I love Picasa

Thanks to Amanda Perko for helping me add photo bling to my blog. I used the free Picasa program she recommended and now recommend it to you. Wow, so easy, fun and pretty!

Bills A Blessing??

As I do every month P.D.R (Post Dave Ramsey) I sit down at my computer and set up my bills to pay online and make the budget for the next month at least a week in advance. Today, I decided to turn on my iTunes "worship mix" while doing so. Immediately I was reminded what my friend Mary Lynn Golter told me about when she would send her son off on a date when he was a teenager. She would tell him "Take the Lord with you!" Funny but AWESOME. So, I took the Lord with me to my "budget meeting" and WOW, amazing, liberating, humbling, inspiring, convicting. Who knew all those emotional things would come out of this months budget.
This month we make our first mortgage payment ever. Amazing.
This month we have plenty to pay every bill ON TIME. Liberating.
This month I realized how much we waste on running around and eating out. Humbling.
This month we will give more than any other month EVER. Inspiring.
This month there is money left over... Convicting.

Listen to fitzfamilyfarms Playlist

wierd day

OK, so today was wierd. Nothing spectacular happened, good or bad. Went to church, the house got picked up, dogs got walked, kids played with friends...but it just seems like something is looming. I feel like God is trying to tell me something, yet I keep myself just distracted enough to not get the hint. What is wrong with me!? This "free will" idea is seeming more and more irritating. Why do I keep God at a distance? Why are my prayers unfinished? Why do I watch nonsense TV instead of reading my Bible? Why do I eat M&M's when I am not hungry? Why do I find excuses to avoid things I need to do tomorrow? I need an attitude adjustment.
In VBS last week, the kids learned the verse "Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus". Clearly God wants me to learn that and live that as well, but how?

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Do you ever have one of those moments when you have clarity and humbleness about God's love for you - when all the stress of the past weeks disappears and you are filled with wonder of how God could love us so much that he puts up with all our crap, that He gave his only Son for us, that He is jealous for us?
I have just had one of those moments. I have kept myself so busy and distracted in recent weeks (ok, months) that it seems that I had forgotten the simple Truth about His love for me. My priorities, I must admit, are completely messed up. I have been relying on my own strength and wisdom in daily life and relationships.
Its like God smacked me upside the head and said "HELLO!! Remember ME!! Come here. Listen to me. Stop watching TV, listening to the radio, reading a book. Just STOP IT! We need to talk."
OK God, I hear you...I am listening...
God speaks to me through music. My inspiration lately "He Loves Us" and "How Deep The Father's Love For Us"