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So it's a been a week or so since my last blog.... as you all pretty much know we had the funky, nasty, wicked stomach bug that's been going around plus Lucy had walking pneumonia. I am so thankful to report that we are on the mend and Lucy is doing really well. They may even play outside today at school with this 70 degrees in AL we are supposed to have on this Feb. 26th day. Although it's a totally yucky day out at least in B'ham! Work is getting more and more hectic everyday - the closer we get to April 15th - awe - the feel of tax season. It's a "want to pull my hair out, my freakin' head hurts, I want to cry, did I really just say that out loud, feeling accomplished with what I did with my day" kind of feelings..... it's good though - the work day goes by swiftly. My afternoons at home have become filled with ABC flashcards, counting, wrestling in the Thomas train, playing butterflies and tugbuts in the bath tub, eating dinenr at the table, holding hands and "saying grace" like 15 times and then the big tada AMEN finish and then tucking my 2 year old to bed while we decide which movie she will watch while tucked in her polka dots snuggly with her blanky and teddy - wearing her Curious George and Elephants pj's and screaming "I LOVE YOU" at the top of her lungs.....then there are lights out and silence as I close the door to her room. Then it's cuddling on the couch and watching some funny dumb movie or laughing at American Idol (as if we would have the guts to get up there and sing ourselves) - saying OMG her forehead looks so big or I can't BELIEVE she did her hair that way or what in the world are they wearing.... then off to a night of peaceful dreams tucked safely in each other's arms. I have really really become so fond of these total consistently random afternoons that I spend at home doing nothing and everything with my peeps. I also learned that I am indeed smarter than a fifth grader yesterday which was really nice to know.....
So I was talking with God the other day and in the course of my doing the talking it was like a light bulb went off - everything - I mean every single thing that we have in our lives, the enemy has attacked us on - our marriage, our finanaces, our belongings, our jobs, our church, our relationships, our family, our health, our emotions, our literally everything.... and just when I was about to give up - Mind you this was the day we were ALL 3 sick with the virus....I had reached my breaking point - I got a card in the mail from the least likely source - it gave me words of encouragement and hope and a reminder that there really is NO DISTANCE between my Father in Heaven and my prayers.... WOW! - so armed with this light bulb discovery and this new hope from my card in the mail I began to listen to what God was saying. It changed my entire outlook. We stepped out on faith a while back and made the decision to begin walking in our destiny, giftings, callings, and mantle from God.... the enemy has done nothing but try and discourage and destroy us..... then I found this verse - which actually turned out to be my "life birth proverb..... It's Proverbs 4:23 and this is what it says...... this is actually 4:23-27 (it was all relevant to the one verse - Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
Put away perversity from your mouth; keep corrupt talk far from your lips. Let your eyes look straight ahead, fix your gaze directly before you. Make level paths for your feet and take only ways that are firm. Do not swerve to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil.
That is my life verse - that... for those that really know me - u r probably laughing as I did when I read this. That's so like God.