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Name: Michele
Gender: Female
Interests: Being a corps officer with a great husband, waiting for our process of being foster parents to be completed so we can adopt a loving child and become parents, having date night with my husband, and going on long road trips.
Expertise: I am an expert at thinking of fun things to do when on a road trip to pass the time along.
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Member Since:
10/13/2006
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| Shocking news, this just in... You can live without a T.V. It has been a week and a few days and it is going good. I have started to read a book, do more scrapbooking, exercise and have fun around the house. It was different at first but really helped was canceling the cable and moving the T.V. out of the living room. I am reading a book by Max Lucadp called "A gentle thunder". It is GREAT. For preachers it is like a little sermon in each chapter. It teaches you how to hear God during the storm of different places in your life. To hear how Jesus heard God in his complex life. It is good. I could learn to like this reading stuff. The nice thing is we stopped watching T.V. between seasons so we don't know what we are missing and that is okay. I will keep you posted on it but I see this being a long time thing. Even our youth pastors are trying this. It is awesome. | | |
| How much do you love your T.V.? Can you live without. And I am not talking about a day or a week, can you change your lifestyle and live without a T.V.? Well Nathan and I are going to try. We had a Pastors Holiness Conference today and the speaker was talking about what takes up our time away from God. I started to think and realized that T.V. really is my escape. I watch T.V. way too much and really feel it hinders me from spending my time with God and doing family stuff together, even if it is just Nathan and I. So we talked today after the conference and we were both in agreement that we need to get rid of our T.V.'s. And not just for a week or two, we are donating it to the corps. We will have one in the basement for exercise but we are disconnecting the cable. I am excited to see what we come up with for activities to do and what I will get out of my devotional life and what I start to read. Anyone have any good suggestions for books to read. | | |
| Last night we got a call on our cells that one of us needed to go down to the building because it was on fire and someone needed to get inside. So seeing that I am the disaster person in our appointment and Nathan was busy I sped down to the corps. The whole way I am thinking, "oh my gosh, my building. What is inside that I will be devastated about if it is ruined in the fire?" I started to think of pictures of family and friends on my desk, my computer which has my life on it, and so on and so on. I finally turn the corner and you know what I saw. NOTHING. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! A branch in the alley snapped off a tree, snapped the telephone wire in half and threw the branch on fire onto our roof which then started a small 5 foot cirlce fire. It did nothing to the building that wasn't done before. The firemen needed to get in our building to see what kind of damage happened inside. And once again NOTHING. I started to laugh in my head. Let me paint you a picture of the three firemen I got to deal with. One was in his mid 30s and had to weight 130 pounds soaking wet, (yea he wasn't picked for the calendar this year or any year). The second one was about 150 pounds maybe with his gear on, glasses and achene like a 10th grader, crack me up. Then the third one, oh the third one. If you have ever seen The Green Mile picture the african american prisoner who has the miracle powers to see things. Yea that was the third fireman. 300 pounds which 150 probably was muscle (okay not that much) but he was tough. Needless to say he has and will always be picked for the calender. So after talking to these three and realizing nothing was wrong I got to go back home and do nothing. I hope that if anyone is needing rescuing from a building they don't send the first two up the ladder for the people. Maybe they are the local water boys, and by that I mean they get the real fire fighters their water after the fires are put out. | | |
| Today I couldn't take it anymore and finally went into urgent care. I have had a really bad cough and a rash that I got in May from doing City Wide Cleanup came back on my legs. It was bad. I went in and after lab work and talking with some doctors I have found out that I have a very weak immune system. The medicine I am taking that helps me with trying to get pregnant has ruined my immune system and now it is very easy for me to get sick. It explains why I get some kind of cough, cold, flu every month. My body doesn't know how to fight off two things at once, and lets face it in our calling our bodies need to fight off 30 things at once. I was told to start taking an extra vitamin and some other routines. I am thinking of coming off my other medicine until my immune system can start to rebuild. Funny how such stinky news can be good news. It is not the answer I was looking for but hey it is an answer and now I can do something that will finally work. | | |
| Why is God the way he is? Okay that is not a question I expect you to answer. So try to stay with me. The last three years of my life I have been struggling with something spiritually and emotionally. I have prayed till blue in the face, shed my fair share of tears and had my fair share of angry moments at God. I asked him the same question over and over and never got an answer, which made me cry more and get more frustrated. Well the last month I have overcome this "terrible" thing in my life and am very satisfied where God has put me in my struggle. I don't want to change it for anything, which is completely opposite where I was three years ago and even three months ago. Funny how God allowed me to be frustrated with him and get angry instead of telling me right away, "But I truly know what you want and this is not it, trust me." Has this ever happened to you? Have you prayed and prayed till you are blue in face only to find out a few days, weeks, months later that you never really wanted what you prayed for? If so I would love to hear how you got over it, through it or dealt with it. | | |
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