Today I am wearing my Colt's shirt again... it was well worn last night!!!

*happy smile*




Colts News: THIS TEAM NEVER QUITS

It was amusing... during half time I had been talking to a dear friend our chat went longer than halftime (grin) and when I walked back in the room where the family was watching the game, they were all walking out and the TV was off. Peyton Manning just threw an interception... game is over. Dad said.

I looked at them in disbelief! Um, you guys aren't true fans then... cause there is FIVE MINUTES left in the quarter and the Colts have several time outs. They will win!!! Just you wait!

Well, the family got ready for bed and I popped my popcorn and determined to sit down and watch the last five minutes... for better or worse! WOW was it totally worth it! I was so thrilled! Yes, the family all ended up joining me too! *grin* I found it rather amusing that before the game started we were watching the Pre-game show, they were talking about the rivalry between the Patriots and the Colts over the years, the announcer was comparing the teams in general and compared Tony Dungy (in previous games) to Bill Belichick and the stated: The straight shooter vs. the Rule Bender. Rather interesting. Reputations say a lot.

I kept saying... the righteous will prevail. And eventually, Proverbs 26:27 happened when the Patriots arrogantly went for the 4th down. It was the most exciting game I have watched in a-very-long-time. In my opinion, it might as well have been the Superbowl! *grin*

[End of Football rant]

It is Monday.
So many things to do on Mondays... mostly because I work on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, therefore whatever doesn't get done on Monday must wait till Thursday. However, Dad informed me that THIS week is probably our last week of work!
Yes, last week at Ergon and working for my Dad. I don't plan on working with him next year for various reasons [not negative, just moving on with new seasons of life. Although certain people will note that I have said this very same thing for the last two summers. *ahem*] So it is an end of a season in more than one way. I think I need to bring my camera and get pictures of me and Dad on the job site WITH my pink Ergon hat. The guys will laugh... but who cares. *grin*

This week:
I work tomorrow and Wednesday [weather permitting]
I will be house sitting for my adopted Murray family Wednesday through Friday. [I am looking forward to have a nice little break to pray, study photography, do some important planning, and journaling. Simple things done in the quiet.]
Saturday is Deanna and Brad's wedding [Yay for the last photography wedding job of the year!!!]
It will be a full week but hopefully one filled with vision and purpose. As one of my amazing photographer instructors put it: Working on life. It is a continual process that lasts a lifetime.

Time goes by so quickly... how does it do that!?
My list of things to do keeps growing and I need to go find a scepter...
[play practice for "Esther" this afternoon *grin*]

O Sovereign LORD, you are God! Your words are trustworthy, and you have promised these good things to your servant. - 2 Samuel 7:28

Trusting. Believing. Hoping.
-KM

Yesterday was just a really hard day. Work wasn't too bad, it was cold. But there is just so much going on in life right now. I can't process it all. Also... I am tired. That never helps anything.

I was supposed to work this morning... I walked downstairs and Dad said: You look totally exhausted...
[cue to know if Dad says I look exhausted that means I must not work..]

As you could have guessed from previous posts... I have a very difficult time resting.
Resting and doing "nothing". You see there is "always" something that has to be done and I feel like I am wasting my time and life if I am not accomplishing one of the many things that ought to be finished.

But I must rest. I must.

Lately, I am realizing: His word is all I need.
Sometimes I just need to re-focus...

no.

not just sometimes, all the time.
Focus on the only thing that matters: Jesus.

Life has a very bad habit of getting in the way.
Emotions, struggles, decisions, difficulties, hard news, etc.

Read of Hope. Learn the Truth. Trust the Savior of the Universe.

My faith is so small... His is so big.

"If we are faithless, He will remain faithful." - 2 Timothy 2:13

-KM

Revelation 21

 ¹Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. ²I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. ³And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ⁴He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."

 ⁵He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."

 ⁶He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. ⁷He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. ⁸But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."

 ⁹One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb." ¹⁰And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. ¹¹It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. ¹²It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. ¹³There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. ¹⁴The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

 ¹⁵The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. ¹⁶The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia^[a]in length, and as wide and high as it is long. ¹⁷He measured its wall and it was 144 cubits^[b] thick,^[c] by man's measurement, which the angel was using. ¹⁸The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. ¹⁹The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, ²⁰the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.^{[d] 21}The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass.

 ²²I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. ²³The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. ²⁴The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. ²⁵On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. ²⁶The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. ²⁷Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.

Revelation 22

 ¹Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb ²down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. ³No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. ⁴They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. ⁵There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever. ⁶The angel said to me, "These words are trustworthy and true. The Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants the things that must soon take place."

Jesus Is Coming

 ⁷"Behold, I am coming soon! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy in this book."

 ⁸I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had been showing them to me. ⁹But he said to me, "Do not do it! I am a fellow servant with you and with your brothers the prophets and of all who keep the words of this book. Worship God!"

 ¹⁰Then he told me, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, because the time is near. ¹¹Let him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy."

 ¹²"Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. ¹³I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

 ¹⁴"Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. ¹⁵Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

 ¹⁶"I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you^[a] this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star."

 ¹⁷The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.

 ¹⁸I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. ¹⁹And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

 ²⁰He who testifies to these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon."
      Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.

 ²¹The grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's people. Amen.

With all of my heart....

I ask you to please take six minutes out of your day.
Three minutes to listen to this moving and truthful message from one of America's greatest leaders today.

 

Then take three minutes and call your congressman!
Ask them to vote NO on this freedom taking health care bill!!

How many people have given their lives for our freedom...

Can we give six minutes of our day to defend it?

THINK ABOUT IT!

 

On on knees for our Nation!

-KM