Ten Words Of The Day

1. Coffee
2. Wal-Mart
3. Target
4. enchildas
5. movie
6. telephone
7. cleaning
8. park
9. dinner
10. showers

**Im getting into the habit of drinking my coffee while reading my bible and studying for my recent bible study on Galatians. Im loving it! I totally believe starting my day off with the word of GOD puts my mind in the right place thru out the whole day.

More thoughts on Marriage

Isaiah 54:5

"For your Maker is your husband-the Lord Almighty is his name-the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer."

Jeremiah 3:14

"Return, faithless people:, declares the Lord, "for I am your husband."

Hosea 2:19,20

"I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion. I will betroth you in faithfulness, and you will acknowledge the Lord."

Matthew 2:2

"The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son."

Matthew 25:10

"But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut."

Revelation 19:7

"Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the lamb has come, and his bride had made herself ready."

The verses mentioned above are references to the oneness (marriage) between us and Christ (church). In my last blog, I said The Lord "COMMANDED us not to marry." I apologize. I was incorrect in saying that.

The kids and I went to visit my mom last week. For whatever the reason, we started to discuss this situation.

Genesis 2:18 - "The Lord God said, 'It is NOT good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper suitable for him.'"

Bare with me on this. If we look at Adam's situation, he was completely alone in the world. NO other human being around. When Adam found no helper, God put him to sleep, removed a rib from him and made woman. How awesome is our GOD!!

Genesis 3:24 - "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."

What about today? Unfortunately we do not live in that time. These days, if we can teach our children to use protection during sex, we feel accomplished. What about waiting until they are married? That seems like such an old tradition. Have we become such a sexually obsessed society that we marry just because we can not save ourselves for marriage? I will be the first one to admit I was.

People associate marriage with sex. While there is sex involved, there is so much more that goes into making up a marriage. What happens if you cant make the marriage work? Do you give up? Do you seek counseling? Do you do nothing about it and turn the other cheek? Today is not as simple, when society (your family, friends, co-workers) tells you to give up.

Marriage is not to be taken lightly. As a Christian, we have the duty to spread God's word first and foremost. Temptation is extremely difficult, but you shouldn't rush into marriage with the first person you come across just so you can give into your temptation justifiably.

Matthew 6:33,34 - "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

God has a will for each and every one of us. I have a wonderful friend that is 35 and NOT married. He has no ill feelings about NOT being married. He is already married to the most perfect person. Jesus Christ. He can not be left, hurt or lead astray. I cherish all the young people in our church. Grow in your faith first. Let Christ guide you and be your only provider. He will give you a mate in HIS perfect timing. When it feels it is not enough, take a moment to sit back and reflect on your decision to follow Christ.

Marriage?

What does the Lord say about marriage?

Lets look at 1 Corinthians 7:1-9
1 Now for the matters you wrote about: it is good for a man NOT to marry.
2 But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
3 His husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the woman to her husband.
4 The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.
5 Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent and only for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6 I say to your concession, not as a command.
7 I WISH ALL MEN WERE AS I. But each man has his own gift from God, one has this gift another has that gift.

8 NOW TO THE UNMARRIED AND WIDOWS I SAY: IT IS GOOD FOR THEM TO STAY UNMARRIED AS I AM.
9 BUT IF THEY CAN NOT CONTROL THEMSELVES, THEY SHOULD MARRY, FOR IT IS BETTER TO MARRY THAN TO BURN WITH PASSION.

I was on a conference call tonight with some of THE most wonderful Christian women I know. One of the girls (whom I assume is younger than me because she looks younger than me) talked about starting up a blog for "older women" (again, Im 27 and she looks younger than me) and how they can still serve God while NOT being married.

I cant understand why these girls desire to be married so badly. Is it because they think they are doing the Lord's work by BEING married and having children? God's word clearly states, we are to stay unmarried as he was.

I dont want to sound like a hypocrite since I married when I was 20. There was no doubt that I lacked self-control in the immorality department. But why these girls would be concerned about not being married is beyond me.

It is only my opinion, but I would think they could do so much more and spread the gospel to so many more people than I could ever dream of because of the simple fact, THEY HAVE NO OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES. For example, they could move to third world countries and do missionary work. As much as I feel the need to preach the word to more people, I simply cant due to my children's age. Im sure as they get older and more independant, I will be able to do more missionary work but right now, my focus is on the needs here in the home.

Maybe thats what they want. I dont know. But the way I see it, we are not to marry unless we can NOT control ourselves. Since we can not control ourselves, we get married. What happens when you get married? You have children. When we are blessed with our children, we open up a whole new can of worms to deal with.

Interesting Tweet

Aaron and I read an interesting tweet. "Mom, why is Jesus in my heart? No idea how to get my 2 yr old to understand when I dont even understand how he could be in MY heart"

Reading that got the wheels in my brain turning. Aaron and I talked about it. What would we tell out own children? We would tell them that Jesus does not lives in their hearts because physically he physically cant. Christ was physically resurrected and is sitting on the right hand of GOD.

When we believe the gospel, we are called to repent (ask for forgiveness), be baptised (being submerged under water representing being buried with him. Then when we rise out of the water symbolizing being raised from the dead (a sinful life) leaving our old sinful life behind to walk in newness of life) and follow him.

We want his words to be written on our hearts. Now, does that mean literally? NO. It means, it is written in our souls our spirits. And our minds. Meaning in everything we do, we are to be thinking of him and acting like him at all times.

I thought this was such an interesting comment. I want to study more on this. I want to know the right thing to say.

Doctor's Visit for Logan


My poor little man. He always seems to be sick. The last thing I want is to be "that mom" that takes her kid in for every thing sneeze and cough. But I think I have waited it out long enough. Logan has been coughing so bad at night that he cant sleep. Aaron, myself and Logan just went through our second night with no sleep. Poor Aaron, he has to go to work. At least I can stay home.

I recently went to the ENT doctor and he said I was deathly allergic to ALL air-borne mold. What?! Everything has mold!! He suggested that we move. Logan's doctor believes he has sinuses issues as well. Poor Logan has had 5 double ear infections with pink eye since Christmas. Its my understanding that Pediatricians are split right down the middle on sinus infections. I think if they saw Logan they would no longer be on the fence about it. I just finished my first rounds of allergy shots and Im hoping Logan wont have to go through the same thing. It is painful. I would hate to see that.

Kendra just keeps on trucking. I dont think her allergies are as bad. She is alot like Aaron is that sense. Although Aaron needs to go to just to get checked. We will be heading to the beach next week. Maybe GOD is telling our bodies that we need a good dose of the beach weather. At least thats what I would like to think.

Ten Words of the day

Coffee
friends
doctor
pharmacy
lunch
BeautiControl
dinner
wall
hospital
bath

Today has been a crazy kind of day.