Blog Archive - 2010 May
Today was full of emotions. Getting up this morning and walking out the door with my husband to take another step in God's direction together was AWESOME. Eating a Fruit-n-Yogurt Parfait from McDonald's was nearly equally awesome. :)
Okay, not really, but those things are good! :)
Life hands us circumstances, events, and situations that stretch us beyond our limits and leave us saying something to the effect of "This is not how it was supposed to be." At that point, we are faced with a decision: Will we continue to trust God with our lives or not?
I can't get away from it, and I'm struggling.
I wake up in the morning, thanking God, profusely, for givng Jesus Christ on my behalf and having a relationship with me. I wash and dry the laundry, thanking God that we have clothes and clean water in which to wash them. I fold and put away the laundry, thanking God that we have a home in which to find shelter. I prepare lunch then clean it up, thanking God that we have food for today and plenty for tomorrow.
At the end of the day, I lay my head down and seek sleep.
Well, I've been telling Mike for nearly a year that I was gonna do it. The time has finally come. I have decided to deactivate my Facebook account. I'm doing this for several reasons, and I think they're all valid.
Well, I did it. I de-activated my Facebook account. I didn't delete it, because I don't want to lose the ability to connect with the nearly 600 people that I've connected with using Facebook. So...Mike has changed my password and deactivated my account for me. If I ever want to reactivate my account, he'll have to agree with me that I'm ready for it! :) LOL!
We had a great day today! We spent the morning cleaning up the house a little bit, which still didn't even seem to make a dent. After that, we had lunch with Daddy and went shopping at Wal-Mart.
It's a little different. Even just 18 hours later...
First, there are all the people coming up to me saying, "So you're off Facebook, huh?" Or the people e-mailing me to say, "Please let me know when you update the blog!" Or the family members riding my behind about answering my cell phone. :) It's amazing how many people read those little updates. Very few people comment on them or "Like" them, but there are *lots* of people reading them! :)
I'm cleaning out the kids' toy room, and I need to be rescued. In so many ways.
1. The toys are winning. I think they really can move themselves. I'll go through and collect all the kitchen toys into the kitchen toy bin. Then, when I'm collecting the train toys, I find a kitchen toy. An obvious kitchen toy in the middle of the floor. There's no *way* I could have looked straight passed it earlier, right? Right??
(I'm losing my mind. That's the first reason I need to be rescued.)
I've spent this week organizing our home and belongings. By "organizing", I mean that I'm getting all of our various items into the rooms in which they belong. Along the way, I'm pitching the things that have no use nor purpose. So far, I've gathered three trashbags full of junk...just junk. Things that are not even fit for Goodwill or the Salvation Army.
In a matter of six months, we were certainly able to collect plenty o' trash. And I've only done half of the house!
We watched the fourth video on Sunday. I'm processing. I'm processing quietly. In some ways, I don't know where to begin. In other ways, I know that, once I start, I won't be able to find the end. So I'm going to let a couple of videos speak for me:
Do you like us? Well? Do ya? Do ya?
Love Mercy
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