Although I don't know why I'm grumbling about 'going' back to work this morning, I only need to get up from this chair and go sit at the desk - maybe a total of 4-5 feet. So what's my problem? I don't really have an answer for you, if I really thought about an answer. I did get on the computer yesterday and cleared out the emails and got invoices processed that I had received. I had 444 emails - of which perhaps 10-12 were ones I had actually something to do with them. Scheduled a couple meetings, processed about 9 invoices, answered a couple emails - and deleted just about everything else. I do need to do another 'run through' of all the emails and make sure I didn't miss anything I need to complete.
Today will be busy though as it is getting towards the end of the year and I need to extend numerous meetings for 4 leaders through the end of 2024. I've already written down the 1:1s on the current calendar for two of them and will send to them today to confirm they want to continue those and for how often and how long. Once I get that back, I'll start on next year. I also need to go through all their recurring meetings and see which ones they want to continue in to 2024 and then get those extended. I will be busy the next few days, if I can stay focused. I have an 8AM meeting with my favorite boss this morning but we will just talk about my vacation and I'll hear about her week.
Church = at our church - was definitely different yesterday. It was a Sunday that worship led us straight to the throne of God and well, long story short.... we didn't have a preaching service at all. Our pastor would call out about someone who had a sickness, or other things, and if this applied to anyone, for them to stand... and he would have people lay hands on them and pray over them. He did several call outs like that and God was definitely moving in that service. We may not have had preaching yesterday morning, but we had healings take place. Hallelujah! He said the Lord had given him a message.... but guess he will do it next week.
I did manage to visit Ms. Diane for a short while on Saturday and made it over to see Ms. Vicky yesterday afternoon. Hubby watched football games all afternoon. I really wanted to shoot a text to our pastor... but didn't. I behaved. He is a Cowboy fan. I'm a 49ers fan. Need I say any more? Tee hee. I'll tease him on Wednesday at prayer meeting, if we go.
I awoke with a major headache this morning and have no clue why I am getting these lately. Is there something going on with the weather? It's bad enough that coffee hasn't quelched it, and I will be taking something when I get up from here. It's in the sinus area up to the middle of the forehead. I need to think clearly today... don't need this, for sure!
Deuteronomy 13:4 (NKJV): "You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice, you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him."
Sounds simple enough, right? Just do what is good and right and just and all is well. But what happens with the seduction of the world sneaks in? We're drawn to a movie we really shouldn't watch. We're tempted to 'white lie' (which is still a lie) our way out of a situation, we decide to watch football instead of going to church. There are so many 'little things' that can trip us up, coming as seductions from this wicked world. And we all tend to fall in to them at one point or another. But then do we make excuses as to why we are not following the Lord as we should? Some do. Some recognize what they have done wrong and confess it to the Lord and set their hearts back on Him.
It's so easy to let the world in. We turned on a movie last night off of Netflik. I don't remember the name of it... but there seemed to be a lot of cussing in it... and after a few minutes I looked over at hubby and asked if he was wanting to continue to watch this.... and even he said no. We just turned the TV off. That's happened before on what seemed to be an excellent movie but getting into it 15-20 minutes proved that it wasn't anything we really wanted to watch. I just get very uncomfortable with all the cussing and the insinuations that are made, to the point I rarely want to watch a movie.
We did find the Jesus Revolution movie after that, but it was 2 hours long and I told hubby it would be past my bedtime - we do want to watch that one - and I encourage you to do the same. It was in the movie theaters not long ago. It talks about the 60's and 70's - which I graduated high school in 1967, but I assure you, I had no idea this was going on in the world as I was 'sheltered in place' by my parents. It would be interesting to see what perhaps some of your parents time was like, don't you think? I have no idea what it is all about, but I am curious to watch it. I just didn't want to go to the theater when it was there; but friends have told us we needed to watch it.
Walking after God and fearing Him is a good thing. Keeping His commandments is good too. We are not a perfect people and we fail - way too often at times. But our God offers grace - no matter what we do - when we come to Him and seek Him, He will look upon us and offer grace and mercy - and we deserve neither. But He loves you and loves me that much; that He would take our sins and throw them as far as the east is from the west, and remember them no more.
Keep His commandments; there are only 10.... it's not like all the rules everyone else tries to put on us. Only 10 commandments. Go look them up - read them - resolve to follow them, and all will be well with you.
Blessings!
