Restful peace

Hope you've had a wonderful day.  Hope it was a peaceful day.  Speaking of peace, I just finished my bible reading for today & have to point out what I got out of it.  I'm reading Hebrews, 1 Kings & 2 Samuel.  No reason for my choice, I guess it was God's. I read Hebrews 4, 2 Samuel 7, and 1 Kings 5. In all of those chapters it mentions "rest in the Lord."  Not those exact words, but that is basically what it says. I started praying about the "rest" part,  "humm, Lord, what are you trying to say to me"?  2 Samuel 7:10-11 says "And I will provide a place for my people Israel and will plant them so that they can have a home of their own and no longer be disturbed.  Wicked people will not oppress them anymore, as they did at the beginning and have done ever since the time I appointed leaders over my people Israel. I will also give you rest from all your enemies. 1 Kings 5:4 says "But now the Lord my God has given me rest, and there is no adversary or disaster".  In Hebrews 4, the entire first part of the chapter is entitled "A Sabbath-Rest for the People of God" (verses 1-11) & that whole section talks mostly about the rest God has given us. Verse 9 says "There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience".  I think God is telling us that once we accept Jesus as our Savior we will be at peace and that peace will put us at rest. It will make us better people & easier to handle all the stuff (adversaries, disasters, enemies) that come into our lives on a daily, sometimes hourly basis.  Made sense to me anyway.

Be at rest!

My great niece

I got to spend sometime today with my great niece, Delaney Bree.  She & her parents live in Denver & her parents are here for a wedding.  She turned a year old in March so she is at the age where everything is a discovery. I haven't seen her for a year, but she is one of those children that welcomes you into their heart & lives. After about 5 minutes she was holding onto my hand & give me "fist bumps." I love kids at this age!  I wish I could see her more often & develop a real relationship with her. It was so much fun seeing her even though she spent most of the time in the water with her dad. We did get to spend some time in the water, but I was prepared for a day of swimming so I didn't go in deeper than my ankles.

It was a great day to be at a lake.

It's been a while

Hello again, it's been a couple of weeks since I posted anything, so figured it was about time. I had a second blog class this morning, so that gave me some inspiration. Learned out to make the layout look better, traffic options, lots of cool stuff for a blog. I changed my layout design, but it didn't really turn out the way I wanted it to so I guess I'll have to play around with it some more.

I work as a contract admin & the current assignment I'm on has been organizing legal files, I've been doing it now for about 4 months (YES, that is right 4 MONTHS of filing!!! Don't think I need to say more.)  Anyway, I found this little piece of paper that I thought was very interesting..  It is called "In the 'Test Kitchen' of Life" & here's how it goes.


A young woman was complaining to her father how difficult her life had become.  He said nothing, but took her to the kitchen and set three pans of water to boiling. To the first pan, he added carrots; to the second, eggs; and to the third, ground coffee.  After all three had cooked, he put their contents into separate bowls and asked his daughter to cut into the eggs and carrots and smell the coffee.  "What does this all mean?" she asked impatiently?


"Each food," he said, "teaches us something about facing adversity, as represented by the boiling water." The carrot went in hard but came out soft and weak. The eggs went in fragile but came out hardened. The coffee, however, changed the water to something better.

"Which will you be like as you face life?" he asked.  Will you give up, become hard - or transform adversity into triumph? As the "chef of your own life, what will you bring to the table.

The torn out page says it was adapted from the AccessChristian website. I don't know how old this page is, must be from this century anyway, so I did a Google search for the website & there is such a thing. It looks like an online informational website for Christians, if anyone is interested

 This is Edinburgh, Scotland. One of my favorite cities in the world. Not that I have been to so many cities in the world, mind you and it has nothing to do with what I just wrote. I have been here though.  I need pictures on my blog & have to remember to start taking my camera with me when I go places.