Blah, Blah, Blah!!!: "HIT" HIGH

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

"HIT" HIGH

Never, in the history of this blog, have I had as many "hits" as today! (A "hit" is just blog jargon for how many people read the blog.) Our happiness spread like wildfire and I am humbled by the many, many people that have emailed me. Thanks so much for sharing in our joy...and hanging in there with me when my weary heart despaired! I even learned a new symbol: \0/

Can you tell what it means? It's me praising God for His unfailing love! Cute, huh?

I was also surprised that so many people didn't know what an Ebenezer is...and even MORE surprised at how many actually thought of Scrooge! You people are so funny!!!

Bill went in to talk with his boss today. They have a new contract and asked him to report to work on Monday. This contract will be good for at least 6 months and possibly longer. They have always wanted to hire Bill as a direct employee rather than as a contractor, but until the firm gets more steady work, it's just not possible. Needless to say, we are just thankful that he is working again.

I had so much fun at work this morning. We made our own play dough. Homemade play dough is identical to the store stuff except it has no color; it's just kind of a sickly, pasty white. Well, we added food coloring and carefully created all the layers of the earth (crust, mantle, core, etc.). I still have green and blue skin from all the kneading and rolling, but our projects turned out great...should have had my camera!

That's it for now...time for bed!!! \O/ :)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Joyce
Its so neat to be reading your blog again.My computer crashed and its been in the repair shop for a week.I received a virus and couldnt be eliminated untill my repair guy buried it.Having one at my disposal sure beats taking it to the GEEK SQUAD and taking a mortgage out on my desk top.While mine was in the repair shop i went to the library to use their computer JUST TO READ your blog and making it a pleasant day and knowing that you were smiling again & it was going to be a good day once again.SEE prayer does work and prayers do get answered sometime very slowly
Keep on blogging and Stay Happy
Henry; September 17, 2009 at 8:31 PM

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One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.
--Jerry Bridges

God is doing a greater work in us, and that can only come as we learn to trust Him no matter how dark the days and sleepless the nights. And it is only as we have been through the darkness with Him that what we know with our heads slides down into our hearts, and our hearts no longer demand answers. The “Why?” becomes unimportant when we believe that God can and will redeem the pain for our good and his glory. . . . When I put the sovereignty of God beside His unfailing love, my heart can rest.
--Verdell Davis

Our circumstances are not an accurate reflection of God's goodness. Whether life is good or bad, God's goodness, rooted in His character, is the same.
--Helen Grace Lescheid

All of us have wondered at times why God doesn't do more to fix our problems. But our human eyes often fail to see that God isn't rushing to change our circumstances because he is concerned with a much more serious problem -- our character. While you struggle with the woes of this world, God's main occupation is preparing you for the world to come. The focus of what God is doing in your life takes place in you, not around you.
--Andy Stanley, in "Like A Rock"

There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart.
--Alan Redpath

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this: irritations get into his shell . . . . and when he cannot get rid of them, he uses the irritations to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only prescription: make a pearl . . . . And it takes faith and love to do it.
--Harry Emerson Fosdick

What a difference it makes when a trial comes, to see in it not the hand of an avenger, but the loving discipline of a father and the gentle admonition of a mother! God would not have us feel even the shadow of His anger. Judgment hardens the spirit and God never wants to break the spirit of His obedient child, but to win us by His love and transform us by the gentleness. Beloved, let us ever look upon our trials in the tender light of the Father’s love. It is not the token of His displeasure, but the very pledge of His jealous love, a love so inexorable that it will not let us miss His holiest and best.
--A. B. Simpson

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