Notes to Self...and whoever's listening

John 15:11-15 The Message (MSG) 11-15  “I have told you these things for a purpose: that my joy might be your joy, and your joy wholly mature. This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you. This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends. You are my friends when you do the things I command you. I’m no longer calling you servants because servants don’t understand what their master is thinking and planning.  No, I have named you friends because I have let you in on everything I have heard from the Father. Another beautiful moment the Lord used this week to speak to me, again through Logan, my dear, sweet nephew.... He awoke from his sleep about 10:30 last night, "pluking" as he calls it.  He was sick everywhere!  First of all, this is NOT my strong suit.  My gag reflexes kicked in in a big way!  Ick!  But, my sister and I worked hard to reassure him it was fine and he would be okay and tried...

Love when you learn a little something from a child and, in my house, that happens fairly regularly.  Yesterday I warned Logan that there was a patch of ice at the end of the steps and to wait for me to help him.  As I was closing the door, he went ahead and I turned around just in time to see his butt hit the ground.  As I rushed to help him, he said he was okay and that he should have listened to me.  Then he added that he guesses that his head didn't understand me very well and that's why he went.  That struck a chord with me and made me think about all of the times I've said to him and his brother, Why don't you listen???  Maybe, their still-forming, still-learning brains didn't understand exactly what I was saying or didn't understand the danger that lies ahead.  I expect them to listen because I spoke and I know better.  But, they don't know that I always do know better.  Why should they?  They haven't lived that long.  (Ple...

I love when the Lord speaks to me in an almost audible fashion!  No, it doesn't happen as much I would like it to, or it does, but I'm not always able to hear...or always listening. But, I "heard" Him last night and it brought tears to my eyes as I was driving.  My family and I all have been sick this weekend and took Sunday off from church and much of anything to try to rest and mend.  I had to leave the house in the evening to drive the truck to the mechanic's house and decided to stop by my parent's house to drop a few things off and see if my dad wanted to get away for an ice cream break.  (He did!) As I drove, I was in awe about how much rain had come down as I had been in the house all day and not realized how much it had rained.  I remembered something a meteorologist had said recently about the fact that we have had so much precipitation in the past few weeks that the drought rating in our area had been upgraded from "severe"...