| | Update, Quote and VerseGreetings once again!  The good news is that life these days is filled with yardwork, such as I love...raking and now I'm preparing our gardens around out house. Last night I even DREAMED of flowers to put into my partly shady areas.  I'm hoping to fill them with flowers and herbs. I still have our vegetable garden to rake and clean up, our island area to rake up...still so much to do! The weather has been awesome for all this!!! Tonight dad is planning to bring me some mulch...so take THAT you little weeds! *Mwa-ha-ha!* Besides that, it looks like I might be getting three more piano students and my cleaning job back. We finished the topic we've been studying for our girl's group, so I'm prayerfully considering another topic, I think it's going to be study on Lordship. I'm looking forward to digging in the Word with my younger friends. I've been considering quitting piano lessons due to the expense and time committment - but I haven't decided yet. It's a hard decision. I feel like I'm in another world when I have my lessons doing what I absolutely love to do...don't know if I really should quit. Praying about that too. Somewhere along the way, I want to take a trip down to NC to spend a week or two with dear Ashley and go to a wedding of a dear friend. I don't know how it will all work out. Lastly, I'm working on a new song...still very much in the beginning stages...I almost feel like i have to learn more lessons to complete it. But maybe it'll appear on xanga one of these days when I've learned it all...haha...might be for quite a while then.  Bad news is Mom got a call today saying her mom is in the hospital and is dying.  Grandma spent so much time with my brother and me when we were little and for quite a while there before she and Grandad got sick, we would visit them nearly every Sunday afternoon. My grandfather died not too long ago, if you remember and Grandma went down pretty fast after that. It's sad...mom has had a lot of time to witness to Grandma and she's heard the Gospel all her life - loved listening to Billy Graham, so I think she's a Christian. We are praying for her and however and whenever the Lord would have us take a trip down there. So much going on! On top of that, dad's boss keeps asking how his search for work goes...he thinks dad should consider UPS. Benefits, working for unions? I don't think so!!! I think he'll keep looking. Oh! And we have our first concert of the three of us this Saturday! So if you think of us you can pray for that...we've been practicing A LOT, so I feel pretty good about it. We'll all be sharing our salvation experiences, so I'm hoping and praying it will be an uplifting experience. This wouldn't be complete without a quote and Scripture passage: "Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead and keeps desire alive. And meantime? In the meantime we need one more item for our journey. To appreciate what it may be, we have to step back and ask, what is all this for? The resurrection of our heart, the discovery of our role in the Larger Story, entering into the Sacred Romance - why do we pursue these things? If we say that we seek all of this for our own sake, we're right back where we started: lost in our own story. Jesus says that when a person lives merely to preserve his life, he loses it altogether. Rather, he said, give you life away and discover life as it was always meant to be. Self-preservation, the them of every small story, is so deeply wrong because it violates the Trinity, whose members live to bring glory to the OTHERS. The road we travel will take us into the battle to restore beauty in all things, chief among them the hearts of those we know. We grow in glory that we might assist others in doing so; we give our glory to increase theirs. In order to fulfill the purpose of our journey, we will need a passion to increase glory; we will need LOVE. It would be a dreadful mistake to assume that our Beloved is only waiting for us at the end of the road. Our communion with him sustains us along our path." ~John Eldredge in "The Sacred Romance, p. 158 "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore, choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him; for he is thy life, and the length of thy days..." Deut. 30:19, 20 |
Like the writer of Eccl. says, "All is Vanity" The things of this world. I'm working on my next post, it'll be about dealing with Bitterness and resentment! Hope I can word it right. I know everyone struggles with it, I did and still do at times. I'll keep Saturdays concert in my thoughts and prayers. Have a blessed Weekend Sarah!
