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In My Name

by admin on October 13, 2010 in Better Check Out Links, My Year of Right Sacrifice-TIME with No comments

And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name and I will do it.
~John 14:13-14, NIV

As I studied this with some sisters today I felt blessed in seeing clearly the importance of the statement ‘in my name’ for the first time. I have looked through some different write ups about the statement this afternoon and love that it all relates back to, union or coop with Jesus. To ask in his name is to ask according to Christs purposes, and not our own, ‘his name’ signifies his character or reputation. His purpose is easy, Christ over and over said (even in the verses above this section) that it is all for the Glory of God.

From now on whatever you request along the lines of who I am and what I am doing Ill do it. That’s how the Father will be seen for who he is in the Son. I mean it. Whatever you request in this way I’ll do. ~John 14, the message

I have been wrestling for some time with how easy it is to be consumed by working on and for my own glory, or my own reputation. In our society one is supposed to buy things and surround themselves with stuff that reflects THEMSELVES. Christ calls us to live in and through him! Not just live for us with him in our hearts. If we are really really in a coop with our Lord Jesus, thanks to his Holy Spirit, we will know the right questions, pray the right prayers and desire to BE for the glory of GOD.

This is a big step for a Christians in our society. It is an ‘outside the box’ concept to live purely to project someone other then ones self. We are often told to take Jesus in our hearts and given this idea that he is kinda like a piece to the puzzle, or an accessory but Jesus calls us to more! He is the whole puzzle and he wants the whole of us. Click on the link RIGHT HERE to go to another post where I was chewing on this concept. I was sorting out my conflicting feelings…of how it would make me feel so alien in my world and yet at the same time it would release me of such heavy burdens and tiresome pursuits and leave me with a sense of being really alive!

I want to come and go and BE in his, CHRIST’S, name!

TTFN

Octobers Hymn

by admin on October 9, 2010 in Better Check Out Links, My Year of Right Sacrifice-TIME, The Hymn Project with No comments
(My youngest two and my niece enjoying an autumn tradition, the straw maze, it is set up by a local green house business.)

According to Thy Gracious Word

A hymn clearly about remembering Christs sacrifice for us, it was written by James Montgomery. James was known for humanitarian beliefs, he spoke out against slavery and child labor. A simple yet pretty tune caught my ear and the simple and familiar Christian ideals in the song where familiar enough with a sweet twist at the end. Last months was easy to pick up and learn and I think this one will be as well.

TTFN

Second Piece (Trust and Wait)

by admin on October 8, 2010 in Better Check Out Links, My Year of Right Sacrifice-TIME with No comments
(See the post linked RIGHT HERE, as it is related to this one.)

Isaiah 49: 8

This is what the LORD says:
“In the time of my favor I will answer you,
and in the day of salvation I will help you;

Waiting and trusting go hand in hand. David had an ability to wait for the promises over his life to be full filled and that prevented him from rushing ahead and screwing things up. He didn’t rush through his hard times. He trusted the Lord when he said he would full fill the blessings and end the struggles at the right time because he believed in God’s compassion.

When you trust anyone you have a soft heart toward them, so it is in our relationship with the Lord.

Psalms 86:15
15 But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God,
slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness.

TTFN

Are We There Yet?

by admin on September 29, 2010 in Better Check Out Links, Bits Of My Personality, Music Flavor, My Year of Right Sacrifice-TIME with 1 Comment
(Our youngest hasn’t even mastered the tricycle and yet we have to keep reminding him his oldest sister’s bike is too big for him.)

How come the desire to run ahead causes me to desire the comfort of the past? The human condition has not changed since time began and I am not immune to it.

I have been letting myself go into a dark mood the last day or so and I wasn’t totally sure of the cause. Impatience is my newest suspicion.

We left our comfortable town because that was no longer where God wanted us. I have since let the idea that he has other plans for us, completely different from our own wash over me. So I thought I would be fine with it all now… now that I knew he had big things in store I was focused, well mostly focused, and for sure excited… but then nothing happened, or so I felt, for the last year, I developed impatience. After all, we left so lets start getting somewhere!

I started toying with the idea of how ‘things where better when’ … when we weren’t in line with God’s plan for our life… is that what I was thinking? Oh brother I am acting like the people of God when they got feed up and wanted to go back to Egypt! I honestly know there is no going back for me but… …

Thankfully the Lord never leaves me to my human conditions devices. Yesterday a speaker at a study I attended reminded me of Davids years of hiding from Saul and waiting for the kingdom he was already given by God. Those supposed wasted years where years of great learning. Our Lord is really good at giving us times to adjust, learn and grow into what is to come.

If I think about it really hard and stop being so worked up about what is ahead I realize we are growing here. When I stop thinking about the past with rose colored glasses I can see the good going on in the now.

I so appreciate the artistic minds, blessed by Christ, that turn these human experiences into word and song! It is no coincidence that these songs find me when I need to hear them… today the Spirit of the Lord lead me to a Sara Groves song. Click on the below link to read the whole thing.

Again it is time to get along with the truth and kick out the mood. And so I wait on the Lords timing.

TTFN

A Fountain of Misinformation??!!

by admin on September 27, 2010 in Better Check Out Links, Bits Of My Personality, Domestic Damsel, Little Things with 1 Comment

Oh I am giggling as I post this… Saturday night somehow it got out about my library training and then later I was talking about tea, like the tea lover I am, and they teased me that I truely am a good librarian type because of my fountain of information in the world of obscure knowledge.

Today I checked up on myself and with red face realised I may have provided them with inacurate facts about tea and caffeine content! Horror of horrors I hope they read this post and graceously forgive me. Lets blame it on the fact that I was barely able to talk, due to my cold, and was on cold meds!

6 different sources on tea could not agree to the actual amount of caffiene in different tea varieties. They also couldn’t agree as to whether white or green was stronger. I fear some of the disagreements had to do with advertising. One company felt it an advantage to say their tea had more caffiene then cola and the next (different brand but same tea leaf variety) showed cola higher up the chart then their tea. Coffee still wins for caffiene content across the board.

> drip coffee
> black tea
> oolong tea
> white tea
> green tea
> decaf tea (still has some caffeine)
> roobois/honeybush/ herbal tea (NO caffeine)

Here are some lovely tea sites that I enjoyed looking through and hope to check out more in the future, first this one and then this one for my Canadian pals!

Anyone have some lovely tea websites to recommend me?

TTFN

Little Things

by admin on September 7, 2010 in Better Check Out Links, Do I Call It Parenting Advice?, Life Keeps Changing, Little Things, My Romance with 1 Comment
( I spent a whole afternoon washing the upstairs floors with my youngest two. Yes it took that long because of their help but it was boundlessly cheerful as we played Cinderella and sang ‘Sweet sweet Nightingale’.)

Kids remind you life is full of little things. If you don’t protect your time you don’t get to enjoy life, the little things. I sometimes imagine more ‘me time’, but I want to be a content woman… so I count the little blessings and then I remember how I had time to:

relish nap time with my little woman,

watch the girls catch fairies,

pamper my girls with gusto,

find joy in the daily mama tasks,

learn from my baby boy,

celebrate when big boy learned to tie his shoes,

purposely do nothing really with my kids this summer,

snuggle up with my man and watch endless episodes of our favorite tv shows on dvd…

and more…

No time of life is perfect… all time is fleeting and the next stage will not have all the blessings of the last, so we must grab it and take note and enjoy it. I am thankful.

TTFN

September’s Hymn

by admin on September 4, 2010 in Better Check Out Links, The Hymn Project with No comments

This months hymn choice, for me to learn, is All Praise to Our Redeeming Lord.

Written by Charles Wesley. I am sure this is a familiar name to many of you, he was a leader in the Methodist movement. Check out the link on his name for a bigger biography.

I am now terribly interested on reading up on him again and checking out his other hymns. Perhaps there are more of his I have yet to have learned and that catch my ear enough to be part of this project.

TTFN

August’s Hymn

by admin on August 12, 2010 in Better Check Out Links, The Hymn Project with No comments

The hymn I have chosen for this month is O blessed, living Lord . Follow the link if you wish to check it out yourself.

I didn’t forget, I have been practicing it. I just didn’t get around till now to post about it.

Lyrics where written by George West Frazer

TTFN

July’s Hymn!

by admin on July 7, 2010 in Better Check Out Links, The Hymn Project with No comments

I hit a wall this month. Just feeling so much in the Spirit lately and yet not able to find a hymn that is new to me that really felt like this months hymn. I decided to then go with another by last months author. Check the link on the song’s name to get the lyrics and music. Check the link on the authors name to lead you to last months write up that has a link to a mini autobiography about her.

I think I hit the wall this month because I have been so excited about some old hymns that I have rediscovered. Ones I know well but haven’t sang for years are coming to my attention and I am spending all my cleaning time singing them… it was hard to find something new that was capable of moving me as the old belting out ones are right now. I am looking for some more up beat ones but I know most of those and so here is one that I will try to make my own and turn it up beat if I can:)

You Have Longed For Sweet Peace by Elisha Albright Hoffman.

Here’s to summer and joyful song and peace in my heart and changes!

TTFN

Rock Climbing

by admin on July 1, 2010 in Adventure and Me, Better Check Out Blogs, Better Check Out Links, Do I Call It Parenting Advice?, Four Little Eggs In My Nest, Mama Heart Mushings with 1 Comment
I can’t decide if she faced a giant or not!

My girl has many things she is too cautious about. I wonder if it is being the first born that will often make her very standoffish and mistrusting? She has many things that get her easily worked up and even afraid and so way back we started encouraging her to fan the flame of the areas in life she was brave about.

Like every little woman, she is braver then she thinks.

When she started standing up in class (randomly) and sharing songs and poems she had written we knew she had a spark of bravery and thankfully she is now in a fine arts school where she is encouraged in those areas.

When she was almost two she started climbing everything in sight. She could shimmy up her bunk bed no problem and started sleeping on the top at a very young age. She worked on the monkey bars, starting in kindergarten, so determinedly that she had callouses and raw patches on her hands and had to be forced to take a few days off of them to let the raw spots heal.Yesterday night was family adventure night. We had ice cream and burgers then watched Big Girl try something she has been dreaming about for a while, rock climbing! Lynn Hill has entered into conversation a lot lately. Check the link to her blog, she is a well known climber and my girl thinks she is pretty great. Well Big Girl got a little bit of a taste of Lynn’s world last night and she LIKED IT! It was wonderful to see her impressed with her own abilities and not holding back but getting up there.

(The other three sat at the bottom JUST MESMERIZED!
Baby Boy kept pointing and saying ‘Uh Oh!’)

TTFN

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