The One Where It's Like Every Other Day... {#oneword365 Link Up}

I'm behind on many things....Like Blogging

I'm part of a link up group.  It's called Trusting Tuesday.... yeah, it's Friday. A week later from when that started.

I also forgot to give my kiddo funds for a Youth Gathering.

I've run around here frustrated about a variety of things.  Work, Household Things, Thankful Things (it's the 24th, I have 7-8 thankful things), Running Things (missed 5 runs this month).

This thing that appears to be an awesome opportunity that I just can't find peace about, is it fear or is it not for me?

But my word isn't Peace.
It's Trust.
And I feel that there are many things that have are falling into place as I Trust,
just pause every day and Trust

T - Thank Me (1000Gifts)
R - Read Me (The Bible, 12 books this year)
U - Use Me  (Where you need me)
S - Strengthen Me (To be the vessel)
T - Teach Me (To be poured out)

 

I've had many opportunities to trust this year.  Just Trust.  I don't have to understand it with my limited thoughts or earthly smallness. I only have to Let That Thing Go and Watch Him Perform on my behalf.

And in Letting It Go... things and stress and stuff out of my control (isn't all really though) and yea, we really live in this house and it probably won't look like a model home at least not while the kids are living at home.  And Lord knows I only have a few short years left.  little heart ache

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The Thanking and Reading and Using and Strength and Teaching, it's all leading somewhere and for now that somewhere isn't specific, but I know Trust it exists.

A break through with a group of Young Lives Mommas.

An interview that I'm excited about, interested in, looking for ways to Trust about.

A new and improved teenager, after a few weeks of counseling and some changes in our family goals, he's chatty and open and sharing, and well I'm a hopeful Momma.  My heart is full. 

Reading a new (to me) version of the bible, The Message, Remix, Bible In A Year. It's cool.  To be honest I've been a version snob for many years.  It's refreshing to read these familiar stories in new ways.  Before I know it this bible will be marked up.  I find myself using it for Bible Study.

Church is just awesome! I'm so glad we made the switch.  I'm getting bolder about asking people to come with us.  No one has showed up yet but I keep asking. Trusting.

 

I keep reading blogs. And She Reads Truth.  And reading my books.  I'm on Desperate's last chapters.  So Excited to have a book done and finish another one.  I have half read books all over the house!  Committed though to reading them!  I'm also open to book suggestions!  And find my second home at Half Price Books!

I keep Being Hungry and Thirsty and I find that in Trusting, I'm being Filled. 


In today's The Message was John 14, so familiar, read with new eyes today.  Read on to one of my favorite biblical commentaries Matthew Henry.

John 14:1 “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me.

Commentary:
 Let not your  heart be troubled.  Christ took notice of it, observed it.  He is acquainted with all our secret undiscovered sorrows.  With the wounds that bleed inwardly.  He knows we are afflicted. How we are affected in affliction.  How near they lie in our hearts.  Jesus is cognizant of our troubles.  That we are overwhelmed.  He knows our souls in adversity.

The Remedy is Believe.  Greek: Pisteute
To have confidence. To Entrust.
Believe in God.  His Perfection. His Providence. His Principles. 
 

The One Where I Follow Along

 

 

So me and my fellow bloggers have spent the past 25 days being thankful. And it will continue for 5 more days. For me it's not the random, thankfulness. My family, my friends, my belongings. I don't know where I've been that I just heard of Ann Voskamp this year and her amazing book One Thousand Gifts, but it happened.

 

I thought, yea I'd like to read this book. It looked good. It's not fiction and well y'all know that I'm not like my other blogging girls, I don't read much. I'm not in a book club, oh my, the thought of a book club makes me stressed out. Reading with a time limit.... I seriously might be breaking out in hives right.now!

 

Anyway, I found her blog from another blog, and saw her book and then read some reviews. Because I'm not an avid reader. I'm excited to say I've read two books this year! So I read the reviews to, ya know, sway me from reading her book. But I saw her book at HPB one day and got all giddy I set out to read it. Eeeeek... 5 more days of November left and I'm not finish and she has another book out that I want to read in December!

 

Anyway, it's a great book about living in the moment. Right now. What can you find to be grateful for, where you are in the mundane. In Dinner and Dishes and Diapers. In the hard, In things seen out your window, In things Sweet, Salty and Sipped, In things Handmade, Held and Happy, In things Silent, In things Golden, In Things Ugly, In things Beautiful, In All Things....

I Thessalonians 5:16-18 Rejoice Always Pray Without Ceasing Give Thanks In All Circumstances

One Thousand Gifts

It's not too late to begin.... I'm only to 200!

The First Thanksgiving

 

This is about Blogs I Follow, aside from fitness/running blogs. Since this month is about Thankfulness. I want to take this time to give thanks for these ladies who I don't know in person, feel like I've known my whole life. Laugh with, Cry with. If I'm honest, Laugh at, Envy just a tad, they write beautifully, witty, inspiring, they write the words that are in my head!

I have a board on Pinterst called Following....Blogs Worth Reading. I have these ladies:

Ann VosKamp
Jen Hatmaker
Amanda Williams

 

Jen Hatmaker I "met" through my Triple S Blogger Sarah. She posted a link on Facebook, I read it and fell in love with her! Her openness, her hilarity, her spiciness. I don't remember which blog exactly Sarah posted that I latched onto, but I liked her on Facebook and well, I've enjoyed the journey ever since.

 

This blog is where I found Ann VosKamp. And had to find out what she meant by "what would Ann VosKamp do"?

 

She and Ann are part of a thing coming up in February that I'm soooo excited for called:

 

The IF Gathering If God is real, then what?

If you're read here a while and if you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you know that I'm on Instagram. Probably more than the other two mediums. That's how I found Amanda. I'm not sure exactly how I found She Reads Truth. I think I was looking for a devotional to read and looked up under the New tab on YouVersion and saw She Reads Truth. Maybe I saw something on Instagram. I dunno. It's been nearly a year. January 2013 I did my first SRT Study. Wow. Everyone is so... So Good. Speaks right to the heart of the matter. It's like sitting down with a girlfriend.

 

Anyway, on Instagram in September I started seeing all these #31days hashtags and talk of blogs and this exciting buzz about blogging about 1 topic for 31 days. I'm sure I've always known Amanda has a blog. I mean really in this day and age, doesn't everyone have a blog. I mean I have two! Really more than that but I'm trying to consolidate my blogs into one ....er.... two places. Not all my topics are running worthy and I have another blog for that.... those thoughts or craziness!

 

Amanda posted her blog and I fell into a must.have.more! Wish.she.was.my.neighbor! We.would.drink.lots.of.coffee! Kind of thing. Love her blog. She seriously hits it. And it's really just her life, but I feel like I'm living it with her. I'll be honest, I didn't at first think I'd have much in common with her (she has small people, twins infact. I have teenagers, well that's the main difference, we're in difference seasons), except SheReadsTruth (duh?! how did I just figure out she's a writer at SRT) and coffee. Oh but isn't that enough! Yes, yes it is!

 

 

Her topic was 31 Secrets Moms Keep, hmmmm, sounded good. Some of her posts were funny, Some where insightful, Most were down to the bones honest.

 

Posts like:

Prayer
Grace
Hugs
Tired
You Inspire Us
There's A Club
The Monster
Therapy
The Truth

There you have it.... my thankful Pin Up! I'm thankful for these ladies, who speak truth, help me laugh, feel normal that I'm oh so not normal and encourage me to keep on the journey. Life like running is a journey. There are easy days, hard days, days of sprints, long days, days you don't want to repeat, days you wish would go on forever! It's in the journey you figure out who are you, what you're pace is, where you need to be challenged, and what techniques don't work for you.

 

Enjoy The Journey. Count Your Blessings, They are gifts. It's No Secret, Motherhood is Hard. Find Your Spicy, Don't Look Back (or at the Sweet)

 

The One Where You Analyze Grandma's Food

Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't have recognized as food! This is good advice. 


Corn and potatoes are real foods. Unadulterated, an ounce of corn and an ounce of potato contain 24 and 22 calories respectively; their biggest component is water. (A potato is about 80 percent water.) Corn is about 3 percent protein, 2 percent fiber and 1 percent fat; potatoes’ numbers are similar. Not bad. 

A 1-ounce serving of corn chips, though, contains around 139 calories, and an ounce of Pringles runs 150. (Everyone knows, however, that the official 1-ounce serving is nonsense. Even Pringles, which says, “once you pop, you can’t stop.”) The calorie discrepancy is explained by the fact that the chips are boiled in oil — fried — replacing most or all but a tiny fraction of the original water with oil. Where’s that oil come from? Well, a lot of it is made from corn; most of the rest is made from soy, another perfectly fine food in its natural form. 

What’s the point of all of this? Well, there’s Michael Pollan’s adage not to eat anything your grandmother wouldn’t have recognized as food.[5] As well as the simple notion that we process so many real foods that we barely see them in a natural state. 

Were that to change, Kellogg’s and P.&G.’s bottom lines might not look so good. We ourselves, however, might look better, as would our health care bills, which in general rise along with Big Food’s influence and profits. 




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