Louder Than the Voices

 We made it to another Saturday! We have had a busy week but I am thankful today for a slower weekend.  I still have plenty to do, and I even brought work home because I am going to be gone quite a bit next week for other things so I want to stay caught up, but the fact that I slept in until 5 is just a sign of a laid back day. And it is raining, so no long walks today, I am really feeling a good stretch workout coming on today. I worked my legs really hard yesterday and I am feeling it today so that is probably perfect.  Today I want to talk about something none of us like--rejection. We have all been there in probably every area of our lives; relationships, work, our walk with the Lord. We have all had times that we thought we were doing exactly what God wanted, or we had prayed about something and we felt like God was leading us into the next chapter of our lives only to have it all fall through. We think we are not only talking the talk, but walking the walk and boom,...

 Well, this week has not been what I expected at all. I had decided last week after my little "I don't want to do this anymore" meltdown that I would take a week off. Truth is, it has been a miserable week and I don't feel like I was myself at all. I was tired and bloaty, and had sugar issues, and it was just, well, bad. I fell asleep almost every evening on the couch, couldn't sleep well of a night, I even fell asleep one day at lunch. And I seriously feel so fat and bloaty that I am surprised my clothes will go on at all. Everything down to my double chin feels heavier. This was a failed experiment right down to the fact that I woke up at 2 and couldn't sleep, fought it for an hour and finally got up. So, it is 3:19 and here I am. I am literally aching to go for a walk and when 5 AM comes, I plan to be out that door. As much as I hate how I am feeling, I am glad that I am really missing my life. So, I thought I would do a Bible Study on the reset.  This week...

 Happy Saturday before Easter! We have had a wonderful three night revival at our church in preparation for Easter. We have had great messages, 1 from a young man that has become family in the last few years and 2 from people I have known literally my whole life. Growing up, there were three boys that lived next door. Thankfully, I was a huge tomboy and normally, wherever they were, there I was too. We had such a good childhood and we spent as much time at each other's houses as we did at home. One of those "boys" preached last night. It is funny, you know how you see those memes of people all grown up, but what you still see is that kid? That's me but it is in a good way. Our dad's are both gone, mine has been for over 45 years, and Jon's just a few years, but I couldn't help but think about our "cloud of witnesses" last night that was looking down watching me leading singing, and Jon preaching. I could see our dad's saying, "our kids a...