Proverbs 4-6; Romans 8

One of those weekends absolutely filled with blessings and activities and family and fun and utterly exhausting. I am excited to have celebrated Lynz and that Dara was home to do it with us. I am excited that yesterday we extended our family, our home and though it ‘felt’ bursting at the seams I can’t remember having had so much FUN. Out with my girls, sitting on the deck, family meals around a table and just talking for hours.....2 nites of X-Pong (playing) sting pong (watching) ....like I said FUN!
I am hearing and following what I hear and blessed in the freedom that comes from that…….not easy to DO what You say, I usually spend a lot of time arguing with You about it…. but in the doing is the freedom…….So this time I listened and I just want to Thank You for not giving up on me……
I think though that it IS in the wrestling that I have enjoyed a more vital connection. Those people that I push through with the relationship is richer and deeper…..so maybe …ahh I don’t know too much of anything for sure I just want to say THANK YOU Father for Your Son, my Shepherd.....


Proverbs 4: Learn It by Heart
20-22 Dear friend, listen well to my words; tune your ears to my voice.Keep my message in plain view at all times. Concentrate! Learn it by heart! Those who discover these words live, really live; body and soul, they're bursting with health. 23-27 Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that's where life starts.Don't talk out of both sides of your mouth; avoid careless banter, white lies, and gossip.Keep your eyes straight ahead; ignore all sideshow distractions.Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you.Look neither right nor left; leave evil in the dust.

Romans 8: 22-25 All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. But it's not only around us; it's within us. The Spirit of God is arousing us within. We're also feeling the birth pangs. These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance. That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don't see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy.
26-28 Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.
29-30 God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.