The Grace Card

We are going to go see the movie "The Grace Card" tonight. I have been looking forward to it. Today I handed out my first Grace Card.

"I promise to pray for you everyday, ask your forgiveness, grant you the same, and be your friend always..."

That is what my goal is for the year. To hand out as many Grace cards as God ask me too and to keep up on the prayers everyday!

Last year I heard a call from God telling me to learn as much as I could about grace. I believe that I have written about that before on here... I didn't have an idea at all before I sat down and started writing this that that was going to be my goal for the year. Last year it was give more than you receive and this year will be the Grace Card year...

I love knowing that God has a plan for me and if I listen I get to learn parts of the plan all the time!

Broken Hearts

Broken hearts are hard to mend. On Monday I had a broken heart. I got a call Monday afternoon at work from Jissi saying that the dogs were gone. I have a huge heart for my babies. Sara is a weimaraner and Sheba is a husky, malamute, and some wolf. I loves these two as much as I love Rikki and Jissi. They are a huge part of our life.

So I rushed home and went looking for them. Imagine standing out in the middle of a field with your heart just broken praying to God to move a mountain for you and bring them back.

While looking for them I spotted a dog catcher truck. Something told me to chase this truck down. So that is what I did. I followed it all over town for about 30 minutes until it stopped. They told me that the girls were safe and at the pound. I cried huge tears of joy.

I didn't know this at the time but the pound is closed on Mondays. So if I had not chased this officer down I would have spent all night worrying about Sara and Sheba. Thank you God for leading me to a person who could help me.

So we spent a long lonely night without the babies. All the while worrying about the cost of bailing them out of jail. The next morning after some running around I got to pick up the girls with their new microchips for only $450.

This may seem like a lot to people... But I love these girls. I am a christian and I am to love everyone. It doesn't matter if the being is human or not. I am to love everyone. I believe that Sheba and Sara have souls. I know they do. So this means as a christian I have to love them.
God has used these two girls to teach me a lot of lessons.

Also I am paying for a service. I may not have asked for the service. But I am so thankful for the officer that picked up my girls and put them in a safe place for the night. A place were they couldn't get ran over or lost. People forget that dog catchers are doing a public service. I don't like it when I have to pay a ticket. But I do it because I broke the law. So why would it be any different.

Lets see there is a lot going on in our life right now. We are still working on FPU. Oh yeah thanks to Dave Ramsey I didn't have to go get a payday loan to bail out my dogs! LOL We are still working the program and I feel that it has taken a huge amount of stress off of us.

I went to my first seminary class. It was great. I am looking forward to what the class will bring. I am still working on my BS in Accounting. I will be transferring to all online at the end of this month.

I finished up my Beth Moore 90 days with the one and only Bible study! I have now started on the Paul 90 days on his journey of faith Bible study.

We are moved into our new house. But we still have a bunch of stuff to move from the other house and we need to clean up our mess there.

Just moving right along...

Always Amazed!

I am always amazed by God! I pray that I never stop being amazed! From the words we say that we are unsure of to knowing that those words were the right ones because God throws them right back at you!

We are busy busy busy... Ok I am busy busy and the rest of the family is busy.... :) Two different schools, work, Bible study, FPU, moving, and praying. The praying happens first of course. But then it happens at the end again! :)

School is going good. I am slowly working through all of my homework. One and half classes of homework down and one and a half to go. A lot of the stuff is easy to work through. So I have been blessed with classes that all flow together. For one of the classes I took a personal assessment test. It is called the Gallup Strengths finder... "Your Signature Theme" Boy did mine come out right. My top five were and are Achiever, Arranger, Self-Assurance, Individualization, and Belief. I am looking forward to figuring out how these are going to fit into my life now and learning about them.

Work is going good. Nice and easy. I talked to James about it the other day and I think that God put me here for a reason. It is a reason that I may not see right now. But I need to be here.

I am almost done with my Bible study. 90 days with the one and only Jesus has been an awesome study. I am looking forward to starting Paul on the 8th. James ordered me a new Bible and it should be in today. I am so excited. I have no idea what he had put on front.

FPU is going good! I made some homemade envelopes for our envelope system. They are looking good. My OCD is loving the envelop system! Everything in its place. We are all still working through this as a family. We look forward to Thursday nights and our commissions. I look forward to the family getting together to talk...lol

Moving we are moving like crazy. We should be in our new place by Saturday. But it will probably take longer than that!

Prayer... I am praying for all kinds of stuff right now. I am praying for my friend Laurie. I am praying for a friend daughters, I am praying for my daughter, I am praying for the church, I am praying for grace, and a long list of other things. I need to sit down and create a prayer list. It is important not to forget anyone!

Last night I got to take the time to catch up with a friend that I had not really see or talked to lately. It was wonderful to see her and hear her voice! I love her and she is an amazing woman!!!