because I'll make sure it is!
The last few days haven't been too bad. I'm trying to find more patience. It's hard to find sometimes.
I love, love, LOVE Christmas...but for some reason it just feels different this year. Maybe it's just me...maybe it's that I won't see any of my extended family this Christmas. I don't know? Matthew and I just need to try hard to make our Christmases special. I keep reminding myself that we have so much to be thankful for. That all 3 of my kids are happy and healthy...that we can be altogether! Praise God for that!
Maybe I feel different this year because it is one of the first years that I've really, really hurt for the hurting...and maybe thats a good thing.
Kids who have nothing, including love.
Sick people.
Poor people.
Moms that are hurting because they are far from their children. Dads too.
People who are searching...knowing that there is something to life that they want, can't find and don't know what it is.
God, please use me. I want to help you rescue your children! Help us, my family to ever be thankful for the blessings upon blessings you give to us...not to take it for granted, EVER.
God, please be with those who need you...may the Holy Spirit work in their lives and they find what they've been looking for...YOU!
God, please give families with sick kids joy this Christmas...knowing you are in control.
Thank you for Matthew...I love him so much and not sure sometimes why he loves me so much! Thank you for his undying love for me and our kids.
And again...I pray for patience...please keep working on me!
Here's to a great day with the kids! A happy day!
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
the phone won...AGAIN!
Although I didn't post yesterday I thought a lot in bed about how my day went. I always think..."tomorrow will be better" & sometimes it is, but most of the time it's not!
I somehow always find something to do and not include the kids - to ecape them. Sure, I find things for them to do...they're not just zoned out & plugged in to the TV...I don't ignore them and their needs are met, but about their other needs? But I want to do more crafts, games, songs and snuggle times just with them! Doesn't that sound fun? I'm constantly trying to keep them quiet, calm & the house tidy - does that sound fun, for them or me?
I'll choose the computer, phone, cleaning...anything! Before you know it the day is done and I've hardly played! I invisioned being a much better housewife & SAHM. But here I am making these choices to stay away and disconnected from them! TODAY I'm choosing them!
So what do I do? Unplug the phone? Computer? Ignore the things that need to be done? I know I'm going to look back some day not too long from now and wish that I had them young again...to delight and take joy in them...my beautiful treasures from God!
God, please be with me today, reminding me of my choices! Help me to enjoy the kids. Help me Jesus in my frustrations. I don't want to be angry...just full of joy! Help me make desicions when it comes to discipline.
Please be with Matthew, give him a wonderful day and that might know how much we miss him when he is at work and how much we appreciate him for the things he does for our family and the love he shows to the kids and I!
I praise you daddy...you are wonderful beyond description and I love that no matter how close or far away I am to you...that you are always there holding me, hugging me. You never move Lord....it's me!
Love Lisa
I somehow always find something to do and not include the kids - to ecape them. Sure, I find things for them to do...they're not just zoned out & plugged in to the TV...I don't ignore them and their needs are met, but about their other needs? But I want to do more crafts, games, songs and snuggle times just with them! Doesn't that sound fun? I'm constantly trying to keep them quiet, calm & the house tidy - does that sound fun, for them or me?
I'll choose the computer, phone, cleaning...anything! Before you know it the day is done and I've hardly played! I invisioned being a much better housewife & SAHM. But here I am making these choices to stay away and disconnected from them! TODAY I'm choosing them!
So what do I do? Unplug the phone? Computer? Ignore the things that need to be done? I know I'm going to look back some day not too long from now and wish that I had them young again...to delight and take joy in them...my beautiful treasures from God!
God, please be with me today, reminding me of my choices! Help me to enjoy the kids. Help me Jesus in my frustrations. I don't want to be angry...just full of joy! Help me make desicions when it comes to discipline.
Please be with Matthew, give him a wonderful day and that might know how much we miss him when he is at work and how much we appreciate him for the things he does for our family and the love he shows to the kids and I!
I praise you daddy...you are wonderful beyond description and I love that no matter how close or far away I am to you...that you are always there holding me, hugging me. You never move Lord....it's me!
Love Lisa
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
it's going well...
I know I didn't post yesterday...I was thinking about that in bed last night. But I really did have a great day with the kids...I was very s l o w to become angry and I tried my hardest not to be irritable with the kids!
Today, on the other hand was a tad harder! But I did pretty good!
I feel guilty that I was on the phone with my sister for a straight 2.5 hrs...leaving the kids to play amongst themselves as well as be bored! But sometimes we just need to talk to each other! I miss her!
God, help to me focus MORE of my time(their)time on them! Help me to connect with them and to form amazing relationships with them. May your love shine through me so that they will see YOU in everything I do!
**Don't TELL me what you believe...SHOW me how you live** - How we live reveals what we really believe!
I pray that my life shows others what I believe by the way I am & act!
Lisa
Today, on the other hand was a tad harder! But I did pretty good!
I feel guilty that I was on the phone with my sister for a straight 2.5 hrs...leaving the kids to play amongst themselves as well as be bored! But sometimes we just need to talk to each other! I miss her!
God, help to me focus MORE of my time(their)time on them! Help me to connect with them and to form amazing relationships with them. May your love shine through me so that they will see YOU in everything I do!
**Don't TELL me what you believe...SHOW me how you live** - How we live reveals what we really believe!
I pray that my life shows others what I believe by the way I am & act!
Lisa
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Welcome to MARVELOUS LIGHT blog...
How this blog started is kind of funny. My husband Matthew and I were sitting in church this morning and our pastor was speaking on a seris - Christmas in Narnia - Overcoming Supernatural Evil - Where the supernatutural is closer than you think.
The message was great! It convicted me and challenged me at the same time. I wrote in my notebook a little note to Matthew saying "I feel that Satan is trying & tempting me to be mean & unkind to the kids" Sounds funny, I know...but really. I do believe that Satan is the 'active enemy in this world'. He is prowling around and wants to devour us.
"Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." - 1 Peter 5:8.
Fortunatly, I have choosen to be on God's side and with that I know that I have the power through Him to overcome all supernatural evil.
"My prayer is that light will flood your hearts and that you will understand the hope that was given to you when God chose you. Then you will discover the glorious blessings that will be yours together with all of God's people. I want you to know about the great and mighty power that God has for us followers. It is the same wonderful power he used when he raised Christ from death and let him sit at his right side in heaven." - Ephesians 1:18-20
Matthew's response to me was more a challenge than anything...he's very much an if you don't like it, change it person! So he said, why don't you challenge yourself to 30 days without anger and blog your journey. I got thinking about his idea and thought this would be a great way for me to watch myself learn to be a better wife, mom & person. So who knows where this will go...I think I'd like to challenge myself to more than just anger issues. I think it would be great to challenge myself to polish up all my fruits! Fruits of the spirit that is!
God's Spirit makes us loving, happy, peaceful, patient, kind, good, faithful,gentle, and self-controlled. There is no law against behaving in any of these ways. - Galations 5:22-23
So I started this blog mostly as a way to help myself follow Jesus...CLOSLY!
Today my pastor said "Darkness cannot be present if there is light...Its is our responsibility to be good rather than evil! Let your light shine so that evil has to disappear!"
I want my light to shine to everyone! First and foremost I need my light to shine to my three beautiful kids...who desparatly need to know that I love God with all my heart and that He loves me! I need them to see that mommy has A LOT of Jesus....and my prayer is that they'll genuinely want it too...forever! That's what life is all about! JESUS! We need to let our light shine so that others will come to know and want the same love & joy that Jesus has to offer! This life is temporary...eternity is where we'll spend our forever....
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. - James 4:14
So even though I gave my life to Jesus as a young child...I am going to surrender my heart, life & soul to him TODAY (again!) because the condition of my heart will reflect in my actions...and what are my actions saying to my husband, kids, family & friends?
As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man. - Proverbs 27:19
Don't let sin rule your body. After all, your body is bound to die, so don't obey its desires or let any part of it become a slave of evil. Give yourselves to God, as people who have been raised from death to life. Make every part of your body a slave that pleases God. - Romans 6:12-13
Alright...I will try to post something each day, as I need to be accountable to something...don't worry, each post won't be this long!
I'm so glad that we just watched Julie & Julia where I'm sure Matthew got the blogging part of his idea!!! I'm so excited and commited to becoming brighter, brighter for GOD! I'm going to run towards MARVELOUS LIGHT...and radiate God's marvelous light for those around me!
I'm gonna let my light shine!!!!
The kids and I LOVE this song...
Let Your Light Shine by Hillsong Kids
CLICK HERE
CLICK HERE to hear the Marvelous Light song
MARVELOUS LIGHT - lyrics
I once was fatherless,
a stranger with no hope;
Your kindness wakened me,
Awakened me, from my sleep
Your love it beckons deeply,
a call to come and die.
By grace now I will come
And take this life, take your life.
Sin has lost it's power,
death has lost it's sting.
From the grave you've risen
VICTORIOUSLY!
Chorus
Into marvelous light I'm running,
Out of darkness, out of shame.
By the cross you are the truth,
You are the life, you are the way
My dead heart now is beating,
My deepest stains now clean.
Your breath fills up my lungs.
Now I'm free. now I'm free!
Lift my hands and spin around,
See the light that i have found.
Oh the marvelous light
Marvelous light
Lift my hands and spin
See the light within
The message was great! It convicted me and challenged me at the same time. I wrote in my notebook a little note to Matthew saying "I feel that Satan is trying & tempting me to be mean & unkind to the kids" Sounds funny, I know...but really. I do believe that Satan is the 'active enemy in this world'. He is prowling around and wants to devour us.
"Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." - 1 Peter 5:8.
Fortunatly, I have choosen to be on God's side and with that I know that I have the power through Him to overcome all supernatural evil.
"My prayer is that light will flood your hearts and that you will understand the hope that was given to you when God chose you. Then you will discover the glorious blessings that will be yours together with all of God's people. I want you to know about the great and mighty power that God has for us followers. It is the same wonderful power he used when he raised Christ from death and let him sit at his right side in heaven." - Ephesians 1:18-20
Matthew's response to me was more a challenge than anything...he's very much an if you don't like it, change it person! So he said, why don't you challenge yourself to 30 days without anger and blog your journey. I got thinking about his idea and thought this would be a great way for me to watch myself learn to be a better wife, mom & person. So who knows where this will go...I think I'd like to challenge myself to more than just anger issues. I think it would be great to challenge myself to polish up all my fruits! Fruits of the spirit that is!
God's Spirit makes us loving, happy, peaceful, patient, kind, good, faithful,gentle, and self-controlled. There is no law against behaving in any of these ways. - Galations 5:22-23
So I started this blog mostly as a way to help myself follow Jesus...CLOSLY!
Today my pastor said "Darkness cannot be present if there is light...Its is our responsibility to be good rather than evil! Let your light shine so that evil has to disappear!"
I want my light to shine to everyone! First and foremost I need my light to shine to my three beautiful kids...who desparatly need to know that I love God with all my heart and that He loves me! I need them to see that mommy has A LOT of Jesus....and my prayer is that they'll genuinely want it too...forever! That's what life is all about! JESUS! We need to let our light shine so that others will come to know and want the same love & joy that Jesus has to offer! This life is temporary...eternity is where we'll spend our forever....
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. - James 4:14
So even though I gave my life to Jesus as a young child...I am going to surrender my heart, life & soul to him TODAY (again!) because the condition of my heart will reflect in my actions...and what are my actions saying to my husband, kids, family & friends?
As water reflects a face, so a man's heart reflects the man. - Proverbs 27:19
Don't let sin rule your body. After all, your body is bound to die, so don't obey its desires or let any part of it become a slave of evil. Give yourselves to God, as people who have been raised from death to life. Make every part of your body a slave that pleases God. - Romans 6:12-13
Alright...I will try to post something each day, as I need to be accountable to something...don't worry, each post won't be this long!
I'm so glad that we just watched Julie & Julia where I'm sure Matthew got the blogging part of his idea!!! I'm so excited and commited to becoming brighter, brighter for GOD! I'm going to run towards MARVELOUS LIGHT...and radiate God's marvelous light for those around me!
I'm gonna let my light shine!!!!
The kids and I LOVE this song...
Let Your Light Shine by Hillsong Kids
CLICK HERE
CLICK HERE to hear the Marvelous Light song
MARVELOUS LIGHT - lyrics
I once was fatherless,
a stranger with no hope;
Your kindness wakened me,
Awakened me, from my sleep
Your love it beckons deeply,
a call to come and die.
By grace now I will come
And take this life, take your life.
Sin has lost it's power,
death has lost it's sting.
From the grave you've risen
VICTORIOUSLY!
Chorus
Into marvelous light I'm running,
Out of darkness, out of shame.
By the cross you are the truth,
You are the life, you are the way
My dead heart now is beating,
My deepest stains now clean.
Your breath fills up my lungs.
Now I'm free. now I'm free!
Lift my hands and spin around,
See the light that i have found.
Oh the marvelous light
Marvelous light
Lift my hands and spin
See the light within
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