a big one is coming....

As I mentioned in my 25 random things from a few days ago, I love all things weather related. I follow accuweather.com daily because they have lots of good pictures and maps and such and really up to the minute forecasts.

The USA Today has a quite exciting weather page that is the first thing I look at when I have access to that paper.....the actual news reporting is too liberal for me, but I do love their weather page.

All this week they have been talking about a big storm that is going to brew up on Sunday and head up the east coast. Here is the headline:

"A large, dangerous storm will take shape in the eastern third of the nation next week spreading a swath of snow, rain, dangerous thunderstorms, floods, and high winds northward from the Gulf of Mexico."

So now we know. Nobody can really pinpoint what this storm will do because the storm does not exist yet...........but at least we know it is coming and can get super excited.

I was back at the doctor today. This time they put me in a room with no window and I only had to wait one and one half hours instead of three.

It seems that I cannot get completely well and was given another round of medicine to take. I was awake from 1:20 until 4:oo am having one of my coughing fits. Bubba didn't even wake up and for that I am glad.

Hopefully we will get to go to Jacksonville as planned on Monday. We need to return the little doll bed that Santa brought to Lucy for Christmas......It seems as if it was not meant for a real baby the size of our Harry to sleep in.

It is also time for another PF Chang experience. The cravings start about six weeks after the previous trip to that wonderful restaurant.

Until later....cathy

lying lips

I have been lied to a lot in the last few months.
Most people, believers and unbelievers, lie with impunity.
Lies come out of the mouth with no thought or shame.
Lying is a way of life.....everybody does it....no harm done.

When someone lies to me it is felt deep down in my hurting place.
When I know they know they are lying to me it hurts even more.
Do they think I am stupid......?

I have told some lies in my time. In the seventh grade I lied to protect a girl who had cheated off of my paper. She wasn't even my friend. The teacher found out and put so much guilt and shame on me that I thought I would never get over it.

I threw my green peas in the bushes and told my parents I had eaten them. I was punished.

I could go on and on, but I will not do that.

I do know that I finally figured out that lying was wrong and that bad things happened when I didn't speak the truth. It was only when I realized how much God hates lying that it had an impact on my life.

Why do people lie? Mostly, I think, for protection of the "self." We think very highly of our "self." We care deeply about our "self." We don't want anything to happen to our "self." And pretty soon our lying becomes habitual and we don't even realize what we are doing.

What does God think of lying?

"Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord." Proverbs 12:22

"For they have opened the wicked and evil mouth against me; they have spoken against me with a lying tongue." Psalm 109:2

"................the Lord hates........... a lying tongue." Psalm 6: 16-17

God hates lying. He doesn't mince words about how despicable it is to Him.

If God thinks lying lips are an abomination, shouldn't we think as God thinks?

O God, help me to stop and think about You when I am tempted to lie.......Help me to think about how I am hurting the one I am lying to.

"What ever you do, do it to the glory of God."

Amen!

25 random things

There is a thing going around on Facebook where you quickly jot down 25 random things about yourself. This is what I wrote in the last fifteen minutes...........

1. I would love to live in Italy in the Tuscan Hills in a real Italian villa. I want to walk to the market to buy bread and I want to learn to speak Italian.

2. My late solid white cat had one green eye and one blue eye. I miss her a lot.

3. I go to bed at 9:00 most every night. (to read)

4. I dance and sing around the house when I am alone.

5. I would rather read than watch tv any day.

6. My fear of lizards make my blood turn to ice.

7. I am intensely interested in the weather and weather related fiction.

8. Being in a large group of people I don't know well scares me to death.

9. I would love to travel leisurely around the USA in a motor home....I want to see it all!!

10. I will write a book one day.

11. I want to learn photography and be really good.

12. My favorite style of living is Cottage....I like a mixture of new furniture and antiques....aqua, brown, pale yellow and neutral are my favorite colors....I want lighted candles in every room and lots of pictures of my family. I like open windows and the smell of fresh and clean. All rooms must be comfortable and I want my grand babies doing their things all over my home. I want to be surrounded by the people and things that make me happy.

13. I get really, really excited if a hurricane is coming.

14. I go nuts over cute shoes.

15. Chocolate and ice-cream are my downfall.

16. I always buy fresh flowers.............I love Gerber daisies.

17. I adore driving my Honda van.....will never want any other kind of vehicle.

18. It thrills my soul to make people happy.

19. I love, love,love to dress up.

20. I have gotten too many speeding tickets.

21. I never get tired of looking at the ocean.

22. I wish I took better care of my fingernails.

23. Shopping for treasures at bargain prices is so much fun.

24. My family is my greatest joy.

25. I love the Lord my God with all my heart and with all my soul and with all my mind. There is nothing more important in my life than Him and I use His word for all of my guidance and wisdom. It has all of the answers to all of life's questions. To God I give all the Glory for the blessings listed above.

Thanks for reading, Cathy

the joy of reading the things of God

God graciously allowed me to finish reading the book "Total Truth." It was only by His Spirit that I was successful.

I know that it was God's timing for me to read this book at this time because of one short paragraph in the last chapter that spoke directly to my heart regarding the situation I am going through with my extended family.

I just finished writing the book of the Psalms. It was a blessing. I am so comforted and I have gained so much knowledge of our great and mighty God. What will I do tomorrow? Go back to chapter one and start writing it again. I am writing the book of I Kings as well. I retain things so much better when I write them down. After I Kings I want to write the book of John.

I am also reading Martin Lloyd Jones commentary on II Peter. Tonight I read about the "New Earth." You know, God is going to remake the earth back to how it was at the beginning before sin. The Bible says we do not have the capacity to imagine how wonderful it will be.

I write not in boasting.
Our pastor prayed this morning that we would be thrilled when we hear His word.
I am and I want you to be.
When you read the Bible you find out all sorts of amazing and fascinating things.

God made us in His image with a capacity to know Him.
Read as if your life depended on it.

It does......cathy

my 500th post

His birthday wish is a day late......yesterday David, my son turned 35 years old. He is pictured above with his little son Harry.

I couldn't write about him yesterday because we kept Lucy and Harry so that he and his lovely wife Erika could have an afternoon and evening on the town. I read every book in the house out loud to Lucy with Harry drifting by to listen every once in a while. I also had to perform surgery on "Puppy," Lucy's favorite stuffed animal. He had developed a hole in his arm that needed to be mended......so I was busy.

I wish everyone could know David. He is a witty, interesting, loving man.
He keeps his father and I on our p's and q's......he holds us accountable.
I am the reason he loves to read and he is the reason I love to read.
There is something in him that is in me and I am drawn to whatever it is.
He loves to travel and is fascinated by new places and geography the same as me.

David works with young people.
He is passionate about the truth of God's word.
He is a man who prays.

God blessed David with a wife who loves what he loves.
They are always talking....making plans.....moving toward a goal.
Lucy and Harry are his blessed children......placed by God in a house of love and truth.

I am constantly amazed at the way that God works in his life............meeting needs, opening doors, giving wisdom and understanding when things don't make sense humanly.

He is my son, but he is God's vessel to use as He will. I love the man, husband, father he has become.

I love you, mom

lucy and the preacher

Let me start this out by saying that my granddaughter Lucy is a very industrious little lady.

Last evening David and Erika had our pastor and his wife over for dinner. We were invited as well.

Since I have been so sick, I have not been able to spend much time with her, so Lucy was extra attentive to me. She sat by me at the table and I fed her broccoli like it was going out of style.
The meal went great and there was pleasant conversation all around. Eventually Erika and Lucy and Harry left the room while the rest of us lingered.

Sometime very quickly after Lucy left the table, she must have decided that she was ready to go to bed. She also made the decision that Harry was going too. They share a nursery. It looks like the nursery from Peter Pan by the way.

Still sitting and conversing at the table, I looked down to see Lucy standing before me completely naked. She had brought me her pull-ups and nightie and she also brought Harry's jammies and a diaper for him.

There was no shame........she needed me to help her get ready for bed. It didn't matter about the preacher, his wife, or any of them.

Well my mouth dropped open and I quickly shuffled her away to do her bidding.

Graciously no one made a big deal and the night proceeded without another incident......but I tell you, I just about cracked completely up.

A couple of things.....

I don't think that she has yet grappled with the whole Adam - Eve- sin - need to be covered thing.

She makes me laugh out loud.....if you make me laugh I will love you forever.

Cathy

mixer a go-go

I was given this hand mixer as a wedding gift 39 years ago by a sweet lady in my church.
This is the only mixer I have ever owned and to this day it still performs at top level.
It is a "Presto" mixer, and I would say I got a good one.

My first kitchen appliances were harvest gold. The avocado green color of this machine fit right in with my color scheme. I chose Sculptured Daisy everyday dishes which were green and yellow, so it all made for a very beautiful color palate. I still use my beautiful daisy dishes at times and have them on display......I cherish my own antiques.

Bubba uses the mixer more than I now because he makes his "from scratch" mashed potatoes quite frequently. We always have the utmost confidence that it will do its job. Maybe I will donate it to the Smithsonian when it finally dies.

It is raining.....I love rainy Sunday afternoons. There is a fire in the place, candles burning, and lots of reading going on. We never want much to eat on Sunday night so Bubba is going to make blueberry pancakes made with real , fresh blueberries and sausage for our pleasure.

Can't get any better than that. cathy