Ain't that the life? No Worries!!!!

For the record...

Yesterday was tuff!!! Little legal matter with a friend. Went into the meeting w/o a lawyer and it turned out to be a hearing, hello! Felt like Gomer Pile in a Perry Mason episode. Let me put it this way I WAS a legal virgin and upon leaving I felt like I had been raped. That's the end of that! Live and Learn! Prayin that hurt feelings won't turn into anger, rage and unforgiveness.

Hand me the hoe, please!!

Well, fart on a brick!!! God gave me a tool! I thought it was somehow going to be the bible study, but uh~huh! It's a web-page! God, you are so cool!

Jinx, you owe me a coke!

Remember Jinxy the cat from the movie "Meet The Parents"? If you didn't happen to see this movie, then let me fill you in on the part where Robert DeNiro boasts that his cat is potty trained...flushes, lifts/lowers the seat...the whole works. My Mittens should be in the movies~! Today while brushing my teeth, I heard the bathtub draining. Then I heard the cat scratchin'. Duh, at first I thought...Wow, I must have forgotten to let all the water out last night after my bath and she hit the lever. Wait! I didn't take a bath last night, I showered! I threw back the shower curtain and a closer smell revealed that Mittens had relieved herself!!! After washing it on down-town-julie-brown with bleach and picking my jaw up off the floor, I realized that I may have a movie star in my midst. Just one of the odd things in the life of me????

Stickerz!

My yard has more divots that Tiger Woods' yard! The cool morning and plethora of stickers in my carpet from trampling boyz (my two plus half a dozen from the neighborhood) has prompted me to hoe weeds this morning. This is the very first time I've EVER hoed weeds. I've wrote about it, but never actually done it. Pulled them out of the flower beds till my hamstrings were gonna fall off, but never with a tool designed to make the job easier?!%#$* Duh!!!

My conclusion, those sticker weeds aren't all their meanie selves are made out to be! They are 'root-less', pretty easy prey, with the right tool and soft ground, to chop out. A couple of whacks right behind the core and boom it's outa there, roots and all. I am overwhelmed by the different species of weeds in my yard. So much so, that I didn't even know where to begin. I decided, intelligently, to begin with the ones that hurt like blazes. Sticker weeds! I just made myself ignore the ones that sat there without stickers. I know they need to go, but they aren't hurting anyone. First things first. And, you know that I'm gonna share how the Lord spoke to me thru this whole ordeal, right?

Well, just when I'm thinking...I have it pretty together...this bible study that I'm taking starts drawing attention and exposing my 'issues'. The study calls them 'idols', but I prefer the word 'issues'! I read this..."But now also put these things out of your life: anger, bad temper, doing or saying things to hurt others, and using evil words when you talk." Col 3:8...and BAM, I think of the weeds! All those species of weeds that I need to 'put...out of my life'. Ya know, who doesn't have the anger species pop up from time to time? And who has the tongue species under foot, pray-tell, especially when the anger weed is stepped on? It's an endless battle! I'm gonna call 'em 'weedols', cuz I still don't like the word 'idols'. I don't think that every issue is an idol...I'm learning that an idol is one that has taken over and controlling the yard, one that has inched in and taken too much time, energy and resources. The over attachment kind! Now, weedols have NO place in my yard and I'm trying to rid my life completely of such. There are weedols that hurt and there are weedols that just make my yard look bad but don't really hurt any toes or heels, all of the above need to go. BUT, you wanna know what slams the bible study shut faster than anything? TREES! Misplaced TREES!

The easiest way for me to detect my idol, treedols mainly, is by discerning whether or not I really want it GONE. Remember, there are two different kinds of idols some are weedols (the bad stuff), others are treedols (the good stuff gone bad). Sometimes good things become an over attachment or they are misplaced. The best way I know to describe this is with my experience with THE TREE.

The TREE in my yard isn't a bad thing, it's a good thing. Well, this good thing is growing in the wrong place, between the stairs and the side wall of my sidewalk. It has wiggled and wedged its' way in between two things that are meant to stay in close proximity of one another. As I tried to dislodge this TREE, I noticed that this isn't my first attempt. There were old cut marks where I have tried to remove this TREE in the past. Apparently, I gave up getting to the root of it and just gave it a trim instead, a few pounds here 'n there...ya know, a good hair cut. Well, this particular afternoon I was determined to absolutely abolish this TREE. It's not that large. I tugged, twisted, turned, jerked...it wouldn't budge. I ran water thru the crack to wash out the dirt that held the tree like glue, to no avail.

This little guy isn't root-less, he's ruthless. And my goodness, this is exactly the way I feel with my modern day idol that was brought to my attention while studying 'No Other Gods' by Kelly Minter. Now that it's been exposed, I actually want it GONE. But, it's not budging! It is wedged between me and the LORD. It's not a bad thing, just a good thing in the wrong place. If I survive this study and the weeding of my yard, then I will have accomplished the impossible. My only hope is that this study is HIS tool that will make this extraction easier...with God ALL things are possible! It will soon GO, in the name of Jesus!

The Boyz R Back N Town...

Video games, movies, home-made pizza, four-wheeling and finally a family reunion to top it off. O wait, shall I forget the star party at Commanche Springs??? No, I shall not! Jordan, who is the older of the two, is a cousin who feels like a nephew. A lot because of age, but also because of relationship. (As a matter of fact, he gave me an aunt b-day card once.) So, all that to say, my nephews were back in Goree for a visit. We had a really fun time.

Of course, we broke lotz of the rulez!!! Some that may shock the socks off the fwf mom's. Sorry, cover your eyes until the next post! Rules like: Staying up to the wee hours, no cokes-per-day limitation, food in the living room, endless hours of P3, candy and more candy, muddin' in good clothes, greasy hair from lack of shower, toothebrushes didn't come out till churchtime, I'm sure there is some age limit on 4-wheeler driving, oops and dodge durango driving, sleepin till 1 p.m., sparklers (is there still a burn ban?), ummm~pg-13 movies are now OFF limits at my house (my, how things have changed), and did you know that video games cuss these days?, and that is root beer in the first pic, I promise!!! But, that is chocolate sauce in the second pic! And no, it didn't go on the pizza...just the ice cream! I can already tell how this one is gonna play out...like the time I showed "Wizard of Oz" to the preachers' daughter and got the "We don't let her watch movies with witches~Talk". Now, we all know it~the reason God cannot trust me with children for any extended length of time past the VBS allotment! Miss DP plays princess with her g-child and I play 'Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare' with mine.