Author Of Time

Who knows what is healthy and what is not?
Can you ever rely on a source?
Do you have trust in humanity?

Sorry I haven't posted in so long. I don't really like excuses, and you don't care anyway, so let's just get on with it, shall we?

Quote of the day:
May the road rise to meet you May the wind be always at your back May the sun shine warm upon your face And the rain fall soft upon your fields And until we meet again May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
- Irish blessing

Christianity is so widely spead, I still find it hard to believe. I mean, every culture/religion has some sort of God. There are so many prayers, blessings, proverbs, sayings...that can it all possibly come back to only one god?

Today's message really does apply to a lot of people these days. I can admit that I am one of these people who live my day, rarely thinking of God, push myself to the brink of exhaustion, and then repeat the cycle every day.x

Twenty-four Hour Days and Stress - Message #198

"There is never enough time in the day for my work. We should have twenty five hours in each day." But God gave us twenty-four hours each day to accomplish our tasks and oh how we chafe under the restraint. Then we try to accomplish more than time allows. We place ourselves under huge amounts of self-imposed stress.

As we do so, we also fight against God. We fail to recognize it cannot be God's will to pack more into twenty-four hour day than will fit. Because we don't like God's time constraints, we push ourselves. We get up early. We go to bed late. Yet the list of work grows and stress grows too.

Look at what the Bible says, "It is vain for you to rise up early, to retire late, to eat the bread of painful labors" (Psalm 127:2). The word "vain" means "deception." It is a deception to get up early, to cram the day with activities, to retire late, and to see each day as a day of "painful labor," only to repeat the cycle again. Why? You will not receive that for which you work. Because you are forgetting God, you are not using each day properly. Psalm 118:24 says, "This is the day the Lord has made." Remembering the Author of time and setting priorities will reduce stress.

All credit DailyWisdom.GospelCom.Net

Love and Peace

Forever and Never

The End

Hannah

Magic Portals

"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these."
-Bob Goddard

Treat others how you want to be treated.
Don't just skim over that sentence. Really think about it! Then, put it into action! How many times have you said to yourself that today you will really change. Then you forgot, didn't you?
Anyways. I don't know what I am talking about.

Wow. I liked today's sermon...just because it was so random and reminded me of me.

New Puppy on a Roll

Big adventure at the Rhea house this week. We just took in a spaniel-mix puppy. You can't pick up a tennis ball or stuffed animal in here that doesn't make a slobber-log squishy sound. The entire upstairs smells a little like puppy breath. Every square inch has been sufficiently sniffed, then thoroughly chewed and slobber-covered.

It's an adjustment for all of us, granted, but the biggest adjustment is on the part of the two cats, who haven't entirely unpuffed since the pup lumbered through the front door. I think I actually saw the spaniel grin when she tried to greet the kitties. I didn't have a puppy language interpreter, but she seemed to me to be saying, "Hey, those look really chewy! I wonder how far that fat one can roll." Fortunately for the chewy cats, the puppy seems to think the stairs are some sort of magic portal and won't even go near them.

So the downstairs has officially been claimed by the cats and they're setting up a little kitty kingdom. You have to go through Cat Customs and prove you're not even remotely canine to even go down there. They're checking I.D.s.

Speaking of I.D.s, when we've given our lives to Christ, we become part of His kingdom. Not kitty related. Our identity is in Him. No need for a magic portal. We have Jesus! No big dog fear either- no need to fear anything at all. The God of the universe is on our side. His kingdom is the most glorious place to be.

I could write about it all day. As a matter of fact, I would write more, but I just heard a weird sound. Does it make a weird noise when a fat cat rolls?

All Credit Dailywisdom.Gospelcom.net


I'm going to Meagan's church Easter production with Lauren and (maybe) Nick again this year. It will hopefully be a blast...I don't get to hang out with Nick at all anymore and I never see Lauren outside of school (and now Rugby I guess).

Anyway, I'm off to supper. Have fun.

Love and Peace
Forever and Never
Hannah

Life: Bed, Cleats, Kids, etc

I got my new bed today. It is really big. It has consumed my room. I have no desk, no dresser and my room (and everywhere else I had to move my stuff) looks like a tornado hit.

But my bed looks really cool.

Sorry I haven't updated in a while...I have no computer now, so I kinda forgot about the blog (gasp!).

I got cleats and a mouthguard last Thursday...I'm excited for our next Rugby practice tomorrow. I wish I knew more about our schedule though...

I babysatt Thursday night and last night, so I am just that much closer to being able to afford anything on my To Buy list. Since I haven't posted it yet, I will make a quick summary of everything I can remember. Here goes:
1-Birkenstocks
2-May Rally Money
3-Laptop (HA!)
4-Spring Formal Ticket
5-Spring Formal Dress/Skirt/etc.
6-Spring Formal Shoes
7-Rugby Stuff? (I dunno what else I'll have to buy)
8-Bedskirt for my new bed
9-New sheets for new bed
10-Desk
11-Dresser
12-Bedside table
and everything else I can't remember.
As you can see, nothing is cheap on that list. Darn.

Well, I have got to go to supper, but if I get time I'll do the quote/sermon thing later tonight.

Lots of Love! (and Peace too, I guess)
Hannah