Greetings! I am just sitting here sipping my second cup of coffee, pondering where to start in my housework. Thankfully it's not too bad around here. Just the typically day by day clutter. Enough to make me go mad! Haha, not really. I'm no perfectionist but I just enjoy having a home with more order. I like to have it so if guests were to pop in with little notice, I wouldn't have to race through with cleaner and a rag. I'd rather be preparing coffee or something. So, nothing special there.
Don't ask where I came up with my blog entry name. I just use whatever comes to mind. Hmm. I got my glasses today. They are for distance because with my old age kicking in, things are starting to get slightly blurry from afar. It is so funny how one eye seems perfectly fine and then they test the other eye and it's like "whoa...hello!" They are good to use while driving for sure! I can barely read the street names otherwise. Eh, so anyway.
I went on a womens retreat this past Friday. It was for only one night and us ladies stayed at a hotel here in A-town. It was lovely! I am good friend's with my pastor's wife and so encouraged by this home church I attend. Someone came up with the name Simply Jesus. I think it is great! What is funny is that I was praying once asking God to help bring simplicity to my walk and faith. I was thinking how sweet of a name that was for our church. I am so blessed to be a part of this church. My pastor use to preach at another church in Freedom but then him and his family moved to Fon Du Lac and I was soooooo bummed. When I heard they had moved back I was telling his wife that it would be cool if they started a home church. Others mentioned it also to him that and it became confirmation enough. They started this church I believe a little over a month ago or so. It is a true blessing! Anyway, the womens retreat was about "Building Our Homes". We have physical homes and we also have spiritual homes. God's Spirit lives in us as believers and we are His home. As for our physical homes, we are to build our homes up in the Lord. Single or not, we all have homes and we are to build them and serve God in them. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord! (Joshua 24:15) Praise God!
It is finally feeling like Spring out there! Sadly, it was cut short due to the constant snow we were getting. I was ready to go mad for sure. It was cold and snowy, then hot and had severe weather, then it snowed some more and so on... As a friend of mine would say "Only in Wisconsin!" She couldn't be more right! I am looking forward to the Summer. The Lord has lifted me out of a huge pit these last couple months and I am just so thankful. I have made a mess for myself so many times and know how undeserving I am but then my pastor shared this verse at church on Sunday and I could feel the Lord speaking to me. It is proverbs 24:16 The godly may trip seven times, but they will get up again. But one disaster is enough to overthrow the wicked. I am just so thankful for the Lord's mercies and patience towards us, His children, still so prone to sin. May we take more time to just sit with Him, talk to Him and expect Him to speak to us and act on our behalf! He will.
I also want to encourage how I have a verse that is usually kept between the Lord and I. I have told a few close friends about it just so they would see, the Lord brings it up to me quite often. He did twice this past weekend. Every time the verse is brought up, my heart just bursts with joy for the Lord. Pick a verse that you love and yes I know there are many, but just pick one and ask God to carry His word. He does it in ways unimaginable. One time I was flipping through the tv stations and stopped on a religious channel and out of the man's mouth came this verse. I didn't hear him say anything else. I just stopped and thought "Wow, God..thank you!" He is so amazing! If we expect Him to speak to us after asking Him to, He will not delay!
Alright, I am going to rejoice in the Lord while I do some work around here. And then I must go pick my son up from school. Go, enjoy the Lord!
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