Sunday, October 28, 2012

thank you for the reminders...

What a glorious Sunday it is today! The air is cool and crisp in the beautiful fall ozarks! Reminds every season...that life moves on and we must follow it...

I have the honor of leading another ladies Bible study this fall...it is called "Get a Life" and I thought it would be just a simple "beginners" Bible Study...however, it has been a very good...personal study and I'm so thankful the Lord directed us to this study...how we found this study is a complete story all in it's own...for another day...

This week we are learning that a busy life does not mean a full and abundant life...and do you want to know how my week has gone...well class is tonight so...I did 4 of the 5 days yesterday morning and the last one this morning...so can we say busy and unfocused? The main focus of this weeks study is to have an eternal perspective...one question that I've pondered now for many hours...what is a reward I've earned that I've found pride in...as a stay at home mom...other than a certificate for the homeroom mom over the years...I haven't received "those" kinds of rewards...so my thoughts were on other rewards...those that I believe as much as we can take them with us when we leave this earth...I will...so my favorites:

     The song Michael wrote and sang for me on Mother's Day...only he and I
     can truly understand the deep meaning of that song...

     The honor and trust my daughters allow me as I keep my grandchildren.
     again, only a few can understand why this is extra special to me...

 And another...today as I sat in class and listened to my husband pour into 27 teens...why you might ask...well...wow...what an honor...and also...I just had memories flood my mind of Emmanuel Baptist Church...I counted 27 in the youth room today, which is the old santuctary of the church...when the church begin 22 years ago...we had 23 people...that is men, women and children...God is so good!

God showed me this verse also this morning...Ps. 89:15...

15 Happy are the people who know the joyful shout;
Yahweh, they walk in the light of Your presence.

What a picture of the bride of Christ...if you read this most likely you know the man I've called mine for almost 31 years now...he knows the JOYFUL SHOUT...I'm thankful for the Lord...my salvation...my husband how gets it...really gets it...what life is about...what is important...what our purpose for being here is...the Lord has used him in so many lives...but none more than my life and those of our children and now our grandchildren...

Then we had an amazing worship service this morning...I've learned to appreciate the older hymns...many people have ugly attitudes about the "new" worship songs and I don't get that...but I'm guilty at times of having the same attitude about the "old" hymns...but just think about these words...

Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise:
be thou mine inheritance now and always;
be thou and thou only the first in my heart;
O Sovereign of heaven, my treasure thou art.

I'm overwhelmed today by HIM...I don't deserve HIM and yet inspite of all that..inspite of myself...He loves me anyway...