Your Turn To Share

This morning I have been overwhelmed with joy. My life is such a precious gift from God and I want to take full advantage of every moment to glorify Him and give thanks. Today I am most thankful for my Husband. He is an awesome provider, friend and encouragement. I am also thankful for my children, each of them for a different reason, but mostly for the laughter that fills our home everyday! What are you thankful for today? I really do want to know! Share with me! I know that some of my friends are going through very difficult circumstances, but there has to be some source of light in your lives and I just want to take time to meditate on that for the morning. I am praying for each of you. Now let me know what you are enjoying today!

"The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song." Psalm 28:7

Laundry Tip

Ok.. don't laugh too hard. I know a laundry tip coming from who? At this moment I have about 8 loads of laundry piled up in my bedroom. No – sadly I am not exaggerating. For some reason I loathe laundry. It disrupts my daily routine, I guess I hate just having to stop to fold it and put it up. So my solution.. don't do it at all. Not a good fix. Ha ha. I am working on it… and sadly my 8 loads is an improvement.

Now to my tip! If you are like me (which hopefully none of you are) and you leave your laundry in the washer for a few hours – or say overnight.. and it is stinky, I can help. Well I can't help with that load, rewash it, but it will probably still smell yucky. But if your machine has that yucky moldy smell then turn it to the largest hottest cycle you have and squirt in a cup of cascade complete dishwasher detergent. That should get rid of the smell. I had tried running just a bleach cycle and that didn't work, but this has! Now – back to evil evil laundry!

Instructions from 1st Timothy

I love finding scripture pertaining to women. It actually makes my heart flutter to read what God specifically designed me for. As I am reading in 1^st Timothy this morning there are excellent instructions for members of the body of Christ and women in particular. The first six verses of chapter 2 hit me in light of the election year.

"I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone – for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men as the testimony given in proper time."

It is so important to me to remember to pray for the authority of this nation for the purpose that we may continue in our freedom to live peacefully and love God. We are so blessed to be Americans are we not?

Okay, now the verses that apply to women and members of the body of believers

"I also want women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety,… with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God." 2:9-10

"(S)he must manage (her) own family well and see that (her) children obey (her) with proper respect." 3:4

"... keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience." 3:9

"…wives are to be women worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything." 3:11

Wow, that is some food for thought for today. I am so excited to spend the day meditating on these truths. God bless all.

An Exciting 12 Hours

Two fairly “exciting” things happened between midnight and noon today. Nothing of importance but I wanted to share anyway. Last night I was unable to sleep. I had finished a sewing project and had an adrenaline rush (I know I am a dork). So I grabbed a soda and sat down at the computer, the rest of my little family fast asleep. In the backyard I heard my dog, Molly, yelp, growl and then whimper. I ran to the sliding back door and hit the light. At first I didn’t see her. Then she came limping out of the darkness sniffing around her food dish. I was paying close attention to her limp and was trying to figure out what had happened. I didn’t have to wonder long. Less than 2 feet behind her was a raccoon that was bigger than she was and it was getting ready to attack. I started banging on the door and yelling for Jeff. The raccoon leaned back and curled up its back like a cat. Molly was still oblivious. As I was frantically banging on the door the raccoon started to back up and Molly finally turned around and chased it.

The second thing happened this morning. Landon had been invited to spend the night at a friend’s house last night (it was his first sleep over). I was expecting a call asking me to come and get him around noon. So when the phone rang and it was only 10 I was a little nervous (It was his first night away from home with friends – and I’m overprotective as it is). I peeked around the corner to my caller ID and saw it was his friend’s number. I had, unfortunately just gotten out of the shower and was .. not dressed. The entire back wall of my house is windows, ceiling to floor and my shades were open. Did I mention my yard faces a park with a pond? Of course I needed to get the phone by running directly in front of the window. I saw no one out back, so I took off. When I left the house about 10 minutes later to go get my boy I saw that the park was packed with cars and families. Apparently today is the day of the kid’s fishing derby. So it is entire possible that I have scarred some small children. Oooops.

5 Little Monkeys...

... jumping on the bed. This is what is going on in my house when there is a lot of laughter in their bedroom before bedtime. Those two monkeys were having a blast.

All washed up, time for bed.