1. My sister now lives in South Africa, and I am going to visit in December.
2. I moved to a new house last Thursday. It is amazing! This means Finley Wendell (yes, my dog has a middle name) now lives with me full-time. I will post pictures as soon as I find and charge my camera.
3. In March, I began a second career as a Mary Kay consultant. This is still something new for me, and I'm not making much money yet, but it is a fun hobby and I am hoping to grow this business.
4. I'm taking my time on Mary Kay though, because in May, I accepted a slightly different position at my current job. I am now the unofficial (in other words, don't use the title under any circumstances) director of school counseling at my school. Except that I'm not the director. I just don't know how else to describe the job - my job description includes all of those responsibilities and I have the 12 month contract and the pay (heck, the title is even printed on top of the description, they just crossed it off in Sharpie...). The point is, I don't have 5 years experience so I can't be the director or lead counselor, etc. But as of July 1, I now perform all the duties of a director and they are no longer looking to hire one. Whatever. I am nervous but excited and hope that I am able to make a great place even better. My kids will be JUNIORS this year! They're halfway done, and I'm already missing them. I've watched them grow and change so much, and I truly care about them deeply. I am so blessed to work here.
5. My only trip of the summer will be to travel to Dallas in the beginning of August for the Mary Kay seminar. I hope that this will help me get the tools to really get this business going. I want to be wearing a red jacket by September 15th -- that means I must recruit 3 new business owners. This is a remarkable company, and I would love to talk to you about the opportunity if you are interested. :)
Friday, July 6, 2012
Monday, July 2, 2012
Not Afraid
Again I have proved to be one of the worst bloggers in the world.
I've decided to do better. I will post at least once a week, even if it is short.
I refuse to make this a journal -- but it also doesn't have to be so deep that every post is a sermon.
For now, here is what I am learning.
God did NOT give me a spirit of fear, but of POWER, LOVE and a sound mind. His perfect love casts out all fear.
I will not be afraid. I am a beloved child of God. He has set me free, and I shall fear no thing...nothing from my past, nothing in my present, and nothing that could be on the horizon.
I belong to Him.
I've decided to do better. I will post at least once a week, even if it is short.
I refuse to make this a journal -- but it also doesn't have to be so deep that every post is a sermon.
For now, here is what I am learning.
God did NOT give me a spirit of fear, but of POWER, LOVE and a sound mind. His perfect love casts out all fear.
I will not be afraid. I am a beloved child of God. He has set me free, and I shall fear no thing...nothing from my past, nothing in my present, and nothing that could be on the horizon.
I belong to Him.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
5 Years
"The Biblical view of things is resurrection - not a future that is just a consolation for the life we never had but a restoration of the life you always wanted. This means that every horrible thing that ever happened will not only be undone and repaired but will in some way make the eventual glory and joy even greater...This is the ultimate defeat of evil and suffering. It will not only be ended but so radically vanquished that what has happened will only servce to make our future life and joy infinitely greater." (Timothy Keller)
"They say of some temporal suffering: 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attainied, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory." (CS Lewis)
"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's final, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all heart, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the blood that they've shed; that it will not only be possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened." (Doestoevsky)
"They say of some temporal suffering: 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attainied, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory." (CS Lewis)
"I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's final, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all heart, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, of all the blood that they've shed; that it will not only be possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened." (Doestoevsky)
..Redeeming love has been my theme and shall be till I die..
Monday, February 6, 2012
No Compromise
Some C.S. Lewis that I've been pondering lately...
"Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact like honest but reluctanct taxpayers. We approve on an income tax in principle. We make our returns truthfully. But we dread a rise in the tax. We are very careful to pay no more than is necessary. Any we hope -- we very ardently hope -- that after we have paid it there will still be enough to live on."
"For it is not so much of our time and so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even all our time and all our attention; it is ourselves...For He claims all, because He is love and must bless. He cannot bless us unless he HAS us. When we try to keep within us an area that is our own, we try to keep an area of death. Therefore, in love, He claims all. There's no bargaining with him."
Salvation is free, but it costs us everything. He is more than worthy.
"Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact like honest but reluctanct taxpayers. We approve on an income tax in principle. We make our returns truthfully. But we dread a rise in the tax. We are very careful to pay no more than is necessary. Any we hope -- we very ardently hope -- that after we have paid it there will still be enough to live on."
"For it is not so much of our time and so much of our attention that God demands; it is not even all our time and all our attention; it is ourselves...For He claims all, because He is love and must bless. He cannot bless us unless he HAS us. When we try to keep within us an area that is our own, we try to keep an area of death. Therefore, in love, He claims all. There's no bargaining with him."
Salvation is free, but it costs us everything. He is more than worthy.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Well, Hello There
Sorry. Totally forgot about the blog. It's been a busy school year. I'm going to start posting though because I've got lots of things I want to share, want to remember....many of them half-written in a notebook on the kitchen table already.
Forgive me. I am alive. I am doing very well. So is my sweet boy, Finn. He's grown a lot and has the most wonderful personality. More about all that later.
Forgive me. I am alive. I am doing very well. So is my sweet boy, Finn. He's grown a lot and has the most wonderful personality. More about all that later.
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