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Name: Vickie
Country: United States
State: Texas
Metro: Rockwall
Interests: Laying by the pool, writing, cleaning my house, teaching my kids, reading, shopping, eating at great restaurants, silence
Expertise: cleaning my house, bugging my kids, driving with no gas, laying by the pool, shopping
Occupation: Education/training
Industry: Construction
Message: message me
Member Since:
6/20/2005
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| Five months since a post on Xanga. I have a MySpace, but I do not do anything productive there; my kids call it 'lurking'. That sounds so.... not good. I'm not lurking. I love reading people's thoughts, just like I used to do here... back when people put thoughts here. We could catch up on each other's doings, hear what God is revealing in lives, maybe help a person with a problem... Now we get 'snippets' on bulletins that are like 15 second Super Bowl commercials - nice, but you know there could be so much more... I do not really have time to do this anyway. I have 3 chapters to be reading at this moment, papers to grade etc..... Alex is at a concert - on a school night, with the sniffles, and no sleep. Sam is at CFNI in Dallas. Phil is in Canada. Nemo is in the garage. Oh yeah, he thinks it is really something to go there. At least it keeps him quiet. Since the night he got out and roamed the street, he has meowed incessantly, moaning more like it, pacing from one door to the other. So, I bought a squirt bottle and filled it with water and every time he meows by the door, I squirt him. I felt bad, but after nearly two weeks of getting doused in the face with water, he has chilled a bit and relegated himself to catching bugs in the garage. God is still good......all the time, and I am expecting great things. All His promises are still Yes and Amen. Nothing matters apart from Him. ciao for now :) | | |
| Do you know what makes that sound? Can you search the crevices of you mind and recall it? Did someone say......
dial up?
It's true. The day Phil went away on business, the modem died. Flat
died. No green, orange, orange. Not even Red, green, green - no blinks
- only blackness - silence - only
sckreeeeeeech, errrrrrrrrk, bzzzzzzzt.
But now that I'm FINALLY here :) God is good. All the time. Yes.
4 weeks and counting.
Funny. I sat through the slow downloading of Xanga, and I find I have nothing to say...
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| Where have all the people gone?
Long time passing.
You would have to have grown up in the 70's to get this :)
I suppose I need a Myspace - but I've been told this would not be
'cool' because I am 'old' - a 'mom' - So is there a Space for 'old
moms?' :) I do not feel old. I am a
mom....
I'm working on 'logic' so according to standard logic from the above statements we could deduce this:
a. I do not feel old. (premise 1)
b. I am a mom. (premsie 2)
c. I am not an old mom. (conclusion)
It is really fun trying to figure out this logic stuff. I am not the
analytical type. I really do not even care for it. Okay, this
would be flawed. Let's see.
a. figuring out logic is fun
b. some are not analytical types
c. logic is fun for analytical types
.... I'm ready for summer break :)
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| Spring break is slipping away, like one of those things you hold in
your hand and squeeze, and it squirts to one end; then, you squeeze it
again and it goes to the other end; then - schloop - it pops right out
of your hand and it's gone.
I'm reading 3 books all at once. It is kind of aggravating, but I want to finish them all before Monday.
I wrote this on Cassie's site:
There, in the Secret Place of the Most High, no evil will befall
you. That scripture is too much. No evil. God said 'no
evil' Not - every now and then, evil will befall you. Or, oops, evil
befell you. God, by the Holy Spirit said, 'because thou hast made
the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation, there
shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy
dwelling.' What do you do with this? You either believe it
and stand on it, or you fall in line with the world's way and accept
the 'plagues' of this day, the 'evil' of this day. Hmmm.
I cannot explain it, but I believe it. God is so good. All the
time. When evil comes, when trouble comes, when plagues come,
God's Word has to be true. Let every man be a liar, but let God be true
(Ro. 3:4) And just before that, ...shall their unbelief make the
faith of God without effect! So what if everyone around does not
believe. So what if everyone around thinks you are a 'faith
fanatic'. Paul had this sentiment first. He said, 'for what if
some did not believe? does that make it not true? let every man be a
liar, but let what God says be true.
That is my kind of thinking. If we cannot believe all of Him, how can
we believe any? How would we know which part to believe? Who would
determine the criteria for what to believe and when? A man's
heart is deceitful above all things. Who can know it? Do we trust our
hearts? Human reasonings? There is a way that seems right to man,
but the end of that is death. So, I go with Paul. I will
not let another's unbelief get in my way. We cannot afford it. All we
have is God's Word to build on and if we build on any other thing,
defeat is certain.
If it were not God, it would lunacy. How do we believe things so
wonderful. Things, that, to the natural mind, are impossible? We
believe when it is so much a part of us that, the unseen things of the
Spirit are more real than the 'seen' things of the natural. We can
believe the impossible when God's Word is the final authority - not the
doctor's report - not the stock market news - not the news from a
friend. It is the '...report of the Lord'. Who will believe it,
one of the old prophets asked. He just flat out asked, 'who will
believe the report of the Lord'. Did any of the people at that
time say, 'not me'? Moses, I think it was, said to the people,
'who is on the Lord's side, let him come with me'. I would
have been beating a path to get over there. Yet some did not and about
3000 lost their lives that day. If you read on it says '... Moses had
said, consecrate yourselves ...that God may bestow upon you a
blessing...'
Why is it so hard for us to receive God's blessing? Man is quick
to say of the tornado that rips through a town and devastates it, 'well
God knows what He is doing'. Or, when things are bad, "I guess God is
trying to teach me something'. But, what God is wanting to do is
get His people to walk in the Blessing. Sure there will be
trouble, but Jesus said to be of good cheer - not because you have
trouble - but, as the rest of that scripture says, because 'He has
overcome the world' and, we are in Him. We are overcomers. Are we not?
We are world overcomers.
'Well, now, Vickie, you are going to far'. Some might say. Well,
now, what does Revelation say? '...to him who overcomes, will I
give to eat of the tree of life...' 'to him who overcomes, will I
grant to sit with me in my throne...' '...to him who overcomes, will I
give power over the nations...'
Let every man be a liar, but let God be true...
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| Yes. That's right. My, myspace career did not last long. I went there,
looked around and came back home *youngest son does a happy
dance*. Why do you people do MySpace anyway? I like looking at
pictures, but not that much,(invite me over and we'll look at your
picture albums and drink a Diet Coke - oh wait - no one takes pictures
for real anymore THEY'RE ALL DIGITAL) and I have no desire for
'messaging'. I have email AND A PHONE. We buy our kids
these awesome phones and they do not talk on them. It is a
paradox. They take pictures on this too small screen and type messages
on this too small keyboard. No wait. It is not a keyboard - it's a
number pad! I'm using exclamation points and typing in caps because it
is maddening. I just do not get it.
Well, enough on that. I am so ready for spring break. Did I say that in
my last post? I think I've been saying that daily for a while now. I
want to do 'nothing' for a while. I want to read my novels. I want to
clean my house. I want to work in my yard. That sounds like a selfish
list of 'want tos', but I do not mean it to be. I will still keep God
first in all of that and cook for my family and do the laundry - oh
yeah, I haven't done that lately either! What have I been doing
you ask? RESEARCH PAPERS! ESSAYS! PARAGRAPHS!.
Oh, I love it. Do not get me wrong, but, whew. I'm pooped out with it.
Need break badly.
God is truly good. All the time. It seems like, everyday I love Him
more. Every day there is something new, something better than the day
before. We read Proverbs today - me and the boys - and it was so good.
It preached. You just read it and you can say 'Amen!' There is such
wisdom there. Everything you need for life and Godliness is there.
Everything you need for success is there. Healing is there. Joy is
there. Strength is there. Motivation to get up and try again is there -
because it is alive. It is health to all your bones. It is life to
those who find it. It is so wonderful - too wonderful for any earthly
words to describe. That is why the Father gives us a personal prayer
language, so that, when we run out of things to say in English (or your
native tongue), He will literally interceed through you by His Spirit,
and in the Spirit you will speak mysteries. Your mind does not
understand, but your spirit man is built up - renewed. In this is life
- this is that, that the prophet Joel spoke of. Because of this,
the enemy, the devil, does all he can to prevent God's good people from
receiving this precious gift. And it is a gift for everyone that asks.
So ask and expect to receive. If God has it in His Word, then I want
it, because if it comes from the Father, it's got to be good - He
desires to give good gifts to His children.
So, here I am 'blogging' instead of reading my student's work...
And yes, I'm still trying to read this book. I have started over twice!
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