Yeah, back to work today after a short weekend this time - only two days! This week is a full week, but I'll be taking off early tomorrow to have my oral surgery around 4PM - but I'll be fine. Hubby has cancelled his Tuesday night meeting with his friends so that he could stay home with me. I'm sure I will just want to come home and sleep off the anesthesia - but he is afraid something might happen. And who knows. I suppose it could. Can't eat OR drink anything for 8 hours before - so from about 7-8AM tomorrow morning, no water and no food. Watch me be starving! LOL
First day of our fast didn't result in much complaining. We stopped for salads on the way home from Salad & Go and brought them home. I am not watching what he is doing - or not doing - I am responsible only for myself. I ran to the store and picked up vegetables and made what my daughter calls P90x soup - I think it was from some program years ago. We'd never had it, although I knew she had made it frequently, especially when the kids were home. I made it and we had it yesterday afternoon. It really is pretty good; even hubby said so! Even without crackers to eat with it! Hubby wanted a second bowl, but I reminded him that he had eaten a salad (vegetables) at noon, and now a whole lot of vegetables (potatoes, celery, onions, carrots, etc.) and with his 'sensitive' tummy, perhaps he had better not - and he agreed. I took some over to Ms. Vicky and visited with her a bit after we ate. Took her a container of fresh orange juice too. Our new juicer works great!
I think a couple of my 'bosses' worked over the weekend as I kept seeing the emails go up in number over the weekend (I have my outlook for office app on my phone). I had 21 messages the last time I checked. Oh well, some of those were just informational so I won't have to do anything with them.
Still haven't touched any more Christmas things.... soon, I hope. Maybe Friday morning while hubby is gone I can get some done. Providing it's not to cold and wet outside! I don't want to work in the garage when it's this chilly, and it was down to 46 degrees when I went to the store yesterday! What's up with that? I heard it was to be freezing during the night last night - didn't cover anything - if it dies, it dies, right? It's in our courtyard so it's basically protected from being out in the open. I hope. Will see in the next few days if they made it. Sure hope it starts to warm up. My computer temperature says it is clear and 35 degrees. So glad I don't have to get dressed and go out and drive to the office!! Grateful I don't have to worry about frost/ice on my windshield if I did. Grateful for the first time in years we have a garage to park our cars in.
Church went well yesterday - got lots of comments on the sermon. Now if they will only apply what was discussed! So many times we listen to a message and then go 'oh, ok' - and walk on out the door and forget about it. I do it too, so am not pointing fingers! For example, Jentezen Franklin had a great message yesterday morning .... but don't ask me what he said as my mind has been very busy since then. I know it had to do with our fasting journey that we have started, but I couldn't tell you at this moment what else.
It was nice that after the football game hubby turned the TV off and we were able to read some before heading to bed. He wants to watch the games tonight and then says the TV will be off the remainder of the fast. Will see. Well, except if we want to watch a movie. I won't - but you know he will....... I'm grateful for the quiet in the evenings so I can read. I do have the gym workout tonight at 5PM, but then nothing for the rest of the week.
Our 'heart crew', which is what they call the classes that are starting up, shows it is to start next week. Well, we can; the first one is to be a potluck anyway, in which we can become acquainted. But I still have my 5PM workout and it's for an hour so I will be pushing it to get back home - classes will start at 6:30PM. I may ask tonight to shorten them to 30 minutes or throw in another time so that I don't have to rush to get back. I need time to prepare my mind too. I'll be starting on pulling together the lessons this week.
Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning, God created................"
If you read in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, you read all that God created in the heavens and the earth. But He created. It wasn't 'man-made'. It wasn't 'evolution' - because it was void before God created. He chose to create.... it didn't just happen.
Think of it as having a lump of clay sitting on your counter. It is just a lump of clay, until you decide to create something from it. Perhaps a teacup. Perhaps a vase. Perhaps a plate. It doesn't matter what it is, but the point is, you created it. You made it. However you chose to make it.
But God. He chose to make us in His image. So each one of us are beautiful in His eyes. Each one of us is loved by His heart. He created us. We didn't 'evolve' as some try to teach. I prefer to believe God created me in His image, rather than think I came from a fish, to a monkey, to a human being. Wouldn't you?
God loves us so much, that He not only created US, He created His one and only Son, His begotten Son, Jesus Christ. And what is even more amazing, is that He gave His Son as a sacrifice for all the wong things we have done - or even ever will do! Known and unknown! This sacrifice covers every thought, every action, that has not been pleasing to the Lord. FORGIVEN!! And all we have to do is ask Him. Will you take a moment and do that?
Psalm 51:10 (TLB): "Create in me a clean heart, O God. And renew a loyal spirit within me."
Blessings!
