I haven’t really known what to say. It often takes awhile for me to be able to gather my thoughts and put them into something that others could understand.
Our office had a policy not to discuss politics in the office, to keep everything under control. I respected the policy that our office had put in place, and kept my personal political preference to myself and a few others who were close friends of mine that felt the same way I did. Most of the office assumed I was voting for Obama because I was so young, and they never asked me about it, so I didn’t discuss it.
Wednesday morning, a very nice black lady I work with stopped me in the hallway and was talking about how glad she was that Obama won. The election was over, and I cannot be bitter, especially, since God knows what He is doing. I just said I am glad she was so happy and agreed that it was a historic election. Then she began to complain that the 45% (or whatever it was) that voted for McCain were racist. Someone else (who happened to be white) walked up and agreed and said they were also stupid. I walked back to my office shocked by what I had heard.
I voted for McCain because I cannot vote for someone who is a Marxist in good conscience. It had nothing to do with the color of their skin. It had everything to do with the fact that Obama (and Biden) could not be further from where I stand on the issues.
I should not need to justify the reasons I do what I do to everyone. How I live my life should be enough. I considered this woman to be one of the nicest people in my office and I considered us friends. It really hurt me.
One of my husband’s best friends is black, and in fact, he is one of my favorite people to spend time with and talk to about everything. One of my best friends is Korean who was adopted by Jewish parents. I love her dearly. One of my closest friends at work is Vietnamese (who happens to be as conservative as they come). I don’t spend my time concerned about the color of their skin, but rather, we have a blast just being ourselves. It hurts me that such a blanket statement was thrown in my face without the basic care/thought of who might be hurt by such an extreme statement.
Do I think that racism still exists? Oh yes I do. Is it an acceptable behavior? Absolutely not. But this is not my point in this post.
I was so disgusted years ago when I heard one of the ladies say she only voted for Bill Clinton because he was better looking than George H. W. Bush. She voted as if it were a beauty contest. Scary. Now we have some people who voted because of the color of a man’s skin and not the issues. Also scary. And now, if you did vote on the issues and they didn’t align with the black nominee, you are automatically racist.
Mike asked me who I wanted to see run in 2012. I know who it is. I absorbed so much of what was going on during the election and have processed most of it (finally after almost a year of this mess). I watched most of the RNC speeches, minus a few that I had no interest in what that person had to say.
Rudy Giuliani made me laugh, but as funny as he is, and as much respect as I have for him for what he did during 9/11; I do not agree with him on most of what I feel are the important issues. Romney scares me, Mormonism aside. I have great respect for Fred Thompson, but every time he opened his mouth during the primaries, I became scared, because he sounded like he just didn’t care. Huckabee is hilarious and he has a very likable personality, but there are certain things about him that concern me. Palin still excites me, but with the McCain fallout… well, they need their scape goat and they will destroy Sarah Palin’s career just to get one, so I fear she doesn’t have a shot. Then there is the man who I thought was one of the two shining stars at the RNC, Michael Steele.
We live in Virginia, so Michael Steele running for office in Maryland, is old news. Since all our local stations are DC stations, we get a lot of Maryland politics. Michael Steele made me laugh a few years ago with his “Steele Hates Puppies” newspaper headline in one of his commercials. I remember seeing him talk then and I liked him, so when he spoke at the RNC this fall, I made sure to watch his speech. Then I youTube’d him and watched many of his other speeches, and then looked up where he stands on the issues, and read his background story. There are a few things I don’t agree with him 100%, but to me, he was a shining star for the Republican party, but especially for the conservatives.
I remember after seeing his speech at the RNC and then reading about him, I told my mom that I had wished he had run. Well, that didn’t happen, so I would like to see Michael Steele in 2012.
Well, that is my input about the last week, and who I hope runs in 2012. I put the “Steele Hates Puppies” Commercial below, and his speech at the RNC below as well. I encourage everyone to at least look him up and watch some of his other speeches. One thing I learned from the Ron Paul movement is, there are others out there just like me and we wanted to be heard. I would be interested in hearing anything you know about Michael Steele, good or bad, since obviously I don’t have time to read or watch the news much these days. Any comments about what you see from watching these videos are also appreciated. Please abide by the commenting rules that are found on this blog, which is basically, keep it polite and treat others how you would like others to treat you.
Time to write an award nomination: 45 minutes.
Time to submit an award nomination anonymously: 2 minutes.
Finding out the submission was not anonymous from the nominee after the award ceremony: Priceless
This past week has left my heart feeling so heavy. Very heavy and somewhat empty. Lots of stuff has happened last week. Then Thursday something happened that changed everything. A few months ago I did something, which I thought one could submit anonymously, for someone who deserved recognition. Well, yesterday, she got an award based on what I had written up and apparently, it was not anonymous.
I saw her walking toward me with tears of happiness in her eyes. I asked her if everything was OK, and she grabbed me and hugged me. She knew. How did she know? She told me that she found out I had put her name in for an award. She thanked me for the nice things I had said about her and said I shouldn’t have… but she deserved them. She worked selflessly to do something that no one saw or appreciated, except me.
At that instant, God filled my heart. Full… no overflowing. I love doing things like this for others, but I usually try to keep myself out of the spotlight, by doing things like that anonymously, and it gives me such joy when I see them get so happy and they don’t know it was me. But she found out, and the fullness I had because of the hug and joy on her face, was such a blessing.
A while ago my boss, in all his messed up wisdom, decided to set up a huge meeting/demo of one of my projects. The fun part is, he invited and told everyone… but me. I found out at the last minute, and this demo I was supposed to be doing, I hadn’t even started on the project due to higher priorities. So after several 11 and 12 hour days, the day of the demo came. That was Thursday morning. Even if I had known about it for a few weeks, I don’t think I could have done what my boss had set me up to do. I got up Thursday morning and dreaded going to work. On the ride to work, I listed to one of my Harvest discs. I just felt so much better when I got to work, but I was still wondering how the day would turn out. I called Mike and my mom and asked for prayer. I just sat at my computer and prayed this verse:
Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my sighing. Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray. In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation. - Psalms 5:1-3
About a half an hour before the demo, I saw my boss walking in the door. The big demo was about to start soon. He im’ed my office mate and said that he was sick. Very sick. She asked him why he was even here. Within a few minutes, I got an im saying that he had caught a wicked cold and was going home for the day, and that he was canceling my demo.
Thank you God, for answering my prayer. God is good.
You would think by the sounds in my office that the end of the world was happening. People are hurting.
What is it that I worry about in this mess? Same thing that scares me the most - people. People panic and do really stupid things and cause more panic, which results in a hard to break cycle of panic and the resulting stupid actions. That is what scares me.
Me? I am OK. I have complete faith that God sees what I need and He will provide. My health has been kind of a mess lately, and yet, God has provided. I found myself being very frazzled with it all last week. My mom came up on Friday to help me out on my day off. She is such an amazing blessing, I can’t begin to tell you. I started to share with her the worries I had throughout the night. I asked her if I was doing the right thing, and why was I so frustrated. Why weren’t things easier, and why were all these things happening? She and I talked and she told me not to be worried about the things of the earth. She asked me if God had never provided my every need? He always had. The next verse she quoted, I knew well, but it stopped me dead in my tracks.
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” - Mark 8:36
I don’t know what is going on lately in the world, but the dark forces are out in full force. I think that is what was on my mind. There is a verse that hangs on my refrigerator to remind me of something very important when the world seems so full of evil:
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-9
Amen. Thank God for that. Sometimes, you just have one of those days, and I had one Friday. I felt so helpless, but with God, there is always hope. I share this because I know that many are worried about many things. I close with a verse that God was reminding me today, as others in my office were worrying about their 401K’s.
So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 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. - Matthew 6:31-4
I wasn’t feeling well today, and missed tennis tonight with Sam. :-( I laid on the couch and watched The Office, and then Mike offered to help me make some cookies, since I wasn’t feeling well. We made chocolate chip, plain (for me, the anti-chocoholic), and mint. Yum! I am glad he suggested the cookies. We had fun making AND eating them. We put the left over dough in the freezer for another time. Now, I am exhausted and full of warm yummy cookies.
First of all, I realized after just reading my last post that I gave James Madison credit for what Thomas Jefferson said. AH! I can’t believe I did that. I was thinking about another quote that James Madison said, and must have gotten it mixed up while typing. Sorry about that - I feel like a huge idiot. The Madison quote that I was thinking of was…
“We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to The Ten Commandments of God” - James Madison
Lots of stuff going on as usual. This blog was mainly to express my thoughts on things, especially related to my faith, but other things as well.
I just changed the background, which is nice… especially since blue is my favorite color, but I must admit, I loved that tornado background. I am thinking about changing it around a bit, but I am not sure right now. I wanted to change the title, but Mike thinks “Tending to Chaos” fits perfectly. I don’t know. We shall see.
My dad is safely back from his trip to Louisiana. He said he couldn’t get to the little town I grew up in, even after almost a week since the hurricane, it was still flooded. That is kind of sad, but not surprising, since it was so far south. My family down there are all fine. Damage happened, especially to my cousin’s house, but everyone was fine.
Work is piling up as usual. I am not sure if that is good or bad. I think it is good from the standpoint that people are happy with what I have done and want more. It is not good from the standpoint that I honestly feel like I am drowning in work most days. I guess that is what the title Senior Engineer means. *sigh* I guess “with great power comes great responsibility.”
I find it frustrating at times. I started out as an intern, then at graduation, was a mid-range engineer. I never really was a junior engineer, and in less than 3 years, I was promoted to the title senior. Something that takes most almost ten years, I have done in less than three. Freaks me out. People in my office found out I was in my mid-twenties the other day. I got a bunch of surprised faces. People say I look much younger, but they didn’t think I actually was as young as I am. Weird.
We survived tropical storm Hanna just fine. It was actually nice to get some rain finally. My mom came up to visit and we just unpacked some boxes and listened to John Denver (Rocky Mountain High - yeah!). My mom was a huge help as usual. There was a little flooding on the roads outside our house, but we were more than fine. Unfortunately, for some of my friends, they weren’t so lucky.
School is now back in session, and traffic has become unbelievable. Every September, it is so much worse than the previous year. Crazy. My 10 minute commute has gotten a bit longer lately. :-) I am hoping people will start learning how to drive eventually, but somehow I just doubt it.
Funny, I should mention traffic. I have started taking the time I am stuck in traffic and just turning into a prayer/praise time with the Lord. I find myself singing or praying out loud most mornings. I am sure everyone who passes me and sees me talking, thinks I am nuts, but I am finding it to be such a great way to start out my mornings.
Something I am learning first hand recently is not only that a house divided cannot stand, but when there is a non-believer trying to drive a wedge into a house that has a solid foundation built on Christ, the plan always back fires. The rains come, the rivers rise, but the solid foundation doesn’t falter. Lately we have seen people throwing large rocks at our foundation, trying to collapse a strong faith (mine especially, has been the target) in the Lord and they have not succeeded. They have caused us much annoyance, but they are not tearing the foundation down. In fact, I think in a lot of ways, it is just strengthening it.
Politics is starting to get on my nerves. One thing I have seen for certain is that many people are scared silly by Palin. Makes you wonder why. It is interesting. I have watched people practically start foaming at the mouth as soon as her name is mentioned. The other thing that just appalled me was when Biden basically said he is pro-choice because he doesn’t want to impose his religious belief on others. You are calling murder a religious belief that shouldn’t be imposed? Don’t even go there. That statement opens a logical can of worms that is insane. My question is, so why do we even have laws at all?! Why is murdering anyone even an issue with this logic? Disgusting and more so, frightening. People scare me. That is where I will leave the politics stuff, but seriously, this whole thing is spinning out of control.
Mike and I have been busy, still unpacking and organizing everything. We have gotten a lot done. We have got a lot of stuff coming down the road here in the next few months. It is going to be crazy! I am guessing that my posting will continue to be sporadic as I am just so busy.
Well, I am off to tend to the chaos of today, so I will talk to you all later. Thank you to all those who have stopped by lately. It is always good to hear from everyone.
The verse I close with is one that has inspired me in the past and so much recently:
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. - 1 Thessalonians 4:11-2
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. - Ephesians 6:12
There are times when people do you wrong. You didn’t have to do anything, but they are there attacking and trying to tear you down. This happened to me recently, and at first I was hurt, but then it didn’t stop and I became pissed off and extremely hateful of this person when no one could see. Or I thought no one could see. By anyone’s standards what this person did and said was inexcusable and I had a right to be angry.
God saw my heart and my attitude. Tonight, God showed me where I was wrong, as He so often does. I can sit in the corner and pout or yell about the wrongs done to me, or I can choose to do what is right and what God expects from me. I didn’t want to at first, but God told me I had to forgive them. I started to pray, next thing I know, a short prayer turned into me pouring my heart out and praying about things I didn’t realize I needed to be said.
Sometimes I just don’t understand why things happen the way they do, and I sometimes let things bother me and rip me apart, but God showed me something again tonight that He unfortunately has had to show me over and over again. How can I be an example for Christ when I am playing right into Satan’s hand? That is what Satan wants, to tear me down and keep me full of anger, instead of keeping my focus on God.I maybe a little bruised and bloody from the incident, but I can’t let that keep me from being a light for Christ. Being angry and hateful is not going to show Christ in me, and I would be a sorry excuse for a believer if I let what they did to me consume me.
I also realized something else, people do things without even understanding why they are doing what they are doing. This person isn’t a believer and what they did hit below the belt, and I don’t think they even fully realized what they was doing. Darkness hates the light for reasons it doesn’t understand. This incident was definitely a spiritual attack. I don’t want to go into what it was about, but there was something going on in my personal life and they couldn’t have known about it without a Satanic influence. When they brought it up, they claimed to have a vision about it, and then proceeded to go after me full force. There is no doubt this was an all out spiritual attack. Which is also the reason I cannot remain angry and hurt by what happened. The past few days, I have felt so burned out and consumed by it. I felt almost like throwing my hands up and giving up, but that is when God showed me what I needed to do to keep going. I needed to let it go, forgive them, and put my focus back on Christ.
Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we may boldly say: “The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?” - Hebrews 13:5-6
God, sometimes I just don’t understand why You put up with me. I am a mess. I am stubborn. I usually want to do everything on my own. And yet, somehow You love me anyway. And You sent Your Son to die for my sins. I don’t understand, I can’t comprehend the never ending love You have for me, but thank You. I wouldn’t have made it this far without You, thank You for never failing me and for never giving up on me.
Wow, it has been awhile. Between moving, working, vacationing, and tennising, the time has been going by too quickly. A lot of stuff has been going on recently.
We are now moved into our townhome. Not everything has been unpacked or organized, but we are living there. I think the thing I love most is the multiple stories of a town home. Our old place was completely on one floor. I really disliked that. Too much clutter seemed to build up easily since it was one giant living space almost. Now, things go upstairs, things go downstairs. I enjoy it very much! Everything room is clearly divided, which I also like. I am so glad we moved here, it has already been such a blessing. Cable TV and cable internet are part of the rent, so that has been neat. I haven’t had cable since I was a kid, so there are so many shows that I am finding interest in watching. I love the History channel. I think it is my favorite. I also love any shows where they show you how things work or how things are made. Sometimes it is nice while working to put the TV on in the background, which I have never really done in the past, usually there is music playing - so now I can mix it up.
The past couple of weeks a good friend, who was also my bridesmaid, and I have been playing tennis about 3 times a week! She and I have gotten addicted, and we are having a blast! We signed up for some classes twice a week, and we love our instructor and our classmates. A week ago Sunday, I hurt my wrist playing tennis with my friend (and it wasn’t her fault, even if I like to joke that it was), so I have been learning to play left handed, while my right wrist is healing. She and I went to class Monday night and we played King of the Mountain with the other students, and she and I (with my left hand only) we on a team for doubles and kicked serious butt! One of the other students commented after class that my friend and I played well together, which we really do. We do both have our weaknesses, but we are having a blast. I am so glad we are doing this together.
In marriage news, Mike and I had our one year anniversary last week! We had a great day. We got up and drove out to Skyline and we had a great day driving around and we went cave exploring! :-) I was worried that Mike wouldn’t enjoy spending our anniversary stomping around in a cavern, but he loved it - and me anything remotely sciency or anything like that, I love. We had a great time and Mike took some awesome pictures. We had a nice (very late) lunch. It was so nice to just spend some down time together.
I was off all last week and Mike was off for a few days for a vacation at home (the best kind there is) and just relaxed and got recharged. We saw “Dark Knight” and I thought it was great up until the very end. I won’t spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen it, but the moral of the story was kind of disturbing, in fact, it was way more disturbing than the Joker’s character. I think the Joker’s character was pretty good, but there were a few things that I was hoping for that I just didn’t get. Like near the end, when he asks Batman if he knew how he got the scars on his face (if you had seen the movie you would get this) and then the Joker didn’t tell him, I was dying for a story, and there wasn’t one. Oh well, maybe I am just picky.
Thursday and Friday, I spent some time down in my home town, where I grew up, while Mike was at work. My mom and I ran some errands, got some breakfast/lunch (or dinner not lunch, depending on where you’re from - for me, it’s dinner) out and did some shopping for the things Mike and I needed for our new place. She and I had a good time, on Friday we went to get our hair cut. This was a big deal for me because I have almost always had short hair, except for the last few years, when I was growing long for weddings and such. I got it cut short and everyone, most importantly Mike, loves it. When I say short, it is still very feminine - I wouldn’t have it any other way. After getting the hairs (inside joke with Mike) cut, I had supper with my mom and dad and just enjoyed some time talking and being with them. Their house will always seem like home, I think. Maybe it is because Mike and I live in NoVA, which neither of us is a fan, and it is just too crowded and crazy to seem like home. Whenever I hit the county border, things change, you can feel it. It is different. Pickup trucks, horse farms, trees everywhere, country roads, a stillness/peacefulness as you drive/walk, old town, it all feels… it just feels right. Things are slower there, more comfortable, and everyone is friendly. It is the place where you can belong. It draws you in, and you don’t want to leave. Maybe it’s because I am a country girl and a southerner, I don’t know, but that town is a part of me. More so than any other place I have ever lived, and that is more than I can count. I miss that place, I wish it was closer to work, I would move there in a heartbeat.
The best man in our wedding just moved away. Off to get his PHD in Nuclear engineering. I miss hanging out with him already. I always looked forward to meeting him for supper after church and just spending endless hours talking about anything he, Mike and I find interesting. We all had kind of a sick sense of humor, which just made everything so much more fun. I am going to miss those conversations.
Well, it is almost time for my tennis class. Cheers!
God works in mysterious ways. As I was writing that post yesterday about praying that God would show us where to move, Mike got a call, saying a town home that we had asked about had become available. Apparently, the people who were going to take it, changed their mind. Mike went over and talked to the property manager and found out that they are going to repaint the whole thing and replace all the carpeting, which is such a blessing because of my severe allergies. As of now, all the doors are being opened for us to move into this town house. It is really nice, it is an end unit, with a one car attached garage with 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths. I am really excited.
Today is a rediculously hot day, even for VA and it is only June. Our a/c has been on the fritz since last year, but for some reason, it is working in full force today and it nice and cool here. I think it was low on freon, maybe the complex checked and saw it needed some juice. :-) Thank God for being able to be cool on this near 100 degree day. Oh and did I mention humidity is at 110 percent?
My management at work, actually decided to pay us for Thursday. When power is out, we are supposed to go to another building or take vacation. They decided to have some mercy on us and allow us to charge the whole day to overhead. This is really a blessing since I will need as much vacation as I can get for the big exodus approaching.
God has seen us through another week and He has continued to send an outpouring of blessings on us.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. - Psalms 100:4-5
Well, what a crazy few weeks it’s been. Mike and I were looking at having a house built for the past couple of months. I had been really wondering what God wanted us to do and praying and praying and praying. As we went through each step, I prayed for God’s mercy and guidance. God finally, at the eleventh hour, slammed that door shut. It was slammed shut in such a way that Mike and I knew God was telling us to hold onto our money and wait. What God wants us to wait for is still unclear. So we are waiting for God to show us where to go. A lot of things are about to happen around here. Housing reports in NoVA are showing that housing may drop as much as another 10-15 percent, reducing house prices a whole 25% if that happens. We are about to see some interesting times with the fall election (and I am not thrilled by either candidate), and the next president could very well make or break this area. Most of this area survives because of the government, such as the DoD. If that budget is raped, like it was 15 years ago under the previous administration, we may see NoVA fall apart financially. Mike and I will be fine, but housing may continue to fall, which would might cost us a lot. I am not sure what the future has in store, but God’s got a hold of it and He continues to send an outpour of blessings on Mike and I.
Mike and I both had our commutes cut by about 75%, so gas prices are not worrying us in the least. I use to use about a tank just during the work week alone. Now I am filling up about every 3 weeks. Praise God for that blessing.
On Wednesday, our area got hit with one of the most powerful storms I can remember. Tornadoes everywhere, it seemed and one spotted near us. I was sitting quietly at work, my officemate and I had the local news station playing in the background when I heard about the storm headed our way. I called Mike and he and his officemate left immediately. I decided to stay, and went and moved my car to shelter, since they were calling for 1″ hail. As soon as I got out of my car, I literally ran to the door and just as the door closed behind me that winds started tearing apart trees and branches were flying everywhere. I started walking up the stairs to my office and just as I arrived at my floor, my officemate told me they were telling everyone to go to the basements to seek shelter. We went down and sat there. Power went out. And we sat there. The emergency signal with announcements kept coming over the loudspeaker asking everyone to get as far away from windows or other possible “danger” zones as possible. We sat there and talked. She is a Christian and we just bonded while the outside world was being torn apart. I had no way of knowing Mike was safe. As I sat on the floor, I prayed for Mike, my sister, my dad, and my birds - they were all stuck in the middle of this storm. We were finally told that the worst of the storm had passed. My officemate and I walked up the stairs. We were still without power, and as we looked out our office window, we could see trees that had been struck by lightning, trees and branches that had fallen on cars and debris everywhere. I called my husband. Mike made it home! The birds were OK! His car was fine. I called my mom. She, my dad, and sister were OK! Praise God!
It took us 4 hours in the dark before we could leave because power had taken out all the traffic lights, causing traffic to back up so badly, it was backing up all the way in the parking lots! My teammates and I congregated and told stories and laughed. Finally, it was time to leave. I was on my way home, traffic was bad with all the traffic lights being out and the downed branches and trees everywhere. My sister called and was without power, so I picked her up and we went back to my place. The wreckage was unbelievable. There were branches, downed trees and siding from buildings everywhere. She and I had dinner and played some video games as the storms kept coming through.
Thursday, I got to work to find no power! Apparently, the storm had blown a transformer and with all the other storms, the power crews couldn’t work on it. We were told to go home and enjoy our day off! Mike also arrived at work to find no power, so he was also sent home. Mike and I relaxed and spent a great day together. We drove around NoVA to assess the damage, and it looks like near where I work saw the absolute worst. It was crazy. I grew up in very southern Louisiana and saw many bad hurricanes, and that is what that cell looked like, the wind was extreme and the lightning was lighting up the sky at a fast pace. It was quite a beautiful storm, actually. Watching something that powerful is breath taking. How anyone could live through a storm like that and see the awesomeness of our Creator and still not believe in God confounds me.
Today, power is up, so I could go to work. I can’t wait for this weekend. There has been way too much excitement in my life this week.
Before I go, I have a great story to share. One morning this week (not sure which one), I was driving to work, when God warned me about the guy that I was next to on the highway. My eyes somehow saw his tire wobbling a bit, something I would have never noticed, unless I had known to look. I sped up a bit and passed him. Just after I got around him, I looked in my rear view mirror to see his tire bouncing across the street and him losing control of the front of his car and swerving all over the place. If I had not seen that tire, there would have been an accident. The tire and/or his car WOULD have hit my car. What a mess that would have been! Sometimes, it is the small things that God shows you that saves you from a huge mess. God has definitely had His angels watching over me this week. Praise the Lord!
Psalms 91 is one of my favorite chapters in the Bible, so I will close with a verse from that chapter that seems so fitting.
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. - Psalms 91:11
