..... I start work. I will be working at the same pharmacy that I worked at before and I am hoping it all comes back to me. I am also studying to re-take my pharmacy tech certification test again... cause I let it lapse. So, I will be taking the test shortly after we come back from Lads to Leaders Convention next month.
Please pray for us during this time of great transition for us... me at work, Eric now taking over the homeschooling of the children and the running of the house.... along with studying for his own exams and the start-up of a new business....
Thanks to all of you wonderful friends that have said/sent words of encouragement over the last few weeks, it really has meant so much to us.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Back into the work force...
Well, I got the job. I will be working between 32 and 40 hours a week. Thanks to all who have been keeping our family in prayer.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Wednesday's Word
I wanted to share today my readings from Matthew Henry's Commentary that go along with the verses....(verses are from the ESV)
Jas 3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
Pretend what you will, and think yourselves ever so wise, yet you have abundance of reason to cease your glorying, if you run down love and peace, and give way to bitter envying and strife. Your zeal for truth or orthodoxy, and your boasts of knowing more than others, if you employ these only to make others hateful, and to show your own spite and heart-burnings against them, are a shame to your profession of Christianity, and a downright contradiction to it. Lie not thus against the truth.
Jas 3:15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
Envying and strife are opposed to the meekness of wisdom. The heart is the seat of both; but envy and wisdom cannot dwell together in the same heart. Holy zeal and bitter envying are as different as the flames of seraphim and the fire of hell.
Jas 3:16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
Those who live in malice, envy, and contention, live in confusion, and are liable to be provoked and hurried to any evil work. Such disorders raise many temptations, strengthen temptations, and involve men in a great deal of guilt. One sin begets another, and it cannot be imagined how much mischief is produced: there is every evil work. And is such wisdom as produces these effects to be gloried in? This cannot be without giving the lie to Christianity, and pretending that this wisdom is what it is not.
Jas 3:17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
A truly wise man is a very knowing man: he will not set up for the reputation of being wise without laying in a good stock of knowledge; and he will not value himself merely upon knowing things, if he has not wisdom to make a right application and use of that knowledge. These two things must be put together to make up the account of true wisdom: who is wise, and endued with knowledge?
If we are wiser than others, this should be evidenced by the goodness of our conversation, not by the roughness or vanity of it. Words that inform, and heal, and do good, are the marks of wisdom; not those that look great, and do mischief, and are the occasions of evil, either in ourselves or others.
True wisdom may be known by its works. The conversation here does not refer only to words, but to the whole of men's practice; therefore it is said, Let him show out of a good conversation his works. True wisdom does not lie in good notions or speculations so much as in good and useful actions. Not he who thinks well, or he who talks well, is in the sense of the scripture allowed to be wise, if he do not live and act well.
True wisdom may be known by the meekness of the spirit and temper: Let him show with meekness, etc. It is a great instance of wisdom prudently to bridle our own anger, and patiently to bear the anger of others. And as wisdom will evidence itself in meekness, so meekness will be a great friend to wisdom; for nothing hinders the regular apprehension, the solid judgment, and impartiality of thought, necessary to our acting wisely, so much as passion. When we are mild and calm, we are best able to hear reason, and best able to speak it. Wisdom produces meekness, and meekness increases wisdom.
Please God, grant me a measure of true wisdom today and throughout my life, that I might be a more true reflection of Your glory and grace.
Jas 3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
Pretend what you will, and think yourselves ever so wise, yet you have abundance of reason to cease your glorying, if you run down love and peace, and give way to bitter envying and strife. Your zeal for truth or orthodoxy, and your boasts of knowing more than others, if you employ these only to make others hateful, and to show your own spite and heart-burnings against them, are a shame to your profession of Christianity, and a downright contradiction to it. Lie not thus against the truth.
Jas 3:15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
Envying and strife are opposed to the meekness of wisdom. The heart is the seat of both; but envy and wisdom cannot dwell together in the same heart. Holy zeal and bitter envying are as different as the flames of seraphim and the fire of hell.
Jas 3:16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
Those who live in malice, envy, and contention, live in confusion, and are liable to be provoked and hurried to any evil work. Such disorders raise many temptations, strengthen temptations, and involve men in a great deal of guilt. One sin begets another, and it cannot be imagined how much mischief is produced: there is every evil work. And is such wisdom as produces these effects to be gloried in? This cannot be without giving the lie to Christianity, and pretending that this wisdom is what it is not.
Jas 3:17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
A truly wise man is a very knowing man: he will not set up for the reputation of being wise without laying in a good stock of knowledge; and he will not value himself merely upon knowing things, if he has not wisdom to make a right application and use of that knowledge. These two things must be put together to make up the account of true wisdom: who is wise, and endued with knowledge?
If we are wiser than others, this should be evidenced by the goodness of our conversation, not by the roughness or vanity of it. Words that inform, and heal, and do good, are the marks of wisdom; not those that look great, and do mischief, and are the occasions of evil, either in ourselves or others.
True wisdom may be known by its works. The conversation here does not refer only to words, but to the whole of men's practice; therefore it is said, Let him show out of a good conversation his works. True wisdom does not lie in good notions or speculations so much as in good and useful actions. Not he who thinks well, or he who talks well, is in the sense of the scripture allowed to be wise, if he do not live and act well.
True wisdom may be known by the meekness of the spirit and temper: Let him show with meekness, etc. It is a great instance of wisdom prudently to bridle our own anger, and patiently to bear the anger of others. And as wisdom will evidence itself in meekness, so meekness will be a great friend to wisdom; for nothing hinders the regular apprehension, the solid judgment, and impartiality of thought, necessary to our acting wisely, so much as passion. When we are mild and calm, we are best able to hear reason, and best able to speak it. Wisdom produces meekness, and meekness increases wisdom.
Please God, grant me a measure of true wisdom today and throughout my life, that I might be a more true reflection of Your glory and grace.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Interview Update...
Well, I have to say I think the interview went very well... I am now awaiting (and praying) for the right answer....
Going in for an interview....
Hello everyone. Just wanted to share that I got a call from that job this morning... going in for an interview this afternoon. Please keep me in prayer today! Thanks for all the kind words and prayers from so many of our friends!
Monday, March 09, 2009
Sorry I missed ya'll last week...
.... but I was without a computer for the most part. See, we have run a Linux OS on my computer for years now. And with the start up of the business we found that we needed a computer that ran Windows. So, I made the sacrifice (and I do mean sacrifice) to put the Windows OS on my computer... so we backed up my info, and Eric installed Windows... It takes soooo much longer to install Windows on a computer! I'm still tweeking it.... but for now it will have to do!
I am waiting on a call for an interview this week. If I get the J.O.B. then I will not be on here as much ...and will need to seriously think on if I will keep up my blog and how..... I really want to, but may need to re-vamp my whole scheme....
I am waiting on a call for an interview this week. If I get the J.O.B. then I will not be on here as much ...and will need to seriously think on if I will keep up my blog and how..... I really want to, but may need to re-vamp my whole scheme....
Monday, March 02, 2009
Monday Moments...
here are a few moments from our day so far.....
me.... taking a break from the kitchen for a quick photo session....
Amaris in Jed's room cleaning away...
Jed is helping....
Travis was on bathroom duty...
Mia in the kitchen... we are doing some spring cleaning.....cleaning out the cabinets....
Eric is working on a book press....
me.... taking a break from the kitchen for a quick photo session....
Amaris in Jed's room cleaning away...
Jed is helping....
Travis was on bathroom duty...
Mia in the kitchen... we are doing some spring cleaning.....cleaning out the cabinets....
Eric is working on a book press....
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