* You would THINK that when my Sunday recap started out "I was exhausted," Monday's recap would include rest. Let me think. No. I pulled an all nighter Sunday night, finally calling it a night TWENTY EIGHT MINUTES before my alarm went off. That was one thing when I worked a block from home. Doing that before an hour commute is NOT SMART. I intended to rest when I came home, but I'd just gotten home when the realtor who listed my house called and said someone wanted to see it Tuesday morning. So I spent all of Monday evening madly rushing about the house, cleaning it up. And because I know you've missed him...it was a new month:
* Tuesday was so much fun at work! It's still very odd to me to be able to do fun, creative stuff...and have that same stuff count as work! Poor Lynne has her work cut out for her, getting that point across to me. I actually had to be retrieved at the end of the work day. I was completely caught up in a brainstorming fest and forgot it was quitting time.* Wednesday my sister, Lori, arrived!! She came all the way out here from Kansas just to do my moving sale. Can you believe that? Anyway, she arrived right before the end of my work day, so I showed her around the station, and then we went house hunting with my Ft. Wane realtor. We saw four houses (one of which I had seen before, but she wanted to see it in person), and y'all, I found a house I absolutely adore with all my being. I've been very calm about this whole selling/buying thing, but Jesus and I had a discussion about that house. There aren't words to describe that house's precious-ness. After we hunted, I took her out to dinner at Cheddars. I so very VERY rarely get a sister date with either of my sisters, so that was just such a fun night for me. Loved it.
* Thursday, while I was at work all day, Lori transformed my garage into sale-central. What would have taken me weeks to do...took her a day. In a single day, she sorted through all the stuff, organized it, and priced it. She should work for a TV show. She had a plan for everything. And before the sale even started, I'd made over sixty bucks! Here was the "before" (sorted, but cramped up into the garage so the door would close).
* Friday was garage sale, day one. So weird to be at work while a party went on at my house! That evening, we all went out to eat at Culvers. The lady who waited on me called me "Sir." Must have been a worse hair day than I thought. Seriously...SIR????? THIS is a sir!!!
* Saturday was day two of my yard sale:
Exhausting work, I tell you. Exhausting. I had to get up at 6 in the morning to get ready to help Lori get it all set up. Wore me out. The rest of the day was fun...lunch at Penguin Point...shopping at Cato...dinner at the parentals'...Books I'm Reading: I read Jesus Calling and Sparkling Gems from the Greek and finished the next to the last chapter in Entrusting Your Dreams to God.
Favorite God Moment of the Whole Week: I think my favorite moment was actually the hardest. Friday afternoon, as I drove home from work, I was in some intense heart-battle. Satan was after me, and I knew it. Scary thing to be flying down the interstate at 70 miles an hour while doing some warfare. But what a great thing to know God was right there with me...and to sense Him saying it would be okay...to fight through it.
Update on Last Week's Goals: I did begin to establish some new routines this week - with exercise, sleep, and journaling. And I have COMPLETELY enjoyed having Lori and Jeff here this weekend.
Goals for the Coming Week: After several weeks of running, running, running, my goals this week are to read...scrapbook...and spend some good time in prayer. I need all those things.
4 comments:
OK. I need some clarification:
You read ALL of Jesus Calling? Or just read IN it? It's a daily devotional, as in one page for each day, so you DON'T read it all at once.
That's what you did. Right???
BTW, I read it last year, after my roommate gave it to me that previous Christmas. There were some days that were so incredibly wonderful that my hand reached out to touch the page so I could be closer to what the Lord was saying to me.
Oh just a page a day. I'm savoring. :) I read IN it. Sorry to confuse you. :)
I agree with you totally - a very anointed book. Have you read its predecessor....God Calling? Also amazing.
No, I didn't know there was another one. I'll have to look for it.
She didn't write God Calling. It was written several years ago by two missionary women - I think they were in China. But in the intro to Jesus Calling, Sarah talks about reading that book. God Calling is amazing too.
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