Friday, February 23, 2018
Lord, Do You Need My Help?
This week, in the study of The Patriarchs, time has been spent with Rebekah...time I needed, time that has resulted in my being less enamored with her! I just so love the romance of Isaac and Rebekah. They pause...see each other for the first time...love sparks...they run to decrease the distance between...and they live happily ever after. Or not. No. Yes.
Then, she gets pregnant. With twins. What a happy time. Or not. No. Yes?
The younger grabs the heel of the younger. Rebekah is told, "The older shall serve the younger."
As it just so happens, she prefers the younger.
Wait.
She is the mother to both...the older AND the younger. Times have not changed that much! A mom loves her babies. How could she not?
My enamoredness declines!
As I continued to ponder on this lesson...and later discussed with my husband...sometimes NOT knowing is just for the best. Certainly so, in my case, for I know myself. I would just be too tempted to help out. Just a little. Here. And there. Or a lot!
Thank you, Jesus, for saving me from myself!
As I meander over my past, I can now say...isn't hindsight truly 20/20?!...my ways may not be His Ways, but His Ways I always want to my ways. Every day I seek this more.
Amen!
Then, she gets pregnant. With twins. What a happy time. Or not. No. Yes?
The younger grabs the heel of the younger. Rebekah is told, "The older shall serve the younger."
As it just so happens, she prefers the younger.
Wait.
She is the mother to both...the older AND the younger. Times have not changed that much! A mom loves her babies. How could she not?
My enamoredness declines!
As I continued to ponder on this lesson...and later discussed with my husband...sometimes NOT knowing is just for the best. Certainly so, in my case, for I know myself. I would just be too tempted to help out. Just a little. Here. And there. Or a lot!
Thank you, Jesus, for saving me from myself!
As I meander over my past, I can now say...isn't hindsight truly 20/20?!...my ways may not be His Ways, but His Ways I always want to my ways. Every day I seek this more.
Amen!
Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Pouring Into
This year, I have been reading a devotion a day from Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost for His Highest, a collection of his scriptures/topics his wife put together after he passed. Isn’t it just amazing how God can have you in a book in such a timely fashion?
Consider this scripture:
If I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. - Philippians 2:17
God immediately placed a few areas of my life right there:
- Our Women’s Conf at church. What a powerful way to approach the conference! Not want is in the event for me, but how can God use me to pour into others that they may receive such a blessing! Lord, even now, please begin to prepare the hearts of the women who need to attend this event.
- My sister...who is again in the hospital with issues that stem from the surgery she had on Sept. 11. What a journey. What a rollercoaster. Dips and turns. Just never quite anticipating what will happen next. Trying to keep the right attitude when decisions are not made as I would have made them. Learning how to pour into others...even when I don’t want to. Especially when I don’t want do. Lord, help me here to be to my sister and the other three you are using to guide this journey. We need a Shepherd in a mighty way to keep us together, United.
- My students...as I get to know them more. They each have baggage and backgrounds that just melt your soul right down to compassion. So many of them needed pouring into. Lord, place those in my path who need the most pouring into. Then, help me love them as you love them! I know...the ones who need the pouring...may be the one who challenge that very pouring the most!
How is God speaking to you about this scripture? Over whom do you need to pour into?
What I know? We just can’t outpour God! We pour...He fills us up again.
As the song goes, Lord, feed me ‘til I want no more. Fill my cup. Fill it up and make me whole.
Amen.
Saturday, January 13, 2018
2018 Winter Bible Studies...Coming UP!
A new year. A new round of Bible studies for me!
Chronological Bible One-Year Read
Again, this year I will read the Bible chronologically, using this plan found here. This will be my third such journey through the Bible, through which I have learned more about this living book than in my previous years combined. Seriously. This is beginning to place the Biblical events in a more orderly fashion for me...which I needed.
My first read of the Bible took two years: in 2015, I read the Old Testament; then in 2016, I read the New Testament. Last year...the whole Bible! Yay!
Why again? Still so much to learn and organize in my mind. Even in the past 13 days, I have discovered so many nuggets I missed during the first two reads. Powerful! There is power in The Word. He meets me there...every morning.
This year, I hope to ponder and write and ponder...and ponder...on a series of posts entitled Between the Verses, not to add or take away anything from the Bible (never!)...but simply to ponder on the lessons there when I slow down, get quiet, and allow God to speak to me. The first one is there, sprouting, growing...yes, will be my next blog post!
Joanna Weaver's Bible Read
Click here to find more info about this one. I am just participating in part of this one: the reading of My Utmost for His Highest. That little jewel is full of multiple nuggets each day! A collection of his lectures and talks, Oswald Chambers' wife compiled and published them in 1927.
The version I am reading, edited for today's language by James Reimann, still takes two readings for me to grasp all he was saying. Well...some of what he is saying! I predict this will be one I will re-read yearly! (Going to being looking for a hardback copy...mine is paperback; I plan to wear it out! Yay!)
Making Choices: Beth Moore's The Patriarchs
We began this study last fall. I regret not holding off until January to begin, for with the holidays and such, the study was halted for over a month. I "felt" a year ago to host Max Lucado's Because of Bethlehem. I regret that decision. (Note to self: Heed that inner voice!)
BUT. We are off and studying again. We met last week. Already, what a powerful study. Looking forward to learning...and learning.
Have enjoyed getting to know Hagar more. Did you know? Throughout the Bible, she is the only one to ever name God? What an experience she must have had with Him that day! Can you imagine? Sure, you can! You have been down and out...and felt no one cared...and then that Small, Still Voice begins to nudge you. He cares for YOU!
Poor Hagar (not that she had always been Little Miss Innocent!)...pregnant, seemingly on her own...but then He showed up in a mighty way! That's must My God! Yes!
More about this study coming up! An 11-week study, we have completed three. Since we meet just twice a month...yes, four months in this study, which is awesome. Much time to marinate on the lesson He wants to teach me...and my other seven lady Jesus Gal Pals. Love them...and very thankful God has placed them in my life in this particular setting.
Side Note: Beth Moore will be in our state in August! Last fall, at a women's event, I won two tickets to this event. Wow!
Sunday Evening Discipleship Training Class
Just before Christmas, I asked a friend to lead this class beginning in the new year. He agreed, for which I am thankful...as God liberated me to do less in my church. (More about this also throughtout 2018!)
He chose to continue the second study in the Summer 2017 Masterwork Lifeway curriculum. I am soooooo glad, as this study focuses on Adrian Rogers' The Kingdom Authority. We just started this one...have some reading to do today!
With each study, I purchase the book on which the study is based and dive a bit deeper. This I enjoy. Marking up the text. Making it mine. Marinating more on His Word. All gifts to me.
Online Bible Study: Lifeway's and Priscilla Shirer's Discerning the Voice of God
Begins January 18...as in next Thursday! Sign up here! A seven-week study, this one allows you to be as involved as you would like. Watch the videos (free during the study!). Complete the study guide. Read the accompanying book Awaken : 90 Days with the God Who Speaks. (The last two...the study guide and book are on sale for just $20 at Lifeway...or it was...hummm...cannot find the special online. I purchased mine in the store before Christmas...)
Some time ago, Making Choices (my Bible study group) studied Fervent along with a War Room study. Enjoyed it very much!
Sunday School: The Gospel Project
Currently, I teach the Sunday morning youth class, and we are studying Acts. Oh, the hidden beauty of leading/teaching a class: I always learn so much more than the participants. That's just how God is...we can never outdo Him! Ever.
Stephen. Phillip. Saul. Paul. Learning much. Gleaning much. Hopefully...sharing much.
______________________________
There. That's my winter focuses!
Should you want to join me in any of these studies, just comment below. I would be honored to study His Word with you.
How about you? In what study, in what Word has God placed you? Please share!
Chronological Bible One-Year Read
Again, this year I will read the Bible chronologically, using this plan found here. This will be my third such journey through the Bible, through which I have learned more about this living book than in my previous years combined. Seriously. This is beginning to place the Biblical events in a more orderly fashion for me...which I needed.
My first read of the Bible took two years: in 2015, I read the Old Testament; then in 2016, I read the New Testament. Last year...the whole Bible! Yay!
Why again? Still so much to learn and organize in my mind. Even in the past 13 days, I have discovered so many nuggets I missed during the first two reads. Powerful! There is power in The Word. He meets me there...every morning.
This year, I hope to ponder and write and ponder...and ponder...on a series of posts entitled Between the Verses, not to add or take away anything from the Bible (never!)...but simply to ponder on the lessons there when I slow down, get quiet, and allow God to speak to me. The first one is there, sprouting, growing...yes, will be my next blog post!
Joanna Weaver's Bible Read
Click here to find more info about this one. I am just participating in part of this one: the reading of My Utmost for His Highest. That little jewel is full of multiple nuggets each day! A collection of his lectures and talks, Oswald Chambers' wife compiled and published them in 1927.
The version I am reading, edited for today's language by James Reimann, still takes two readings for me to grasp all he was saying. Well...some of what he is saying! I predict this will be one I will re-read yearly! (Going to being looking for a hardback copy...mine is paperback; I plan to wear it out! Yay!)
Making Choices: Beth Moore's The Patriarchs
We began this study last fall. I regret not holding off until January to begin, for with the holidays and such, the study was halted for over a month. I "felt" a year ago to host Max Lucado's Because of Bethlehem. I regret that decision. (Note to self: Heed that inner voice!)
BUT. We are off and studying again. We met last week. Already, what a powerful study. Looking forward to learning...and learning.
Have enjoyed getting to know Hagar more. Did you know? Throughout the Bible, she is the only one to ever name God? What an experience she must have had with Him that day! Can you imagine? Sure, you can! You have been down and out...and felt no one cared...and then that Small, Still Voice begins to nudge you. He cares for YOU!
Poor Hagar (not that she had always been Little Miss Innocent!)...pregnant, seemingly on her own...but then He showed up in a mighty way! That's must My God! Yes!
More about this study coming up! An 11-week study, we have completed three. Since we meet just twice a month...yes, four months in this study, which is awesome. Much time to marinate on the lesson He wants to teach me...and my other seven lady Jesus Gal Pals. Love them...and very thankful God has placed them in my life in this particular setting.
Side Note: Beth Moore will be in our state in August! Last fall, at a women's event, I won two tickets to this event. Wow!
Sunday Evening Discipleship Training Class
Just before Christmas, I asked a friend to lead this class beginning in the new year. He agreed, for which I am thankful...as God liberated me to do less in my church. (More about this also throughtout 2018!)
He chose to continue the second study in the Summer 2017 Masterwork Lifeway curriculum. I am soooooo glad, as this study focuses on Adrian Rogers' The Kingdom Authority. We just started this one...have some reading to do today!
With each study, I purchase the book on which the study is based and dive a bit deeper. This I enjoy. Marking up the text. Making it mine. Marinating more on His Word. All gifts to me.
Online Bible Study: Lifeway's and Priscilla Shirer's Discerning the Voice of God
Begins January 18...as in next Thursday! Sign up here! A seven-week study, this one allows you to be as involved as you would like. Watch the videos (free during the study!). Complete the study guide. Read the accompanying book Awaken : 90 Days with the God Who Speaks. (The last two...the study guide and book are on sale for just $20 at Lifeway...or it was...hummm...cannot find the special online. I purchased mine in the store before Christmas...)
Some time ago, Making Choices (my Bible study group) studied Fervent along with a War Room study. Enjoyed it very much!
Sunday School: The Gospel Project
Currently, I teach the Sunday morning youth class, and we are studying Acts. Oh, the hidden beauty of leading/teaching a class: I always learn so much more than the participants. That's just how God is...we can never outdo Him! Ever.
Stephen. Phillip. Saul. Paul. Learning much. Gleaning much. Hopefully...sharing much.
______________________________
There. That's my winter focuses!
Should you want to join me in any of these studies, just comment below. I would be honored to study His Word with you.
How about you? In what study, in what Word has God placed you? Please share!
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
In the Spirit
This morning, as I continue my chronological read of the Bible (just four days remain...and four more readings), I paused on an expression by John in the book of Revelation and then scanned down to the study note to read that John scripted this expression four times throughout the book: "And instantly I was in the Spirit..." (Rev. 4:2a)
To many, John is an example of enduring nearly the impossible: boiled in oil. What a harsh repercussion for standing for the Lord. Yet. Following this, he was banished to Patmos where he was given Revelation. Here, we learn how the story ends...and then continues into eternity. Praises!
Part of me thinks that John would suffer even much more to be "in the Spirit." Okay...all of me! Wow! I can only imagine. Can you? To be in the Spirit...to see that old dragon conquered once and for all...to see The One on the white Horse, riding in, to save me...and you...for all eternity.
Just makes you want to raise those hands and begin the praising!
As 2017 comes to a close, I want this scripture. I claim this scripture: "And instantly I was in the Spirit..."...through reading His Word, through praying to Him, through fellowship with my Christian brothers and sisters centered around learning The Word ever more. When I face the questions, the tasks, the stalemates, I want to be so close to Him that He answers for me, that He fills my brain for of His Understanding, His Love, His Knowledge. Just. Like. That.
Several years ago, the Lord began awaking me early...wide awake...as in, no chance or even want-to to return to snoozing under those warm covers. I, instantly, visualized that first cup of coffee...and spending time with Him in The Word. Over the past three years, I have read the Bible cover to cover, using a chronological Bible. The best of times, learning more Bible than I previously knew...ever. (I have also completed several Bible studies, which contributed to my learning also...and I, too, have listened more attentively to messages at church. Yep. That really helps!)
I have much to learn. The more I learn, the more I am concerned I am still drinking milk...and not eating enough meat, as Paul discusses in I Corinthians. I like milk. But. I need protein. I need that meat! I need that "instantly in the Spirit." For the times when I am reading The Word. For those in need of a Word who God will plant in my path. For revelations that occur when I re-read a verse for the upteenth time and finally understand what I did not before. Yes, I need and want meat!
As this year draws to a close, I am watching for verses to take into 2018 with me....yes, Rev. 4:2a, this one will go with me.
What has been your verse(s) for 2017? Had God given you any for 2018? Just ask Him...He will!
Blessings!
To many, John is an example of enduring nearly the impossible: boiled in oil. What a harsh repercussion for standing for the Lord. Yet. Following this, he was banished to Patmos where he was given Revelation. Here, we learn how the story ends...and then continues into eternity. Praises!
Part of me thinks that John would suffer even much more to be "in the Spirit." Okay...all of me! Wow! I can only imagine. Can you? To be in the Spirit...to see that old dragon conquered once and for all...to see The One on the white Horse, riding in, to save me...and you...for all eternity.
Just makes you want to raise those hands and begin the praising!
As 2017 comes to a close, I want this scripture. I claim this scripture: "And instantly I was in the Spirit..."...through reading His Word, through praying to Him, through fellowship with my Christian brothers and sisters centered around learning The Word ever more. When I face the questions, the tasks, the stalemates, I want to be so close to Him that He answers for me, that He fills my brain for of His Understanding, His Love, His Knowledge. Just. Like. That.
Several years ago, the Lord began awaking me early...wide awake...as in, no chance or even want-to to return to snoozing under those warm covers. I, instantly, visualized that first cup of coffee...and spending time with Him in The Word. Over the past three years, I have read the Bible cover to cover, using a chronological Bible. The best of times, learning more Bible than I previously knew...ever. (I have also completed several Bible studies, which contributed to my learning also...and I, too, have listened more attentively to messages at church. Yep. That really helps!)
I have much to learn. The more I learn, the more I am concerned I am still drinking milk...and not eating enough meat, as Paul discusses in I Corinthians. I like milk. But. I need protein. I need that meat! I need that "instantly in the Spirit." For the times when I am reading The Word. For those in need of a Word who God will plant in my path. For revelations that occur when I re-read a verse for the upteenth time and finally understand what I did not before. Yes, I need and want meat!
As this year draws to a close, I am watching for verses to take into 2018 with me....yes, Rev. 4:2a, this one will go with me.
What has been your verse(s) for 2017? Had God given you any for 2018? Just ask Him...He will!
Blessings!
Saturday, December 23, 2017
God Has a Face
This season, I have spent some time in Max Lucado's Because of Bethlehem and have so enjoyed his perspective...especially on God's choice to have a face; he came as a baby.
Why?
As we discussed in our youth Sunday School class, Jesus could have come as anyone, as any of our favorite heroes...I chose Iron Man! Seriously! Jesus really IS Iron Man!
BUT He came as a baby.
Why?
He knew that one day I would need to know that He lived and faced and conquered every sin that I will ever tempt me...that He did so and never sinned...that He did so and sacrificed himself just for me. And you.
Can you image the emotions that Mary felt as she first perused the face of Jesus, knowing who He really was...and is...and will be?
There, she held The Perfection. Yet. The mom in her must have searched, touched, loved on her first baby, her son, Baby Jesus.
This face would change the world. This face would change me. This face continues to change me.
Thank you, God, for sending a face to the earth.
Merry CHRISTmas to me...and you!
Why?
As we discussed in our youth Sunday School class, Jesus could have come as anyone, as any of our favorite heroes...I chose Iron Man! Seriously! Jesus really IS Iron Man!
BUT He came as a baby.
Why?
He knew that one day I would need to know that He lived and faced and conquered every sin that I will ever tempt me...that He did so and never sinned...that He did so and sacrificed himself just for me. And you.
Can you image the emotions that Mary felt as she first perused the face of Jesus, knowing who He really was...and is...and will be?
"...and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger..." (Luke 2:7)I can remember as a new mom, just staring at my baby's face, searching for continual perfections. Unwrapping the blankets, checking out the toes, inspecting each finger, the ears...just in love with each and every cell.
There, she held The Perfection. Yet. The mom in her must have searched, touched, loved on her first baby, her son, Baby Jesus.
This face would change the world. This face would change me. This face continues to change me.
Thank you, God, for sending a face to the earth.
Merry CHRISTmas to me...and you!
Saturday, December 16, 2017
Christmas Break Begins
Today...my 26th Christmas break (as a teacher) began...and I spent the day with The Husband...out and about, meeting family, having lunch, shopping some, checking off my Christmas to-do list, the one that I just began today, as this has been quite the busy time, a busy semester, a busy month...just busy!
Speaking of busy...may I backtrack...and share three Christmas parties I attended this week?
God's timing is just perfect, isn't it? Just when I need this rest, He provides two weeks just for me...(well, and every other teacher across the land!) He is just BIG that way!
Today...Day 1...I have enjoyed...and then on the way home, The Husband shared...reminded me...that this year's Christmas Eve Hayride will be the 25th year. Wow! He wanted a sign...I envisioned a painting, a real one, that we might keep and hang as a souvenir, so the idea was planted and is already coming to fruition, for he found the board, and the painting has begun...finished product to be chatted about in a future post.
A very good day!
Hope you find rest this season. Merry Christmas!
Speaking of busy...may I backtrack...and share three Christmas parties I attended this week?
- Making Choices Bible Study...dinner with my Jesus Gal Pals. This one time, we have dinner, play Dirty Santa with ornaments, and laugh...and laugh. A good time! These seven ladies bless me...all the way to my soul.
- Then, on to Wednesday evening and Christmas with the children and youth at church, where we made snowflake ornaments and discussed how God made us...all different yet the same. Goodness, were these kiddos hyped up! Used that energy to make those ornaments to place on the now full tree!
- On Thursday evening, the Women's Ministry Team provided dinner for the pastors' wives in our church association, followed by a paint party, hosted by self-trained me. We painted one I entitled "He Grew the Trees." Yes, He grew the very trees on which He and the two thieves would one day hang.
A blessed season this has already been.
Yet...I am so looking forward to the next two weeks, for I so need Matthew 11:28:
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."I need sleep. I need to not talk. I need to cook (and clean!). I need hours at home with nowhere to go. I need snow. (AND this awesome white stuff is in the forecast...multiple times! Yay!) I need rest.
God's timing is just perfect, isn't it? Just when I need this rest, He provides two weeks just for me...(well, and every other teacher across the land!) He is just BIG that way!
Today...Day 1...I have enjoyed...and then on the way home, The Husband shared...reminded me...that this year's Christmas Eve Hayride will be the 25th year. Wow! He wanted a sign...I envisioned a painting, a real one, that we might keep and hang as a souvenir, so the idea was planted and is already coming to fruition, for he found the board, and the painting has begun...finished product to be chatted about in a future post.
A very good day!
Hope you find rest this season. Merry Christmas!
Friday, December 15, 2017
Less Is More
This has been a liberating season for me. May I share?
For years (literally!), my calling at my church has been to fill in...just wherever I was needed. The problem? Once I begin something, though, that event, project, endeavor becomes my baby, and who likes throwing out the baby with the dishwater? (From wherever did that saying begin?!)
Then, a series of serious events (at least to me!) begin to happen...until the straw broke (yes, I do seem be full of cliches this evening!). As I accepted the broken straw...over a span of minutes...maybe a few hours?...there came a liberation from the Lord to give up. Not to give up. To just begin doing my part. This week has been just that, a time to reflect and to share, to choose, to let go, to begin doing less, so that I might begin doing more.
My prayer request this week to my prayer team has been that God grant me wisdom as I listen and He continues to guide. Would you pray that prayer for me...that wisdom be given to me, that I use only His Wisdom?
I really need to do less so that I might do more.
I need more time with the Lord: time to be in His Word. This year I will complete only my second reading of the Bible cover to cover. Shame on me! I should have been doing this for years! Much is to be said about reading the Bible chronologically and absorbing the narrative of His Coming...from Genesis to Revelations.
Yes, slowing down and reading less is also important. Choosing a study and landing there to marinate in The Word. Slowing down and re-reading verses, chapters, even books of the Bible, absorbing the answers as He speaks through the pages of my several Bibles.
I really need to do less so that I might do more.
Being over involved simply means that I am stretched too thin, resulting in my never quite accomplishing much to my potential. Yes, many activities occur, fellowships are hosted, events occur....but am I also hindering others from working for The Lord? I hope not. I certainly do not want to one day hear, "Lord, I would done more for the church, but Tammy...she just took care of things." What?! No!
I really need to do less so that I might do more.
More with my family. The Husband has been diagnosed with a rare form of arthritis in his feet. The Girl, who is doing well, well...I am not willing to give up these years anymore and miss time with her. Some weeks, I am gone 4-5 nights a week for other activities. This week, for instance, three nights were spent attending three Christmas parties. Fun! So...okay...we should not judge based on this week! It's Christmas! Yay!
I am interested in focusing more on my Bible study group...of ever learning The Word with them. This group of ladies bless me every time we meet. Every time. I am also so blessed by the studies He has sent us toward.
My dream...yes, to do less so that I may accomplish more.
I could go on...and will, for I have chosen the word less as by 2018 My One Word. Or did The Lord choose this word for me? I am so enjoying the peace that has come with this word. If you know me, you are saying right now...yes, I can hear you!..."This must be the Lord, for that Tammy is always busy, and she wants to do less?!"
Yes, I am ready to do less...so I may do more.
What word is He giving you for 2018? To what is He leading you to do...or not to do?
Blessings!
For years (literally!), my calling at my church has been to fill in...just wherever I was needed. The problem? Once I begin something, though, that event, project, endeavor becomes my baby, and who likes throwing out the baby with the dishwater? (From wherever did that saying begin?!)
Then, a series of serious events (at least to me!) begin to happen...until the straw broke (yes, I do seem be full of cliches this evening!). As I accepted the broken straw...over a span of minutes...maybe a few hours?...there came a liberation from the Lord to give up. Not to give up. To just begin doing my part. This week has been just that, a time to reflect and to share, to choose, to let go, to begin doing less, so that I might begin doing more.
My prayer request this week to my prayer team has been that God grant me wisdom as I listen and He continues to guide. Would you pray that prayer for me...that wisdom be given to me, that I use only His Wisdom?
I really need to do less so that I might do more.
I need more time with the Lord: time to be in His Word. This year I will complete only my second reading of the Bible cover to cover. Shame on me! I should have been doing this for years! Much is to be said about reading the Bible chronologically and absorbing the narrative of His Coming...from Genesis to Revelations.
Yes, slowing down and reading less is also important. Choosing a study and landing there to marinate in The Word. Slowing down and re-reading verses, chapters, even books of the Bible, absorbing the answers as He speaks through the pages of my several Bibles.
I really need to do less so that I might do more.
Being over involved simply means that I am stretched too thin, resulting in my never quite accomplishing much to my potential. Yes, many activities occur, fellowships are hosted, events occur....but am I also hindering others from working for The Lord? I hope not. I certainly do not want to one day hear, "Lord, I would done more for the church, but Tammy...she just took care of things." What?! No!
I really need to do less so that I might do more.
More with my family. The Husband has been diagnosed with a rare form of arthritis in his feet. The Girl, who is doing well, well...I am not willing to give up these years anymore and miss time with her. Some weeks, I am gone 4-5 nights a week for other activities. This week, for instance, three nights were spent attending three Christmas parties. Fun! So...okay...we should not judge based on this week! It's Christmas! Yay!
I am interested in focusing more on my Bible study group...of ever learning The Word with them. This group of ladies bless me every time we meet. Every time. I am also so blessed by the studies He has sent us toward.
My dream...yes, to do less so that I may accomplish more.
I could go on...and will, for I have chosen the word less as by 2018 My One Word. Or did The Lord choose this word for me? I am so enjoying the peace that has come with this word. If you know me, you are saying right now...yes, I can hear you!..."This must be the Lord, for that Tammy is always busy, and she wants to do less?!"
Yes, I am ready to do less...so I may do more.
What word is He giving you for 2018? To what is He leading you to do...or not to do?
Blessings!
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