Randomness

Today was a good day. Slept in, cleaned the house, hung out with a friend, walked with my husband outside in the gorgeous weather and now I am sitting listening to my husbands faint voice in the bedroom practicing his sermon for tomorrow morning. He is trying to drown himself out by playing Chris Tomlin, but I can hear his voice faintly. What a joy it is to hear my love talking about the things of the Lord. His passion and zeal are contagious. I reflect over my day and it wasn't much of one and yet I am happy. My goal though is to be thinking more eternally. What would it look like if I were taking every opportunity available to spread the gospel. Let's see, the woman at starbucks, the woman at sonic, the 3 ladies at the Clinique counter, all the people we passed in the mall or the 3 men who waited on us at PTA pizza, and all the neighbors houses we passed on our walk. In one day, I have missed at least 20 people that I could have shared the good news of Christ with. I am not thinking of others. I am living my life, perfectly content, wanting more but not willing to step out in faith. I am too worried about things like my weight, my stress at school and other "me" things. The goal of our church is to remain "outwardly focused" and yet I cannot seem to conquer that concept myself. How do I expect to instill that in others? Anyway, in my bible study I have been learning about pride. I have discovered that I have a twisted form of pride. Mine is putting myself down or thinking I am fat and ugly. You may not see that as pride. But anything that takes the focus off of our Lord and putting it on ourself is prideful. Whether you are conceided or self conscious. So I challenge myself and others to put the focus back on the Lord. Then maybe, just maybe we will stop going throughout our day being so self centered and start thinking eternally. It is all inter-twined.
p.s. My husband and I are in a trend of picking out horrible movies lately. I do NOT recommend River King, Elizabethtown or The Island...and The Legend of Zorro wasn't all that either. Good night :)

Lounging

I'm currently relaxed on our big new furniture listening to the dryer run and my husbands breathing as he sleeps on the couch. A wonderful friend who I haven't talked to in a while is Im'ing with me. I just finished reading the Word. At this point life couldn't get better! We are so blessed! The Lord has been doing some amazing things in our life! Starting a church and seeing people come to Christ is a wonderful thing. Co-leading a bible study for wives of seminary students has been an adventure. Supporting my husband as he speaks in front of churches and youth is very exciting. We cannot wait until we go to the camp we met at this summer for him to speak. A week of hearing the Word, relaxing out in HIS beautiful creation and enjoying the spot where God brought us together is going to be awesome! I need to remember these things as hard times come my way. Like both of our cars breaking down within 2 weeks of each other and having to pay for that when we just bought new furniture and are saving for a house. ha ha. Quite comical. But I let these minor stumbling blocks become bigger than the blessings we have. So my challenge to you, the zero people that have read my blog, is to remember the undeserving blessings we have and don't let the Joy be taken from you when challenges come your way.