30 Meals in 30 Days

Starting January 1st I am going to blog a different supper meal each evening. I am doing this for various reasons. One reason is to save money and eat at home more. Another reason is to hopefully lose just a little bit of weight. The blog is back! I hope you enjoy!!!

Fall is on The Horizon!

Today is August 1. August starts my busy schedule. Starting tomorrow I will be in workshops, trainings, and working in my classroom. Soon all the teachers will be back at the school and then comes the sweet children. Once the children come, so will fall! I cannot wait to see the faces of the 20 or so children I will see everyday for the next 10 months. I cannot wait to see the faces of the children I will love, pray over, cry over, rejoice over, and teach them something along the way. I have been working this weekend on teacher's gifts to give my team when I get back to school. I am excited to be going back to work. I am excited to see the blessings God will bring me this year and the trials that will draw me closer to Him.
Each day is a journey. Enjoy it! :)

Summer Rain

Today has been simply a great day. It is so true that its the simple things in life that make it the best. This morning I went and walked with a coworker. It is amazing how starting out the day with a nice walk can help make a day better. You also feel much better. I had a great talk with a friend. I am looking forward to what all we talked about today to see how God solves all of our problems. This friend was a great friend to my mother and they were prayer warriors. It is an amazing blessing to listen to some of the things my mother used to pray about me and my future and to see how God is answering my mothers prayers even though she has been gone for almost 8 years.
Here in the south we have been praying for rain. It has been hot and dry.....very dry. Today we were blessed with almost 30 minutes of slow rain. I was in the middle of working on some teacher gifts for the first day of school when we recieved the storm. I LOVE working on crafty projects while it is raining outside. I love to sit at my dining room table and watch it rain while the trees gently blow in the background! It makes me so ready to be working on Christmas gifts this fall and winter. What I love even more than working on projects while it rains: I love watching God move. I spend so much of my time and wasted energy worrying about how He is going to bring about answers. I know He is working when I cannot see it. It is so nice to see when He does.
I hope everyone has a great and blessed weekend!!!

It's A New Day

It is a new day and there are so many things on my heart. I feel like God is about to move me out of some things. All I can do right now is pray and have faith. Having faith is something God has been ministering to me lately. All I can say is how great is God??? There are days in life that just flat out stink. We all have those days. But what gets us out of those days and into amazing days is the grace of God and the faith that we hold on to daily. How much of our relationship through Him is simply by faith? I recently read a book that dealt with a 3 year old child and God. The 3 year old was able to put so many of the daily struggles I have that often seem so cumbersome and overbearing into the most simple of terms. I need to remember to have the faith of a child and not put a worldly spin on everything. So much of the past 4 years I have spent my life looking around my corner to see what other people have thought about my life and my decisions. Because of this I have pushed so many people that I love away from me. I realized that I can only live my life for the decisions that are right for me and not what others have to think. No matter what my decisions are they are still going to love me and support me. I am so thankful for God's grace and his daily blessings. Each day brings new joys and new trials. Most of my trials have to do with patience. :)

Days like this.....

Some days honest to goodness just flat out stink! In the last week I have been told that all of my desires will not be coming true for a long time. I am heartbroken! The worst part is, I can't really talk to anyone about it because everybody has their own issues and I do not want to burden them with my problems. This happens all of the time. I honestly do not know why God has me alone on this planet, but He does. I wish my parents were still alive. They would comfort me no matter what is going on and I would not feel guilty for talking with them. Oh how I miss them so much. I miss them more and more all of the time. I now realize their value in my life and the skills they each possessed to "fix" whatever problem I had at hand. My father could fix anything with his hands. When something broke I just took it to daddy and he knew how to fix it. Any life problem I had, I knew my mother would be right there with me coaching me on and praying for me. I keep waiting for life to get better after their deaths. So far, it really hasn't. I miss them terribly. Whoever first said life is not fair was not telling a joke.