This weekend, my husband and I spent a lot of time on our hands and knees, cleaning and sanding… and cleaning and sanding… our wood floors. We had put down the first coat of varnish last week. Then that needed to be sanded and the bubbles and rough spots that occur in the [...]
Archive for March, 2007
House update
Posted in grace, life, praise, work on March 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The wood floors are in their last few hours of being sanded this morning… I was over there last night at the house and they look great! Tim has been working so hard for hours on using that big, loud sander and has made great progress. I’m excited for the finished product [...]
Humility – in being ministered to?
Posted in Good, Humility, life on March 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am one of those people who has a hard time asking for help. I don’t want to inconvenience other people or be any kind of a burden to them. So, I try to do a lot of things on my own… Yesterday, I was studying humility and thinking of the passage [...]
Filthy, foolish, coarse…complaining?
Posted in Complaining, Pharisee, filthy speech on March 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.” -Eph. 5:4
I was thinking through the above verse in the context of putting off the old man and putting on the new man (Eph. 4:22)… And I thought about what I think these three types of speech [...]
According to plan
Posted in grace, strength, stress on March 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, I had quite the stressful few minutes… You know, the stress that makes your stomach turn and your heart start racing and makes you feel like bursting out into tears? Well, that was me early yesterday afternoon. There is a lot going for me this month… helping with work on our [...]
What’s in YOUR cupboard?
Posted in God, faithful, moral on March 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This past Saturday, the demolition team gutted the kitchen. I was painting the bedroom ceiling and all I heard from the kitchen was pounding and banging and wood cracking and good natured banter back and forth between the four guys working. Then things got quite a bit quieter and I heard from my husband a [...]
The praise of my life…
Posted in glory, life, praise on March 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As I begin this blog and write my first entry, I want to share an idea that has been really sticking out in my mind lately… In a Bible Study I am involved in, this week’s assignment had to do with worship and what it means to truly worship the Lord. It struck me that when [...]
