Well, I finally checked out freecycle.org and signed up. I’m having so much fun and getting rid of stuff that I’ve really needed to unload for a long time. I also got some neat stuff for getting James ready for kindergarten next year.
Then my mom rented a booth at the flea market and so some of my nicer stuff I’m going to put in the booth. I’m pretty excited.
Oooo, I have more I want to write but Danny is crying. So I’ll write more later. Check out freecycle.org if you haven’t already.
“Thomas answered and said unto Him, My Lord and my God.” John xx. 28.
“Give Me to drink.” How many of us are set upon Jesus Christ slaking our thirst when we ought to be satisfying Him? We should be pouring out now, spending to the last limit, not drawing on Him to satisfy us. ” Ye shall be witnesses unto Me” – that means a life of unsullied, uncompromising and unbribed devotion to the Lord Jesus, a satisfaction to Him wherever He places us.
Beware of anything that competes with loyalty to Jesus Christ. The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him. It is easier to serve than to be drunk to the dregs. The one aim of the call of God is the satisfaction of God, not a call to do something for Him. We are not sent to battle for God, but to be used by God in His battlings. Are we being more devoted to service than to Jesus Christ?
Oswald Chambers
I don’t know how many of you have read My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers. But I found my copy again the other day and I’m really enjoying it. His language is sometimes a bit hard to understand being that he gave these lectures between 1911 and 1915. But what I appreciate the most is that he really focuses on the basics of the Christian walk. Not what church you attend or what politics the church endorses. His focus is on Christ and what he did for me and you and what we owe Him. If you haven’t read this book I’d definitely suggest it.
Its over. Christmas has come and gone as well as all the holiday visits from relatives. New Year’s has come and now we are standing at the beginning of a new year in which to make our mark on our world. I always struggle with this time of the year. The tree has come down, and the other decorations are soon to follow. It seems that there is so much anticipation leading up to Christmas and now that it is all over, I feel sort of lost. At the same time I am relieved because now I can get on with our lives as normal. We will return to our normal schedule. The kids will detox from all the Christmas candy and we will begin to feel like things aren’t so insane.
I don’t like to make new years resolutions but as I’m looking out on this new year stretching out before us, I find that I am already planning how to paint on the blank canvas that it is. I want to be a better wife and then a better mom. I want to take better care of myself so that I can take better care of my family. I’m looking forward to the rest of this school year and already looking ahead to the next school year. (I’ll have a kindergartner AND a first grader.) I want to grow in my relationship with God and do a better job of training my children up to love Him and serve Him with all of their hearts. I want to savor every moment and tuck it away in my heart because before I’m ready, my babies will no longer be babies and they’ll be spreading their wings.
Okay enough philosophic (sp?) meanderings. 
In other news today…. Becca has her first loose tooth. It won’t be long and it’ll fall out. James is learning his ABC’s and how to put hard puzzles together. Ben is tagging along after James and Daniel is 3 months old already.
I hope that all of you had a wonderful time with family and friends this last year and that you are looking forward to the New Year with anticipation of seeing what God is going to do with us.
