Awshum!

Been a few weeks since I've posted.  I feel like I'm settling in to this staying-at-home thing.  I've picked up a Thursday a.m. Bible Study which is awshum!  Got to see my Mama and Daddy for my birthday today.  Awshum!  I got to change my one workday from Wednesday to Friday this week so I could see them.  Awshum!  It is so nice to NOT be tied down to a "job."  Went to lunch with my friend Tam today and giggled/cackled for 2 hours.  Boy, that'll do ya' some good!  Taking the girlies to basketball tryouts in a little bit, then heading to choir practice...laaaaaaa....  Celebrate Recovery is tomorrow night which is always awshum!  Been inviting my FB friends and we've got someone new to lead the music/worship, which I'm really excited about!  Got 3 possible new people coming this week...Awshum/Awshum/Awshum!  Do you ever have those times when you feel like your eyes are just wide open for a change?  God is Awshum, and I just stand amazed in His presence!  (In case you need a translation...awshum=awesome.)

Drama

I've been sitting here, catching up on Facebook and thinking about the drama, especially amongst my teenagers and their friends.  I may need a neck brace from watching the relationship status changes alone.  So-and-so is single...so-and-so is in a relationship...so-and-so is single again...so-and-so is in a relationship again.  I have watched this literally change this many times in a matter of 24 hours.  My girls don't tend to do this, but the drama of their moods is just as...well...dramatic.  Their highs and lows are SO far from each other...and agonizing boredom is found in between.  GREAT...now God is telling me that I'm the same way!  Maybe it's hereditary.  My Mama has been known to be "one-tracked" and I am following in that trend.  When I'm into something, I give it everything I have, but I seem to reach a saturation point and then want to go in a different direction.  Maybe it's God closing one door and opening another, or maybe I'm not so different from my teenagers...all over the place.   God may need a neck brace watching me!!!  I wonder...how are some people satisfied with being stagnant?  I don't understand that.  I'm not changing the world, but I DO have a need to always feel like I'm growing and moving in a better direction.  And I get bored if I lack a sense of purpose.  Hmmm...I think I'll think about this some more...

Give

Last night's lesson was on "Give".  God never wastes a hurt.  No matter what you've been through, God will use it for good if you let Him.  For me, it means NOT putting on a mask and pretending that I have it all together, and remembering that those people that seem to have it all together are just faking :)  I'm finding getting to know people a little easier, finding that they are just as kookie as I am!  I'm still a little slow to open up to new people...trust, but verify.  Everybody has defects of character, and I know all too well that some people's defect is gossip, so I'm careful about who I get close to.  I really just don't have time for all the drama, and it really gets on my nerves when people are judgemental and haughty.  I'm a simple person, flawed in many ways, and I like my own kind!  So if you think you're better than me, or anybody else...save your breath as I will be tuning you out, shaking the dust off, and moving on.  I don't have long on this earth (none of us do), so I best get busy giving out the Good. 

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