Well, this weekend was fun and full. Saturday I had to get up by 7:15AM because the township guy came to do something with the water meter. I usually sleep in so I was not very impressed that I had to get up that early. I did the mowing, looks like I'll be doing that for the next several weeks because my room-mate is on a planting crew and isn't home much. Then she'll mow for me for several weeks in a row. I borrowed my parent's mower so I could do it without getting sick afterward. Our mower is not self propelled and I get so exhausted to the point of nausea when I use it and I couldn't stand the thought of doing that several weeks in a row.
Tomorrow I have a Pampered Chef party. I can't wait.....I will be seeing people I have not seen for a long long time. Rosene Burkholder, Bena, Marylou.....and more! I am anticipating a very lovely time. I was dreading the party because I had a hard time getting the house prepared. I have been the only one doing any bit of cleaning for awhile now and then with the mowing all to myself and I was gone every night last week............but now I am prepared and looking forward to it.
Church was awesome this morning. I love Sunday school and one of the things about it that I love is how the ladies share about what is going on in their lives, like prayer requests, etc. Duane preached and it was a very good sermon. I am so grateful for a church who cares about eachother, I always feel so welcome and cared about in my church.
This afternoon I slept 2.5 hours, much needed. And tonight I visited Jake's family. It was wonderful to see his little wee ones again. It has been long and they are so adorable. Tryanna doesn't remember me but the other 2 do.
I can't believe that in less than a week I will be in Mexico, Lord willing, for a whole week! We leave Friday and come back next Thursday. I am looking forward to it. I hope the Lord uses me to be a witness to those that I meet. I hope and pray that I am ready for any appointments He gives me. I must be alert at all times. We will be in Cancun at the resorts where people go on honeymoons! Imagine, I may not be on a honeymoon but I'll get to experience to resort! That's one thing that's cool about being single, you get to travel! And it's cool being a nanny because you get to go on trips with them and have a blast and not pay for anything! Sure I have to watch the children but hey, they're having fun so they are little angels......well as long as you don't coop them up in the hotel room because then they want to watch tv constantly!
That's all for now. Next time I will be writing about the Mexico trip!
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
The Usual.....
Here's a song that Will Stoltz sings that I really like. I often think of the song "What a beautiful day for my Lord to come again" and this song is kinda similar.
Long Expected Day
Oh, long expected day begin,
The night has been so long;
Our weary souls are waiting now,
As watchmen for the dawn.
How long oh, Lord, must we hold on
And cry these earthly tears,
Til we look up and in the clouds
You suddenly appear?
Chorus: Oh, long expected day, begin,
With shouts of joy, and glad amens,
When ev’ry eye beholds Your glorious face,
On that long expected day!
Lord, haste the day when You make new
The heavens and the earth;
And then at last we breathe the air
That’s free from Eden’s curse!
For now we trust, we hope, we pray
As we walk through days so dark;
Your promises remain our strength,
And we will not lose heart!
This week was pretty normal. Thursday night I sang in my little quartet at the Cocalico home. I love our little quartet. You see, I have all this music inside me that just has to come out or I WILL GO CRAZY! It's my favorite way to worship God. I don't blame Paul and Silas for singing in jail. I would too! Probably not the kinda songs they sang though. LOL! I can imagine they sang praise songs and I would probably sing "Oh long expected day" or songs like that but I'm sure I'd sing. Thursday night was sang "Even so Come Lord Jesus" and we sang it will all our hearts, especially on the last verse and I just thought my Lord HAD to come bursting through the clouds to beam His church up to Him! One of my "impossible dreams that I know won't happen" is for my quartet to sing in Israel at the different religious sights that I saw on my 2 times there. I tell you, it was TORTURE not to be able to sing with them there. It's just not the same singing with others you don't know as well. Anyway, enough about singing because I know most of my readers are not singers so this is all a bunch of blah blah shut up stuff!:)
Last night the Heart to Heart Tuesday night shelter group ate out in celebration of another year the Lord let us go into the shelter to witness. I think it's around 7/8 years now, not sure. Seems like forever anyway. I get weary of it every now and then because it's every single Tuesday night and that means I never get to do anything else on a Tuesday night and no matter how full my week is I am away every single Tuesday night. I love being in there though. Some weeks it is a dry group and I think it was just time spent and nothing else. Then there's alot of times I connect with some and make friends and can't wait to go in to see them again. There's a few that write me after they are out of the shelter and that is a real treat. There are 2 I am currently in touch with. I was in touch with a 3rd that I was all excited about and now she won't answer calls or texts and I don't have her address. I am praying we reconnect because she lives in Lancaster and I hadn't seen her for 5 years or so and she just had a baby. I was SOOOOOOO excited to see her and was going to visit her when suddenly she won't answer calls anymore. So frustrating, of the hundreds of girls I met, she was one of the 5 favorites! We had written at least 2 years after she'd gotten out of the shelter.
Well, I hope to have a Bible study tonight but if that falls through then I will certainly go to church. My church has a service and Cornerstone has a service and both are having preachers from White Oak church of the Brethren. But the Bible study comes first because it's been long since we've had one.
Well, bed is calling me.
Long Expected Day
Oh, long expected day begin,
The night has been so long;
Our weary souls are waiting now,
As watchmen for the dawn.
How long oh, Lord, must we hold on
And cry these earthly tears,
Til we look up and in the clouds
You suddenly appear?
Chorus: Oh, long expected day, begin,
With shouts of joy, and glad amens,
When ev’ry eye beholds Your glorious face,
On that long expected day!
Lord, haste the day when You make new
The heavens and the earth;
And then at last we breathe the air
That’s free from Eden’s curse!
For now we trust, we hope, we pray
As we walk through days so dark;
Your promises remain our strength,
And we will not lose heart!
This week was pretty normal. Thursday night I sang in my little quartet at the Cocalico home. I love our little quartet. You see, I have all this music inside me that just has to come out or I WILL GO CRAZY! It's my favorite way to worship God. I don't blame Paul and Silas for singing in jail. I would too! Probably not the kinda songs they sang though. LOL! I can imagine they sang praise songs and I would probably sing "Oh long expected day" or songs like that but I'm sure I'd sing. Thursday night was sang "Even so Come Lord Jesus" and we sang it will all our hearts, especially on the last verse and I just thought my Lord HAD to come bursting through the clouds to beam His church up to Him! One of my "impossible dreams that I know won't happen" is for my quartet to sing in Israel at the different religious sights that I saw on my 2 times there. I tell you, it was TORTURE not to be able to sing with them there. It's just not the same singing with others you don't know as well. Anyway, enough about singing because I know most of my readers are not singers so this is all a bunch of blah blah shut up stuff!:)
Last night the Heart to Heart Tuesday night shelter group ate out in celebration of another year the Lord let us go into the shelter to witness. I think it's around 7/8 years now, not sure. Seems like forever anyway. I get weary of it every now and then because it's every single Tuesday night and that means I never get to do anything else on a Tuesday night and no matter how full my week is I am away every single Tuesday night. I love being in there though. Some weeks it is a dry group and I think it was just time spent and nothing else. Then there's alot of times I connect with some and make friends and can't wait to go in to see them again. There's a few that write me after they are out of the shelter and that is a real treat. There are 2 I am currently in touch with. I was in touch with a 3rd that I was all excited about and now she won't answer calls or texts and I don't have her address. I am praying we reconnect because she lives in Lancaster and I hadn't seen her for 5 years or so and she just had a baby. I was SOOOOOOO excited to see her and was going to visit her when suddenly she won't answer calls anymore. So frustrating, of the hundreds of girls I met, she was one of the 5 favorites! We had written at least 2 years after she'd gotten out of the shelter.
Well, I hope to have a Bible study tonight but if that falls through then I will certainly go to church. My church has a service and Cornerstone has a service and both are having preachers from White Oak church of the Brethren. But the Bible study comes first because it's been long since we've had one.
Well, bed is calling me.
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