Today was a nice day…

Brian and I had a very nice day together.  We didn’t actually leave the house till 2 pm, but we went out to his moms and visited her for a while, had a very nice meal together, and are just staying in the coolness relaxing now.  It is hot as all get out today.  Sheesh!!!   It’s just blazin’ out there.

Gettin ready to do my treatment.  Brian will give that to me in my left arm tonight and we’ll see how I cope with things tomorrow.  My body has been doing pretty well with it lately, but you just never know how things are going to be.

I’m excited for my son.  He’s moving into an apartment with one of his friends next Wednesday.  I’m hoping I’ll be able to help him out with “decorating” in other words, just arrange things in a way that make sense.  Knowing him, he might ask me, who knows.  Anyway, they move in on the 1st and I know that he’s really excited about it.  I’m just proud of him.

That’s all for now, talk to you all later.

Encouraging Word

Praise the Lord with melodies on the lyre; make music for him on the ten-stringed harp. Sing a new song of praise to him; play skillfully on the harp, and sing with joy.

~ Psalm 33:2-3, NLT

Today’s group…

Every Thursday morning, I go to my women’s leadership group at 5:30 in the morning.  Yes it’s early, but I do enjoy our time together.  For the past 7 weeks we’ve been talking about Larry Crabb’s Soul Care 201.  This morning we’re talking about “The Seven Stages of Foolishness” and I believe it was in stage 7 “Bankrupt Foolishness” where he is talking about your later years in life.  Anyway there is one part in a paragraph that really struck me and I’d like to share it with you.  It says: “We must enter the souls of people knowing that foolishness is there and make alive the gospel message.  There’s forgiveness for all the foolishness, and there’s life that moves you in a very different direction; not toward the better life, making things work, but the better hope of knowing God intimately.” Then my coach asked where our intimacy with God was right now and I broke down crying.  I’m not intimate right now.  I think a lot of mine not being at that level, is from all the frustration I’ve been having with not finding a job, just being at home feeling worthless, not really depressed but getting there.  I don’t like this feeling at all and it is really aggravating.

I just had to share what I was feeling today and what my group was reading. It was great hearing everyone’s struggles with how their intimacy with God was at this time and that it isn’t just me.

Have a great day and I’ll talk to you all later.

Encouraging Word

He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless.

~ Isaiah 40:29, NLT

What a night…

Holy cow…I couldn’t believe the micro-burst storm we had last night.  It was crazy.  Brian and I were sitting in our living room, he was playing a video game, and it sounded like someone had thrown patio furniture out by the pool here at the complex.  I looked outside and saw nothing out of the ordinary and said, “it sounded like thunder to me.”  He said, “It’s not supposed to rain.”  All of a sudden we here a huge clap of thunder, we looked at each other, opened the curtains and the rains began.  People were running from the pool trying to get their kids indoors and about 2 minutes into the rain, the electricity went out for about 10 to 15 seconds and all of a sudden the winds come on like a hurricane.  It looked like a monsoon outside our apartment.  The poor bushes outside looked like they were seriously on their sides.  It only lasted for about 5 minutes.  I had to be at the church at 6:15 pm and this happened around 5:45 pm.  By 6:00 pm the sky had pretty much cleared up and I headed to the church for group, which is 2 minutes down the road.  The church had no electricity so we called off group.  Around 9:15 pm we decided to go for a drive to see what the damage was since my daughter said she still had no electricity.  Well her apartment complex got a bad hit.  Not her building, thank God, but the office and one of the other buildings.  It wound up storming again late last night, but I think I slept through most of it.

Hope everyone’s having a great day.

Encouraging Word

…His brilliant splendor fills the heavens, and the earth is filled with his praise.

~ Habakkuk 3:3, NLT

Looking for work…

Looking for work isn’t an easy thing now days.  Companies have job postings out there, even if you qualify for what they’re looking for, you don’t get a call.  Then there are times that I wonder if maybe I’m over qualified for what they’re looking for, maybe I’m not, I don’t know,  I just don’t understand.  Oh well, I’m leaving it in God’s hands.  That’s all I can do.  But sometimes my faith isn’t that strong and I worry I’ll never find anything.  I’m really trying hard though.

Have a great day and talk to everyone later.

Encouraging Word

As we pray to our God and Father about you, we think of your faithful work, your loving deeds, and the enduring hope you have because of the Lord Jesus Christ.

~ 1 Thessalonians1:3, NLT

The Past 3 Months…

Well, the past 3 months have been adventurous.  I’m still looking for work and on June 5th my husband got laid of also.  So I guess the good thing is that we have no debt and don’t owe for anything.  But, I still worry about things.  Not badly, but the only thing I worry about is insurance.  We now have none.  So I’ve been in full force looking for work and I think once I have a job, Brian is going to go back to school full time to get his Psychology degree.  It’s what he’s passionate about.  When he’s done and has a job, I’ll quit mine and go to school full time and get my nursing degree.

It’s been forever since I got on my blog and I’m sorry.  I’m going to try to get on here as much as I can now and talk about what’s been going on and my feelings.

The treatments for the MS have been going OK.  I still have symptoms, but not as badly as they have been.  So I guess it’s helping out.  I think my body is adjusting to the treatments too.  They used to give me flu like symptoms, but I don’t have those any longer.  I’m still very tired, but I think that’s just normal.

Brian and I have started our diets again.  But this time we are really trying to stick with it.  We started on Friday (6/19/09) and so far I have lost 6 lbs.  I’ll keep you posted on the weight loss too.

Anyway, gonna get out of here and get the house straightened up, get what laundry I have done, and go sweat outside for a while.  Have a great day.

Encouraging Word

Here on earth, you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.

~ John 16:33, NLT