Get on It

My little kiddies are sleeping, both of them...ahh totally a blessing.  Mark has started his busy busy days, students are coming back and today he will work a 15 hour day and tomorrow will probably be the same.  I am trying to busy myself with friends while he is away, as you know if you know me, I don't like to be without people!  Call that what you want, sometimes it is tiring and I do need to slow down...live and learn.  Yesterday he worked about 11 hours taking a break to take us to dinner at UD with the students.  As I looked around the room and interacted with some of them it was hard not to wish I was working with him, we make a pretty dang good team if I do say so myself.  Working together, impacting youth and young adults, awesome.  After dinner was over I took the kids to the mall to play because it is about 100% humidity and in the 90s and there is NOT MUCH TO DO other than that.  So as the kids were playing I noticed that Titus' diaper wasn't quite holding the contents it is made to hold, I will spare you details.  So I am totally sicked out and totally grateful there was only an older lady with her grandson there playing.  Titus' overalls were totally messed and we had nothing.  Just a diaper...so over to the Gap we went to find something.  Lillie aggravating Titus in the double while I am hurriedly trying to get a shirt for the boy and find a good deal.  Thanks to the clerk I got a super cute polo like onesie for like $5 and off we went...he was happy for a bit then he just thought he should scream his way out of the mall.  And that he did.  I didn't want to go home, we had been home all day.  I wanted to get out and see people.  So as I am going to the car as fast and calmly as I can I think (because I am honest whether its easy to hear or not), I gave up my life to do this!?!  Give me a break!  We get in the car and I am just going on an on about how they are going straight to bed when we get home.  This mothering thing is quite a science and really is refining, I am a selfish person.  I need daily help just parenting, for me the parenting thing is definitely harder than the wife thing.  I mean seriously when we were dating if Mark screamed his way out of the mall, or pooped his drawers I would have just ditched him.  We get to pick our spouses!  Oh dear.  I know I say all this but truly I love my kids, they do bring me a lot of joy. I look at them and I am thankful and blessed.  I just pray that by the grace of God I will teach these children in the way they should go and when they are old they will not depart from it.  Who knows who they will grow up and impact, maybe they will reach more youth than I ever thought possible.

God is doing so much cool stuff right now!  Oh man!  Our pastor got choked up about it this weekend during one of the services.  He was saying that it truly is amazing to see how God is changing lives and working, when we get to see this we are blessed and blessed we are.  I know that God is a redeemer.  He is THE Redeemer.  He has made beautiful things of ashes.  Saturday night before church I was talking to 2 ladies from our church and I was just getting choked up because God is turning hearts toward him, people are searching and people are indeed being changed and I get to see it!!!  I had to keep myself together leading worship because if I truly stopped to think about all that God has done in and through me I would just have to break down right there.  "who are we that you would be mindful of us?  what do you see that is worth looking our way?  we are free in ways that we never should be, sweet release from the grip of these chains."  Boy my arms were hurting from the chains I was in.  I know that parenting is a huge mission field, we are called to show our children Christ but man alive when I see an older person turn and find Love in Jesus that is something I just can't get enough of!!  God heals!  And we are called to go and make disciples, so get up and get out of your comfy place and go find the people.  I am learning we have to go where they are, maybe a bar *GASP* yes I did just say that.  Give me a break, where do you think hurting people gather?  Thats another thing I just cannot stand, legalism.  It is not about the rules.  Do you know how many people we could reach if they really knew it is about JESUS, a personal relationship with the Son of God!  Seriously, I did not save myself!  Christ did, so why don't we just go tell others!  Aren't we called to show the world Christ's love?  I should be seeking those lost people.  What if instead of talking badly about the couple getting the divorce we just reached out to her?  What if we committed to be the DD for someone who had a bit of a drinking problem and built a relationship with them?  What if we brought meals to the widower who just lost his wife?  What if we said hi to the person walking on the street instead of walking past them?  OH my heart is so heavy for those who don't love Jesus, I am praying this year God provides opportunity for me to share the gospel.  Do you have a list of people in your life that need to hear about Him? Do you even know unsaved people??  Get on that, pray over it.  God is changing people.

John 13: 34  
So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. ³⁵ Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”



Isaiah 61:10
  I am overwhelmed with joy in the Lord my God!

 

 Mercy Me - God With Us

Who are we--- that You would be mindful of us?
What do You see--- that's worth looking our way?
We are free--- in ways that we never should be.
Sweet release--- from the grip of these chains.

Like hinges straining from the weight,
My heart no longer can keep from singing.

All that is within me cries
For You alone be glorified:
Emmanuel, God with us.

My heart sings a brand new song.
The debt is paid, these chains are gone.
Emmanuel, God with us.

Lord, You know--- our hearts don't deserve Your glory;
Still You show--- a love we cannot afford.

Like hinges straining from the weight,
My heart no longer can keep from singing.

All that is within me cries
For You alone be glorified:
Emmanuel, God with us.

My heart sings a brand new song.
The debt is paid, these chains are gone.
Emmanuel, God with us.

Such a tiny offering
Compared to Calvary;
Nevertheless,
We lay it at Your feet.

Such a tiny offering
Compared to Calvary;
Nevertheless,
We lay this at Your feet.

All that is within me cries
For You alone be glorified:
Emmanuel, God with us.

My heart sings a brand new song.
My debt is paid, these chains are gone.
Emmanuel, God with us.