Stopping by a Blog on a Snowy Evening

We are snowed in here at the ‘House for the long haul, it seems. 

Observed this morning:

Blue sky, how I heart thee.

Now to the point of this post. 

I’ve spent waaayyy too much time finding fun things to read and drool over online this week, and I thought I’d share.

This gal has a giveaway going, but take the time to read her other posts.

 

This one had me at the blog header.

Old home renovations make me happy.

Judging from the 111 (and counting) comments on her last post, I’d say that most of you have already found this place:

Eye candy galore here:

and here:

and here:

Today I must do something productive online, like make 254 Social Studies power-points.

Stay warm.

Ginger

 

Good News/Bad News

Good News: Five inches of snow! Power still on!

Bad News: Ice accumulations still in forecast.

Good News: Chicken soup in crock-pot; Pw’s cinnamon rolls safely in freezer; plenty of half and half

Bad News: Forgot to add butter and chocolate chips to emergency supply list

Good News: All laundry clean

Bad News: Laundry not folded

Good news: No school today, tomorrow, probably the next day, maybe the next. . .

Bad News: May will be a LONG month.

Good News: God is TOTALLY trustworthy.

Good News: He is TOTALLY crazy about me. 

Good News: And about you.

Be blessed!

Ginger

Burrowing In

Meant to be here today with a Scripture and a Snapshot.

However we are in the path of snow and (ugh) ice tonight and tomorrow, so I am beavering away at chicken soup and chili, while Big Red is double-checking our propane supplies. 

If you don’t see me this week, you’ll know that the power’s out.

I am fervently praying against that.

Could someone please remind me how to make campfire coffee?

Thanks!

Be blessed (and warm),

Ginger

Track 16

Couldn’t resist sharing this with you.

With everything, we will shout for Your glory.

Be blessed,

Ginger

By the Numbers

6,523

(give or take a few)

Number of yummy, fattening, delicious things I ate over Christmas break

141

(approximately)

Minutes it took for me to recover from doing Level 2 on the Thirty Day Shred workout this morning

17

Actual number of days that I did Level 1 of Thirty Day Shred in December

22

Times I’ve listened to my new Hillsongs CD, This is Our God

16

The track that’s on repeat

4

Books I read over Christmas break

$5.00

My library fine

2 3 4 ?????

Caffeine intact needed to enliven holiday-stunned 7th graders tomorrow (for the teacher, not the students)

2

Loads of laundry awaiting my attention

1

Number of spoiled cats who live here.

3

Number of extraordinarily important people in my home—Big Red + two girls

^{What made your list of numbers today?}

Be Blessed,

Ginger

 

Is there anything. . .

quite so hopeful

as a bouquet of daisies

and

early morning sunlight?

This moment of cheerfulness is brought to you by

Ginger

Be blessed.

 

Blessing

What to write about?

My goals to be clutter-free,

to post a picture a day,

to memorize scripture,

to exercise this middle-aged body into submission.

I’m probably going to get to those eventually.

But, on this rainy start to the new year, I’m praying first that this will be a Year of Blessing. 

Not a year of receiving blessing, but a year of giving blessing.

I want my words to bless, to edify, those in their hearing.

My first verses in the Siesta Scripture Memory challenge are Psalm 1:13-14:

Psalm 19:13-14 (New Living Translation)

¹³ Keep your servant from deliberate sins!
      Don’t let them control me.
   Then I will be free of guilt
      and innocent of great sin.

¹⁴ May the words of my mouth
      and the meditation of my heart
   be pleasing to You,
      O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.

Though I am learning them in the NLT, this morning I read them in The Message:

Clean the slate, God, so we can start the day fresh!
      Keep me from stupid sins,
     from thinking I can take over your work;
   Then I can start this day sun-washed,
      scrubbed clean of the grime of sin.
   These are the words in my mouth;
      these are what I chew on and pray.
   Accept them when I place them
      on the morning altar,
   O God, my Altar-Rock,
      God, Priest-of-My-Altar.

There. Can’t say it plainer than that.  When I start doing my “Holy Spirit” imitation (without any Holy Spirit leading) , I end up sinning stupidly. 

This year, I want the Lord to keep me from “stupid sins”, the dumb stuff that I KNOW doesn’t work or yield good fruit in me or in my victims family.

All swirled up in this are the things God is teaching me about His faithfulness and His desire for me to be fearless and free. 

He wants my words—and the thoughts behind them—to reflect Truth and trust in the only One Who really knows what 2011 is all about.

So be it, Lord.

Be blessed in 2011,

Ginger