March Fifteenth

 

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.

Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of God? Foe since the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him. God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.

Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the work to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He hose the lowly things of this world and the despised things – and the things that are not – to nullify then things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God – that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written; Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.

 

 

Work went very well yesterday…

It is better when I don’t chase the day and just let the day lead, still following my lists of things to do however…

I think Wednesday was a Monday, since I had been off for two days and everyone was on a different schedule, although I still had Wednesday things to do…

I have five things I want to complete tonight plus closing manager duties… but I will just start with one and see where the night goes and if I get to two and three…

New shoe lead had her visit yesterday… she got a 72 on her audit… 94 is passing… I remember not too long ago I got a 74, so she didn’t do too bad on her first one… it gives him job security to treat us as if we need training… her sales are up so she is getting the hang of things…

Son2 went out to lunch with friends during his college day yesterday…

Son3 had no homework except study for Geography… but then I checked his backpack this morning and found his daily language that he forgot about… so he did that this morning… with a bit of tears as I yelled at him… son2 remembers tears with homework so maybe it’s good that son3 has a few too… I remember tears when growing up with homework too but that was in higher grades… then we studied for his geography test some more…

Next week is at risk teacher conferences for son3’s school… we have not gotten a request for a meeting so then son3 must be doing ok… he still has all his missing assignments to get caught up with this weekend… and read his Halo book… last weekend he read over twenty pages…

Son2 is now up… and off the next four days… he has a new habit of sitting in my spot on the couch with his laptop… instead of in his chair… he has a week off coming soon too for spring break…

But first St. Patrick’s Day is this Sunday… we have the corned beef… hubby will get the red potatoes and green beans today… we don’t do the cabbage… I am off on Sunday…

Hubby has started his job searching for the day…

All the cats are in their sunny spots sleeping…

I’m off to shower and get ready for work, take a walk in the backyard to see what new is blooming and see what needs straightening in the house…

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

Worry is like a rocking chair: it keeps you busy but it never gets you anywhere.

Cast your care on God and enjoy your life while He works on your situation!

Just because you are in a certain situation right now doesn’t mean you have to stay there for the rest of your life.

God is not calling you to be anyone other than yourself!

Don’t mistake what you possess and what you can do for who you are.

God’s love is His free gift to you, and it will heal you everywhere you hurt. -Joyce

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

most of your words are unnecessary.

All too often you speak simply to fill the space with sound, because you feel too uncomfortable with the silence. But this silence is golden. Only in silence you can hear God speak to you. Only in silence can a real prayer, a heart prayer be born. Next time you start chattering, stop and feel into the silence, feel its shape, its texture, and then slowly and silently say only what really has to be said.

 

Today

 

Mostly Sunny 81°

Tonight

 

 Mostly Clear 54°

Tomorrow

 

Mostly Sunny 80°

Happy Journaling…

March Fourteenth

 

Luke 15:1-3, 11-32

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear him. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.

The Jesus told them this parable;

Jesus continued; There was a man who had two sons. The younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

When he came to his senses, he said, How many of my father’s hired men have food to spare, and there I am starving to death! I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men. So he got up and went to his father.

But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.

The son said to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.

But the father said to his servants, Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the fattened calf and kill it. let’s have a feast and celebrate. For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found. So they began to celebrate.

Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house; he heard music and dancing. So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. Your brother has come, he replied, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.

The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him, But he answered his father, Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes coms home, you kill the fattened calf for him!

My son, the father said, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost an is found.

 

Hubby is off to take the boys to school… son3 has picture day today…

I work tonight to cover for the closing manager who is there today to go to the training meeting… I go to next weeks training meeting…

Spending the morning with hubby… breakfast and talking…

I want to work on my Easter cards…

I need to sort  and organize my work binder…

But the morning will fly and then I will be at work…

I was thinking yesterday while I was sitting outside how fast the last six months went… It was such a fast winter and not very cold… and not very grey… the skies are blue and all the trees have their leaves back again…

I’m glad… I feel 2013 will be a good year…

 

 

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

God wants to speak to you on a one-to-one basis every day. He wants to lead you to the good things He has in store for you.

You can never be free through avoidance and running away from things.

 

Today

 

 Partly Cloudy 86°

Tonight

 

 Partly Cloudy 55°

Tomorrow

 

 Partly Cloudy 82°

Happy Journaling…

March Thirteenth

 

Ephesians 2:4-10

But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions – it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by words, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which god prepared in advance for us to do.

Another day at work that I felt like crying… I’m just being too hard on myself…

Due to the meeting tomorrow, everyone had their days switched around, so people who are usually off today were at work… so that threw me off as usually Wednesday is my quiet day… but since we have others coming from other stores for the meeting, we are in visit mode… and the new shoe lead is having her first visit for shoes as the lead… so while I got all my counts, scans and receipts done today, I felt like I should have been doing other things and more of it…

And someone lost the keys on Monday in hardware so now we can’t unlock any of the cabinets to sell things… as no one knows where the copies are…

Tomorrow is another day…

 

When I got home, I spent some time sitting in the backyard… all the trees are blooming… the roses have buds on them… I had a bit of quiet time…

 

Son3 was finishing up his homework when I got home… Hubby helped him today… He wore his new Zombie ate my homework shirt that I found at Walmart for $3.00… and had more benchmark testing…

I heated up all the leftovers for dinner… and added some popcorn chicken…

Now we are watching The Bible from Sunday and eating Rees’s peanut butter cups…

Son3 is playing with his toys that son2 pulled out to play with today… now son2 is playing his new Game of Throne video game…

 

 

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

If you have been putting off something that you know is important, do it today! –Joyce

Don’t ever let anyone convince you that there’s no hope for you or that you are a lost cause. God has a plan for your life!

We don’t need a wishbone, we need a backbone.

You are improving every day and God is on your side!

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

God doesn't give you what you want, God gives you according to who you are.

Change who you are to change your life.

 

Tonight

 

Clear 54°

Tomorrow

 

Partly Cloudy 86°

Tomorrow night

 

Partly Cloudy 55°

Happy Journaling…

March Twelfth

 

John 3:14-21

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believed in him may have eternal life.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This is the verdict; Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.

This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago…

And this picture was from this week…

And these are now blooming there…

Today I overslept… I had woken up at 5am and couldn’t get back to sleep til after 6am and the next thing I know it’s 8:15am, the time hubby takes the boys to school… I jumped out of bed ready to fix their lunches but hubby had already taken care of everything…

Hubby came back and we had breakfast and got ready to go to Michael’s and Walmart… I drove and we got gas… Found a few crafty things at Michael’s for Halloween, Christmas and son1 & DIL’s Easter basket… And at Walmart we got lots of Easter goodies…

Then it was home… Son3 had one cartoon when he got home and then it was in the shower… He didn’t have any more homework added today so he finished up what was due tomorrow and he was done before dinner…

For dinner I made Gorton’s fish, french fries, onion rings, peas, cheesy pasta, and heated up leftovers…

Now we are watching Animaniacs but the boys are watching son2’s video game and not paying attention…

I still need to put the laundry away, file my fingernails and sort through the Easter goodies and find son3’s shoelaces we bought today and put them in his shoes… And make sure I have everything ready for work tomorrow…

Scary books from the Dollar Store…

And this one I am reading now from the Dollar Store…

Son2’s birthday balloons in his room…

Son2’s room still not organized and done…

Son2’s room…

Son3’s room… All of his toys need cleaning out… Sorted by Goodwill and boxed in the garage for future generations…

Son3’s desk where he does his homework now…

More toys to sort in son3’s room… I told hubby to get on this project…

And my room and all the boxes of cards and memories of all the boys to sort and save…

Maple and Indy in the yard today…

Maple saying, rub my belly…

Indy saying, I’m a lady…

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

You are created by the Hand of God, on purpose. You are an unrepeatable miracle.

What you think, if you think it often enough, is eventually going to come out of your mouth.

Expect something good to happen today. Let your attitude be, “If anything good can happen today, it will!” –Joyce

 

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

when you need some energy and inspiration, step outside.

Touch the Earth with your feet, lift your face to the sun, breathe the air, listen to the birds and the wind through the trees. Glory in the creation that surrounds you.

 

Tonight

 

Clear 51°

Tomorrow

 

Sunny 85°

Tomorrow night

 

Mostly Clear 54°

Happy Journaling…

March Eleventh

 

Romans 8:1-10

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature. God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.

Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death; but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.

You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ; he does not belong to Christ.

 

Today we were up at 7am… Not feeling the effects of time change… of course the night before I was asleep before ten… but then I was up at 4:30am…

Loving the longer sunshine part of the day already too…

Hubby got son3 off to school…

I took a shower, had hot chocolate, and got on the laptop to check emails and Facebook…

Hubby fixed me waffles and yogurt for breakfast…

And I got started on taxes…

Two and a half hours later and taxes were done… Hubby was afraid with all the changes this year that our refund would be much smaller, but actually we got a bit more…

Son2 moseyed out of bed at 11am and is now at 9pm doing homework for tomorrow…

Hubby was working in the yard and I joined him after the taxes were done…

He’s still cutting up the pile of all the branches and I’m still raking up leaves…

Son2 made lemon aide  out of some of our lemons and some tangerines I bought… It was very good…

I made pork chops with onions and green peppers, scalloped potatoes, veggies and left overs for dinner…

Son3 came home from school, took a shower and has been doing homework except for a break for dinner… he has finished all the work due tomorrow, and some due later in the week… he brought home a list of missing assignments but has not started those yet… I have completely cleared his desk in his room and told him from now on he is doing all his homework in his room… Son2 was remembering today when we had stopped letting him do homework at the kitchen table as it was too distracting… son3 needs more structure to do better homework and get better grades… and more responsibility… and son2 being 19 doesn’t have any better habits… waiting til the last minute to do homework and he doesn’t have any responsibility either… they really need to clean their rooms…

We watched Emergency and See Dad Run since son3 was done with his homework…

And had some ice cream with caramel sauce…

Now it’s time to get everyone ready for bed… son3 has benchmarks (state testing) tomorrow…

And I have another day off…

 

Joyce Meyer Ministries

We are more than conquerors through Christ! Before you ever have a problem, He has the answer.

We become what we think.

Today, Linda, we believe God wants you to know that ...

gratitude is good.

The more you are thankful for, the more you will have to be thankful for. God responds to a grateful heart with joy.

Tonight

 

Clear 48°

Tomorrow

 Sunny 80°

Tomorrow night

 

 Clear 51°

Happy Journaling…