Lets Give Them Something to Talk About

We are doing little things around our house to spruce it up a bit.   A little thing here, a little thing there.   Changing door knobs, light fixtures, drawer pulls etc…   It is fun to see how much a little thing can change the appearance and the feel of something so rapidly.   Today, I finished my desk.   I took cereal boxes and cut and covered them into pretty organizer trays.   Sitting here, I feel less stressed out, I feel more organized and all around happier.   I feel like things aren’t quite as cluttered.   It is a nice feeling that I don’t usually get in my house.   Now when I turn around, I feel the exact opposite since my kitchen is in a state of disaster right now, but that is a different story.   The transition in my house is happening in baby steps.   God has really been speaking to me the past few days.   Focus on the Family talked about how it is the little things that add up to a big thing.   Our Pas...

Recently, I have been looking at the Bible in a totally different way.   While doing our family devotions the other night, we read the story of Samson.   At the end of the story, the author paralleled it to Jesus and to His story.   The story of Hosea also is a story about how God loves Israel so much.   This week, I was asked to read a section of the Bible for our Life Group.   It is a story that I am so familiar with, I can literally say, or rather sing, it in my sleep.   It is the story of Joseph.   Throughout high school, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dream Coat was by far my favorite musical, performing in it 5 shows and watching it over 30 if you include all the shows that I attended.   Needless to say, I am very familiar with this story.   At first, when I was assigned this section, I was thinking to myself, this will be easy, I can just re-tell the story and be done.   This morning, I realized that God had somethi...