Friday, July 31, 2009

...from My Utmost for His Highest...Oswald Chambers...July 31

"Many of us appear to be all right in general, but there are still some areas in which we are careless and lazy; it is not a matter of sin, but the remnants of our carnal life that tend to make us careless. Carelessness is an insult to the Holy Spirit. We should have no carelessness about us either in the way we worship God, or even in the way we eat and drink.

Not only must our relationship to God be right, but the outward expression of that relationship must also be right. Ultimately, God will allow nothing to escape; every detail of our lives is under His scrutiny. God will bring us back in countless ways to the same point over and over again. And He never tires of bringing us back to that one point until we learn the lesson, because His purpose is to produce the finished product. It may be a problem arising from our impulsive nature, but again and again, with the most persistent patience, God has brought us back to that one particular point. Or the problem may be our idle and wandering thinking, or our independent nature and self-interest. Through this process, God is trying to impress upon us the one thing that is not entirely right in our lives.

We have been having a wonderful time in our studies over the revealed truth of God’s redemption, and our hearts are perfect toward Him. And His wonderful work in us makes us know that overall we are right with Him. "Let patience have its perfect work . . . ." The Holy Spirit speaking through James said, "Now let your patience become a finished product." Beware of becoming careless over the small details of life and saying, "Oh, that will have to do for now." Whatever it may be, God will point it out with persistence until we become entirely His."


Amen....


if you have three minutes....give a listen. A few things to note...there is nobody else in the kitchen....she is carrying a conversation by herself, and seems totally at ease in doing this! She knows how to access and run this application on the computer! oh to be seven...(just a reminder to turn the music off my site before you watch the video...you can do this by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking on the pause button)


Unsupervised on the Computer from melissa grant on Vimeo.






just having some fun...










"The LORD sustains all who fall
And raises up all who are bowed down."
psalm 145:14


Saturday, July 25, 2009

ok....so i fell off the blog wagon.....time to get up, dust myself off and share some images of the past 6 weeks...

Jr. High Graduation Night...with sammie (she is now twice that size and eats us out of house and home....then again, so does joey)

this is why i should not work away from the home...

i sense a party coming on...

14 year old boys, water weaponry....my office did not survive the assualt

"you filled up how many balloons!?"

the birthday boy...

the boys...they ate over 40 mini hamburgers in about 15 minutes and a double recipe of 'death by chocolate'....amazing

a little summer model time...

hunting for tadpoles at a local park...

more pics and thoughts to come....