It's been a while

Yeah, it's been a while since I have blogged. I haven't been journaling a lot but I have been reading. Not so much non fiction, but fictional stories. I am loving the Amish tales of Beverly Lewis.

My friend Jackie and I have decided to not a do a Bible Study, but a study on Philippians. Study meaning that we are going to slowly go through it.

So, I have the week off of school. Each day I have something to do. A dinner with a friend to catch up on things, dinner with another friend to catch up on other things. Jenny and I are having a garage sale over at Mom's house on Friday and Saturday. We have everything ready from the last one, we will just have to sweep the driveway and put up a couple of other signs. I have even more clothes and books from the last one. We are going to donate the rest of the things to Goodwill and not hold on to things for this coming summer.

Also, this past weekend at church we had a sermon on Rest. Really a sermon on Sabbath. What do to and not to do kind of. This is what I wrote down.

Sabbath is one whole day. Not just a couple of hours here and there. It's a whole day to unplug.
Sabbath is a day for refilling.
Rushing all through the week takes away things and this is the time to come back to God and sit.

God wants to take the things off of you that others put on.

Rest is oxygen for my heart.

And so I have a week of rest. I could be watching tv and playing on Farmville, or I can just be resting. Sleeping more, reading the books that I have had to read in a basket downstairs, and I can have conversations with the Lord by just being quiet and still. You can't be quiet and still while working 11 hour days. You can for about 20 minutes during lunch time and then you get back to work or think/make lists about what I need to do.

Joyce Meyer is coming to the Qwinnett Arena next weekend. Oh, how I love Joyce. I have in the past not liked her b/c I think she is frank and I didn't want frankness even though that's what I need the most. I have been listening to her broadcasts today and yesterday while I was doing things on the computer. I a little while ago googled Andy Stanley, who I loved listening to at North Point when I attended there. The first thing that came up was the sermons about The New Rules for Sex, Love, and Dating. Is that so not what I needed to hear? So as I am typing I am listening to Andy talk about dating. I am on the second part, but I its really good.

www.northpoint.org/messages

It's The New Rules for Sex, Love, and Dating.