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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Learning something new...again

Hey Y'all!

I am in my second week of the new Esther Bible Study out with Beth Moore and Lifeway. I love, love, LOVE it! I have learned so much about petite, sweet Esther that I never even thought about. By the way, I just happen to think she is petite. That is not in the Word. I also think she was blonde but what do I know! If you get the chance to take this study please do. So enriching with history and intrigue. It has made me take a real look at how I approach "beauty" too. Now I am a huge user of cosmetics in all forms. I should look about 18 months old with all the old lady cream I have slathered all over my body. But, time keeps on going and I am being dragged along with it. Inner beauty is something God speaks on all through scripture. Jesus promotes it too in the New Testament. During this study I am praying for a new awareness to God in prompting me to have more restraint, seek more wisdom, discernment and to really gain self-control. I desire Him to plant seeds of servitude and graciousness that can be watered by His Word only. To spray some heavenly round-up on the weeds of vanity and selfish desires and goals. Before I sound too holy I will in no way throw out all my new Bare Minerals make up I got for Christmas or my new face cream that promises to knock 10 years off in 12 weeks! But I do need a holy washing on the inside and then I am sure that God will add a glow that will only enhance my life for others to hopefully want also.

Bless Y'all

Cindy

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Snow Day!!!!

Hey Y'all!

Today is a snow day! It is just beautiful too. Even though I can still some grass sticking up and I can't even scrape up enough to make any snow cream it is still wonderful. We had no school today anyway but I am sure it would have been cancelled. At the first flake they shut and lock the doors. I bet we stay home tomorrow. I just got off the phone with a dear friend and we talked about different things...blessings and such. We are both kind of empty-nesters and mostly we just talk over past events with our own little chicks and how the world is such a hard place for upcoming young people. This reminds me that today is also inaugriation day for our new President. He enters a tough job with great expecatations. No matter how you voted we are told by God to pray for our leaders. He places the kings and rulers on this earth...not us. So on this snowy, stay at home in my pj's kind of day, I lift up President Obama and First Lady Obama and their two sweet little girls to our mighty God. May they honor Him in their hearts, minds and actions. I pray for safety and right actions all around this first family. Y'all have a great day.

Bless Y'all

Cindy

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Baking a Cake

Hey Y'all!

I am baking a carrot cake right now and does it ever smell good. Before you think, "What a great wife, mother and daughter she is!" This is the new Duncan Hines carrot cake mix with a little bag of dehydrated carrots and raisins. Easy, peasy! I am making homemade creamcheese frosting though. While I am doing all this domestic stuff today I waiting on my poor daughter to come home from college. Her car has broken down and she is hysterical to say the least. Her daddy is on his way right now and I have reminded him (27 times) that she is a VERY anxious child and to please be tender with her. Bless his heart.....she is just like him! They are both impulsive creatures and very anxious ones. I cannot count the times when I have had to literally bite my tongue to see each one of these two make choices that are just not the wisest. Both of them often are so sorry later on that I could just shake them and say, "If you would've listened this would not have happened!!" But I suppose this is how they learn....the hard way. That brings me to the question, how do I learn? Hard way or easy way? I really think I straddle the fence on that one. Sometimes I avoid trouble at all costs. Wisely too. I do ask God for wisdom often. Using it always is another scenerio. But sometimes I leap full face into a hurricane of problems and troubles. Right now I believe I am struggling with a huge issue in my life. As in an earlier post I stated a little about how I struggle with forgiveness. I believe that God is revealing to me that to forgive is not only a choice but one that His child I am to always choose to do it. And being the disobedient child I am I fight Him on it...tooth and nail. There are some pretty tough things I am struggling to forgive right now. Tough ones. If my spirit were more forgiving to start with would I be learning this lesson right now? Feedback please, dear friends. The more reluctant I am to forgive the more difficult the situations are for me to forgive. Or so it seems. The more I chew on these situations the tougher they become and the more worn out I become from all the chewing. Vicious cycle. I want to be forgiven for all my wrongdoings and things I do to others. That is easy but turn about is hard. So, I am praying daily. Sometimed minute by minute for God to help me in this area of my spirit. To just let go........ and allow Jesus to carry these burdens and allow Him to fix them in His time. I suppose while He is doing that I will go frost my cake!

Bless Y'all

Cindy

Thursday, January 15, 2009

New Year....Old Junk

Hey Y'all!

I am sorry the new year has already went by for 2 weeks without any posts but time has just gotten away from me. Every year I say the same thing with the coming of the new year. I am going to blah...blah...blah. I nver really stick one thing out though. Very frustrating. I don't really make resolutions as much as I intend to make attitude and choice changes. I believe our behavior is a choice and so are our attitudes. When we do something for X amount of time it becomes a habit. There are some serious habits I need to adjust! So, this year I am, with the guidance of God the Father, prayerfully attempting to adjust some of my ...junk. I really want a better outlook, attitude and reactions to situations. Does that make sense to anyone? Every one of us need to better in line with the Word of God and I really need to practice what I preach and to walk the talk I gab. First off, I desire a forgiving spirit and attitude. Not a "more" one, but this as a lifestyle. It is too easy for me to say I need a "more" of anything. This implies I have a fairly good one to start with. I do not. Too many times do I feel the old flame of resistance flair up whenever I feel I have been trampled on. To live as Christ is to forgive. Plain and simple. No if ands or buts. What the other person does I cannot help but I can focus my actions and reactions as God would have me to focus. This one thing covers a multitude of attitudes. If I become forgiving I automatically will become more kind, loving, understanding, tolerant, patient and so on. These are all sisters of the "forgiving spirit". At least that is what I believe. I think I will conquer one habit at a time. Too many and I will end up discouraged. Like the constant 15 pounds I want to lose. They will just kind of hang around.

Bless Y'all

Cindy