Full Day

Yesterday was a full day. Up at 5:30, at bible study at 6:30, over to Lowes to get flooring for the family room. Then over to my brother's to rip down some boards and pick up some trim that I had over there. Went home , unloaded the truck, over to Eddie's for lunch with the guys. Then home, where I wacked down the front yard, which hadn't been mowed in three weeks. I then started laying the floor. It is going to look real nice. I was really wooped when I wet to bed about 11:15.
Our challenges at work continue. We hired five people last week and four of them have quit already. Hopefully our new DM can help us out with some incentives. We are going to have to do something, or we will never make it through the holiday season.
Well going to run now, my bed is calling.....

Yeah, yeah, I know you all thought I fell off the face of the earth, right Sara? I have been busyworking on the family room. I have almost all the painting done. I will have to get some pictures taken and posted. Leigh and I both really like the colors we picked out. I still have alot of work to get done before I am finished with it.
I also spent all day Satarday at Pulse Fest. What a line up this year. Krystal Meyers, Superchic, Santus Real, Desperation Band, Kutless, Third Day, and MICHAEL W. SMITH. If you can't tell I really like Michael, and he put on an awesome performance. The whole day was great.

Just a pondering thought....

A freind of mine sent an email the other day that had a line in it that I thought was rather profound. Going to church no more makes you a christian than standing in your garage makes you a car. Tha really hit me this time. I had seen the email before, it was one of those fowards, but that line had never really jumped out at me. How many people do you know, maybe you are one of them, that thinks the christian life is all about going to church? The christian life is more about what you do, how you act, how you react the other six days of the week. I an not saying that going to church is not important, because it is important. We just need to take what we learn in church and apply it to our every waking moment.
I have a great example. The past eight days at work have been real challenging. We have had major technical issues within the store, personel issues, and an over whelming work load. In our Thursday morning bible study we started studying James three weeks ago. What is the first couple of verses of James? (This is the Whybrew paraphrase), Consider it PURE JOY when faced with trials of all kinds. One of the things that I had gotten out of our discussion was that this was a concious choice to consider it joy. So this afternoon when we have had one of the most challenging 8 day periods in awhile, was I overwelmed with joy? I really got broadsided with that one, and had to repent of my attitude. After that my day went a little better.
I guess what I am saying here is if we understand who is really in charge, and submit to that, our lives will be better. I am not saying that we won't have challenges and hardships, we will just relize that we have someone to lean on that has our total best interests at heart, and he will not give us more than we can bear, and that we should consider it pure joy, because he is molding and shaping us to become more like him.
Getting back to my original thought, Rick had a really great message last night about holding on to our things with open hands. Everything we have is God's, and he just allows us to be stewards of it for a while. So we need to be willing to sacrifice every thing we have to God. All our money, all our stuff (take a mission trip to a third world country, or just go spend a couple of days helping out in the huricane or tornado ravished areas of our country, to realize how much stuff we really have), all of ourselves we must be willing to sacrifice to God. You may think, hey he sounds like he has got it all figured out, I don't. I am still hanging on to way to many things with closed hands.

Well I am progessing on the family room. Primed the walls last night, painted part of the ceiling this morning. I am wondering if we went with too light of a tint on the ceiling. It hardly looks like it has any color at all. I am hoping when I get the paint on the walls it will show up more.
Glad to hear from Sara. Just as I thought, she has been extremely busy. It is hotter there then here, and just as humid. So rember that when we complain... it could be worse. Of course come about February 5th when it is 13 below and about three feet of snow on the ground, this 95 degrees will look pretty good!

Yesterday Leighann, Phil, Cheri and I Went to see Evan Almighty. It was hilarious. It also had a very good point. A great family film. I highly recomend it (if you couldn't tell). I was concerned about the Hollywood theology, but it wasn't bad.
Saturday night while I was moving some things around in the family room, I ran across three books by Beverly Lewis that I had read before. They are a series, and I had wanted to read them again. So I read two of them between Saturday night and Sunday. Needless to say, I didn't get any painting done! The names of the books are The Shunning, The Confession, and The Reconciliation. Very good, easy reads. I encourage anyone to read them.
I am just wondering if Sara B. has fallen off the face of the earth. She hasn't posted in a week and a half. She probably has been busy getting the kids ready for school. (Either that are she has taken residence up in the pool, if they are having any sort of weather like we are!) I miss hearing from her. Gonna run, have to get to that painting!

Whats happening

That is the question, isn't it? Just a normal week at work, nothing spectacular, or unusual. Rick had a good message about baptism. I have been working on the family room this week Last night I textured most of the walls. I have to move a door, and do a little drywall, before I can finish texturing, and then prime. We have decided to do a three tone color scheme. We are going to do a plum color up 32", then a lavender color the rest of the way up. The ceiling then gets a color two shades lighter then the lavender. I think it is going to look real good. I will post pics when I get it done (sometime around 2015, at the rate I seem to be moving!),