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You come from Heaven. You're the purest of pure, a
saint. You're probably an angel sent directly from Heaven. 

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WHAT'S YOUR WORLD VIEW?

I know how everyone out there in J~Land loves taking quizes so here is one I came across today that I thought EVERYONE should take.  You may be surprised, I was.

World View Quiz

 

Tears, Vomit & Diareah

Everyone now in my house has had the stomic thing. Annnie and Zane stayed home yesterday from school but I insisted they go today and if they wanted later to go to the nurse and be sent home.  Yesterday after the morning stuff they seemed to be fine and playing as normal.  Diareah seems to be the main problem, but earlier in the week some of the kids had been throwing up, seems to be always on ME and in my bed.  Josh has not worked in like two weeks straight, not cuz he has been sick but cuz its winter and his job is slow. But today he went back to work (jumping for glee here, Yaaaaaaaaahhhh!)  I love having him home, and spending extra time with him but I bet you can guess who inspired my previous post.  Our sheets got put in the wash late in the evning so he fell asleep on the couch and I was up on the puter.  Well he woke up running to the bathroom sick ofcourse and then gets out in a very poor mood, understandble. But this leads into why arnt the sheets done yet, why are you still on the puter and into no holdsbard on all my falts and short comings, and letting out how he feels that I rail him in here and how dare I have ppl send him e-mail begging him let me stay online.  And I have no defence because every word is true. He is right and I do need to change my focus away from so much computer time and more on house work and family.  I suck.  So that last post is what I cried myeslef to sleep with the other night, asking God to please help me change, please help me to be better cuz I suck, I am failing my family and him.  I got up the next day and ofcourse that perfect switch didnt go on but I cleaned up the kitchen and gasp even made Josh coffee, something I have always refused to do becuase I hate coffee and I hate that he started drinking it and didnt want any part of it. This shocked Josh and he asked WHY did I do that.  I said I felt like doing something unselfish for him. I bet he thinks it was cuz of him going off on me but if it was that I would of given him the silent treatment instead.  I did it cuz I reconize he is mainly right and I need to be better in order to serve the Lord best.  I am here to serve not to be served.

Oh ya dont forget to check out my other journal, today is day 2 of the Purpose Driven Life and I will write in it on that chapter at the end of the day.

If I woke up Perfect Today...

How I wish I woke up perfect for you today.  If I had, the laundry would always be done, folded and put a way, no more piles spilling over onto the floor. If I had, the dishes would always be done, dried and put away, never left sitting in the sink or counters. If I had woke up perfect today all the floors would be swept, moped and shinning. The beds would be made and the bedrooms clean. If I had woken up perfect today, I would be a better parent and our children would be taken care of just as they should, groomed, fed, smiling and happy. I would be a better wife, always putting my husbands needs above my own.  If I had woken up perfect today, I would not be selfish. I wish the perfect switch had gone off in my head the moment my eyes opened and all my flaws would have vanished.  We would have a perfect happy home and perfect happy family.  I would be more happy, more loved, and there would never be any fighting.  

But Today I did not wake up perfect, So God I am asking you to PLEASE help me in all my failings. Help me to be a better housekeeper, better wife, better mother, better friend.  Help me to have the drive to do the things I know I should be doing. Help me not to get distracted in what I know I should be doing for my family. Put that love in me so I will want to do these things with the right attitude. I know I will never be perfect until you are finished with me, so I give it all over to you to work in me.

Let it Rain, Open the flood gates of heaven, Let it rain (one of the moving songs from tonight)

I can't really put into words how wonderful, how heart wrenching, emotional church was tonight. I did not get to see the moive The Passion along with the leadership of the church, but that was the topic tonight.  First let me say, Worship was AWESOME. I was so moved, I truely felt the presence of God with us. He is so heavey sometimes and sometimes he is light as a feather on me, but I love being in his presance, I love feeling close to him. I love the tears that freely flow when I am with him, I love hearing his voice and feeling him right there with me.  Your life doesnt have to be in crissis for you to seek him out or for you to be in his presance.  He lives in our praises.  I was so happy my friend Amy came again.  She is becoming one of my close friends, her daugher is also joining our GS Troop.  I can see that the Lord is starting to work on her and he will be doing some mighty things in her life, I am glad I can be there with her as he takes her and grows her. She went this moring (with out me! aw) to see the Passion, she went with her Uncle.  She said that the moive was very moving, that it was life changing, violant yes, she cried threw the whole thing, but she did not see it as anti-semetic at all. I have heard that from many people.  Also Amy is going to read with me the book and I was so thrilled to hear that Kathy and her husband are reading it again and are going to lead a study, group discussion on it every Tue night.  Told you all I was a trend setter lol jk, it is defently a God thing that I just happen to start it the same week others at church did.

Orginaly I was going to make a post about anal leakage, since that is the buzz word around my house today.  The stomic flew has hit about everyone in my family and ofcourse I am the last to get it.  Between Josh and our 4 kids I have been up to my elbows in poop and vomit. Not perty. So I was going to do a very funny post about it all but since I was so moved tonight I didn't feel it aproprate lol.

OK! Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. I have created My Purpose Driven Life Journal to write in and have read the prestuff.  I am sure that journal will spill over into this one, how can it not, but still check it out like you check this one (ya I know, ANOTHER journal to read lol).  Josh isn't too happy about me starting another journal, meaning more time on the puter, i bet he wishes I would of gaven up the computer for lent and not read a book lol.  Oh question, as you know I am not Catholic but I like to understand thier traditions, especilay since I live in STL, a big Catholic City you could say lol.  What is with Ash Wednesday and Palm Sunday? I know on Wednesday the ashes from the palms burned from Palm Sunday are wiped on your forhead and there is something recited and you are to wear it all day, What is the significance of these two days? LOL Now I know some of my friends probly thinking, MARY are you goint to turn Catholic on us??  NO, but like I said I like to understand some traditions, but like I have said in the past, I am not into living by traditions and religion, but into Relationship. My dad was raised Catholic and his side of the family are um nonpracticing ones and like I said I live in a big Catholic city.  When the Cardinal gets sick or anything, it makes the news lol. When the Pope came to town a few years back this town went NUTS! So for me to be a good neighbor I should know about these things right. Just like I should learn about the Jewish traditions and the Muslim ones, so I can understand thier thinking and be sensitive to thier needs and inturn be a friend and good witness. Off of the subject but not too far, we rented this abserd DVD lastnight called The Order.  Anyone seen it?  Josh got it not me.  It was based on something called a Sin Eater. Anyone ever heard of that? It takes place to the back drop of the Catholic Church and how they belive if you are out side of that church there is no way to the kingdom for you, but if you have some one called the sin eater preform this cermoney just before your death, where they literaly take on your sins (blamy, cuz that is what Jesus did on the cross and only he can do that) you can enter into heaven. I could go into a long rant about that movie but not worth the charther limit lol.

what are you doing for the 40days of Lent? Get Purpose Driven!

I am not Catholic but I know that they have the traditoin of giving something up for 40days during Lent. I was talking about this with Josh, asking if maybe we should think about giving something up for Lent, sounds like something spirutal to do right lol. He wasn't to keen on that idea and besides we dont do things to sound spirtual, we do them unto the Lord, not cuz of traditions. Then I got this even better idea, We could read the book THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE.  I had bought it last summer and told my friend Kathy about it and started a trend at church where everyone has read it.  Well I never did finish it, I got like into 5 chapters. Not that its boring, just sometimes life gets busy and I put it a side.  Now I have been hearing about this book all over the place, whole churches doing 40weeks on it and bible studies poping up everywhere on it.  It is a very easy book to read, only have to read one short chapter a day for 40 days.  Anyone want to start reading it with me?? I would love to have someone who is at the same parts as me to talk about it.  I am also planning on starting a journal dedicated to it and what I learn from it. More on that later. When does Lent start anyways?? lol I thought it was Friday or is it Wednesday (AshWednesday)?