Today

So today Shawn remembered that a paper was due today, oops. So he worked on that this morning.

I got the dishes done and made a few phone calls, you know, for work.

Then I made meatballs. I hate/loathe/despise ground beef, fried, as itself. But meatballs, I can do. I've tried adding all the meatball spices and such to ground beef, but it's still gross. I never thought I was a picky person, but I am. Thank you all for bearing with me all these years as I came to that realization.

So this afternoon, after dropping Shawn off at work, I went out to Amanda's. I had a nice time driving "race cars" with Joshy. We made the "race track" with blocks. It was fun.

So, right when I got home I saw that Shawn had called from work, so I called him back. When I had dropped him off earlier, he'd said that his back was hurting, and then at about 7 when I called him, it was still hurting, and not getting any better, even after medication. So he came home early, we got a movie, and we're going to relax.

Oh ya, all my sewing is done, all the shirts, all the pants. woohoo!

Joy comes in the morning

Psa 30:5 For his anger [endureth but] a moment; in his favour [is] life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy [cometh] in the morning.

Trials Galore

Just when you think that you couldnt take anymore, more happens. Its good, it kind of lets me see into the sufferings of Christ a little more. The humiliation he suffered was far greater than we could possibly suffer. That fact increases my thankfulness, as I learn a little more of what he went through on our behalf. Please pray to God for my family and brethren. Thanks.

Beef Stew

It is very cold here today, mainly because of the wind. So I am eating hot, hearty, beef stew. It is delicious. It could be better though, I didnt take much care with the beef, so there are a few grissely spots as well as some fat. EWW.

I am eating as I type, this is not a day to blog, but a day to work.

I am finishing up the pants, well, trying to finish them. I miss Jody, we work faster when we work together. I miss her because she is nice as well. :)

Um, while I've been sewing I've been listening to the Psalms, read by Scourby (yes Brian, they are yours, we will give them back when Shawn remembers, or when you want them, if I'm done with them. :) ) Anyway, Psalms, they are great. There are so many things in the trials of David, and God's people that I can identify with. It so interesting that the weakness of faith expressed is still acceptable to God, where the writer expresses things like "God where are you?" , "God wake up!", and "God have you left me?". This makes me think of Christ, not quenching the smoking flax, or breaking the bruised reed. The Psalmist always turns around, away from doubt and praises God for his/their deliverance, and for His great works.

Anyway, I love the Psalms, I love Christ, I love His law, I love His people. Why did I get kicked out of my church? Contemplating this makes me sad. I need to focus on the works of God, His mercy to me, His care for my life and well being, that He has meant it for good.

Jhn 9:35 ¶ Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?

A little Sedgwick Sabbath Reading

Reasons to move you to search your hearts in this particular are these:

1. Many among you (who profess and have a name, I hope, the truth also of grace) do not get on. You do not make progress , nor have you advanced yourselves in your spiritual condition.

Though the Lord has given you plentiful and rich means, yet what you were many years ago, the same you are now. A man may say of you, as we do of our friends whom we see perhaps once in ten years, that they look and are just as we found and left them then. So many of you, after many years preaching and hearing, are just as you were; you have not attained to any further perfection in holiness.

Now this is an ill symptom, for a staying heart is seldom otherwise a decaying heart. Though creation is perfect at once, yet it is not so with sanctification. The old saying is, grace is either getting or losing: like a river, either fuller or lesser, or like an oak, growing or dying.

Christ's Counsel to His Languishing Church pg 11 Soli Deo Gloria Publications