Where will your path lead?

This morning I find myself cutting fabric and listening to the i am second videos.  If you have not gone to the website or ever heard of it, I do encourage you to go there and see what they are all about, at www.iamsecond.com  

I clicked on the video of the Robertson family giving their stories and it was so good.  I am reminded to "Keep on talking about Jesus".  Often times, something will come up in our house that brings on one of those conversations about life and the way we choose to live it.  After we go round the round with each other, one of the boys will often say, "I know what you are gonna say and it always has to do with God", or "why do you always bring God into every conversation we have"....my constant reply is...."because HE is in everything I AM and I can't live or talk like I am apart from Him."

I was reminded this morning to KEEP ON KEEPING ON....even when I don't want to, or even when I don't see the other side.  

Life is short...

and as Phil Robertson says....

"We all go 6 feet deep in the end and that's a fact!"

Robertson video

Meeting God in the everyday activities of life

RUST...

      This morning while doing up the dishes, I found my favorite tongs in the bottom of the sink.  Now, to some that might be perfectly normal and you are thinking what is the big deal...well, this particular pair of tongs is pron to RUST....yes....RUST!  I should probably just get rid of them, but I just can't seem to part with them.  They have been with me for 25 yrs now, through many of lifes changes, and they have traveled the world with me on all our journeys, from Brasil, to Thailand and then back again to the USA.


     So, back to the rust on the tongs....I am able to clean them, and if I keep them dry, the rust is kept at bay...but this particular day, they were not kept dry and cleaned and kept in the right place, and when I picked them up from the bottom of the sink, I noticed that they not only rusted over night, but they contaminated one of my good knives that was laying under them.  The rust spread to a perfectly good item.  NOW, I not only have a very irritating pair of tongs that rust...but that rust spread to another.

     I am reminded by God in the stillness of my kitchen sink that our lives can be like that rust.  We can be useful, yet have a speck of rust in us, that if kept in it proper place, cleaned often, dried and put away, it will stay at bay and we can enjoy life with a good purpose.  YET, if that rust is not taken care of, even in the smallest of things, we can contaminate those around us with it.  Even in the simplest of things, like lack of joy, to the big things like unthankfulness, unforgivness and bitterness.  We can spread the negative in us to affect others.

     So, I ask myself...Am I spreading good things around, or am I like that speck of rust that will ruin and affect those around me with negativity and ruin a good thing for no reason?

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Packing up and unpacking again...

I suppose it is about time for me to put something on the blog.  I have found it hard to do with all the other things that are going on.   Once my "zone" was torn apart and packed up, I have not been able to find a new place to call my "own".  So, until then, I will just work from my table!

Here are a few pics of packing up in Thailand and unpacking in Wisconsin.

We are still in the process of actually getting things where they need to go, but a good friend of mine said that I could just keep it in a box and store it away...so, I have and it is really "freeing" to do that.  So, because of that, we have many boxes in storage yet that have to be gone through, but without a place to put them, they can stay right where they are at the moment!