Spirit Led Woman

I remember when I first discovered facebook... It was so exciting!  I reconnected with family and friends I hadn't seen or heard from in years.  When you have moved as often as we have, it is so easy to lose contact with people.  I consider it a real blessing from God that it is available to reconnect with people through. I keep waiting for someone to post a "10 Commandments for Christians on Facebook".  So here is my small attempt to address some of the things I have seen and experienced. 1) You should not put facebook before God.  (When you find yourself checking your facebook first thing in the morning, last thing at night and 200 times in between, you may need to ask yourself if you are praying that often!) 2)  You should not post things on facebook that you would be ashamed to say in person.  Remember that everyone you have on your friends list can see what you post! I recently had someone I know delete me from their frie...

I have been in a real funk this week!  My mom has been really sick. She was diagnosed with COPD a few months ago.  This really stinks,especially because she has never smoked yet has the lungs of a lifetime smoker. She did grow up in a home of smokers and remembers being in the car as a child and not being able to breathe because both of the adults in the car were smoking and the windows were rolled up. I have spent the last 2 weekends driving back and forth to Tennessee to be with her in the hospital.  I worry about her health and it brings back too many memories about my frequent trips last year when my sister was dying. So I have been tired and experiencing a deep sorrow. In the middle of all of this, I am trying to live my life as a wife, mother, fulltime employee and pastor's spouse.  There are so many blessings around me and I am consciously reminding myself of how blessed I am.  I also have to remember that I can't take my emotions out on those ar...

I love a good read! and this book keeps you guessing.  The style of Andy Andrews leaves you wondering how much of this story is fiction and how much really happened.  Considering the pictures we are shown at the end, I choose to believe there is more than a little fact to the tale of romance.  I also enjoyed learning about the history of a period of time in America that we hear little about.... definitely a story about second chances and faith redeemed!

We had a great Memorial weekend!  We were surprised to have a visit from some old friends from our home church, Susanne and Chris Goff.  Suzanne just returned from Iraq, where she served in the military for one year at Victory Camp (which used to be the palace of Saddam). She shared a slide show at our church Sunday morning from her stay there. It was very interesting to me that the ornate chandeliers and 'special touches' in Saddam's palaces were actually made of plastic! Imagine all of his people coming in and seeing his palace with all it's spendor and not realizing it was all fake! Isn't that what the devil does?  He makes the wicked look so blessed and happy.... makes us wonder what we are doing wrong. The truth is it is all fake! If we were to see behind the veil and into the reality of their lives, we would see that it was all pretend and temporary.