Scrapping Servant

There’s one I love to “scream” with while I am doing dishes by myself.  :o)

Skillet - Better than Drugs!       

Enjoy :o) 

My little brother… and MY CAT! 

From now on I will be posting my tackles over at 5MinutesForMom.  Janice was getting so overloaded with all that’s on her plate that when I asked her if she needed anything and she replied really not wanting to do Tackle it Tuesday anymore I was completely excited to step in!  Praise God that I will have this constant accountability and she will have less responsibility :o).

I even made new Tackle it Tuesday buttons and shared a tip on how to syphon water with a hose this week.

Of coarse you will still find me here on Tuesdays giving you hints on what I tackled for the week, but you will have to hop over there to see all the dirty details (literally)…. and this week’s a doozey!     

Here’s your hint…

Again I feel I have had a blessed week in the Lord, I hope you have too.  It has been really good that this Meme holds me accountable to have my walk… of course if I were to come here and say I have not read or learned at all I would expect you all to lovingly rebuke me :o)  I really do mean for this Meme to help us lift each other up, bear one another’s burdens and sharpen each other’s iron! :o)  So please don’t be surprised when I stop by to see how you are doing if you have not been around… you are loved.

 So… do you want to hear what I have learned?  A good one from this morning in youth group with my husband (when I had to fumble around in my purse to find paper (a receipt) to write on) was… well, let’s see if I can find the receipt now…    

• The only way Satan can hurt God is through us.   (Think about that one for a moment, it hit me hard!)
• My response… I don’t want anyone hurting my King, especially if they are planning on using me to do it!  (Ps. we were in Gen. 3)

 And some nice news!  I finished reading my Let Go book… a total God send and a blessing I will never forget!  I may not believe the same things the author of these letters did, but I know that God definitely used his words to put me in check with my self.

After reviewing what I have already learned, God showed me a bit more on what Surrendering is like for me.  You see I was reading about surrender meaning to accept whatever God sends as I looked at the photo of the giant wave from last week’s post.  It made me think about my labor with BBoy.  I had him with no meds and was thinking on what my lovely Birthing Coach would say during the super hard contractions (you see she used to surf and I think this is no coincidence!) she would tell me to “Just ride the wave”.   Now I see that that was me surrendering to the pain!  This is a great picture of surrender to me.  God just wants me to take each wave as it comes and be faithful to balance as He holds me in His arms.   

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• You see we are never alone, God is always there as our faithful friend to hold us up when we are weak.
• And even if the problems we have seem to be waves over our heads they are always under His feet!
• Many of our steps to victory come on our knees.  

 I encourage you this week to actually set time aside to pray, maybe even setting a timer to do so to keep you from distractions.

Now for this week’s Bonus Question: Do you have a favorite place or time to get alone with God?  If yes, when, where and maybe why?… If no, can you think of one you could make, giving it to the Lord as a place for you and Him to hang-out together?

 My Answer: When my kids are awake I have a spot in my family room on the couch.  I like it because it still makes me available to them and because I am close to my husband’s computer which reminds me to pray with them and pray for my husband.  When they are not awake (which is not often) I think God is calling me to a different spot (on the couch in my bedroom), which I am actually not being faithful to come to… please pray for my rebellion to stop.  Thank you ladies and remember you are loved!  

This is totally how I have been feeling lately, I am just thankful God is faithful to use my times alone in my car to minister to my heart through songs on the radio.  Thank you Barlow Girl for being faithful to write it.  He told me He wanted me 5 weeks ago at the ladies retreat I went to, and I still keep my heart from Him.  I don’t want to do it anymore on my own Lord, I want you too.

This is another repeat Tackle!  Gosh!  I always feel like I am repeating these things, but I guess that’s the life of the quite homemaker :o)

 I’ve been wanting to get this one done for months now!  I’m so glad it’s finished!    

It is my unorganized bookcase again, it was the last part in my big room swap….

Also if you look at Sunday’s post you will see MORE I tackled!  ;o)  Me so Happy!

Hello everyone that is joining in on sharing their walk in the Lord… I pray that you will find much encouragement here as it is my heart to both grow myself, but also along-side you my sisters!  Remember if you do not have a blog please feel free to share each week in the comments what you are learning in the Lord and, or the answer to the bonus question.  Here is some of what I have learned this week… first I will start again in my ‘Let Go‘ book… 

•  I want to come to Jesus with nothing of my self, I just want Him to see His own beauty and holiness in me.
• My weaknesses can turn out to be my strengths (through Jesus) if I just accept them humbly.
• Real surrender is resting in the love of God, as a little baby rests in its mommy’s arms.
  • Isn’t that I beautiful picture of our God holding us like babies?!
• Surrender is not a huge heroic laying down of ourselves, it is simply accepting whatever God sends, and not seeking to change it, unless His will is to see it changed.
• Surrender is full of peace, if we have restlessness and concerns about what we surrendered it was not genuine.
  • This really made me question whether a couple things I have given were fully surrendered or not, I found the answer to be no… you try.
• Daily death will completely destroy the pain of final death.

These next couple really blessed me because of how I have been feeling lately, it helped me see WHY I am feeling this way…

• My imagination works overtime, exaggerating terrors of death because my self is fighting to live!  Self is trying to get me to hate all kinds of death to make me selfish again instead of selfless!
  • I have really been struggling just the past couple days regarding being needed by everyone in my family and not having time to my SELF, AHHH!  Listen to that!
• “We are tempted to become discouraged and despondent to our present situations.  We see our current trials rolling in toward us like great, overpowering, ocean waves.  Our hearts fail us with fear at the prospect of drowning.  We do not see that we stand within the point at which God, with a steady finger, has drown the boundary line.  Beyond that line the waves cannot pass.”
  • (1 Corinthians 10:13 -  No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it.)
  • This reminds me of those giant VERY scaring looking waves on those surfing contests that make me feel claustrophobic just watching the surfers in the middle of the wave!  My throat tightens up just typing about it!
  • But it also reminds me of the boundary line my God drew when my son didn’t get hit by a car two weeks ago… now this is a God we can trust!
• Resisting God is the cause of all my distress.
  • Again like I said I have been bothered lately and since this book is in the format of a bunch of personal letters, this part felt like it was just for me!
• I allow myself to be so locked up within that I have no power to get out of my self.

Now to share some of what I learned from my Breaking Free study…

•  I will be blessed in what I do if I become a doer of God’s word.  James 1:25
• When I allow God to bring my problems out of the closet out into the light that is where Satan loses his stronghold.  Hebrews 4:12-16
• God wants me to let Him be the power that stimulates progress.
• The very things that I do not chose to cut out of my life in disobedience might become strongholds in the lives of my children!
• God’s glory is the way He makes Himself recognizable… He wants to show Himself through us and to us.
• I need to do things in a way that He may be seen through me and to me.  1 Corinthians 10:31
• “When God used the analogy of a river, He described a peace that can be reatained while life twists and turns and rolls over boulders.”  Isaiah 48:18
• God’s presence is the basis for our courage in a storm.  Matthew 14:25-32  Watch this Video!

Now I come to this week’s bonus question (sorry I did not post one last week): What is your most recent favorite verse in God’s word and why (if it isn’t obvious)?

Mine is Psalm 121:1 because God has been comforting me with it lately when I know I am not supposed to go to others for strength before Him, I will share the whole chapter because it is AWESOME!…

•  I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come? My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to slip; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is your keeper; The LORD is your shade on your right hand. The sun will not smite you by day, Nor the moon by night. The LORD will protect you from all evil; He will keep your soul. The LORD will guard your going out and your coming in From this time forth and forever.

Hey ladies joining me from the Sunday Scrappin’ Hub, nice to see you here.

 Well my TA-DAs, hum?  I got some of my to-do’s done from last week…        

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• I cleaned up my scrap space AGAIN (pics above)… I feel like I just did this!
• I entered one of my orders for National Scrapbook Day (which I am totally excited about because from the product I ordered they decided to match that amount in promotional products for giveaways!)
• I also downloaded some new fonts from Allie Hoopes to play with… 
• and a made a rolling “email me button” with my families pics for my blog (featuring a couple of those fonts).
  • Do you think a custom button like that would be a good giveaway for the upcoming party?

My TO-DO for this week will be… to put together my Rusty Pickle tutorial for the Scrapbooking Blog Party.  I think that’ll be it since I have B.Boy’s birthday party coming up next weekend.

Now for this week’s Bonus Question: What kind of projects do you do the most often?  Lately I have had a lot of altered projects, if you check my Scrappin’ Sunday page you will see that.

And Here’s a Bonus Question I missed from week 4:  Share a favorite tip or technique that you’ve learned recently…  Well I shared a tutorial for my most favorite technique last week… distressing.  Check it out and enjoy.

Happy Scrapping!    

This song made me cry the other day in the car.  I’ve heard it before, and it was always touching, but with my son choking and running in the street recently it hit a little more close to home.  You see I have been feeling either like God is getting me ready for something big like losing a loved one, or I am getting attacked and Satan is trying to distract me and make me live in fear.  I want to thank Tanya for sharing her son Brent’s story, it was one of the many that have come past my view lately along with this one, very moving also!  God bless you Tonya, to see that you are doing well with the Lord after losing a child is a great encouragement to me!  My mom lost my twin sister when she was just 7 months old, (she ended up in a mental hospital when I was 2) they said my twin would have been physically and mentally handicapped if she lived, I praise God that she is there with Jesus now instead of suffering through life on this earth.  Here’s my song by Mark Schultz.  Oh, and the lyrics are here if you would like.