Let’s see, I have been called out to post. I have had several thoughts, since my last post. So let’s see if I can remember one. I enjoyed Dusty’s sermon on Sunday. I am a Martha and sometimes I allow my joy to be taken away. My mission this week is not to let that happen.  I am stuck in an office most of the day and I enjoy being outside and away from phones and people sometimes.  I enjoy working, physically working. I have an assistant that is here to help with the work load. She doesn’t like to clean, and unfortunately there is a lot of that involved in our job. Soooooooo, I do most of the cleaning, most of the time I don’t mind but when there is so much, occasionally, it would be nice to have some help.

I always thought if I led by example, and didn’t ask someone to do something I wouldn’t do, that they wouldn’t mind doing it.  In reality, they don’t mind watching you work yourself to death, they just figure that you want to do it. My other strategy was that if you see something that needs to be done, then you might just get up and do it.  That really doesn’t work either.  It is always there then I feel the need to do it. 

 I’m not a good boss.  I’m not very forceful until I get mad and then that’s not the time to go into everything because it’s just to much.  So most of the time I just do it myself.  Today I am going to sweep the curbs.  I don’t want to be in the office. When I am doing a task like this, I talk to God. It’s peaceful to me. I can work with HIM beside me and we get a lot of things worked out.  Friday, God and I worked on the pool, to get it ready to be inspected and opened.  It looks better then it ever has.  God knows a lot about how much chemicals to put in to make a pool sparkling.  He also knows a lot about gardening. Our flowers out front look better than ever. HE let me over water them, and kill two batches of flowers.  This year I just let Him water them and they look a lot better.  Now I know that they really don’t need soaked all of the time. I pull the weeds and HE waters. 

I usually come back from my tasks feeling pretty good about what God and I have got accomplished even though nobody else may notice what we have gotten accomplished. The trick is not to be disappointed when I come back in and everything else is a mess and nothing has gotten done. ” Martha was worried and upset about many things” that phrase fits me perfectly. I am determined not to let my joy be taken away.

This is the plan today. I am going to do the curbs and enjoy myself.  I am going to visit with God.  I am going to leave a list for my assistant to do and assume that it will be done. I am going to receive the peace and comfort that only the Holy Spirit can provide and guide my heart and mind in Jesus Christ.

Praise God,

Noreen