Habitat For Humanity

Just a reminder: PNCC’s Habitat for HUmanity build is tomorrow morning! We will be meeting at the El Cheapo gas station heading toward Macedoina at 7:30am. We need all the help we can get early so we can get finished before the heat of the day. If you don’t have plans or can change them, please make plans to join us!

DANG!

This is an in your face video blip that really speaks to me so I thought I would share it.  Be warned, it is REAL!!

http://blip.tv/file/2220280

cleaning out the contents

I was speaking to a friend about this the other day and I was reminded about it just now when cleaning out the baby’s high chair. I mentioned to her that God doesn’t want to pour great things into us on top of unhealthiness. For example, you wouldn’t want to eat your favorite dessert on top of a sour stomach. Well when I was cleaning out Cohen’s high chair, I was thinking about all the good food gone to waste because he is such a messy eater. You know that reminds me of all of God’s blessings that I have “wasted” because I can be a “messy eater.” So isn’t it about time we purged ourselves of anything not Godly so that He can fill us with what is new and good, also making sure to find our spiritual mouths when God is blessing us.

weeds

This morning while the kids played on the swing set, I tried to do some gardening. In all honestly, I am terrible at it. It seems that I have more weeds than plants growing in the garden. Well, I also apparently have lots of trees who have taken root in my flower bed. it got me thinking about Christianity. See it is easy to neglect our relationship with Jesus and allow weeds to grow. Weeds are terrible and thorny buggers who stick you and hurt you when you try to remove them from your spiritual flower bed. Trees though are a bit different. See I found that even though I pulled and pulled I was not able to remove them all because over time I kept cutting back the growth, but never pulling out the root. Now they have rooted themselves so deeply into the garden that I will now have to ask for help from someone stronger (Matt) to help me remove these things. Isn’t that also true with our relationship with Jesus. See the more we let things take root that shouldn’t be there, the less likely we will be able to pull these things out without help from someone wiser and stronger. I really thing that this is where a mentor and accountability partner really help. An accountability partner is great for weeding and even pruning, but a mentor or someone wiser really can help you get back on the right track by helping you rip those pesky trees out of the ground. It is funny though with my gardening skills. It seems I can get trees to grow in my flower bed, but not in the ground where I plant them. ; )

Ladies first

I was given the opportunity to speak at Ladies First this morning and I was very nervous. I shared what God was revealing to me about fasting and what is really means to let God replace our old wineskins with new and fresh vessels. Check it out through Ricsha’s blog hopefully coming soon.

so sad

I was smacked in the face with reality today and it was not a pretty sight.  See it just so happens that I sometimes get caught up in my own world and forget that the people around me who I lean on for support may also need support from me once in a while.  I forget sometimes that those people who are my rock often need to be helped and appreciated too.  It is so sad that it takes something bold and in my face to make me see what I should notice all along.  Jesus called us to be a community of believers who work with one another in the tasks both big and small.  It is high time I take notice of those around me.

Gifts

my thought for today…
Gift envy is not just something that happens at Christmas.