Friday, 29 September 2017

Here I am again...  :-)

I finished the book by Marie Frost.  It was good... maybe an ending to go with the preface, a summary of some kind, would be nice.  It ended with a chapter story.  Maybe I need to read that one over and see if that was the summary.

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Been working on my product development today... trying to figure out chocolate... how to use it and make it look good.  I see lots of practice ahead of me.  Good thing the holiday season is upon us!

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I finished a loaf of Orowheat bread today and decided to check out the calorie count.  I had to laugh at the name of the manufacturer ::  BIMBO Bakeries USA Inc.  --  :-)  In my youth, BIMBO was not a nice name... for a woman, I think.  I don't know if it's still in use...  I hope the owners are some of those people who gathered together and started a CO-OP, employee-owned, company with a cause.

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I have been controlling my caramel consumption pretty good so far.
Now to overcome the exercising problem...

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I opened the CD package with Joyce Meyer's 12 Power Thought strategies.  I just started the 3rd of 4 disks.  It will be good to have as a revival message when things get confused by the enemy of our souls.  I will check out the book over the weekend... it is nearly my Sabbath... that will be good to do on the Sabbath.

Our lives are deeply affected by our minds, our thoughts, what we see, what we hear, what we feel... we need to control what goes into our mind because it affects our life... what we choose.  When things enter my life against my will, I sometimes close my eyes and be still, letting my soul talk to GOD through the Holy Spirit.  I pray out loud.  I distract myself, look away, close my eyes, or change something about my situation... go to a different place, get up, go do something else, talk to GOD, pray and wait.  Technologies that have made our lives better have also become tools of evil... we have to find a way to deal with them, keep our faith in GOD, and trust that God is able to walk with us through every problem we face.  Keeping our minds on scripture, on good things, on the power of God, and prayer will help us.

I don't know what all the categories are yet (for her strategies) so I can't share them yet.  Maybe on Monday I will include some of them.

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I will try to find a solution to the photo problem for posting here.  There are a lot of photos I would like to be including here with my text.  I just have to find the help section for that problem... I hope!  :-)

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I need this rest... I hope I get some.

In Christ,
Deborah Martin

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Thank you, Lord, for all that we have and are able to do.
Protect those who love You, who trust in Your Word, and believe You are in control.
Bless this weekend, make it restful, fun, joy-filled, meaningful, and special.
Thank you for what I have and often take for granted... food, shelter, life, rest, etc.....
Bring us to your heart, Lord... help us to know your will for our lives... provide for us.
Amen.

28 September 2017

I am barely making this post by midnight again... hope we make it!

I was doing the accounting for my shopping trip yesterday... can't believe I still have a few dollars left for the rest of my month!  :-)  It took awhile to figure out the moving around of the category amounts... I didn't have my budget in the envelope system... I just separated the cash for the budget categories and went by my list, plus other deals and supplies along my path.  I am working on a better way to do this, but it takes time and sometimes I don't have the opportunity to shop, so I overdo it when I go.

I am just thrilled I have more than $2 left... which is what I thought I had left yesterday.

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I posted about the book I am reading by Marie Frost from 1979.  I hope you will find it at my Facebook or Twitter pages.  It's hard to keep writing the same thing, so I posted it once at the WT page and then shared the link anywhere I could think of.  I tried to boost the post, but the "order" didn't process.  Not sure what happened as it was the first time I ever filled out the form...

I hope to finish the book tomorrow... I didn't get to it today. 

The cover has a photo of a woman, and I keep wondering if that is the author.

I guess the chapter on her failure is the most impacting... but others are really important to the theme of the book.  We all hate it when we miss hearing GOD "knock" on our door to do something for Him.  It is even more tragic, and life-changing as a lesson from heaven, when there is no way to recover from not doing what we should have because the person dies.  It is hard to keep going with those kinds of memories, but it makes our future actions different... hopefully better.  I cried when I read it.

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Today I also watched one of the VHS tapes I bought... one called OUR AMERICA, about life in a project in Chicago, from the early 2000's.  Gangs, wasted lives, poverty, misery, tragedy... government efforts to get rid of the poor.  It was a preview tape, I don't know if it ever was in the theatres or on DVD.

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I think I will post again tomorrow.  For now, this will do.

In Christ,
Deborah Martin

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May GOD help us all to understand human needs, and look for better solutions.
May our children find better lives.
May God help us to see poverty as a way to be involved in the struggles of others, more than writing a check or getting mad at the government for helping them, and with the eye of GOD, who loves the poor.
Amen.

27 September 2017

Long day...
It was my shopping day. 
And it became more than I wanted it to be.
That seems to happen when you generally shop one or two times a month.  :-)

I also want to note that I bought a lot of the things on my lists... for the house, for my crafts, and treats for me... which is finding treasures at thrift stores.  :-)  I am way off my budget, maybe... I have to figure all that out tomorrow... but I will be happy with what I bought.

I ate my meal at a fast food restaurant...
Found some great books, DVDs to watch, and a VHS that may wait to be watched (on huntin Mule Deer).  I found a set of book and disk about Joyce Meyer's book on the Battlefield of the Mind.  I have heard something on it and wanted to know what was inside.  The disk will be a plus.  It's a CD of some kind.  My cookbook for this trip is called Baking Without Fat... this should be good!  haha  And my craft choice today was a SUNSET book on pillows.  I think I found a documentary on Wal-Mart, but I'm happy to have found a copy of Faith Like Potatoes.  Another find was another copy of Dave Ramsey's 2007 workbook for Financial Peace University, but this one isn't written in. I decided I needed it.  :-)  I found a bunch more, but they will have to wait until tomorrow or never reach these pages.

I went to TWO thrift stores today!!!  I happened to be by the Teen Challenge store so I decided to look.  I was there over two hours I think.  I found some really nice things, and things I needed... like a trash can for my paper shredder that only cost $3... and a great saw, I think it is called a hack saw, that I hope will help me with my wood projects.  I found a kind of good cheesecake pan, the tall ones, that is also small (only 6 inches wide).  It has a problem with the bottom closure, so I have to try it out to see if it leaks.  If it works, it is really a great find.  My splurge at Teen Challenge was one of those money counting jar/bank.  It worked with the coin I tried it with, and I figured out how to reset it.  Tomorrow I will try it more and see what I think of my find.  It cost me $2.  I am so happy, if it works right.

My main thrift store is the Salvation Army, the sale day, which was today.  It was one of the reasons I went shopping today.  I had to go, even though I was so tired.  It was worth it.

That's about all I can do for tonight.  I left the house at 8am to get to the bus... my son picked me up around 5pm... it took over two and a half hours to get it sorted, washed, and put away...  I am tired.  You are lucky I even am writing this!  :-)

Until tomorrow, when I know I will be doing better and can share more details about things...

In Christ,
Deborah Martin

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Thank you, Lord, for such a great day.  Amen.