Thursday, February 28, 2008

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Spring Fever

Today was gorgeous and sunny! I think its the first day all summer that I truly didn't need a jacket and not be at least a little chilled. So I did wear a sweater. I'm just glad I didn't see anyone walking around in a Colorado State sweatshirt, shorts and sandals...yet. :) Hey, its Colorado, right? You really can't be in Colorado without having some of our modern hippies walking around like that sporting their fancy dread-locks and hemp necklaces.


But really, it was so pretty today, I just needed some alone time with God. Some time to really devote to Him. So I went to a local park that is always a pleasure to go to no matter what time of year. There is a small lake with a walking path all around it with absolutely stunning landscaping. And birds of all kind love the park as well as the people. There is always an ample supply of both around, but neither seem to be intrusive. We all just live in harmony together like one big happy family. I believe the park was built in the early 1900s if not late 1800s. Whoever designed it really knew what they were doing, there's even a rock along the path to pay tribute to the specktacle.

I wasn't having a very good day today so as soon as Sybil layed down for a nap, I took off for my sabbatical. I brought a blanket, my bible, a notepad for journaling and my Strong's Exhaustive Concordance. After spreading out the blanket I layed down on a sunny patch of goose poop (okay, really it was grass, which even had a few green shoots popping out) and spent some time reading and writting in the word, and lifted a few burdens to the Almighty and prayed for about an hour.

The wind kicked up a bit and the sun began to set, as I was getting ready to leave. It was so peaceful though, I think if I had stayed any longer, I would have fallen asleep!

I really can't wait for the weather to be like today was - every day. I've been living in my town for nearly 5 years now and I never used to leave the house, so its only just within the last year or so that I have been discovering great spots like the one I visited today. I can't say its all been me, though, I have met some other nice young mother's like myself who have been helping. :)


My spring fever has officially sprung!

Thursday, February 21, 2008

1 Cori9nthians 7

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the huwsband.

The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.

For I would that all men were even as I of GOd, one after this manner, and another after that.

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or let her reconcile to her husband; and let not the husband put away his wife.

Nut to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and he be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to swell with her, let her not leave him.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?

But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches.

Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.

Art thou called being a servant? care not for it; but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.

Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgement, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

But she is happier if she so abide, after my judgement: and I think also that I have the Spirit of God.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Galatians 5:16-21

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Nopw the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Idolatry, withchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Envyings, murderers, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in the time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Friday, February 8, 2008

Ben Stein movie comming to Theaters

Here is a preview for a new movie that is comming out this Spring. I hope you will take the time to see this film.

Click on the title of this blog entry for a preview

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Colorado Republican Caucus 2008

It was an interesting thing. My district's caucus was held in a small conference room at a local hotel where they expected maybe 30 people to show up. At least 200 people came and overwhelmed the small meeting space. Every few minutes a frazled looking woman would come out and yell some instructions at everyone but her frail voice was unable to reach all the people. Everyone I talked to had never been to a caucus before and had no idea what the purpose was or what the process would be. They had to divide us up into rooms and then asked us to cast our vote for the strawpull to see who would be on top of the Republican party. Then they invited anyone willing to share information about their party at the front of the room. One man came fprward and spoke a little bit about Ron Paul . Then another man, and another. No one else felt compelled to speak about their Presidential candidate. Then we moved on to selecting delegates.


Once we were done one woman asked the first man who spoke on Dr. Paul, why she had never heard about him before. The media never talks about him and she never thought to research the candidates herself. She regretted voting for someone else, whom she probably knew just as little bit about as Ron Paul.


I have requested every week at church that we pray for our nation, for our Presidential candidates, and that the Lord would give us a Christian Conservative like Ron Paul to lead our nation. Our country is being flushed down the drains by immoral Presidents who don't live up to their promises (sorry Bush). We need to stop our ties to other money hungry countries who really want to harm us. I wouldn't keep a dog who bit me every time I fed it and we should end our tied with the world based on this same principle.


Please pray for our country, pray for our leaders, and make wise and godly choices about our future. Please arm yourself with knowledge, and most importantly, please vote Ron Paul for President.