thumbed through a kid's lesson idea book and chose the one entitled "Daydreaming".  I skimmed the lesson for the suggested Bible story.  I located it in a "church" Bible and said a quick prayer.

The Lesson?   Jacob's Stairway to Heaven Dream (Gen 28:10-20).

This story immediately followed what the kids learned last week about Jacob tricking Esau out of his birthright. 
TOTALLY unplanned by my leader or myself... but God  planned it.

Then.....  Even with no run-through, or practice, or outline  (I like outlines)... for both lesson times I finished with exactly 3 minutes remaining.... just enough time to close and pray.   I did not have a watch and there was no clock in the room.  Both times when I felt we reached where God wanted us to be, I asked a leader how much time we had and he said "you've got 3 minutes remaining".

Sorry.  This story is harder to type than experience. 
But I couldn't NOT write how COOL I saw God work tonight!  He took potential disorder (no Bible Lesson Leader) situation and perfectly orchastrated it into a God-Planned Lesson.

Interactive:
Let me hear your stories of how God has taken disorder and perfectly organized it!

Oh.  In case you were wondering.....
the substitute secretaries did just fine, by the way  ;)

Overheard from Over the Fence

If you live in my neighborhood and at 8:00pm you overheard
a hysterical woman yelling,

"At the Fence!  At the FENCE!  Get busy at. the. FENCE!"

It was me.

Hershey, our dog, knows to poop (get busy) along the fence line.
Tonight he tried pooping not 18 inches off the back patio!
So I ran after him, clapping my hands, and yelling like a crazy person.
Then I realized what it must sound like to the neighbors.
Sheesh!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!