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March 2, 1999 |
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March 9, 1999 |
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March 15, 1999 |
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March 22, 1999 |
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March 29, 1999 |
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| March 2, 1999 |
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God cares about everything that you care about. He is your loving Father. He wants you to be happy. He wants you to succeed. He even cares about something so small as what your favorite color is! He cares about you and wants you to find out more about Him. He is waiting patiently for you to turn your eyes toward Him so He can immerse you in His tremendous love! |
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| March 9, 1999 |
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So many times I've totally ignored Him. So many times I've felt the urge to talk with Him or read my Bible and I've continued on in whatever other activity I was in. I feel so stupid! Why don't I spend more time with the One who created me, the One who created the entire universe for me? I could blame Satan and I wouldn't be wrong. After all, Satan has placed most television shows on the air to keep people from communing with God. Satan continues to throw problems my way that take my mind away from God. Satan tries to convince me that other things are more important and won't keep me away from God very long. He helps me to get my priorities in the wrong order. He helps me to see the faults in people. So, it is Satan's fault and I shouldn't feel guilty. No, no escape there! Who has the choice to watch TV? Who has the choice to pray first, then take care of problems, laundry, the garden, feeding the animals, etc? Who has the choice to verbalize the faults people have? Ummmmm, that would be me! Satan is tossing me the tasty tidbits, but I am the one picking them up and eating them! I am going to go put this online and spend some time with the One who loves me! Everything else can wait! Well, there is one thing that can't wait. I have to go potty first! ;-) |
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| March 15, 1999 |
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Anyway, I was noticing how bad the redwood chips looked. There was dog hair, pine needles, and leaves caught in them. My husband removed our last scroungy pine tree Saturday that was contributing to the mess. Since we are on a tight budget I decided to recycle. I scraped as many chips as I could into a pile and began to throw them back one by one. I could find no easier way to separate the chips from the undesirable things. As I was sitting there tossing chips I thought about how our lives end up messed up just like those chips. When we participate in things that are spiritually bad for us then our minds retain a residue of those activities. Just like the pine needles grab hold of the chips and settle in with them, so do the things we think about settle in with all the other things in our minds. An example would be if we continuously fellowship with non-believers. Many non-believers discuss luck, wishes, and/or horoscopes. They discuss worldly opinions about the creation, about how things happen, and about God. They do not understand the things you know about God and probably will not listen. It is often easiest to join in on their conversation on their level. Then our minds begin to believe in and retain things that they shouldn't. We find ourselves wishing people "good luck," even though there is no such thing. We might find ourselves using language that is not pleasing to the Lord. We will probably find ourselves occupying our mind with worldly things and excluding God. Television is another example of how undesirable things enter our minds. That stuff sticks in there just like the junk stuck in with my redwood chips. It isn't easy to separate it and get rid of it once it is there. The easiest thing to do is to be more selective on what we allow our eyes to see and our ears to hear. We can decide not to go with the crowd and speak up on what we believe when we are in a group of non-believers. Who knows? Maybe some of what we say will stick in their minds! Then when they compare that with the other things in their minds they will discover they've been throwing out the good and retaining the garbage! That's just something to ponder. |
The birds were singing and playing and feeding at the bird feeders. The frogs were singing to each other. Try as I could, I couldn't see them even though I was only a few feet away from them. When I would move to get a closer look they would stop. The bamboo wind chime my husband and I bought on our last romantic getaway was reminding me of our nice weekend together. The only really bad thing was the splinters I was getting. I think I'm going to go out and finish the job this morning before I finish this. It is supposed to rain pretty hard today and I have left a mess outside. I'm going to take a cushion to sit on this morning, however. ;-) |
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| March 22, 1999 |
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Satan is trying to use these things to distract me from the most important thing of all, my relationship with the Lord. Satan knows I like to be organized and have some control over my situation. He has been stealing pieces from my puzzles so they can't be finished. (I speak of puzzles figuratively--I'm not spending all day putting together actual puzzles! I might be crazy and I might be silly, but I'm definitely not a puzzle-nut!) HA! Satan! Beelzebub! You lose! I have the Holy Spirit it me and He is greater than you! Ha ha ha! I am not going to allow you to steal my joy! God is in control and He will help me finish these things. Want to hear something funny? If not, then plug your ears! Beelzebub means LORD OF THE FLIES! I thought that was great! We know about flies around here. We are not too far away from bunches of dairies. The closer you get to the dairies, the thicker the flies. There are a few humid summer days flies come through the door every time the door opens. I imagine it is like that every day even closer to the dairies. Flies are dirty, flies poop on the windows and on anything else they land on, and they are annoying! What an honor to be Lord of the Flies! NOT!! |
A couple times in the past month I've had a song pop into my head. It actually was only the thought of the song because I couldn't remember the words or the tune. I just remembered how much I enjoyed listening to it. I had remembered reading the words and singing along with the music. I knew it was on one of my Christian tapes or CD's, but couldn't find the one it was on. The last time I went looking for it I gave up thinking maybe the song had been on a CD that belonged to someone else. I turned on my radio and looked for a Christian station. I don't listen to the radio at home much. We live in a depression that prevents good reception. Plus, I am usually jumping up and down and moving around the house and never am able to listen to any talk shows on Christian stations as I miss too much. Also, every time the power goes out (which it does fairly often) I lose all my pre-set stations and have to reset the radio. I quit resetting it as it took too long. Anyway, I found a station and a song was ending. As I walked away from the radio I heard the new song starting and recognized it (static and all) as the song that had been on my mind!! I had never heard it on the radio before, and it had been announced as an older song that they didn't play any more. Rather than announce the name of the group at the end of the song (which I would not have recognized) they announced the name of the album (which I did recognize as being one of mine!) God played that song for me!! What a wonderful Daddy I have!! He does care about the little things! He does know what we want! He does want us to be happy! He is WONDERFUL!! |
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| March 29, 1999 |
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Actually, I've been working on a lot of the things I've been pushing aside for a long time. I've been pulling out my "procrastination piles" and tackling them one by one. It's a nasty job, but someone has to do it! It sure feels good when I can look at the finished product, though! Let's see, by the end of this week I should have most of them done. I know I won't have all of them done! I've got a few major ones that will just have to wait until I have large chunks of time. |
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