Always Learning

I have been doing some reading and studying lately and have discovered some really good stuff. I love to learn and especially when it involves my Faith Walk.

Joyce Meyer said on her show a while back, We always say that God does not give us what we can't handle. Then she chuckled and said, He ALWAYS gives us more than we can handle, but He will ALWAYS provide the strength to do it! We have to trust in Him and move out of the way, let Him steer the boat. Wow! I never thought of it that way.

God needs us to be His living testimony to the salvation He offers us. We need to be set free from the baggage of our pasts, healed and delivered so God can use us. He is the Potter, we are the Clay! He molds us and makes us. Don't let your 'junk' hold God back.

Each act of believing God and being obedient to Him results in greater opportunities in our lives. Accept the challenges in your lives to learn and grow. God wants us to be influential in His Kingdom.

1 Peter 1
vs. 3-9
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade - kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith - of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire - may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
vs. 13 - 16
Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."
vs. 23
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
AMEN!

ONE HAPPY BOY!!!

Austin caught this keeper on the Mississippi River in Aitkin. By the smile on his face, I think he is pretty darn proud! He loves to fish summer and winter and he loves to hunt. Steven has been teaching him the ropes for several years now. I can hardly believe Austin is 8 years old and going into the 3rd grade. Where does the time go?

Okay

I got my Blog back - these #@$% computers.

AAAAWWWKKK!!!

WHAT HAVE I DONE????
I TRIED TO MAKE SOME CHANGES AND I HAVE TOTALLY SCREWED UP MY PAGE. I AM STRUGGLING TO GET IT BACK.

A good laugh at my friend's expense, oh but we are laughing with you, not at you.

I was at work one day last week and having a break with some co-workers. My friend was wearing a lower cut shirt and I saw this big owwie on her chest. It was about 2 inches long and about 3/4" wide. Confused as I was and curious as a cat, I looked at her with my brow furrowed and asked her what happened. She looked at me rather sheepishly and said, "I tried to iron my blouse while I had it on. The collar wasn't laying right."

A Lazy Sunday

I looked at the date of my last entry and it was June 16th. Where does the time go? There are so many things I would like to share with you and they have been slipping by as the days meld into the past.

On June 22nd I had another surgery (that makes 4 in 14 months). This one was a Rhinoplasty to try and reconstruct my nose from the surgery in November. The Nov surgery disfigured my nose, in March I had a septoplasty to straighten that part out and then the Rhinoplasty to straighten out the outside of the nose. But now the septum collapsed again. Eee Gads! This is getting ridiculous. I do need to post a photo soon though so you can be assured I do not look like Joan Rivers.

It is a beautiful Sunday afternoon and I need to get outside and putz in the gardens. They are beautiful!

Love to you all!