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| the intruder!ahhh!
today the bathroom velux (sky light) was open. (it usually
is... a lil airflow in the toilette never hurt anyone) :) anyways,
danika and i typing away, working on our computers when all of the
sudden i hear a "thud". not thinking anything was out of the ordinary
b/c there are lots of noises around the house (the fire box, the mail
man, people down stairs and outside etc) and then i turn my head b/c
out of the corner of my eye i see something moving... A CAT just walked
out of my bathroom. looked at me as if it was normal. i let out a lil
scream and danika jumped up. A CAT. she chased it into my room. the
poor thing got scared and hide under my bed. we finally got it out by
petting it and saying... awe nice kitty. then danika picked it up by
the back of the neck and carried it out of the house. i shut the
window.
it was all kinda comical. hehe
a lil laugh in the middle of working. :)
hope this funny lil story brings a smile to your day!
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| its a rainy day. spring is here.
sometimes i feel like a spring. you know the boingy thing. i mean i feel like i am trying to connect/hold together 2 things... american-french, youth-adults, church- community, others-myself... and more times than not i feel totally stretched. then all of the sudden just when i think i cant be stretched any more for boingingingy that heavy things flys and i have a moment before something else comes and stretches. somethings are harder/heavier than others.
other times i feel like bouncing myself... a spring is a bouncy thing... and i can be too.
its a good thing that we have springs though... i mean imagine if we didnt have them. alot would break, would hurt even more, would be dull.
i guess Jesus makes us be more springy. :)
having said all of that i am going to spring away til next time. :)
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| This morning when i was opening the blinds i looked outside and what do i see... a rainbow over the waters and waves. oh my it was gorgeous. and at the same time there was a song playin on my computer saying "his mercies are new every morning", and so i stoped in my morning routine and just thanked God.
now it is raining outside... i can hear the beating of each drop on my window with the wind howling behind. the rainbow is no longer visible... its just gray. and that was only 20 min later. how ironic i think... a promise before the storm... that is so God. i just love it and i have to smile!
Last night when reading in my bible i came across this verse... and it just sums up everything pretty well...
2 cor 9:8
" And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work."
this encouraged me, i hope it encourages you... i dont know where you are at... if you are looking out your window at a promise or in the midst of a storm? i just wanna encourage you to remember that rainbow. and know that God is able to make ALL GRACE aboud to you, he will give you what you need, when you need it to make a GOOD work... its a rainbow! :)
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| tred mill... have you ever been on one? you walk forward but stand
still and if you stop you move backwards. funny b/c sometimes i feel
like my life is like that... i am running forward, i can feel my body
puttin forth energy, all my muscles getting a work out and sweat lots
of sweat, with the whole breathing thing getting heavier and heavier
(yes i feel out of shape, not capable and tired) and put off energy,
but not feel like anything else around me is changing, or actually
getting to where i want to go. yet if i stop, it doesnt stop... it
keeps going and i go backwards. there is this urge to keep running,
b/c no one once to move backwards. what embarassment to not keep up or
keep going. we were just too weak or not in shape enough, the machine
beat us...
and in a state of fatigue and almost panic we think to ourselves how do i get off (out) of this thing?... i am going to die!
OFF
there
are some good things about the tred mill, i think... i mean it keeps us
from being lazy, if we actually do it. and it helps us in our
endurance, which i think is very important in all of life
circumstances, no matter the country, but that off button is also very
important b/c the tred mill cant own you. and if it does... oh la la,
not good.
i dont know where you are at or whats going on in you life... but i
know for me, i need to run at God's pace... he is the only one that can
atually get us to the place we are trying to get and in him is the "off
button". and this is something i have to keep reminding myself. i
want soo much to be a lil bit father along and so i feel like in trying
to get there i run faster but that doesnt always work, then the pace
really does pick up but the distance doesnt nec change and i find my
heart beat racing and longing to keep up but cant. God though, he is a
really good athelite. he hasnt gotten tired like me or of me. and he
knows where this off button is and when i really need to push it. he
is a great coach, i just have to get my head out of my running mode for
a moment or 2 and actually listen not to my own heart beating but to
his. :)
how about you?
the building is coming a
long... sat we put down some of the floor...wow its really exciting. i
cant wait to actually get to live in that place! there is still a lot
to be done. and at times i wonder if it will ever be finished... but i
hold on to the hope and i know that some where deep in my heart it will
be. i cant wait to see what God is going to do, and in my time of
working and waiting i rest b/c i know that he is preparing me.
so that is was last week more or less.... running along God... asking him for endurance and working in the building for the week to come... who knows what adventures lie ahead! YEAH!
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| i am not used to seeing the ocean in at christmas time and in all honesty it had been a while since i went and visited my ocean side balcony... there was a time when i went there often to pray and i guess since my head has been full of lots of different thoughts today, that is where i found myself going... standing high, on the edge and just looking out over the darkness, catching a little glimmer of the water when the lighthouse makes its rounds, hearing the waves crash up against the shore and seeing the distant lights of the center of town. i guess it is a place of comfort for me, reminding me of God's consistancy... and in the midst of getting caught up in my own thoughts i find myself looking out not being able to see the end and not really knowing what lies beyond, some how there is comfort for me in just that alone. and at the same time i am reminded of the bible verse that says God's love is like the oceans deep. whoa.
so as i sit here in my room, with a very tired brain and foggy windows b/c it is cold outside... i know that i can put all thoughts of the day questions about this person or that, decsions for tom...i know that i can put all of that aside b/c my God is a big deep and wide God who is constant... i know that i can sleep in peace.
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