Tuesday Cranky

After a wonderfully refreshing weekend I woke up this morning totally crabby and tired due to a restless night of sleep...amazed at how fast my attitude changed. So now I am am choosing to focus on Phil 4:8...you know that true, noble, excellent, praiseworthy stuff.

1. Aidan's heart for helping his brother this morning.(He wanted to make him breakfast and all I saw was him making a mess. Good lesson for me to stop and seek understanding.)

2. Morning air. I love being outside early morning. Too bad I have ceased to be a morning person :)

3. The blessing of heading to the gym while the boys are at school.

4. Sunflower market. Heading there this morning too.

5. A flexible, loving, patient husband. Yeah that should have been #1. He helped me seek understanding.

6. Realizing that my walk with Jesus can be moment to moment more than I ever thought possible.

7. Seeing sprouts...both outside and metaphorically.

8. Open gym. And since we hadn't been in so long it was such a leap in the boys skills and confidence. So fun.

9. Micah and "yum yum, that's delicious!"

10. Music. Itunes, pandora...boys singing. We are blessed.

Just for Fun: Crayons, heart, and soul

Saw this online today and thought it could lend to lots of ideas. (Crysti what to do with all those broken crayons from church :))

http://mollyirwin.typepad.com/mollyirwin/2009/03/wearing-the-green.html

Also on a deeper note I have been reading about the difference between heart and soul. Any thoughts?

Found this so far:
http://www.biblebb.com/files/tonyqa/tc00-107.htm

The Same Power

My sweet boy was watching videos on you tube with me and found this one. I have been encouraged by it as I am dragging from feeling like yuck this week. (Currently sitting in Micah's room for my own quiet time while Micah is with Daddy for his quiet time. Silly world.)

There is a love that I know
A strength for the weak and the broken heart
My Shepherd and King
I find You within me
For you are here
My Lord forever
You are here

Verse 2:

You carried the cross for the world
Gathered the lost and the fatherless
My Shepherd and King
I find You within me
For You are here
My Lord forever
You are here

Chorus:

In this place, you are here
By Your mercy, I draw near
In my heart, take your place
You are here

Verse 3:

Your word is the light of the earth
Your glory resounds in the universe
My Shepherd and King
I find You within me
For You are here
My Lord forever
You are here

Chorus

You are here
You are here
You are here

Bridge:

The same power that conquered the grave
Lives in me, Lives in me
Your love that rescued the earth
Lives in me, lives in me

You are here
You are here
You are here

Sunday Thoughts

After my experiment this week I realized a couple things.

Every day we have CHOICES. We choose what to feed into. We choose what to remember. We choose to have gratitude. Check it out.

Philippians 4: 4-9
(Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! ⁵Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. ⁶Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. ⁷And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. ⁸Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. ⁹Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.)

In college I wrote notes from my NT professor about these verses in my margin. They are as follows "praise allows you to focus on the lovely rather than the lousy. It's a +1 mindset, not just neutral."

That is it. I want to live in that mindset. I have a choice to. Check out what Paul tells us to focus on...

-true
-noble
-right
-pure
-lovely
-admirable
-excellent
-praiseworthy

Result? The God of peace will be with you. (vs 9)


Friday and Saturday were not as good of days with the boys. But if I step back and look at the BIG picture and the WHOLE day rather than just the yuck I find there was still way more good than not. (Praiseworthy rather than lousy.) I am having more peace because of this. I hope you do too.

Saturday 3

Gratitude



1. Living in a country where we can share our faith openly. I have never been in a "closed country" and it has even been years since going on a missions trip to Mexico. Hanging door hangers opened my eyes to the blessing of being able to say "just wanted to invite you to a new church starting in the area."

2. Having the health and strength to walk the streets to do the job. It was way more exhausting than I thought.

3. Hamburgers. I never want a hamburger but I am blessed to get one on those crazy days when I have the craving. (And a new pay month to go out with cash for dinner in budget :))


Remember

1. Aidan's enthusiasm for going out to do door hangers. He made sure we all had our t shirts on for it. And he wanted to invite his friend Aden. Awesome.

2. When dividing into teams for the neighborhoods Aidan saying "Micah and I are a team."

3. And yeah...don't give Aidan no time to recharge at home and then have him go to Home Depot after a long day. Not good for anybody.