I'm Still Around

I'm happy, tired, and brain-dead. Things are going well with church, with home, and with job...although I still find myself having the occasional "melt-down" from the sheer volume contained in life nowadays.

There's constant change and stretching at work as we ready for the new "Genesis" system installation in 10 days. Tim and I are currently attending separate churches, for our own separate reasons, and we're doing fine with that for now. Baby Paige is 5 months old today, and growing like a cute little ole' weed. Both daughters here will be graduating at the end of April. Katie will be finishing up cosmetology and Tonya has one more final and she'll be a qualified radiology tech. ...and then I can take a long, deep, sigh of relief. We're flying out in July to the older girls and baby Abigail.

And in the midst of it, I've been making it my constant goal to give my life every more completely over to Christ. At this time of constant change and growth, there's an excitement that our future is wide open. I have made a conscious choice to seek out and surrender to God's plan for our future.

I've just finished reading Joyce Meyer's "Battlefield of the Mind". Great book. I would recommend it for anyone. I just can't say enough about her style of putting it right out there, no excuses, and making you know that you and God can do just about anything. I'm just starting into Don Piper's "90 Minutes in Heaven". Riveting book. I'm on page 65 and already it's been an amazing journey.

How do I find the time? Whenever I can. Obviously, it's been too difficult to find the time and thought processes to blog, and I pretty much have given up TV as a waste of time and brain-matter. I've been getting up at 5:00 am to do a chronological study through the Bible with an electronic Bible library Tim bought years ago. I read a chapter, and then I read the commentary. The history of the Israelites has come alive for me as I've followed their 40 years in the wilderness. I've learned more than I could have ever imagined by really taking a look at their relationship with God during that journey.

And Ame....when are you going to be here!!??? Do we really get to meet??!