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Hello, Monday! The day after vacation. Today is sure to be crazy busy with a full day at work, laundry, house cleaning, grocery shopping, and all of that Monday stuff that life throws at me. I actually feel as my shirt says I "Can't Adult Today," but the Lord tells me otherwise.
Actually. I started a Bible study today. It's called "All in All" By: Sophie Hudson. In that study we concentrated on these verses, and I'm loving them, and they're just right for my Monday!
"that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for "'In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your own poets have said, "'For we are indeed his offspring.'” Acts 17:27-28 ESV
Be like Habakkuk. That's what I'm telling myself. It's Sunday evening, I'm sitting here. I'm trying to find a way to encourage and it's because of the One who encourages me.
You see. Our daughter. I can still see the light in her eyes as she talks of her State Competition for FBLA at Reston. I can still nearly hear her heart pounding with joy and excitement at her anticipation for the competition. Something she (and we) highly hoped she'd win and be able to then compete in nationals in California in the Summer.
But. Then. I got the text message. We didn't even place, she tells us. And. She's disappointed. She's mad. She's hurt. She expected to win, and she didn't. And. While that's okay with us. She's had a hard time grasping that it's okay with her.
So I'm trying to Mother her as she needs me. She's sixteen, but this is the way I can Mother her in this season. I'm trying to show her it's okay that she lost the competition, because she gave it her best. She had a memorable experience. She made memories. She's disappointed now, but she can, she will, and she should move forward. I am encouraging her to do this as today's Sermon rings in my ears to be like Habakkuk. So. Be like Habakkuk is what I encourage. Now. Naturally we're not Habakkuk. If the Lord wanted us to be him, then we would've been. But the Lord created us to be us. And while I say be like, I don't mean it so literal. You see. Habakkuk trusted in the Lord. When things failed, he trusted. In the good and the bad we should trust. We should lay it all at the feet of Jesus, just as Habakkuk did. And. Trust!
Then. There's this evening. Monday is coming on full force. My husband is listing all of the places he has to travel for his work. Neither of us liking it. Anxiety easily creeps up on me. Be like Habakkuk, I tell myself. We need to be like Habakkuk, and lay it at the feet of Jesus.
Then. There's this new business adventure I've started, a boutique. Oh, yes! It's definitely exciting. But. Yes, it could definitely be scary. Be like Habakkuk.
There's farm life. There's house building. There's life. When life has a lot of what-ifs, live by faith. Be like Habakkuk.
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. Habakkuk 2:4 KJV
Other photos from the last week or two:
Breann and I went shopping.
Today. It's February 12th. Nearly the middle of February. It's been a busy, but blessed February. A lot has happened, and life is beautiful.
It's no secret that my husband has to travel quite often for work. It is something we both really dislike about his job, but sometimes there are good parts and bad parts, and you have to take the good with the bad, I guess. Anyhow, this past Friday, it was a nice surprise when I got to go and listen to my husband's presentation on Leadership.
New Years Day involved us going to Church, and the weather being in the 50s. It was a time when we could open our doors (even if just for a moment, because our Since we're into the new year, things around our place have been pretty normal (and a little bit chaotic). We've been continuing to enjoy the life of this small farm we have.
Hurricane Matthew. This is our story. I'm going to put this whole story of this storm into one entry, and I'll date it along the way as I update this entry.
October 8th, 2016: While a lot of the media covers the storm, how much damage is done by the storm, and how they are workers there to help with power restoration and clean up, that's pretty much what covers it for the public to hear about. As the family of a guy who has worked a really, really long time in the tree industry (clearing the right-of-way for the power company), we realize that it's not only the areas that are hit by the storm that are affected by the storm. These storms affect so many. They affect the ones that are hit by the storm, for sure. They affect the workers who travel hundreds of miles to help those who are devastated by the turmoil that they have just experienced. They also affect the workers' families (and sometimes even the workers' community and friends).
A lot has been happening around our place, it's been nearly ten days since I've wrote (or typed) here. We've been crazy busy, and we've been loving every ounce of this life that the Lord has blessed us with.
We did have our sheep up on my husband's dad's farm, but we finally have everything fenced here so we finally got to bring them here, which makes us love this farm life of ours even more.
Our Sammy, he's even grown on us. We got him to work the sheep, and he does well with it, but now he's kinda' become a part of the family. I actually enjoy seeing him run the fence line every evening as I pull in from work.
