Women of Faith

I have been chosen by Book Sneeze to blog about the Women of Faith conference.
I am so excited.  I have always wanted to attend one of the conferences but have never had the opportunity.  It is a great time to fellowship, praise God, worship God and all with women around you sharing his love.

Here is a video about the conference.



Thank you Book Sneeze and Women of Faith for this opportunity.



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When is enough, ENOUGH?

I am the first one to admit I SPOIL my child.  She is my only one. It is very easy to say yes, yes, yes when you don't have to worry about saying no, no, no  because there is no one else to say yes to.  I am thinking that all the yeses are starting to pile up and its just getting to much for me.

Persephone is an animal lover, me not so much.  My husband really isn't an animal lover at all.  In fact if it was up to him animals wouldn't exist.  In over a year we went from no animals when we moved here to Laurel to having 4.  It started with a small caged animal our rabbit Midnight.  She is easy, in fact out of all the animals, she is Dusty's favorite.  He spoils her with fruits and veggies, even buys pumpkin seeds for her.  Then she wanted a dog, so we surprised her last summer with Captain.  He is a great, funny looking, rescue I got her.  He is a great dog. Minds, knows commands and tricks.  Just likes to visit the neighbors from time to time.  Then we got Macee, she is a cute little dog but pees every time she sees you or you talk to her or just walk out the door.  But she doesn't run off and she stays close to home.  Plus she is just cute.  These 3 animals are maintenance free really.

THEN,

She wants a horse, not a big horse just a Miniature one.  Okay I am thinking she can handle this little horse.  She has been showing her friends minis and does well with them so we said YES.  A friend of mine help me to find one.  She found him, he was cheap, just he was a stud, so we had to geld him.  So money is going right out the door left and right because, first, I have NO, I mean NO idea what all we need to have for this new guy.  So yes the horse is cheap but everything else isn't.  The money just adds up and it isn't like we can't afford for her to do it but it was just a lot all of a sudden.  But the money isnt why I am writing....

So here is Persephone with her horse "Mars the Star", I love this little horse but I think I love him more than she does, but the deal was, she gets the horse she has to care for the horse, right.   Well she goes every morning to feed him.  That is all she seems to want to do is feed him.  She hates to give him water because it is WORK.  Well today I had enough because it seems like the only time his water is actually filled to the top is when I am going down there to help her get ready for a show.  I had ENOUGH.   So I yelled at her and told her I didn't care anymore because I was tired and hot and I shouldn't have to get mad at her because her horse, yes YOUR HORSE, doesn't have water.  (he had water last night btw, his keeper verified that for me) But the point of my madness was that it seems that she doesn't care.  She wants to be able to show up at a show all dressed nice show the horses, get a ribbon, and go home.  That is what she thought horse ownership was like until she realized how much work it truly is.  A part of me wants to just sell the horse and be done, but what does that teach her?  If you don't like the work, just go to the next thing that is easy.  I don't want a lazy child at all.  I want her to know that she has to work and take care of the things that belong to her.

So when do I say enough is enough before I go insane because she just doesn't get it???

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Back to my First Love

Tonight while I was at church, I texted my husband, why do I bother coming when I feel so alone when I am here which is not normal.  He texted me back "Well if it is not normal then it would be the reason to go. You're just having an off day."  I was sitting alone with just Sephy, granted there are people all around talking and enjoying each other's company.  But I wasn't talking to anyone just sitting there eating my dinner. I could have gotten up and moved to another spot with other people to talk to but I just didn't really want to move.  In my head I was thinking why didn't anyone sit with us tonight to eat dinner.  Do I smell funny? I know I probably look horrible because my face is broke out. But it hadn't stopped people from talking to me and sitting with me before.  So I was sitting there and we had special guest tonight and listening to him sing it sunk in a little bit.  I needed to be alone, I need to hear God speak to me. We sang a few songs and praised God.  Then the guest speaker spoke to us about unity in the church and how we are all different and don't have a lot in common with everyone.  But we do have our love for Jesus in common.  He talked about getting back to your first love. He wasn't talking about your first boyfriend/girlfriend.  He was talking about getting back right with God. Your love for God.  Your Love for God will unite you with the people around you.  His first way to do this was to challenge the adults (elders) and the young people by the young people need to RESPECT your elders and secondly the elders need to LISTEN.  Then the second point was to get back to Remembering your FIRST love.

So after me going into church feeling alone, I left feeling refreshed and challenged.  So much that I felt like writing again.  It has been a long time.  I have plenty of excuses but I am not going to lay them out for you.  I just want to start getting back to my love of Christ.  Worship him with all my heart and praise him every day.  He needs to be the first thing I do in the morning when I get up.  I need to say Thank you Jesus for allowing me to be alive today. I need to study his word on a more regular basis.  Its nice that in todays world we can have devotions delivered to our emails and cell phones but it gives us the excuse not to sit down in a quite place and just worship him and study the word of God.

I will leave you tonight with a few verses that he shared with us tonight.
1 Corinthians 1:10  I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought.
Acts 2:44 All the believers were together and had everything in common.
Revelations 2:2-5 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.³ You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.

   ⁴ Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. ⁵ Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

How do you go back to your First Love?? 

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