Traveling around in my automobile….

Yesterday was another red letter blessed day! I spent the morning with the favorite Girls’ at church having a great Bible study on Phillipians….God simply moves at our studies each week! Love it! Then I was blessed to meet with some of my new favorite people in the entire world for about an hour and the topic was exciting! If that wasn’t good enough, God then blessed me with lunch out with the staff of our church to celebrate our secretaries!! After lunch I went to help a new friend with her computer, she is a true artist and her home simply eye candy as I got to enjoy her faux painting techniques, decorating, and the artistry of her home. Madison loved playing with her granddaughter, so it was a great day for us both. Dh came to complete the tasks at hand and put on his “superhusband” cape once again (and he looks so good in it!) as he completed tasks I was not capable of doing!

Later I got to go see another friend’s home for the first time. It was like walking into my home I loved in another time…and it is for sale….how breathtaking is that? Dh said the issue with that is we have another home…..now when has a simple thing like that stopped me before? lol Actually, the issue is we’d have to move our high schooler, so that unfortunately is a no deal situation, at least for now. Wow what a cute friend and her co teacher and I so enjoyed meeting her daughters!

Arrived back home finally to find my dirty dishes and fridge hadn’t left town and were glad to see me! There is something comforting about knowing you’re needed at home too!

Today I am headed to Trista’s town, Birmingham Alabama and we’re working on some business things together, but never you mind, we’re going to work in some play as well! Trista is a very talented Graphic Designer and she is so fun she makes me squeal when we work together… I hear there’s even a Cheesecake Factory in the area!

God whispered this morning in that quiet moment of enjoying dew on an opening purple iris…..that each part of its petals has to be able to hold the weight of the water that nourishes it….that while the new nourishment may make the flower temporarily sway and bow with the weight of the new nourishment, before long the flower petals either absorb the water or the water runs deep to the soil and nourishes the plant deeply in its roots. I feel like God is doing that in my world right now, there are so many rains pouring that perhaps at times I feel stretched and pulled by the weight of what God has brought to my life, at times it seems God’s rains are going to literally break my stem off, yet as I bow to Him He is changing the deepest parts of me….but at the same time I know deep in my soul that the new rain He has so clearly sent into my life is nourishing my faith at a deep deep level of releasing my whole self to Him….and believe me that meant God encouraging me to pry one finger at a time off my high need to hold onto the control of my life….and while its exciting and thrilling to watch God work….its also a time of learning to truly be at peace that God is indeed in control of all things….and not my mere human desire to make a difference….learning to rest in that is a tough lesson for me over and over again….but God is God and I will obey!

The best part of this morning?
Getting on the scales and hitting 199! When I put on this shirt (formerly only able to wear a XXL fitted shirt, its a XL and it fit!) Total inches lost is on my bust, waist and hips is 12 inches now! Yay for taking frustrations and concerns to God and not food!