Ripe old age

Well, I always figured I live to be 100, but according to THIS, I'm only gonna make it to 89. Seems that my stress and candy bar habit are killing me.

I'm so embarrased

The girls have been dying to dress Ginger up. I'm not so sure she was that happy about it. In fact, she hid in the bed with her daddy. Too much for her to handle!

Guilt free living

In Him we have redemption through His blood,

the forgiveness of sins

in accordance with the riches of God's grace

that He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding.

Ephesians 1:7-8

God forgave me according to how rich He is, not according to how sorry I am, or how much I deserve to be forgiven. Just because He is God, He is love and He loves to be that good to me. No need for feeling guilty or bringing up yesterday sins. If you are remembering old sins, it's not God who's reminding you, He's forgotten.

28:19

That's my 5K time! Pretty fast for an old lady! That breaks down to a 9:39 mile. Yeah I'm pretty proud of myself. I won't tell you that at my present time my nephew Clinton is smokin' me. But I was reminded today that racing is all about competing against yourself. Words to live by. But in my shallow moments, it felt really good to glide on by those pretty little college girls half my age who by the way were struggling to breathe and having to walk at mile 2.5. Now I'll go take a nice long soak in a hot bubble bath, my reward for a race well run!

It's amazing what a little break can do

I volunteer at our church's indigent clinic every Thursday night. I see patients that have no insurance or money, and afterwards, volunteers pray with these people and generally just love on them. We have lots of volunteers that come, and to be honest, we are somewhat of a family. Don't be impressed, there are lots of nights I don't want to go. Jerry my friend started the clinic about two years ago and although I love it, sometimes it's really a love-hate relationship. I hate it when I'd rather be at home, and I love it too much to stop doing it.

To be honest, the last few months I felt myself teetering on the edge of burn out. The month of October brought lots of activities, a mission trip, a cruise, so my Thursday nights have been filled with other things. It has been so good to have a break and guess what? I really wanted to be back there. Tonight was such a super night. I laughed so hard with my friends, volunteers and patients. Some of my patients wanted to know where I had been, they missed me. I was surprised they had got along fine without me the past few weeks, maybe a little disappointed they had. Mostly I felt energized! I was ready to do this thing that God has called me to do. It felt good.

What is the task that you are called to do that is sometimes just so hard? Take a break, take a little care of yourself, so you can take care of others. It's good to step back, relax and get your focus back on straight. You find that you miss it, and that you can't wait to do the thing your called to do. Lesson learned is this--- don't let yourself burn out. Sometimes the embers just needs to be stoked.

Let's talk.......

Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths,

but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs,

that it may benefit those who listen.

Ephesians 4:29

What if every word I said was filtered through by this thought:

"How can my words best benefit this person?

What can I say to really build them up and make our conversation a benefit in their day?

Lord, let my words be beneficial. Let them be on purpose, never just idle words.

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