What Have I Been Up To Lately?

What Have I Been Up To Lately?

April 5, 2012

Where did March go?  I look back and I have not written anything since February.  What is up with that?  March was a very hectic month.  Let’s see, we painted our hallway to the bedrooms, the stairwell down to the basement, and the home office.  I had to cover up the brown that covers most of the walls in our home.   It was here when we bought the place.  I am not a brown person!  I am a light color person.  Another thing that we did in March was help organize a Bible Quiz Invitational at our church.  That was crazy fun!  If anyone wants to know what Bible Quizzing is there are a lot examples on YouTube.  Check them out!  I also got sick.  Not fun!

April is here and I am getting back into the swing of things.  I have been doing a lot of looking into organization lately and I am getting the urge to organize and simplify my life, which includes my home obviously!  I feel better when things are clean and put tidy.  I feel inspired and light.  When things are dirty and cluttered I am drained of all energy and all I want to do is bury my head under the covers and pretend it is not there.  Well, no more pretending.  Painting a light Café Cream really helped brighten up the house.  I am planning on painting our bedroom a pale gray blue over the weekend and cannot wait to see the transformation.

Another thing that has been on my mind over the last month is my exercise routine, or lack there of.  I love how I feel when I walk on the treadmill regularly.  It is in front of the TV and I walk longer than if I don’t have the TV.  Right after Christmas I ordered a piece of work out equipment that will help strengthen my core and make me more flexible.  I used it a couple of times and then March happened.  I am going to get back into it and look forward to how well I am going to feel.  Look out world!  I am taking you on!  LOL!

I am happy to say that I have been working on my Masters of Crochet Stitches and Techniques is coming along nicely.  I have finished most of the written questions and as soon as I figure out how to do the gauge swatch I will finish up the remaining questions.  I have got to say that this gauge swatch has been hard for me.  I have done this swatch at least 10 times and have not gotten it right.  Oh well, I will never give up and never surrender.  I am excited about the fun stitches I have been using and look forward to using them in some fun new project.

There have not been any “Wow!” moments in my journey with Papa lately.  I feel that I am just getting more grounded in what He has already shown me.  The love of Papa God has also been saturating me and I am more convinced of His love for me.  I have had victories over the last month in regard to my eating.  I love Reese’s Peanut butter Cups and the other day I bought one and realized I was not hungry so I put it in the Fridge and waited until I was hungry to enjoy it.  That is happening more and more.  I am also feeling less guilt when I choose to eat something like a peanut butter cup.  There is no condemnation and I know that when I get to the point where I no longer experience that twinge of guilt that I will know it no longer has any hold on me.  Praise God! 

In the past I have tried to work really hard to make righteousness happen in my life.  If there were any credit given for effort I should have arrived long, long ago.  I hear of people who are able to “Just Do It” and I don’t seem to be one of them.  That is ok!  God made them that way and God made me this way.  I wonder if those who seem to be able to make up their mind they are going to change something and do it, if they are assured of their love, acceptance, and value in Papa’s eyes.  In the past I have thought I have to make the change before I feel those things.  He knows how sincerely I have tried and He knows how when I do it in my strength I fail.  In the last 18 months or so I have chosen to focus on the fact that I am whole, there is now no condemnation, that I am much loved by Papa!  The surprising thing is that I am changing in the areas I used to fast about, memorize Scripture about, and repent of continually.  When Jesus said as He breathed His last on the Cross “It is finished!”  That has given me so much strength in seeing that I am more than a conqueror and that greater is He who is in me!

So I will keep you up to date on all the going ons in my life and I may even share pictures!  Let me know what is going on with you and be blessed!

Sister Cindy