and I guess I needed that additional 30-45 minutes. Problem is, it messes up my routine in the morning as I go through my quiet time and write on here. So - some morning if I don't write on here (and it isn't a Sunday where I have to head to the RV park), I may have fallen asleep and didn't have time. Cause, first and foremost, my time with God is more important than my writing my thoughts on here. But, I do still have a little time left so here I am. I just eliminate some other things I do. :-) See how important you are?
I finally got around to calling Ms. Amy yesterday and she is doing well. Looks like it may be April before she will be moving to Florida. I mentioned to her about putting her place up for sale when she leaves, but she said her children were in no hurry to get rid of it - but "you will be the first to know it's up for sale because your sister wants to buy it and move out here." HUH? I don't recall EVER saying that to her, but perhaps may have said something about my sister and I had always talked about living next door to each other in our old age (we could never live together - we are too different in our ways!) but I am pretty sure my sister would not move out here.
I received a notice in my mail that the w-2s are in our HR folder. I can go in and print it off. And, that means I need to start working on my part of the taxes. I really do wish hubby would let me take care of pulling it all together. I know he messes things up; and he forgets to add things. But it is a battle every time I mention it. So, I go through my checkbook and my receipts and my things and pull out all the numbers and give him the totals. He fills out the financial planner's papers and we schedule the appointment. Takes about 15 minutes to discuss with the FP and he inputs the numbers, tells us if we have to pay or if we get something back, and off we go until the following year. It takes us hours to pull the information together and we both will be starting it soon.
Ok - I've written three paragraphs about three different things - and have erased each one. What's up with that? I guess some things just don't need my comments or to be told. Ever had thoughts like that? You write something out - and then go, naw, I don't need to share that. Too bad we can't do that with the words we speak. We need to have a thought block - that before the words come out of our mouths that a wedge comes down and goes 'naw, you don't need to say that' and stop us. Wouldn't that be cool.
Matthew 15:11 (NKJV): "Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man."
James 3:10 (NKJV): "Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so."
I was trying to find one more verse and I know it is in Proverbs, verses 4-5 I believe, but I am unable to find it. But - it is the verse that says 'out of the heart, the mouth speaks' (basically). What we think in our heart, think in our mind, before we know it, it will come out in our mouth. That's why we are to watch what our words are - sometimes we don't stop to think about the words that want to come out of our mouths - we say what we want to say - and feel justified in doing so! - but are they the right words to be saying?
Sometimes in frustration we may say things. Sometimes it is expressed in tones. Sometimes it is shown in attitudes. Oh my - I know we all are guilty of that! Ok, maybe not you. I share too much on here and you know a lot of my frustrations and my thoughts on those!
But God is also working in me to hold my tongue and not say the things that I may be thinking... or I may be justified IN saying.. yet they are cruel words. I just can't do that, no matter what they have done or said or their attitudes towards me. God is working in me to hold my tongue in those times. It isn't easy and sometimes He really has to clamp my mouth shut. Because my heart sometimes wants to defile itself with words that I shouldn't say. It's like a burp - sometimes the words just wanna come out - and I wanna hold them in!
Regardless of how we feel about some things... sometimes things just do not need to be said. I hear people say things or they share things they have said ... and inside I shudder, for I know that was the evil heart speaking and not God's heart. We sometimes too easily let the devil have his way in us. He is a sleuth, sneaking around to do things to irritate us and cause us to take things out on others. Be wary of that.
Check your heart. Is it holding anger that is ready to come out of the mouth? Unless it is righteous anger, it usually isn't justified. We need to run that anger through a sieve and see what comes out. If it doesn't resolve something, then it probably isn't worth hold the anger in.
I choose to bless people versus cursing them. The world is full of people who like to find fault and blame others and claim themselves the victim or martyr to whatever is happening around them or even to them. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Choose to bless others. Even when they come up against you and hurt you, bless them. In doing so you release their attack on you and it falls to the ground because the arrows cannot strike the Shield God puts around you. Doesn't mean one or two won't get through and hurt - I've been hurt a lot of over the years. But, when I bless those who hurt me, life wins.
Gotta run, time is short this morning!
Blessings!
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