Busy LIVING!

Just checking in to let you know I haven't forgotten about this blog. I've been really busy with alot of change since writing last time. This month is almost over. The time sure flies by!
I've spent time with my family early in the month. I found a way for all my brothers and sisters to get together at least one time a year! I've got 4 brothers and 6 sisters!~ Coming from a large family, it's hard to get everyone at the same place at the same time....! What I created I have called "4 Times a Year" and it has been successful. In January 2007, I got the calender out and picked out 4 dates in each season & posted them on our family website. Of course the one in winter is Christmas...! Everyone makes that one! I asked for someone to volunteer to take a date and have it at their home. We meet together over lunch or dinner and spend the rest of the time just visiting and catching up on each other's lives. If you can make 1 of the dates that is good. But, if you can make more than one, that is excellent! This time was such a blessing. It was over my Dad's new home. I really like the effort & priority everyone is making to be together.

Just prior to this, the Lord impressed upon my heart a strong desire to take captive His voice and by His grace, He has given me his strength & the discipline needed to resist putting anything in my mouth He didn't want me to. I know I couldn't do it without Him pursueing me. It's been a spiritual fast, receiving spiritual food instead of cluttering His temple with what is not good or of any nourishing value.

I went to my Pathways refresher last week and it was such a blessing to be in the room again. The one thing that I was struck with is the honesty & love in the room. The main reason I see that it works is because of how God has designed his creation to need one another and how being in a room full of people sharing at a heart level in this safe place.... is a need in itself... that God has put into each person He created. Nothing monumental has to happen after they leave those doors because it took place within those doors. They experience what love is and they figure out over time how to get it and how to receive it. I pray for each one that they as well know that God is pursuing them and they hear his voice calling them. If your a believer in Jesus Christ, you know that our life is to be given away. May each one experience that kind of love and for those who have found it & received it, May they love the Lord with all their hearts, with all their souls, with all their minds, and all their strength.

I've got 3 more classes in Bibliology & Hermaneutics left. Every christian should take this course. I am definately going to take all 6 courses.
Pastor George's leadership class has been well worth it too. These two classes have been instrumental in my life. They make beautiful music together!

On the home front, my husband is getting underway with jobs interviews and my daughter has moved back home with us for support & to have her baby here. She's become a wonderful chef! She's cooking fabulous meals for us! Our son is progressing well this college semester and likes his new part time job. He's wearing his hair long. I'm getting use to that. He's mostly had the extreme (some times bald) hair styles. My business and the one at the spa are a blessing as well. The Lord has given me plenty of opportunity to shed his love with others. I just get tears in my eyes when I think of how much the Lord has done for us by giving His all. I so want to please Him and I know I already do. I know there's not anything I can do for Him to love me more.....that's not it...It's just what He puts inside of us....HIMSELF! That sure is humbling. I know I am nothing apart from Him.
It's time for sleep!