Not Complaining merely stating facts!

It is Friday morning 10 am. I am still in my jammies...can not get going...I have gotten some things done..but now I am at a stand still...
It is cold outside...thought the sun was going to shine...it's not...
I am not sick but have not felt well all week..my body hurts...it takes me awhile to get up off my chair and onto my feet....when I walk down the stairs I have to take one step at a time and really hang on to the rail..and I mean really...my ankles hurt..my back hurts..my state of mind is good it's just my body...

Now 4 days a week I am up and at em...at 4:45am...off to work by 6 working four nine hour days...love it...love having Friday off...but this week has been busy and crazy..love it too, just wished my body didn't hurt so bad...when you get to be my age though things affect you that didn't affect you before...like the weather, carrying babies for a hour or up and down the steps or getting on the floor with them etc...

Ok now I must confess the truth...it hit me a little while ago what has happened to me...you see I have put on a little (ok a lot) around the waist of my body...so I got out my twist board that I have and did a little twisting...but instead of it getting off my middle..it has done something else...and oh boy..has it ever...I think the twist board is going back down the basement for the kiddos to play with it because they love it and it doesn't do this to them...

House of Worship

Today I had lunch with a very dear friend...from the church that we just left...it was such a special time..sitting talking about the things that bonded us together, about happenings...and about parting, not in friendship, but in what brought us together in the first place...the House of Worship...that particular church..

In my life time I have attended only 4 different churches..counting the one I have now been attending for the last 3 mos. It is very hard to change churches..some say it is like a divorce...you build friendships, you get plugged in to the activities to the order of worship etc...then boom...something happens and things change...not always for the worse sometimes for the better, but this time it just happened to be major enough for us to find a different place to worship and try to use our time and talent that the Lord has given us...at a different church...after much prayer and searching God's word..we felt it was time to move on...it has been bitter sweet..we love the new place we are going...the people are friendly...the hymns are beautiful the preaching is awesome..so for now there we are content...I realize there are those that never change churches...never...no matter what....that's ok...it is a very hard thing to do....

Now having said this...I miss my friends from the other church....but the ones that I have truly developed a strong friendship with, we will still keep in touch..we are after all sisters in Christ...We all need to follow God's lead...go where He wants us..and that might not always be where we want to be...but He will work it out...

Lamentations

Was reading this today...

Lamentations 3:19-26

I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and the gall.
I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast within me.
Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope.
Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed,
for his compassion's never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
I say to myself,"The Lord is my portion;
therefore I will wait for Him."
The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks Him;
It is good to wait quietly on the Lord.

Lament means to mourn...to grieve greatly

This book of the bible is about Jerusalem and the temple...ends in repentance...

That is what we are to do...mourn, grieve over our sin and repent...

God is merciful...and patient and if we seek Him we will find Him...

Family

I love my family. God has blessed Everett and I so with ALL our kiddos...
Sam had a soccer game this morning so we told Chad and Sarah we would come in watch the twins so that they wouldn't have to take them out in the cold...so then after the game Sam has been wanting to go to the pumpkin patch so we told them to go then shortly after they left Sarah called to see if I would put a ham in the oven and cook some sweet potatoes for supper and I said sure...they got back home we carved the pumpkins and we were going to go home and Sarah wanted us to stay for supper. She was going to go to the store to get marshmallows for the sweet potatoes and Steph was walking over...asked what we were doing and Sarah told her so she said if you have marshmallows you can come over and eat with us..then Tal called and I told Sarah to have him get some buns and come over for supper..so we wound up having almost a Thanksgiving dinner minus the mac and cheese...it was so good...Ham, sweet potatoes, green beans, apples and bananas in cool whip , mashed tators and gravy..and dinner rolls..yummy...the little ones did a spook maze in the basement we all had to go down one by one with a flash light in the dark to find them...they had so much fun....sat and talked...wonderful day with wonderful people...
Thank you God again for your many, many blessings...I truly am blessed!

Tuesday

Tuesday used to seem like such a strange day...stuck in there between the first day of the week and the middle of the week..now that I only work 4 days a week means that when I come home at 3:30 my week is now half over..(at work at least) and this makes for very fast weeks...the count down comes, come Tuesday...I always seem to get busier because there is always so much to get done before quitting time on Thursday..today when I got my schedule for the 1st of Nov...we have gone up in production...yea...maybe now that just means I will get busier..but that's ok...just have to really keep on a schedule..but I have great help so it should all work out..

Now going back to Tuesday...it is a very wonderful day..my first child was born on a Tuesday...what does the saying go..Tuesday's child is full of grace...so that was a blessed Tuesday...

On another Tuesday I was in a really bad car wreck...almost got killed, but God wasn't done with me here on earth yet so thankfully I am still here..that was not so good of a Tuesday....

WE always have band practice on Tuesday..why I really don't know just worked out for everyone I guess..but that means most of my Tuesday evenings are full...when we start playing I love it...the guys in the band are so much fun and easy to visit with we have a lot of laughs on Tuesday evenings...good Tuesdays doing that...

Everett has been helping with M.O.P.S since the twins were born..last year he worked in the nursery..this year he takes care of the twins while Sarah and Henry go to M.O.P.S (not many papaws could handle that) and that is every other Tuesday Mornings in the winter...and that was today...

There's a restrauant named Ruby Tuesday....there is a store called Tuesday Morning...
and I am sure there is more about Tuesday that I could blog about but I think that I am now finished...except for one more thought...

The old needle point tea towels...with the days of the week on Tuesday was always ironing day...my mother always ironed on Tuesday we didn't need a calender at our house...my mom washed on Monday, ironed on Tuesday, baked on Wednesday...Thurday bought groceries, Friday cleaned...Saturday prepared for Sunday...made a roast, baked some pies always made a salad of some sort...prepared for the day of the Lord..got all the clothes ironed and hung so she didn't have to do that on Sunday..
Oh to go back one week...and watch her, smell the aroma in her home...eat one of those Sunday dinners...I miss my mom I loved my mom and she loved me...

I love Tuesdays because they were created by God for us.....Thank you...

My Devotions Today

So many times I become anxious and become feeling like I just can't get everything done or do anything right...Sometimes I fret...

Don't think of the word fret much...I know Everett talks about the frets on his guitar but myself never much thought about being fretful...

But Psalms 37:1 Says "FRET NOT"
Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of those that do wrong;
For like the grass they will soon wither like green plants they will soon die...

Just like our cold snap that we are having all of the plants and flowers are dying..so will all of those that do evil...and how many times do we admire those that are evil.....the Bible says they will wither....

Definition of Fretting: Made rough on the surface...Rub or worn away...and a peevish irrational, fault-finding person not only wears himself out, but is very wearing to others...

OVERHEARD IN A ORCHARD

Said the Robin to the Sparrow;
"I should like to know
Why these anxious human beings
Rush about and worry so?"

Said the Sparrow to the Robin;
"Friend, I think that it must be
That they have no Heavenly Father
Such as cares for you and me"!

Revival Meetings

The Webster dictionary that I have defines a revival
1. return to life, use etc.
2. emotional religious meeting

A few months ago Everett and I started attending this little independent Baptist church. We love it...it is so different from what we had come out of...maybe because he and I were brought up more conservative and really like singing from the hymnal and having the organ music along with the piano and not having a praise band and singing from a screen, or maybe it's the quiet format...whatever it may be right now it is home for worship for us...

We just came off of a 4 nights of revival type meetings..they were so good and really brought a lot of things out in my life that left me feeling very spiritually fed...the word of God...we don't really need much more than that except the fellowship with His people in worship and for encouragement...how blessed I feel to have been a part of that...several people came forward on an alter call...Heaven seems so near...and that is what this life is all about...preparing for our eternal home..we each have one or the other...there is either hell or heaven 2 choices...and 2 choices only and there is only one way and that way is Jesus...John 14:6 " Jesus says: "I am the way the truth and the life NO ONE comes to the Father except through me" If Jesus said it (and He did) then I believe it!!

37 years ago...

Thirty seven years ago today I gave birth to my baby boy..he came 2 weeks early and was as beautiful as could be....(AS of course all my children were). He was the last of 3, when Everett went to Grandma's and told Tal and Steph that we had a new little Talmage, Tal went running up the stairs crying he didn't want him...do you still feel the same Tal...how you two have always been (I think) best friends..doing everything together..I am so proud of all of you how you have all turned out..you are all amazing...God has blessed dad and me so....
Now here you are with you own family of 4 doing a terrfic job..
So "Happy Birthday baby boy" and many, many more..after all it is going to be your job to take care of your dad in me in our golden years...so be prepared!!!

Sometimes....

Sometimes it seems as if whatever I do it is never enough...sometimes I feel like I do all the giving and try so hard to keep everyone happy but it sometimes never seems like it is enough...sometimes I feel like I can ask someone to help me but they seem to be to busy...sometimes I feel like only when someone wants something..sometimes it seems as if things that I have done have been forgotten...sometimes I wonder if people really care...sometimes I wonder if anyone really cares how I feel...how sometimes I feel left out...how sometimes it is so hard..that I wonder why???

Now I did write this but it could have easily been written by Jesus...I think this is sometimes how He must feel.....

Just for fun

There was this elderly couple (no not Everett and I) that were getting a little forgetful...so they went to the Dr and asked him would they could do to help them remember better.
So the Dr gave them several suggestions one of them being they should write everything down...so one night they were sitting in the living room and the husband said that he was going into the kitchen for something to eat, so the wife asked him if he would bring her back some ice-cream. He said yes and then told him he better be writing it down and he said "don't worry I won't forget" but then she added to please put some chocolate on it and he said fine, and she again reminded him he better write it down, but again he said he wouldn't forget, and then she said please put some peanuts on top too, and write it down..and he said he was fine...he was gone in the kitchen ever so long...finally she started to get up to see what the problem was and he was coming into the living room and there he had some bacon and eggs...and she said " Honey where my toast?"

Even though we do not know
What the future has in store
There's one thing that is for sure,
If we put our trust in Christ alone..
Most assuredly Heaven is our home.
For we are saved by grace,
And not of our own
Jesus paid the price God's only Son!!


If you're saved by grace,
Show it on your face.