Clean House & Few other things I do

Friends Gift Store

2008-05-31T13:33:00.000-07:00

Are you looking for some very unique gifts ? Perhaps you are a collector ? I hope you will drop by to my friends store . (click here) MeisterGiftShop.com I think you will be very glad you did.

Working In the Field

2008-01-28T20:44:00.000-08:00

I am always amazed at the gleanings that are left for me.
There are always ways for my needs to be met.
I clean houses and I sell things on an Internet yard sale called e-bay.
I didn't know the weather would turn the roads icy and I wouldn't be able to go to work Friday.
However, my Lord did.
The Wednesday lady I clean for just happened to clean out a closet or two and had items for me to take home and do with , what ever.
It sure was a blessing to be able to put those things up for auction . May God bless her and me.

Click here for a look see.

Taking care of the Store

2007-11-25T17:47:00.000-08:00

I just enjoy selling stuff in my ebay store Splendid Decor For Living.
It is fun to find the possible treasures and fun to have other people value what I've found enough to buy them.
Click the link to see what I've been up to.

Sunday After Thanksgiving 2007

2007-11-25T16:53:00.000-08:00

It really was a special day. I was able to visit with my grand-daughter as we went to church together. Pastor Richard spoke, finishing up his teaching on Galatians. All through the lessons I have found so much truth that applied to my life, right now. He has a way of inspiring me to follow the Spirit and I thank God for bringing him to pastor our church.
Here are the notes I took while he was teaching.
Sunday Nov.25,2007 Disclaimer : These are not exact quotes of my Pastors teaching. These are my notes and I paraphrased what he said to make it make sense to me.
When people ask him what religion he is he has a very good answer. He does not have a religion, he has a relationship with Jesus.
Gal. 6:1-18 He reads it all so we can be sure to have this in context.
vs.11 Goes back to a theme we found in the earlier part of the book. This is them, and this is us.
A new thought about Paul's reference to writing large . He could of meant that he was using large letters such as A B C , however he also could of meant this, " See I really care about you, look what a large letter I am taking the time to write to you to help you understand ." That sounds like Paul to me. One thing I have constantly asked the Lord, Please teach me how to speak the truth in love. Paul had this in his life. He loved these people. He was not trying to see how many churches he could claim he had evangelized and set them on the right road to heaven. He loved these people.
Paul was really concerned that these other guys, the Judiaizers were compelling these Galatians to sow to the flesh. It wasn't like , oh no, now you are going to have problems and people are going to wonder about me and what kind of church I started here. No, he cared about them and just wanted to set them straight. He did not want them to reap corruption, which is what will happen if you sow to the flesh.
These guys were Messianic Jews and even though they were telling the Galatians to follow the law, they themselves were not following the law. Jesus said the most important law was to love God and to love your neighbor as yourself.
Paul is letting the love of Christ pour through him.

Slingblade

2007-07-28T08:18:00.000-07:00

I live in Arkansas and that may be why ever so many people told me this movie Slingblade had been filmed not far from my current hometown. After about the tenth person who said, "You ought to watch it sometime." I finally did, sort of . I did but with the remote ready to mute at any given time I felt like it.
I don't like filthy talk. I don't like filthy jokes. I don't like people to be degraded by words.
So I had to push mute a lot.
But watching that movie will forever be a blessing to me. I enjoy visual aids. I always "get it" better when there is a picture.
Of course this picture was what you do not want to happen.
There was just enough there for me to identify with. I seem to be able to grasp a picture others don't, the few I have shared my insights with .
Perhaps it is because I have viewed my world from a whole different point of view.
This requires my stating this view, so that you the reader at least have a better chance of understanding my insight. If you have not even watched the movie ,you may wish to not even go on reading this blog, because I can not adequately re-tell the whole story.
My view of this world : I have a fallen nature, inherited from Adam. I have an opportunity to receive a new nature, inherited from Jesus.
I have to choose daily to receive the new nature and deliberately choose not to follow the desires of the old nature. However, that old nature seems to be able to trick me, and somehow a repeated behaviour of sins manifest themselves.

Repeated behaviour are the key words here. If you have not ever noticed any repeated behaviour in your life you might as well not read this either. By repeated behaviour I am talking about behaviour that surely if you could have given the whole idea some forethought you would not have done it. Surely if you could learn anything from history, you could learn not to do this.

Now back to the movie.
The star of the movie surely had the markings of repeated behaviour.
He sat there in that institution with nothing to do but think about what had happened to him.
Did anyone encourage him or even suggest that he should or could forgive anyone of his persecutors ? I suppose not.
He had been imprisoned for so long he felt uncomfortable to be set free.
When given a choice, he would rather live in a shed. (Same place where he'd grown up.)
When to his understanding similar circumstances presented itself into his life , he responded the same way he had the time before.
I pointed out to one listener that the fact that he killed that abusive boyfriend was not going to help that young boy at all, I wasn't believed.
Well, that is because the listener was young his-self and he did not know yet that abused women always repeat the cycle . Just setting them free does not change their repeated behaviour that seems to always get them back with another abusive partner.
Maybe an abused women who has finally recognized her repeated behaviour and wants to change. It would take a huge miracle, the kind Jesus does, in order for that to happen.
She would have to be on guard all the time, every choice she made, that she was not choosing to go back and live in the shed. Just like she had done when she was growing up.

Wear Red on Fridays Show Support For Our Troops

2007-07-28T05:28:00.000-07:00

First I checked this out on Urban Legends . Click to read full story. Sometimes false stories, even though they sound good and have a good purpose, can lead you to do something you wouldn't do otherwise.
It is true, actually something started in 2005, I am just now hearing about it and so I donned my most red tee shirt and went to work Friday.
It helped me to remember to pray for my nephew who is serving in Iraq. I also reflected and prayed several times for our troops through out the day.
Not once did anyone ask me, except my daughter, why am I wearing a red Christmas shirt today. So I wasn't able to pass along my information to anyone. My shirt had little snow men on it that said ,"Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow." I thought it was appropriate for a hot July day.

Learning to Live with Grace

2007-04-21T10:22:00.000-07:00

I will always remember 2007 began with a learning experience. What I learned will no doubt be helpful to me as I go on about my normal life routines.

A homeschool gathering last week has given me much to think about. A young man with a most unique vision shared his experience of visiting another country.

He wore the traditional costume and told us of their life style. We who have never slept in a tent made of yak hide should be very grateful.

Home school co-op will be ending soon and Speech Club will be starting up again.

I feel like I have not achieved a lot so far this year due to the set back of illnesses . However, I will get caught up soon I hope. I am trying to let Brittany help me with the (click here to see) e-bay store as much as possible. I feel it can be a learning experience for her.

My grandson came to spend last weekend with me and I enjoyed his visit very much.
Life is good, because God is good. He is so good !

Having a Cold

2007-03-17T08:51:00.000-07:00

No kidding, having a cold and having a cold has really been about all I have been doing for months now. I caught this virus cold thing , then my daughter came down with it, then I had it again. This time I was very careful to not re-give it to her and whew, for a short time she nor I had a cold. These are week to two week segments we are talking about here. So okay, here I go smack dab into a cold infested situation, maybe caused by own original cold ,because I did not realize how highly contagious it was at first, and re-caught the thing again. You guessed it, my daughter has caught it and now I am showing signs of catching it again. I am going to go out and buy dust masks in bulk and air purifier . Can this ever stop ?
You are so blessed that germs can not be passed on through the inter net.
The good thing is that only a few days of work has been missed due to this thing. I can plod on, with a dust mask on , by the grace of God. Actually I have had a much better time of it than my daughter and others that have caught it. I take a lot of herbs and vitamins. It does help , but it does not give me immunity to germs.

Walking Following Believing Expecting

2007-02-16T07:32:00.000-08:00

On Tuesday nights I join with about 10 other women of faith . Our being together in one place just means support . It says, "We believe there is a God, and that He is good."
Sometimes it may be that we come in wanting to believe that there is a God , and that He is good.
Every time we leave , it is back, that we remember, yes, "He is God, and that He is good."
So gradually can the other gods come into a person's life that it is easy to be deceived sometimes by what life has put upon you. But it wasn't The God. It was that other thing that caught your attention and distracted you.
Once I start focusing on The God Who created the universe and all that is in it, I see , He is God and He is good.
I like belonging to Jesus. He takes care of me. He gives me strength to obey Him. He helps me follow Him. He is a good shepherd that has laid down His life for His sheep.

Wednesday Night and a little before.

2006-11-02T07:32:00.000-08:00

I really enjoyed our service at church last night. I belong to a small Calvary Chapel. The speaker talked about entering into God's rest and how have idols in our lives can hinder that. It was well thought out and researched. What he spoke of mostly was how this word was changing his life. Since I certainly want to enter into God's rest too, I received his words gladly.
Tuesday I found out that my friend has changed her day off to Monday now so I may be able to see her more frequently now as she works at a resale store that I mostly go to on Tuesdays. I am trying to stock my store with more books. I find that there are many book collectors and that by my putting on a book they have been looking for , they are blessed.
I had a fun week-end . As always I prepared for people to come and visit me . This is giving me such joy. If I am having this much fun in the preparing just imagine what it will be like when people actually start coming by.
I visited people at yard sales and went to a Southern Living Party and of course church on Sunday. Monday and Wednesday I cleaned houses and because the LORD is faithful to answer me when I call for help, He gave me joy , so that I was able to clean joyfully and cheerfully as unto Him.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday

2006-10-15T14:00:00.000-07:00

Friday night was great ! Brittany and I played Outburst Junior and we found there were a lot of funny things that game could bring to mind . We laughed and had a great time. Then we went out for ice cream . Saturday Robert was not feeling well so Brittany and I went to see One Night With the King at Tinseltown. It was a very well done film about the story of Esther the orphan girl who became queen. I was very glad we had chose to go and see it. They added some events to the story . There was very little changing of actual events though. So it just showed her inviting him to one feast instead of three. The significance of what she was doing was not lost by that little change. Several times I felt inspired by the Holy Spirit to take a stand and do what Christ asked me to do, regardless of the consequences. Esther did not want to die, but she was willing to die. There is never a hard and fast guarantee that what we want to happen will happen. People are given a free will to chose. Sometimes others choices cause what we would like to happen, not happen. Still , God is good, all the time.

Still getting Ready For the Feast of Tabernacles

2006-10-02T04:18:00.000-07:00

the joy of preparing for the feast has just been indescribable. I thought at first that it was strange that I was wanting to celebrate the feast so early in the year, yet I just knew I had this burning desire to prepare to celebrate the goodness of the LORD. So I set a date, I told people this is what I was about to do. For some reason it just seemed like the celebration should start at sun down on Friday. Then I and my family , did celebrate the goodness of the LORD. We sang songs together, we ate good food together, we played the Christian version of the Ungame together, we played a few other games together. My heart was full of joy. Joy unspeakable . At sometime, during the week of preparing or during the celebration, I don't know now, it occurred to me that I was not preparing to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles but to observe the Sabbath ! Maybe not the way the Jewish people observe the Sabbath but the way I was feeling led by the Holy Spirit to observe it. So then I reasoned, do I need to do this on only one week end a year ? Can I not do this every week end ? In my heart , I heard "yes." And so I have been doing this weekly celebration of how good the LORD is . I thought of how many people there are that would perhaps to like to join in with me and my family doing something fun, so I started asking others to come to my house and join in. So far no one has responded. They always have plans, but that is okay. My plan has been set and will always be set now to celebrate the goodness of the LORD on the Sabbath. It is a great way to end the week. I do not have any regret , but joy , as I look forward to Friday coming every week now.

Getting Ready For the Feast of Tabernacles

2006-07-25T06:07:00.000-07:00

I need a flute and possibly a trumpet. I have a tambourine. This time I am going to celebrate the feast where I can dance ! I may celebrate twice. The church group that I worship the Lord with may plan a celebration. It is not likely that theirs will conflict with mine. I want my family to come and celebrate with me this joyful of all feasts. Here are some pictures of the celebration last year . We played some games.
We worshiped the Lord. We thought about how the children of Israel celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles years and years ago. When I looked at the little tent and realized it purposely was left open and vulnerable to the elements. This was a way of saying , "I will trust in God to be my protector." "I will be open to Him, I will trust in Him."
I am looking forward to this years celebration(s). A family picnic, worship music, games, lots of time to reflect on the goodness of our God.

Cleaning, Sharing, Selling ,Writing

2006-07-19T00:51:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I get tired of cleaning. It is so mundane. Knowing that I was to give my testimony tonight kept me thinking while I was cleaning. That was fun , I guess , but now I have one hundred different testimonies to give. I would try to keep my mind on cleaning. "Thank-you Lord,for this floor. Thank-you Lord, for this bath-tub I am cleaning." Testimony night finally came and I was able to give my heart felt acknowledgement that God has been doing a great thing in me. All hundred things that He has done of course I couldn't tell in ten minutes so I tried to say what He wanted me to say and quit.
I put ads in the local paper for some of the items I have to sell. I picked out what would bring in the most money and figure , it is my way of fishing. If God wants me to find a fish with a coin in it , I should at least go to the pond and try to pick one up. Or was it the market Jesus sent Peter to ? Well, you get the idea.
Shall I write my 100 testimonies out , or shall I try to write some articles that might sell ? Seeking first the kingdom of God is not always doing something spiritual. Seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness is all I need to do. The other things , like food, will be added unto me. I am sure.

The Store , Cleaning , Writing and Sharing

2006-07-03T05:31:00.000-07:00

I keep filling the store with new items all the time. The cleaning jobs have picked up too and I am cleaning with great joy as recently my daughter is working with me. We have such a good time sharing the good news with each other . We keep our hands moving while our mouths go , because we know that we are there cleaning for His Glory . Another possible avenue for generating income has been writing . I found out about this site that pays for articles about things like product reviews . My housecleaning job provides me with an endless possiblities as many of my customers buy the newest cleaning products on the market . I am just waiting for the day when one of them buys that new "maids in the shower " product and says, "You don't have to clean the shower anymore ." Ha, ha.
Also the leader of a small group of women that meet on Tues. nights has asked me to give my testimony . Keep it to ten minutes , she asked . So , oh boy , I get to give my testimony , at least ten minutes of it . I am excited .

Hello Friends

2006-06-05T21:02:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I feel like talking about work . Sometimes I go places and have fun and would like to share pictures with my friends. Sometimes there is just stuff going on that I want to tell someone . If you drop by and say hi, that is nice. I don't plan on this site being to special. I have been trying to avoid going back to work at some store or something like that so I have been trying to fix up this e-bay store. So far I have not had to many customers . So I thought maybe I should advertise. Just like you do a regular store. Most of the items were given to me from friends who said I could sell them in a yard sale. I hope they don't mind seeing their items on the World Wide Web . This is kind of like a World Wide Yard Sale this e-bay store .
http://stores.ebay.com/Splendid-Decor-For-Living

Please click and come to my World Wide Yard Sale !!!!!!!! I have lots of bargains . You might have fun.