Well, I just haven't anything I can really write about right now so I haven't updated! This last week was long YET fast but tiring if that makes any sense! :) Not really. Sam was the only one at the Blepo office downtown so the work load was higher. One night I took him dinner and stayed there with him until after 11:00 before we headed home! This last weekend we had fun with Jon, Jeremy and Callie. Jon stayed over here Sat. night and went to church with us on Sunday. He loved the church which was really awesome to see!

I called the church today to sign up with the orch. I start practicing with them Wed. night with both Viola and Violin. They can't decide yet what they want me to play! LOL We are also considering me joining a ladies Bible study on Tuesday nights. They are starting a Beth Moore book which made me very excited! We thinking about this Sunday starting to go to a Sunday school class! :) So, a lot in action happening with a new church hopefully!

Other than that...well, I am just trying to stay cool in this sweltering dry heat that never ends! :)

I've always loved this song and now with the video I love it even more!

Last weekend Sam had to go on a "business trip" moving one of their businesses clients to Mount Pleasant which is 2 hours away. Callie and I were going to go with them until plans got changed. So we ended up going out stay the night Friday night and the day Saturday with one of her friends and her two sisters at an incredible house her friend is house sitting. :) It was fun but I missed Sam. :) Was weird being apart for two whole days! :D When he came home early Sunday morning about 1:00 or so I had forgotten what it was like to feel his hug! :) *grin*

So much it seems like is happening right now! SO very much! This week has already been crazy for us and is going to continue to be. Sam is working longer hours since this week he happens to be the only one working at the office. Jeremy is back in Mount Pleasant and David is on a mission trip leaving Sam to hold down the downtown Blepo office! Keeping him really busy of course!

Me....well never mind me! *laugh* Mrs. Sholtess you would be proud of me! :D Today I got out the wonderful fly lady folder you gave me as a wedding gift! :D

It is very stormy, cloudy and windy here today. I am wondering what it is going to do. Nothing much else I can write at this point!

Blessings to you all!

What were the things that romanced my heart as a girl? Horses in a field, the fragrance of the air after a spring rain, flowers in a field, mountains with sunrises spraying color over the skies and water below, the first snowfall of winter. These were all whispers of love from my Lover, notes sent to awaken my hearts longing! Is my heart still awake to those passionate whispers of love from my Jesus? Do, I notice them every day! They ARE there! I just have to pay attention to my Lover and His pleas to come to Him!

I’ve been reading through the book “Captivating” again and my heart has been stirred and made to laugh with a new excitement I haven’t quite had before! Oh, how we have lost truth these days! To be Spiritual isn’t to be busy or disciplined or dutiful, or whatever else we think we need to do! No it is to be Romanced WITH God!

You know how you have heard that there is in every human heart a place that only God alone can fill, even though we try so hard to fill it with other things as everyone knows so well. But what blows my mind is the fact that there is a chamber in God Himself into which no one can enter but the one the individual you! Me! I was meant to fill a place in the heart of God no one else can fill! WHOA! He LONGS for me! I am the one that overwhelms his heart with just “one glance of my eyes”! (Song 4:9) I am the one He sings over with delight and longs to dance with across mountaintops and ballroom floors! (Zeph. 3:17) I am the one that takes His breath away by my beautiful heart that hopes in Him.

I think of the way my wonderful husband loves me. The way he smiles and gets that look when he looks at me that I knew is only for me and I get those butterflies in my stomach. The way he wraps his arms around me and tells me I am his princess and the most beautiful and wonderful woman in the whole world. Then I try to imagine a love 10 times stronger than that given to me by the King of Kings and I get goose bumps in disbelief. It is unimaginable! Yet that is what He offers! He wants to have an intimate close fellowship with me every sec of every day!

Gods wants to live this life together with me, to share in my days, my decisions and disappointments! He wants intimacy with me in the midst of madness and mundane, the meetings and memos, the laundry and lists, the conversations, projects, pain and joys! He wants to pour His love into my heart and longs to have me pour mine into His! He wants my heart, that center place within that is the truest ME! He is not interested in intimacy with the woman I think I am supposed to be. He wants intimacy with the real ME! No hiding from Him! I can be all me with no judgment, criticism, or pointing fingers! I can be who He made me to be! I do not have to model anyone at all! He hates that!

Makes me think of all the fear I wallow in about OTHER PEOPLE! What do they think? What will they think? They're going to talk behind my back! They aren’t going to like me because I have “this standard”! etc. On and on I could go and I am sure some of you know EXACTLY what I am talking about!!!

I want to be gloriously alive and in love with the God of the universe and oh how many depths of His majestic love and passion I have yet to learn about Him!!! I don’t know about you but I want to be a Debbie Wells and dive into God with all my heart, soul, mind and strength! Then His love is going to flow so passionately out of me because I am so passionately in love with Him that people will LOVE to be in my presence…in the presence of God!!!

There was an atheist couple who had a child. The couple never told their daughter anything about the Lord. One night when the little girl was 5 years old, the parents fought with each other and the dad shot the Mom, right in front of the child. Then, the dad shot himself. The little girl watched it all.

She then was sent to a foster home. The foster mother was a Christian and took the child to church. On the first day of Sunday School, the foster mother told the teacher that the girl had never heard of Jesus, and to have patience with her. The teacher held up a picture of Jesus and said, "Does anyone know who this is?"

The little girl said, "I do, that's the man who was holding me the night my parents died."


Funny, isn't it?

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell.

Funny how we believe what the newspapers say but question what the Bible says.

Funny how everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do not have to believe, think, say, or do anything the Bible says. (Or is it scary?)

Funny how someone can say "I believe in God" but still follow Satan (who, by the way, also "believes" in God).

Funny how you can send a thousand "jokes" through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.

Funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar, and obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but the public discussion of Jesus is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Funny how we can go to church for Christ on Sunday but be an invisible Christian the rest of the week.

Funny how I can be more worried about what other people think of me than what God thinks of me!!! (Are you thinking?)

Funny how we read books in less than a day but it takes us a lifetime to read the Bible!

PEOPLES LETS WAKE UP!

Well, Sam's iPod died after many years of long well used life so my crazy lovable husband decided to get me a new one since I was the one that had used his all the time! :D We got a very nice upgrade! An 8GB iPod Nano. Nice and small. Perfect to put in your pocket during workouts, bike rides, etc. Yea I am pretty excited about it!!!

...for what the Lord is going to do next!!!

Yesterday morning Sam left for work and on his way was praying all the way there about what the Lord was wanting to do right now and that He would open a door for us to enter through as far as taking a step towards me working somewhere down here close. Well as soon as he got to work and available on chat I was telling him that I had just received a message from Judith at WallBuilders with David Barton saying that they had some openings if I might be interested in applying! :D I was astounded! Sam and I had talked and prayed about me working there before we even got married and I had talked to my two sister-in-laws about it since they both worked there! It would be an awesome God-sent miracle if it worked out! Sam was immediately telling me he had peace about it too and no red flags and that I should write back to her for more information! So now I am going to be filling out an application to hopefully be working in customer service and then I will be going in for and interview after that. Then with lots of prayer we will see what God does then! :) Truthfully I do not think I can get into anything other than office work! :D LOL That is a talent God has given me, serving people, interacting with people, office work IS my thing and I am really excited about the prospect of serving in an office at a Christen ministry! So, that is the big news there for Sam and I!

Today I dragged out all my creative memories and started cropping on past pictures! I have only about 6 months worth or pictures to do of before we got married and then I can start on our wedding album which I am very excited about! :D I have found a creative memories consultant down here that is about 5 miles from our house and I am looking forward to crops and CM parties again! :) In September there is a huge creative memories crop/conference close to Dallas area and Mom is going to come down for that weekend and I'm taking her for her b-day! Fun part is she'll hopefully be staying and going to our church with us the next day too! Should be QUITE a blast and another wonderful well-deserved break for my amazing Mom! :D

Oh man, last night I made this new chicken bake dish for dinner and I had to saute the onions and celery for it and I declare the smell must have soaked into the walls and furniture or something! *laughter* I can still smell it even now! Sorry, that was REALLY random! It is distracting though! It isn't a bad smell well...it smells good up to a point anyways! :D

Okay, so Sam and I are in for a big Saturday of work tomorrow! I am excited about it though! We get to be together the whole time! :D We need to clean out the garage, change the oil in my car, trim and cut up tree limbs that were broken in the wind storm we had, clean, move and refill our pool, lay down soaker hoses along our path in the backyard for our monkey grass...lets see...what else did we discuss doing! :D I love working with my wonderful man and watching things get done!

Well, today has been a wonderfully good day! I called and talked to Daddy for a while and then Mom for even a longer while! That was really nice! My Dad and Mom are totally and wonderfully awesome by the way! Won't find another couple or parent like them! We'll have to be praying for my Dad. He was at home working on his dump truck today fixing some parts that went out on the job.

Love you all! Miss everyone at WHC! :) I pray for ya'll when I hear about things happening. Praying for all those in Africa and I know Satan has been crazily attacking every which way because he DOES NOT want you there. But, God does! Mom's been keeping me up to date a little and I've read Jon W. blog too. Noel God has a bigger plan. Something exciting and unbelievable for you out there and in the meanwhile He is gonna teach you so much about Himself! Blake I am so sorry about your grandmother and hope God gives your fam. peace and comfort. Alisha and Brook congratulations on your marriage! I remember all those good time with you in the church office! :) Lindsay I heard Matt was without a job right now. There IS a lot going on! BUT I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! God bless every one of you and I DO think about you often!

With ALL Sam and My love until later!!!
(That is a LOT of love combines together right there! Man, you guys are drowning now!!!!!) :D

A couple of pics from the girls swim day I went to at the Sammon's house last Monday. A couple of the girls were blowing bubbles and I thought this was the coolest picture! I was snapping photos while I was sipping on my pina colada in the hut tube! :) Pretty heavenly if you ask me! I believe we'll have something like that only a million times BETTER in heaven! Should be lots of fun, eh?! :D

I am job hunting for a part time job and it is fun! :)

Well, today I spent the whole afternoon looking through the phone book and driving around looking for a job! I am wanted to work at a Cake Decorating Bakery! Since I have some experience in that and am familar with it having helped out my Mom when she had a cake decorating "business". It also is very non-stressful, and it just sounds like a fun job helping people and letting my creativity flow! :) I feel like I need a good break from office jobs now! :D I have been doing a lot of praying, I can tell you that for sure! The five bakeries I am really interested in, just because they have a more professional look and website, are all 30 min. or farther away. There are a couple that are closer by but I haven't been overly impressed with them. Work environment is very important to me and I don't just mean the people that work there but also where the place is located!

If all doors get closed to that idea then there is an Edible Arrangements about 5-10 min. away that would be fun to work at and I've also thought working at a flower shop would also be a blast! :) Plenty of options in my opinion so we'll just have to see what the Lord does!!! I'm trusting in Him! I am just going to do all I humanly can in finding something and then leave it all up to Him and I know something perfect is going to pop up! :)

So, you all can be praying for me there as well!

Tonight Sam and I are going back to Wedgewood Baptist Church to check out their Wed. night services! We've never been on Wed. night and they have quite the action going on it seems! They do have an orchestra, a band and a praise choir that practices then and OH! I was so excited when I found out that you have to audition to get in! YES! I have always wanted that! WHC in OK was going to do that at one time and it never happened! That means that they must be at least half way decent in sound and maybe some challenging music that turns out beautiful after we practice!! :) *laughter and grins* I am kind of excited about that! As far as classes everyone meets in the auditorium for prayer and a Bible study. On Sunday morning they have Sunday School which is where all the different classes come in! We've been to Sunday service at this church 3 times now and every time we look at going to visit somewhere else we always decided not too and went there again. :) There just aren't enough Sundays in the month to visit everywhere! :) The Pastor is incredible! We already love him! No feel good sermons in that church! And the music is JUST the right balance that we have always wanted in a church. You are free to lift your praise to God there how you feel like it and the amazing thing about that is you can feel God's presence there! No worrying about what other people are thinking etc.... You can truly focus on God!!! LOVE IT!!!!!

Okay, so I am sure I will post more on finding a good church later! :D

As, for right now I should go! Love you all very much!
Oh and....
PS I did know that it was the lone star state! :) But lone state I thought fit much better at the time! *grins*

Well, I am trying my very best not to get tired of Texas folks! The Great "Lone" State is certainly a good title for it! *laughter* Besides my wonderful and patient hubby this is QUITE the lone state for sure!

I am trying hard to find my niche here. 'Tis very hard indeed. I just keep on a trusting God has his plans for me here! But, that is much easier said than done. MUCH!!!!! Yesterday afternoon I went with my sister-in-law Callie and a bunch of her friends swimming at the Sammon's house. That was fun. I got some nice tanning in anyways! :)

So, pretty much my life consists right now of working out every day, cooking, trying to keep everything clean, digging for things to do, I am seriously thinking about a job and kinda looking around a little, cooking some more, laundry, an occasion jog or bike ride to get me out of the house....etc. I do like it I suppose. Well it is a big change but I think it has been really good for me at the same time. Having the Lord and your husband as your best friends and only friends is wonderful its just that.....well I guess it turns you into someone who ends up WANTING to be alone a lot with the Lord and your husband! That IS good I know but I still believe that people are very important in ones life!

I'm rambling now. Big time!!!

So, this week I am needing to do some major cleaning! This weekend Sam and I are tackling the job of cleaning out the garage and maybe some more yard work. Most certainly a swim or two especially if this outrageously humid Texas heat keeps up!!! Tomorrow is my lunch date with Sam for the week.... I was supposed to be doing some babysitting the neighbors two little boys this month off and on since she just had another baby but they haven't called me yet. So, that may come up this week too. Would be fun!

Anyways, I highly doubt you guys really care about any of that so I will SERIOUSLY stop rambling now like I said before!

Pray for me!!!! I really need it.

In Christ alone, I place my trust.....