Confessions

Stealing this idea because I'm not creative today and I think it's cool.


Here are my confessions...

1. I talk to myself while driving all the time. No where else. Just in the car. Strange...

2. I'm a really bad loser. I pout for hours when Kyle beats me at anything. Wait that's not a confession... y'all already knew that.

3. I seriously want to take Ball Room dancing lessons. And yes, I am still a Southern Baptist.

4. I am donating blood for the first time this month and I'm so nervous I could puke.

5. I check my e-mail at least 10 times a day. I can't help it. I don't want to miss anything.

6. I've gained approximately 10 pounds in the last 3-4 months. Maybe that's why Kyle asked me the other day if my favorite ice cream flavor was Chunky Monkey?? hmmm.....


What are yours?

Feelings

Pondering this thought today. It's so true.

"We’re moving so fast these days that it’s hard to know how we feel about things, important or otherwise. Our feelings get all cross-wise and we end up getting mad about something we don’t even care about and not caring about something we should be mad about." - Beth Moore

Computer Lessons...

It is no secret that computers and I don't get along very well. I don't understand how they work and I don't have the patience to learn. I just want them to work when and how I want them to work. And when my computer doesn't work, all I have to do is yell... "KYYYYYYYLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and he comes and magically fixes whatever the problem is. That's why I married him, just kidding. Sort of. Anyway, recently I was trying to log in to a website and I repeatedly got this message: "The Server understood your request, but chose not to fulfill it."

Has anyone else seen that message before?? I'm sure my jaw hit the floor the first time I saw that message. "That computer has a lot of nerve", I said aloud to my kitty who was sitting next to me. Some nerve indeed. It totally understood what I was telling it to do and it just flat out refused. Then I kind of chuckled to myself thinking about how children are sometimes the exact same way...

All of the sudden this thought popped into my head. How many times have I understood exactly what God was telling me to do and just flat out chose not to do it?? I am no better than that darn computer. I'm sure there are days when God just sits up there thinking, "That girl has a lot of nerve." I had to say a prayer of repentance because I knew that I have refused to obey God so many times. Some times I disobey because I lack the faith to believe that God can accomplish something through me, sometimes it's way too out of my comfort zone to do it, other times I'm just too lazy and stubborn to do it. The sin of omission is just as wrong as doing something I know not to do.

"Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin."
- James 4:17

Talk about feeling convicted. Praise Jesus for his patience and mercy and for giving me countless second chances to get it right. Whew... who knew I would learn something spiritual from working on a computer?! God knew.

Happiness or Joy?

Is it seriously half-way through March already?!? Whew!! We've been super busy, I will try to write a catch up post sometime soon. I just had to post this thought for the day.

A very wise woman was recently asked of life... is happiness the goal??

Well I knew that obviously there must be some higher goal than happiness because happiness is simply an emotion that comes and goes depending on our ever changing life situations. I think this woman said it perfectly. Simple but true.

The goal is deep, genuine joy which gives you hope even when happiness is elusive.

I like it. I know I have found that joy, I hope you can too.