Another Good Grief Week!!!!!

Well, last week I thought "Good Grief" but this week I mean it!! As I posted last Thursday, my hand had gotten tired and by Friday my hand had gotten sore. Saturday my hand had gotten totally and completely infected and landed me in the hospital for the Labor Day weekend!!! I had to have iv antibiotics Saturday - Monday but got to come home on Monday finally. I rather enjoyed my stay, everyone was so good to me while I was there and I didn't have to do a thing for a change!!!! I got the rest of my stitches out yesterday and I am having surgery on the other hand tomorrow. Hopefully I won't have any more problems!!!! I did have plenty of time to listen to all of the politcal talk and will have to say that I am just as confused now as I was before I had my vacation! I am very un-satisfied with the choices that we have and stand very conflicted on my own personal choice. I will just pray that God guides my decision on the right thing to do!!!!

Good Grief Charlie Brown!!!

I have spent a longggg time this afternoon trying to "fix" my blog, Michelle says that it is "easy". Well, "Good Grief Charlie Brown"! I think I ought to go back to my Bible study and forget this for the day!! I did manage to change some things and then I lost all of my pictures. I added one but things are going so slow for some reason today that I just quit!! I had surgery last Friday on my right wrist for carpal tunnel, so being right handed is not fun today at all and I have now gotten very tired and a little sore from all this TRYING to make some changes here. Things are going well though but enough for today, going to read now. Will have a more inspiring blog a little later, God has laid some things on my heart~~~

Right on Time, Every Time

Wow!!!! A lot has happened this last week. It is amazing to me still how God right on time, every time, without fail. Last Friday morning, Billy called me at work about 7:30 to let me know that he had just lost his job. Needless to say, it completely unnerved me and as I cried with him on the phone, I told him that everything would be ok, not being sure if it would or not! As soon as we hung up, my supervisor called as she does every morning and asked how things were going and I told her what had just happened. She said that she would start praying and that things would be ok. She cried the rest of the way to work and I prayed that God would stay in control of things and that He would provide for us and lead guide and direct us as we faced this life obstacle. I continued to work, wondering how my poor husband was doing, still praying when Billy called me around 11:00 saying, he had gotten a new job starting on Monday! He had National Guard for the weekend and left Friday afternoon, happy for the job, of course, but worried about our finances. I continued to tell him that we would be ok. Billy hates any kind of change and always wants to make sure how his check falls and likes to be in control of everything and now he is in a tailspin because he is not in control of ANYTHING!! He gets home on Sunday night not sure how he is going to get his tools moved to the new job, how anything is going to work out for the week, just a lot of stress and anticipation. I continue to tell him that we would be ok and everything was going to work out. Tuesday afternoon our neighbor tells us to come and get her trailor to move the toolbox so that problem is solved. Wednesday the finance company calls and asks us if we would like to defer our August house payment and not have one due until the end of September. They ASKED us, we didn't call and ask them. Then today, Thursday, Billy picks up his last paycheck and comes home to say that he will get his first paycheck from the new job next Friday and it will be almost double what he was making, he is going on a company paid fishing trip in Destin in September!! His National Guard check goes in the bank on Friday so all of our bills that we were concerned about(utilities) are all paid, the money is in the bank and it was all God. In case you don't know, Billy does not go to church with me, I have always gone and taken Wesley with me since he was a baby and Billy chose not to go and that is alright, I can't change him I can only show him God at work and pray for God to change him. I don't know that Billy will be in church with me this Sunday, however, he does know that this week has been all God, right on time when we needed Him most!!! As I checked the internet to see about the guard check, I went in and work him up laughing that there would be a deposit in the morning. God is so good!!!! Every time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a Monday

Thank goodness I was off today. I had to work the holiday weekend so it was a pretty un-eventful 4th of July for us but that was ok. It rained most of the weekend anyway. This morning made up for the weekend! I went with Billy to the recycling, junk yard to sell some metal stuff he has accumulated in his shop. We waited in a long line as there were a lot of people in line to sell their "stuff". It was amazing to me the "stuff" that people took there and sold for money!! One man drove up with a stove, hot water heater, freezer and a lawnmower for just a few things that he had. I wished that I had had a small child with me to watch as the huge jaws of the machine came down and picked up all the junk and piled it up in a huge pile. The junk yard was really neat and I am going to be looking around to find some junk to sell too. Metal is a good thing. The man in front of us sold over a thousand dollars worth of junk!! Simply amaZing!!!!!!!!!!!!! We didn't get quite that much for our junk but we got enough.

Then I accompanied my husband to the tag office. What a nightmare!!! I find it hard to believe that my tax dollars go towards employing some of the people that work in the Houston County Tag office. I would like to have a say so in some firing down there. Billy was in line for almost two, yes I said 2 hours. I went across the street to my cousin's office and waited over there. We just needed to get a tag for Wesley's new vehicle. We kept the tag, just needed to swap the title, we had everything that was required with us and the lady just seemed to be dumber than dirt. I went from having an interesting morning to having a horrible afternoon. But all ended well with lunch at Larry's and then a lovely nap when I got home. What a Monday!!!

Monday

What a rotten Monday. It was storming this morning when I left for work at 6:15 and stayed sort of yucky all day long. The weather matched my mood completely. I feel just kind of yucky today. My weekend was not so great and it just continued on over into today. I know that the Bible commands us to forgive and forget but wow how hard that is!!! My sister-in-law and I had a "situation" over the weekend where she said some horrible things to me that hurt me very deeply. I prayed yesterday, "trying" to forgive her, which I have, but I am not sure how long it will take me to forget. I spoke with her and told her that I forgave her but that forgiveness did not make things automatically right and I feel so torn by my feelings. I know that to be like Jesus I have to forgive it's just that forget part that I am hung up on because I am so hurt. Then add to the attitudes at the job today where if anyone is a Christian, they sure don't bear the fruit but then today especially, I fall into that same category of not bearing fruit I guess. I know that the Lord is the only one to "change" me and hopefully when this weather front moves through, my mood and attitude will too!!!

What Have You Asked Him For Today?

I heard this phrase a little while ago on the radio.."we have not because we ask not". Just led me to ask just what have you asked HIM for today? Was it food, gas, health, broken relationships....you get the picture. I don't mean that ask and it instantly appears, although God can and does work that way but sometimes we need to be specific in our asking aka our prayers. I have had the pleasure today of surrounding myself with several different friends, some that I see on a daily and weekly basis and some just not so often. There has been much laughter to be had today of which I needed. I woke up extremely tired after not sleeping much and literally not being able to "turn off" my brain early this morning when I finally went to bed!!! I felt a heavyness in my heart last night but thank God He is new every morning! My friend Faith "gently" explained to me that everyone has problems, some people the same ones that I think I am the only one to have to deal with and there is no "but" to it in my answer. God does not deal with "but". He is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End and there is not but in between!!! What have you asked Him for today and when you did, was there a "but" anywhere in your asking????????? So glad to be blessed and highly favoured.
This blogging is addictive!!!!!!!!

Tired

Wow! I am so tired after working a 16 hour day. Tired but wound up and not ready for sleep. God has been dealing with me today. Why do we want to do things our way so much of the time? I mean, we know that we are just setting ourselves up for failure but away we go, our own agenda, like children learning to walk....they always fall down. That's just part of the learning phase!! Adulthood is so hard at times. I want to still be that little girl that can just start playing with people and automatically have a friend. Grownups are harder and meaner. I try so hard to please others that I find I am not pleasing myself. Please pray for me to get back up, brush my hands off and start walking again!!!! I know that sounds weird but there are so many issues that I am trying to deal with right now, just please pray for me. I thank God for each and everyone of you that I can call my friend.

Max

Well, I will try this again, we have one more member of our family and that is almost5 yr old Max. He has no idea that he is really a dog and not human. We have had him since he was 5 weeks old and cannot imagine life without him. He is truly our best friend. Here is his picture as he just got home from the beauty shop where he was shaved. He loves being shaved instead of having alot of hair, he looks like a little fox. We love our Maxi dog!!!

Family

This past weekend some of my family got together at Lake Eufaula for the Second Annual Cousin Reunion. There were so many people there that I don't even know that were related to me. We have such an extended family, my father was one of ten children, and you can only imagine the cousins that family produced!!! I believe that everyone had a good time, there was plenty of food and plent of fellowship, our family all love to talk. There were people that I haven't seen in a long time and some there that I don't believe that I have never met at all. I enjoyed all of the younger cousins. I love their babies!!! We have some of the cutests babies in the world. I am so blessed to have cousins. As Marthat Stewart says........they're a good thing!! Call someone in your family today just to say hello and that you love them, they won't always be here~~~!!

First Blog

Well, I have finally decided to learn something new so here I am blogging!! I have enjoyed reading other blogs and was a little confused by it all but I finally blogged on and here I am. I will have to learn how to down or upload pics to this but I feel assured that I will be able to conquer this!!!

It is fastly approaching July and things are heating up here in LA (lower alabama!). The Lord is so good to me. I am so unworthy of His love....all He asks is that we receive Him. We don't have to go out and buy Him, just receive Him into our hearts. I heard on the news yesterday about how people perceive "religion" and how they believe that there are different ways to go to heaven. It just amazes me that so many people in the United States do NOT believe that the Bible is the true word of God. I guess I have lived a sheltered life because I was brought up in church, going to Sunday School, Vacation Bible School, Summer Camp, etc..... I just that everyone did these same things. I am not perfect, I have made many mistakes and there have been times that I have tried to do things my way, not His way. The thing that sets me apart from some people is that I am simply forgiven. God is so good!!!

I saw a friend in the grocery store yesterday that I had not seen in a while and she asked me if I knew that she was pregnant again with her second child and I did not know that. This from such a sweet girl that I watched grow up for a while, who the doctors had told would maybe never be able to have even 1 child and now she is going to have another one. I told her how happy I was and also shared how God is indeed so good and she said, He has a sense of humor too!! I think that this is true. Congratulations to Heather and Patrick!!