Does It Ever Sink In?

Have you ever said anything that made you feel really stupid? That if you had thought it through a bit more you wouldn't have said what you did?
I had that experience this morning. Tim was pointing stuff out to me and naming them, trying to be funny. He pointed at the thermostat and said, "That's the thermostat" then he pointed at the smoke alarm and said, "that's the smoke alarm" finally he pointed to the doorbell box and said "that's the doorbell". Then I (not trying to be funny but managing very well to be exactly that) said, "Really? I didn't know that." The sad thing is that I really didn't know. I had never really thought about where the sound for the doorbell came from. It had never been important enough for me to think about.
Too often I am the same way with other things that are far more important. I just happened to have the song "People Need The Lord" stuck in my head today. My Dad often goes around the house either singing, humming, or whistling this song. He would also remind me that "people need the Lord" whenever I would comment on all the junk happening in the world. So whenever I would hear the song I would think of all the unbelievers out there who "need the Lord". Just today I finally stopped to think that believers need the Lord almost just as much as unbelievers. Yeah, we're saved eternally, but we still need God to continue to save us from the power of sin each day. I think it's going to take a lifetime for that to sink in.
I Corinthians 10:13
"No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it."
ttfn,
Beth

Prayer

Hey everyone!
I guess I haven't been on here in a while. Not that I'm too busy or anything. I just haven't thought about writing lately. A friend reminded me on Sunday night. (Thanx Steve :) )
I guess I'll say something about the message at Celebration Night last Tuesday evening. Again it was a great time and Phil Bock came to speak to us on prayer. Yay Phil! The main thing I got out of it was that often times we pray when things are rotten and we feel let down when God doesn't answer our prayers the way we expect Him to. But as we continue to pray, maybe our situation won't change, but we begin to change. As we continue to give the situation prayerfully over to God, asking that His will be done, our hearts can change and we trust God to guide us through. Proverbs 3:5-6 are great verses to live by. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight."
As I live I can't depend on my "understanding" of a situation and tell God what He needs to do to make things come out right. I need to "acknowledge" that He is the authority and that He will work things out in His time. His way may not be my way, but His way is always the best way. As we draw near to God in prayer we come to know Him more intimately and therefore step by step His will becomes our will.
I don't know if this makes any sense to anyone else but it helps me to be able to thrash it out like this. :)
A good song is:
One Heart One Mind
If you will see with my eyes

If you hear with my ears

Then you will speak with my voice

And when I laugh you will rejoice

Then you and I

Will be one, we will be

one heart, one mind (x2)

If you despise what I hate

If you esteem what I love

Then the world will know me through you

Give to them what I give to you

I've gotta go now. ttfn.

Tired

This past weekend was great! We had an awesome Quiz Meet and of course an awesome time of worship. Our quiz teams did fairly well and we all had a great time, but now I feel so tired. Its almost like I did a week of hard labor even though I actually didn't do much at all.
My parents left yesterday to spend a couple days at a Pastors and Wives Retreat. I hope that my Dad will take it easy and actually rest. Anyway, Tim and I get the house to ourselves which is always fun. Not much to do though. I probably should be working on correcting school work but I don't feel like it.
I think I need some exercise to wake me up so I'll be going for a walk soon. I'm rambling so I'll just finish with with an appropriate passage of scripture.
Matthew 11:28 "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."

"peace be still/ I am with you/ rest in me for one more night/ peace be still/ I am with you/ replace your tired heart with mine."
Tired Heart by Bleach

I'm back and I'm done!...school that is

Hey everybody!
I finally have a free moment where the computer is free and I can be on here for more than a...a moment I guess. :) I finally finished my school last week Thursday. Wow am I happy to be done. I have a life again. Sort of. :) This weekend we have a Quiz Meet. I am super excited about it but also a little..well..worried. I haven't had enough time to memorize as much as I wanted to and it seems like a lot of people just haven't wanted to memorize. Oops. I guess that sounds a little harsh. I guess I'm also kinda concerned about the whole coaching thing. Our teams from Winkler don't have enough coaches. I guess the A team (Tim and I) can always go without. One thing I am not worried about is the Praise and Worship time. It is going to be so good!! I'm super excited about our Worship Team playing. Sometimes I get frustrated with myself for worrying about things that I don't need to worry about. I actually just memorized a passage from Matthew 6 that talks about worrying. Jesus is speaking in his sermon on the mount.
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we wear?' The pagans run after these things, and your Heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:25-34.
It takes so little time to memorize God's word but it takes a lot longer to apply it to my life. I wish I had an alarm that went off every time I started worrying. But I guess I would need a whole lot of alarms or buzzers to go off for all the times I do something wrong. It would probably end up being more confusing than it began.
Anyway...I've gotta get moving. Maybe I'll have more time now to write on here. But I won't worry about that right now. :)
ttfn (ta ta for now) as Tigger always says.