The restraint it has taken to make it this long without a Napolean Dynomite reference is astounding! But now that they have started.... Y'all are in trouble!
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| Dear People Reading My Mommy's Blog, I do not wear this stuff. She got this on for 2.7 seconds and it had to go. |
This dog is always up under your feet. She wants family time and she wants it all the time. We are her pack and we stick together. All. The. Time. Again, it drives me crazy but it is surprisingly inspirational.
It is funny where I find inspiration for my walk with Jesus. Over the past few months, things that I need to write about have hit me watching scary movies, grocery shopping, reading the bible, moving the dog, breaking wooden spatulas while breaking up a bag of ice. Don't judge, better the spatula than people. How is it a six pound dog that can stretch to 9' x 9' and hog more of the bed than my 6'3" husband be a inspiration to a Christian you may ask. We should be under the feet of Jesus like little piranha there waiting for me to drop a morsel of dinner. No, really, we should.
Ella-dawg is constantly seeking me out. She wants to be with me, sit in my lap, lay beside me, walk with me, love on me. She is currently headbutting because I am not sitting in such a way to promote her utmost comfort. Every single minute of every hour I am home, she wants to be with me. She is stuck to me like gum on the bottom of my shoe. People, she sticks her nose under the bathroom door! She wants to do what I am doing, go where I am going. She follows my lead. She feels safe and loved and knows who takes care of her. Don't believe me? This is a regular occurrence...
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| Hello sorry puppy! |
We all know you only sleep like that when you feel protected and loved. This pile of poopy puppy sleeps like this everyday. Every. Single. Day.
Here is your homework assignment: Think about how your life would change if you doggedly (ha! Sorry, I couldn't resist) sought Jesus like Ella seeks me. No seriously, think about that for a moment.
How would your life change if you sought Jesus so completely, so thoroughly that he was our first thought in the morning and our last in the evening? Talk about radical changes. We cannot fathom the changes until we try it and the crazy thing it wouldn't be just your life that changed.
My hubby has a friend that is a sweet, kind, hardworking young man. He is the type of person that you pray your children grow up to be. He lives his life putting Jesus first. He is fun, he has a good time and he laughs. He smiles all the time and it is a genuine, make your day better smile. I know, crazy huh? He doesn't walk around miserable, scowling and making those around him uncomfortable. He doesn't turn people off from Jesus, he attracts them to Jesus like a moth to a flame. He shows others the love and joy of Christ. He seeks Jesus like Ella seeks me. He humbles himself at Jesus' feet and is all the better for it. His joy and peace make people question what he has that they don't. He changes the life of those around him, just ask dear hubby.
To quote the Doobie Brothers, dear hubby had a "Jesus is just alright with me" kind of attitude. He believed but had a hands off approach thanks to the actions and words of those who could be just a touch too religious. But over the past few months, I have seen him develop a deeper, more intimate relationship with the Lord. Hubby always says that I am the most positive person he knows but that is just me. I think since he has known me so long, he chalks it up to just being part of who I am and my personality. It is part of my personality, the Jesus part of my personality because trust me I can throw down and whine/complain/poor pitiful me like the best of them. It took seeing someone else have this same joy, same purpose to realize there is something to giving in wholeheartedly and seeking Jesus.
I am sure this young man would tell us everything isn't always peachy keen and there are days when he struggles just like me and any other Christian who has walked, walks and will walk the face of this Earth. Humbly seeking and following Jesus, sitting at his feet, listening to and following his lead doesn't make things perfect #1:
entirely without any flaws, defects, or shortcomings
It makes them perfect #2:
exactly fitting the need in a certain situation or for a certain purpose
My devotional verses today were- John 15: 1-17
1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.2He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunesso that it will be even more fruitful.3You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.4Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.6If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.7If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.8This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.10If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.11I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.12My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.13Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.14You are my friends if you do what I command.15I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.17This is my command: Love each other.
The funny thing is I started writing this post a while ago and just could not figure out where it was going. Leave it to the instruction manual to show me what to do.
love- j
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