GREEN

I love al the colors but early on one color stole my heart. Green, in almost every shade is the color that I pick over almost all the others. It represents life and relaxation and creativity and lots of other things to me. These are some places I found it around the past few days.

Soap

Crocs :)

Grass

Feather Boas. OO LAA

nail polish

Book with lime green pages and pen

Hose

Chalk :) my favorite

Great Sunday

This past Sunday at church the sermon was about watching out for false prophets. Now at first this sounds like a sermon about preparing for the end times and finding the guy who has the right date about the last day but in fact it was much better than that and gave me a rejuvenated spirit about the word of God and his call on our lives. It was focused on the scripture was from Matthew (7:15 through 23) at the end of the sermon on the mount. It says will can recognize false prophets by their fruit.The fruit they bear will be fruit of life or on other words the things of God or it will be fruit of destruction aka the things of the world. The pastor gave examples of false prophets like this recent guy who predicted the end of the world. His message brought fear and destruction and lies because obviously it wasn't true and he tried to get rich off of it. None of those things are of God. He is truth and hope and love. The pastor also pointed out that it isn't always so easy to see who is true and who is false. He gave 7 things that he has found point to God . These are his guidelines for knowing how to recognize when God is speaking, his word will do this.
1. It always gives glory to God. Everything always points back to him.
2.It is always full of mercy, justice, compassion, and truth. These are characteristics of God.
3. It is always abounding in love. God is love so his word is also
4.His word always restores, rebuilds and reinstates. The Bible is full of God doing this work and the overarching story int he Bible is how God through love brings creation back to himself buy rebuilding the bring through Christ.
5. God's words are always the same. Check the Bible. Every idea should be coherent through scripture. His word doesn't change.
6.God's word is always life giving. He didn't give his son for the world so that we could have just this life on earth but that we could life and life to the full which we find in him.
7. God's word is always FULL of hope. It is what he is about and being a Christian or believing in him and on him means there is always, Always hope.

So I know that is a ton to digest but it truly warmed my heart. When the media or society or anything in this life tries to lie to us and tell us to try a different way or to do what we want or that we aren't good enough we can have these things in the back of our mind. Does the word we are hearing bring life? Is it spoken in love? Do you feel hope? We don't have to face the challenges of the world alone because God gave his word and his Son, Jesus who is the word in flesh. He speaks truth and we can know the truth by its fruits. Just some food for thought :)

Sweet Sweet Love

So today Margie (Aaron's mama) and I went out to shop for a dress for her to wear to the wedding. After the 3 or so hours we were out I developed a very bad headache. I was not drinking much and I hadn't eaten much and it was about 96 degrees out today. All of these factors were working against me and so I developed a class 5 (that being very very bad) migraine. We got home a few minutes before Aaron did and as soon as he came in the door he started taking care of me. After a long day of work I felt bad for being sick because the last thing anyone wants to do is look after a little sicky person, but Aaron doesn't seem to mind. He rubbed my head during my nap. He got my medicine and made me iced coffee so I could have a little caffeine. He walked me downstairs to dinner and rubbed my back when I got real sick. He sat with me while I nibbled at my dinner and then went and got me a big milkshake because he thought ice cream would make me happy :) The migraine still persisted to the point that he went out and got me Excedrin. He went to CVS and he even scanned his card at the magic coupon machine before he bought his stuff just because he knows I love to try and save money with coupons. And guess what? He got a coupon for 3 dollars off a pain killer medicine. God was really looking out for us today. So my hero came home and told me the great news and gave me what I now call wonder drugs because they took the migraine away so fast. Then we ate popcorn and I finally got to drink my jumbo milkshake and we snuggled and watched America's Got Talent :) How about that Sqonk Opera?? I really liked Snap Boogie. My fiance really is a sweet sweet person. He has a kind heart and he really does pay attention to the things that make me better. It might seem sometimes like he forgets or doesn't pay attention but when I really need him he is always there showing me that he truly loves me and cares. God is shaping him into an incredible man. I am so blessed :)