Why?

Sometimes this job is frustrating and lonely. That's how I was feeling this morning. And then Colette sent me this video to watch. Wow! What a reminder of one of the reasons I do what I do! You can't see the world and not love the world. You can't see someone come to Christ and not long to see it again and again. You can't see someone grow and not want others to "get it" as well. You can't truly experience God's peace that surpasses all understanding and not long to be in the center of His will. Thank you God for choosing to use me even when I don't deserve it and even sometimes when I don't feel like doing it. Forgive me for taking my opportunities for service for granted.

I think I got it!

Okay, so I told you that I would share my deep spiritual lesson as soon as I figured it out. So here goes. God can do anything. He can take care of any problem. He can take away your deepest fears. These are all lessons that I have learned before, and yet still, when things started to spin out of control, I worried. Why is it that we worry when things are out of our control? That is usually when the good stuff happens! Haha! So here is what happened. On Thursday, David Nabors came out to look at my hot water heater. We saw that the thermocouple was out of alignment with the pilot light and in minutes we were back in business. Sweet! So then I asked him to check out the fireplace while he was there. He relit the pilot light and the fireplace came on. He thinks there was just some dust over the line. Awesome! So on Saturday, I go to Lowe's again to see about the mailbox. As I am looking at one of them, I realize that I can take it apart and use the parts to fix what is broken on mine. So I pick up the cheapest one they have ($6) and head home. Yay! Finally, I shipped my computer off to Apple (at their expense). They sent me a new one for free. So all in all....all problems solved for $6. God is so good!

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Have you ever seen this book? It's a great little book. I always enjoyed reading it to my 1st graders when I taught school. However, yesterday I really felt sorry for poor ole Alexander, because Angela had a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day! It wasn't a day like say "Wednesday". It was day, as in 24 hours of misery. It all started Tuesday evening when I got home from work. My foot was killing me, because I had tripped over a rock and bumped it up pretty good. I limped out to the mailbox to find that it had no door. The mailman, who apparently was also having a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, had riped it off the hinges and busted the latch all in one fell swoop. So off to Lowe's I limp. But Lowe's doesn't sell green mailboxes...which my neighborhood says you have to have. So anyway, Wednesday morning I get up and....no hot water. So being the brave, single girl that I am, I go downstairs in my bathrobe and check out the hot water heater. No pilot light. I go back inside, find a flash light and a lighter and I am off to fix the problem. I read the directions and poof, there is a pilot light, but as soon as I let go of the button, no pilot light. I do this 5 times...just in case there is air in the line...I really read the directions! So I start calling around...mom, dad, David Nabors, Marshall...no one knows what to do. Marshall and David have some ideas, but nothing I can do. So I go back inside. I look and the pilot light for the fireplace is on. I think that's a good sign, so I go over to turn on the fireplace....nothing...except for the smell of gas. This is not good. I call the gas company and she says they can come and take a look for $70. I politely decline, hoping that I will not have to call her back. So off to work I go, I spend all day getting my computer presentation together for the Greenhouse. I have it all set up and ready to go and I go downstairs for dinner. I am only gone about an hour. I go back up to teach and .... my computer is completely dead! Dead as in, it is currently being shipped back to the "mother station" or wherever it is that you ship those sorts of things off to. Now, I am sure that there is a spiritual lesson in all of this for me, but I just haven't found it yet. I'll let you know when I do. What I did learn was that if you see this on your Mac screen...you are in big trouble!As for now, I am just trying not to touch anything too valuable!