Be Still and Know...Then and Now

I think I must have been seriously delusional, because I really did think I had taken a picture every day this week, hormones, teenage book bag crisis, scheduling issue at the doctors office must have take their toll on my mental state because when I downloaded the pictures for the week there were a lot of missing days……….. It was a half and half kind of week, half crazy and half relaxing. Once I got the girl child safely deposited at my sisters I was able to put the life and death crisis of a new book bag behind me, for a little while anyway! The remainder of the week was very peaceful if not down right boring. I think the most strenuous thing I did after wednesday was sort a few piles of yard, dice up a few peppers and catch up on my movies on the DVR. I think we all need those down times every once and a while. No pictures on Sunday, July 24 or Monday, July 25 Tuesday, July 26 Well I finished up this prayer shawl on Monday evening. I just love the colors, and I love this new st...

If you read my previous post then you will understand why today I am thankful for the peace and quiet in my house. The hubs is out of town on business and yesterday I drove the DD out to her Aunt’s house to spend a few day with her cousins and her grandmother. I am breathing in the solitude, making pepper jelly and catching up on the movies on the DVR that no one want to watch but me. My fan is directed right at me so I’m not hot, at least not right now anyway. Since the hubs and DD are both out of the house don’t have to cook anything, clean anything or wash anything beyond my own hands. I am thankful for my new favorite vegetable juice, it’s super yummy! If you have not tried the new Motts vegetable juice I highly recommend it! I am thankful for the small things like yarn and a crochet hook that give me the ability to occupy my thought on to productive things rather than dwell on those thing I can do nothing about! I am thankful that later tonight I get to meet with the most wo...

So I get up this morning and have my coffee. Now the coffee was good which was odd seeing as just about everything else that happen today was CRAP! I had a conversation with skoots1mom yesterday about the tedious accounting tasks that needed to be finished. I had multiple bills that we on deck to be paid, a paycheck to be entered into quicken and the monthly bank statement needed reconciling. If I managed to get it all done then I would be at prayer shawl in the morning. Well I managed to get most of it done the night before but my energy level as well as my mental capacity for logical thought left me by about 8:30 so I opted to forgo any further tasks that required columns of numbers and the ability to think clearly until morning. With a cup of coffee under my belt I began to check off the bank statement tick mark by tick mark. The numbers however were not in a good place. Twice I went over the statement and twice there was a massive error to the tune of several thousands of dollar...

Well my house is almost back in order, the laundry is almost all done and I’m. So. Tired! I love Campmeeting but I am also EXAUSTED! The week of 95 plus temps and late nights of fellowship take their toll on my 52 year old constitution. I am thankful for a light week ahead so I can recuperate a bit. The week was awesome, the nightly worship services were awesome, the fellowship was awesome and the food was awesome. Are you sensing a theme…..AWESOME! Click here to read an article and see more pictures from the local paper. If the calculations are accurate this was our 180th year worshiping at the campground. My family started attending campmeeting in 1993/94. My son was a pre-schooler and my daughter was just a twinkle in the Lord's eye. We began spending the week in residence very shortly after that as my energetic little boy loved the non stop outdoor activity and being surrounded by acres of woods, creeks, and dozen’s of ready playmates. Now after a decade plus it is just...

Well campmeeting start today, so next week will be full of pictures of one of my favorite places in all the world. I missed two days this week. As weeks go it was a bit ho hum. Just another normal week of uneventful Be Still and Know normalness…. Lot’s of crocheting, life’s annoyances and troubles can be avoided so wonderfully when you have a full bag of yarn….. No pictures on Sunday, July 10      Monday, July 11 This is my second attempt at a pieced together prayer shawl. I can say that it is a bit more uniform that the last one but still it presented some unique problems when sewing it together. The right side is as even as I could get it but the left, well let’ just say that it is a bit lacking, it’s getting there but just not yet! I did like the color combination on this one a lot! Lunch time rolled around and I took a break from my avoidance and made an avocado and fresh tomato sandwich. Summer does not get any better than this! No picture on Tue...

I can’t remember when I was introduced to this particular tool for bible study but it has become an invaluable one for me. It can be very enlightening and at times a bit uncomfortable. Really uncomfortable if the truth were told. But then God’s word has a way of shinning truth into situations that as adults we tend to want to gloss over or look at with rose colored glasses. I love wearing those rose colored glasses when I am looking at my own behavior. In my humanness I often times switch those spectacles to a magnifying glass when I have it zeroed in one someone else! In my quiet time yesterday the focus of the devotional I was reading was in 1 and 2 Samuel. I have been reading a wonderful book “Praying the Names of God”, one day my small group may actually return to it and get it finished. But I had picked it up the other day and began reading it again. A very dear friend, who also happens to be our Minister of Congregational Care at our church has always encouraged us to make sure...

With the DD gone all week on a mission trip in Costa Rica the hubs and I found ourselves with just the two of us for company all week long. It was a unique glimpse into what is to come for us in a few years. I will say that it was rather enjoyable to have our evenings to ourselves and no demand to make a run ore emergency hair care products or wardrobe malfunction catastrophes. Sunday, July 3 I handed this to the hubs on Sunday afternoon and said “I don't know about you but I think this looks like a bunny snack, don’t you?” Monday, July 4 We finally got a glimpse of momma bunny. She made her appearance on Monday afternoon, which we both thought was a bit out of the ordinary. She hopped around the back yard for almost two hours. She explored the veggie patch, sniffed at the tomatoes, ran in and out of the corn and generally had a wonderful time romping all over the back yard.   Tuesday, July 5 I finished another prayer shawl. I used one of the new stitches I leaned last we...