Ten Cheers

Argh…. I don’t like feeling sick!

But, I really, really, really like Bryan! He is always so sweet and amazing! And, he’s also been so sweet when I haven’t been feeling well! He started to caress my face last night while I was moping on the couch feeling sorry for my sick, sniffly, fuzzy-headed self and he told me how beautiful and sweet I looked!!

And then, tonight, on his way home from work, he asked me how Joy Yee would sound for dinner and ended up picking up dinner for us from one of our favorite restaurants!! ☺ Let’s give 3 cheers for Joy Yee’s Triple Berry Freezes and Chicken Teriyaki! But…. 10 cheers for Bryan!! Bryan is my gold-medal husband!!

Lord, thank you for this amazing day that you have given us. This is the day that you have made. I will rejoice and be glad in it, even if I feel sick!!

Not Defined…

So, is it really possible to contain or direct all of my passions into one specific field? I don’t comprehend the fact that people are “defined by what they do” because my day job really has so little to do with who I view myself to be as a person. It’s not that I don’t appreciate the company that I work for, I truly think that it’s a wonderful place and that it’s doing amazing things for Christ’s Kingdom, it’s just that I personally have difficulty defining myself by something that sometimes makes me feel uni-dimensional instead of reflecting the multiple facets of whom I was created to be.

And, yet, I must remember that if I’m fulfilling the two greatest commandments, to love God and love people then I am, in actuality, fulfilling what I was created for.

I may have passions and desires to train, disciple, teach (maybe even preach), write and counsel but I need to be faithful in even the little things. On the days I feel like I’m in a box and that I can’t express what’s really inside, I need to remember to love God and to love people and be defined by that.

Lord, may I seek your approval far above that of men. May I be wiling to say that I’d be “content’ in you even if I am never able to achieve the vocational dreams I think that I have. May I be as content to say, “would you like fries with that?” as I would be if I were counseling and writing for the masses. Lord, take me as I am and be glorified!