Lets Give Them Something to Talk About

My 3-year-old got into trouble last night while getting ready for bed.   We had read our Bible story and were saying our usual prayer.   “God bless our family, God bless our friends too, thank you for loving me and I love you.”   Usually we break it up into four little sections and I let my 3-year-old say every other line.   So, last night, after I had said “God bless our family,” she said “God flijula…”   I said, “No, it doesn’t work that way, when we are praying, we have to show God respect.   We can love God and have fun with God, but when we are praying, we don’t want to joke around like that.”   So I started again, “God bless our family,” She responded with “flimjenica.”   I got up out of the bed and told her that I wasn’t going to finish the bedtime routine if she didn’t respect God.   It wasn’t nice when we are taking time to talk to God to be rude like that.   I gave her one more chance.   I told her this was our time th...

Today is Halloween, it is a day that some of my friends don’t celebrate.   It is a day that, when I was younger, we used to turn off our lights and hide in the back of our house because we didn’t celebrate it when we lived in California.   (Not necessarily for religious reasons)   When we moved from California to Pennsylvania we started doing the whole trick or treating thing and it was fun.   All our friends were doing it, our schools had parades.   All I knew about the holiday itself is that it had something to do with carving out a pumpkin, dressing up in some outfit (we never did scary) and going out, house to house saying trick or treat.   What is this day all about- how did it get its roots?   I currently have one facebook friend that is really truly against Halloween and that is what really got me thinking about it.   So I looked at a lot of different sites on-line as to the history of Halloween.   I wanted to know.   I wanted a...

I am a dreamer.   I am always thinking of the next big way to make money or make a difference in this world.   I have made stuff out of duct tape, sold Mary Kay, currently sell Avon, but let me tell you, that isn’t even the half of it.   I have thought through not-for-profit scenarios in my head, started ministries, have imagined owning a craft boutique, a wedding planning/event planning business, a pumpkin patch/orchard, a flower shop and about 700 other things.   It has gotten to the point now where my husband just smiles and nods because he know that I am a dreamer and if I am still talking about a month later, then we address it.   I have gone as far as to check on rent in buildings, make business plans, but I don’t have follow through.   Right now I have a finished novel sitting here waiting to be submitted to someone somehow, but it is pretty confusing, so I haven’t done it yet.   Dreaming for me is a blast.   Planning all the little details...

I decided to put on fake nails yesterday.   I have gotten back into my bad habit of biting them.   yuck!   So I got out my fake nail kit and the super glue and glued them on, cut them, painted them.   You would think that super glue would do the trick.   Super glue is supposed to be one of the strongest glues in the world.   BUT….   I keep finding one of my fingers nail less.   If my nails weren’t painted pink with that black crackle polish over it (or as avon calls it “mosaic”), it might not be as noticeable when they fell off.   They aren’t the great kind that you use acrylic with and just glue the tip on – it is the whole nail.   What in your life is noticeable?   For me, due to this blog and the role that I had been playing in my church with volunteering a lot, my walk with God was very visible.   If I fall off the path, people start asking questions and making sure I am alright.   This is something that is amazing an...

“The sky is falling, the sky is falling!”   Chicken Little ran about telling everyone that the sky was falling because he had been hit on the head with an acorn.   It isn’t like the “Chicken Little” movie, but the book that we grew up with.   Chicken Little was freaking out because he knew that he was going to perish and that is ALL he ever did and all he ever talked about.   There is a man that I am going to start referring to as Chicken Little.   Harold Camping is an old man.   This is the third time now he has predicted “judgment day” and nothing has happened.   This is the second time this year!   No one paid attention to him after the second failed attempt earlier this year.   It is embarrassing to say that he is a Christian.   He might be the greatest guy and have a great walk with the Lord, but him predicting the end of the world is just making Christians look silly.   Amos 5:18-20, “Woe to you who long for the day of the Lo...

Romans 8: 9-15 “You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you.   And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.   But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness…. For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by Him we cry, “Abba, Father.” Praise God that we can turn to the Spirit.   Praise God we have been given the Spirit of sonship.   But as sons and daughters of anyone, every so often is it easy to rebel.   To say, I don’t care, I everyone else is doing it .   When we asked Christ into our hearts, and the Holy Spirit entered our bodies, it took up residence in us.   It began a good work in us.   Just like our earthly parents raised us to be good, moral individuals, it is still easy to stray from what they have taught us a...

For the past month or so I have been dealing with a shooting pain in my lower back.   I just knew it was my kidneys.   I had had kidney stones before, I had been through it all before, I just knew that is what it was.   When the pain first started, I figured that the doctor was going to tell me to drink water and let them pass.   So I upped my water intake and started letting them try to pass.   I didn’t go into the doctor since I knew what it was and how to fix it.   Finally after a month of pain and many sleepless nights I gave in and called the doctor.   Earlier that day, I had gone on line and looked up my symptoms and it was showing that I could be having kidney failure, or cancer.   So I went to the doctor, very apprehensive.   When I was at the doctor, with my two kids, they did the urine test and after the LPN came in, she started asking me all kinds of questions that had nothing to do with my kidneys.   Didn’t she know that it ...