Proverbs 29:25

　

　

　

　

Prov. 29:25

　

You never know

when God is going to bless you!

Good things happen when

you least expect them to !!!

　
　

Dear Lord, I thank You for this day,

I thank You for my being able to see

and to hear this morning.

I'm blessed because You are

a forgiving God and

an understanding God.

You have done so much for me

and You keep on blessing me.

Forgive me this day for everything

I have done, said or thought

that was not pleasing to you.

I ask now for Your forgiveness.

Please keep me safe

from all danger and harm.

Help me to start this day

with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude.

Let me make the best of each and every day

to clear my mind so that I can hear from You.

Please broaden my mind

that I can accept all things.

Let me not whine and whimper

over things I have no control over.

And give me the best response

when I'm pushed beyond my limits.

I know that when I can't pray,

You listen to my heart.

Continue to use me to do Your will.

Continue to bless me that I may be

a blessing to others.

Keep me strong that I may help the weak...

Keep me uplifted that I may have

words of encouragement for others.

I pray for those that are lost

and can't find their way.

I pray for those that are misjudged

and misunderstood.

I pray for those who

don't know You intimately.


I pray for those that don't believe.

But I thank You that I believe

that God changes people and

God changes things.

I pray for all my sisters and brothers.

For each and every family member

in their households.

I pray for peace, love and joy

in their homes; that they are out of debt

and all their needs are met.

I pray that every eye that reads this

knows there is no problem, circumstance,

or situation greater than God.

Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight.

　
I pray that these words be received

into the hearts of every eye that sees it

in Jesus ' name. Amen!

Eventually I did get everything done this year that I wanted to. Now the tree is up the decorations are up, and I am having a break from work...I can say I have not gotten anything useful done since Christmas, and I probably won't for a few more days yet...

The tree has at least another week to go till I take it down. Since it is up it is blocking my doing any work, since there is no room in here to do anything with this tree up. It takes up almost a quarter of the living room. But I do love a big tree. If it starts dropping needles at a fast rate it will come down sooner, but as it is now it is still in good shape, and slurping a lot of water.

Ready For Christmas

I believe I have finally done it! gotten most everything done, and will have a couple days to just sit and enjoy my decorations. Only one batch of cookies to go, one present to buy and wrap. All the rest are done, the house is cleaned, the decorations all up, and the cards sent out....
Have the menu written down for Christmas dinner, and I believe I have all the ingredients that I need for everything.
Usually I am still baking and wrapping on Christmas Eve...
It is supposed to snow on Thursday, so I will pop a dish of popcorn, make a pot of tea, grab some DVDs and relax and watch DVDs all day.

Mess number 1 has now become a bigger mess than it was....

Today I tore my sewing/craft room apart...now it is a worse mess than it was before I started. The reason for this act was because I could not find something that I thought I needed. Well I found what I wanted eventually. BUT, while I was looking, I thought maybe it would be a good idea to just do a bit of a clean.....what I should have done, was sat down and had a cup of coffee and waited till that idea passed.

Now there is no going back, have to clean that room! And the living room! That is where the excess stuff that I was moving around is now sitting because there is no longer any room for it in the sewing/craft room.

So tomorrow instead of getting the stuff done, that really needs to get done, I will straightening up the mess I created while I was looking for something that was buried in the original mess...
You know some days, I just seem to get nothing done................................

I think Fall has begun..................

I think summer has finally left...it has been chilly the past couple weeks. I still have hopes that we will get an Indian Summer. I never want to see the hot days end.
  Now there is mostly rain, I am NOT motivated to do much of anything on rainy days...everything just seems so dreary.
  There are so many things that I should be getting done, but there they sit, and here I sit. Today I had an excuse sort of, to just sit...I really did not feel well, not sure what was all going on. I had a stomach ache since the wee hours of this morning...Probably something I ate that did not like me as well as I liked it.
Plus it was rainy, and that added to the blah feeling.
  Must get out of this blah feeling and get back to getting something done, before I really get behind.
Need to go back to making myself lists for the things I want to get done each day, and then sticking with the list.

Time passes

Time that interesting thing we never seem to have enough of...But that is not really true if you sit and think about it. We have just as much time as we have always had...it just depends on what we want to use those minutes and hours for.

  This year I seem to have finally caught up with those things on my "have to finish" list. Only a couple more items to go. Then I can start on the things I want to do.

Sometimes we spend a lot of time on things that we can not change no matter what we do about it, when that happens it is time to step back and see if it is really worth it to continue. Some things were never meant to be and no matter how hard we try to make them happen it is just a waste of time.

  So I have decided to just forget about the things that are not within my control, if they happen wonderful, if not so be it. There are far too many good things in life, to waste time on things that seem to be a dead end.

  Fall is my favorite season, so I am going to enjoy it. Love the vibrant colors, the rustle of the fallen leaves beneath my feet. Watching the squirrels scurry to fill their winter homes with food for the long winter. Even raking all the leaves that fall from the trees is fun.

It has been a while

Well the heat finally left, now it is cool out, I would have liked a more constant temp from day to day, am not interested in being really cool just yet, it is still August! August is supposed to be hot, not July.  But I also do not want fall to arrive too soon either, Do not want snow in November....A white Christmas is nice but not a white Thanksgiving. I have so many things that I want to do outside yet.

Projects

Projects around here have come to a screeching halt, it had just been too hot and humid to get anything done....sewing is impossible, I just stick to what ever I am trying to sew, and I am constantly sweating....BUT, even with all this inconvenience, I still can not see myself  getting an air conditioner. First of all I hate going into stores that feel like you are walking into a freezer, and then when you leave it is like walking into a blast furnace. If I am going to be hot, then so be it. But HOT to COLD, to HOT again is just too much.
So until the humidity and the heat break, I will be watching videos and reading books, and just sitting around.

Summer is Here!

Almost a month, since I last was here...seems like time is flying again and I am not getting all that much stuff done. I need to sit down and make myself a list of all the stuff I have gotten done. Because after it is finished, I feel like I have not gotten that much stuff done.

I have gotten a lot of yard work done, and the garden is planted, still have to mow the lawn but it had been a bit windy lately.
All that junk blowing in the air from the trees etc. is something I really do not need.
Still waiting for the sides for the screen house to arrive, the last screen house was almost 3 years old and after sitting in the sun had rotted to the point of just ripping out. So on to plan two. Have a couple E-Z UP shelters, and discovered I can order screen sides for them. So that will be our newer sturdier screen house, as soon as the sides get here
Today I want to finish the laundry, and sort the stuff in the garage, and straighten up this house it is getting to be such a mess!
The weather is not all that bad, it gets into the 100's durning the day, but I have been inside working most of the time. We do not have air conditioning, but fans work well too.
Today I seem to just be flittering from one thing to another, so does not seem like a lot is getting done, and it is not really. Put my morning coffee in the refridgerator, I think I would rather have ice coffee today, and that stuff was really hot!

Where has the time gone, seems like I just posted. I think spring is finally here, at least I hope it is here to stay..Seems like this year the weather is just like last year...one day it is really HOT, and then we get a storm, it then gets cool for a couple days, then warms up again, and then storms again.
I don't mind the rain, we need it for the lawns, but the storms I do not need, and I would like it to be warm more than just one or two days in a row.
 Tomorrow is cleaning day again, need to see my house out from under all this clutter. Where does the clutter all come from, seems like I just got rid of it all, and here is more of it!
The junk mail is no help, I can get the mail out of the mail box and just dump it in the wastebasket...all junk mail. Maybe I should just get rid of the mailbox and substitute a wastebasket. I would like to put a sign on my mail box that says "no junk mail please".