The Wonder of the Season

How are you enjoying your holiday season? As Christmas is upon us, are you remembering to take time every day to worship the Lord of the season? The One who loved us and sent His Son to die for us? The One who came as a humble baby, knowing He would grow and accomplish the greatest Plan put into place from eternity past? The One who was sent in Jesus' name, who was given to us, to teach us all things, His Holy Spirit? May the wonder of this season never fade from our hearts and minds, and may we live each day to bring Him glory in all we do!

It's a cozy, wet day outside, with snow in the forecast over the next couple of days - a great day to be inside and enjoy fall-ish kinds of things, like laundry and cooking and exercise. Oh wait, those are normal everyday things, no matter the season. Oh well, did someone forgot to tell me that? But to balance those everyday things, we turned on the radio to the Christmas station and are listening to songs galore! I love when Zoe joins in and sings...one song came on recently and she asked, "Is that Nature and Sing?" Out of the mouths of babes!

Tomorrow is David's birthday, so Zoe and I wrapped his presents today. We laughed, trying to find a place to hide the wrapped presents, then realized he can't see what they are anyways, so we put them on what we call the "tv table" in the living room. It will be such fun to watch him unwrap them tomorrow. David is a great husband and a wonderful father and we are indeed super-blessed to have him in our lives. 

Zoe is painting with watercolors on the floor behind me right now, saying she's giving a picture to Daddy tomorrow. However, she is sad because the water is making holes in the paint squares (I know,  hard to picture without a picture ha!). She'll survive this and rise again to paint once more, I'm sure.

Time to go check the laundry and put another load in the washer. Hope to be on here more often. Check back soon!

Garage Sale

I had a thought this morning as I was cleaning some items I am getting ready for a garage sale this weekend. Jesus told the young ruler to sell all he had and follow Him.  Now I know I may be stretching my idea a little far... but every time I collect a bunch of stuff to get rid of, I always have the thought wouldn't it be nice to try to sell it first and see if we can at least collect a few dollars for it?  Now, I know the story of the rich young ruler is trying to show the cost of following Jesus and what it means to be a true disciple of His...but the idea I had this morning was Jesus didn't tell the ruler to "get rid of" his stuff, He told him to "sell" it. So maybe it's not such a bad idea after all not to just donate our stuff but to try to get money for it...

Just food for thought...

Relationships

It's already been a week since I posted...crazy how fast time flies. This morning, I spent some time getting ready for my lesson tonight with my group of 8th grade girls at church.  Had some good thoughts to pass along to them...they are going to be reading a lot of Scripture this year, I can already tell! :) We are learning about Relationships this year - how first of all, the most important relationship we will ever have is with God through His Son, Jesus Christ, and then how when we have that relationship in order, all other relationships will be in order, as well.  It's going to be a good year with them. So excited for tonight...

Okay, I think I found it...

So I think after all this time that I finally figured out how to post a new blog on here. So we'll take it from here and see how it goes! :)

Praying

My mom called earlier and alerted me to the fact that there are multiple tornadoes in north Texas, where we used to live. I'm watching live tv online and praying for you all who live there.

Weather

Today there were some pretty awesome clouds associated with the flood warning in the mountains. Thought I'd share the picture.