Deb’s Journey

I’ve started giving two more guitar lessons to teenagers…..I have three students right now. I’m still learning the in and outs of how to do it. It really depends on the kid and how they are catching on to what I’m teaching. With each one I do it a little different, and right now, that works for me.

The worship band for the teens at church, is going well…..I have a lot of fun but it is work cause I want a certain sound without playing a note or singing a note. Thats hard to just watch, but I’m definitely loving it. More importantly, the teens are loving it! We named the team, Jammin’ for Jesus or J4J.

I’m still writing alot of songs………

The oldest is doing good in baseball, doing well in school, and is growing into quite the young man. Yes I have issues with him, but he’s a good kid and I just need to stay on my toes. He’s needs a treatments for acne………..but its not bad. I went to the store to get Noxima, well they no longer make it. I had to choose something else for him. Its working for him…I’m so glad.

The youngest has more homework in the 5th grade….everynight. Oh well. The first week he felt defeated but now he’s getting used to it. He will playing football in October, that will only last for one month.

Oh I just did the sound for church for almost two months, I loved it! Yeah, I missed playing the guitar but I still play at home. Doing sound is just love for me, even though I still get nervous when exact things have to be…..thats just the way I am.

Okay thats it for now.

I recently had a conversation with one of my work comrades….lets call him Paul. We were talking about ads that appear on Facebook. It was a naked body, well just showing the butt part, I made a comment about how I thought that this was just wrong. I didn’t expect to see it on Facebook, where so many teens are members.

Anyway the conversation went to “that overseas, it not a big deal to see nakedness and that Americans make it a big deal.” It normal to see no clothes on a beach, just like office supplies in a office, just like dishes on a table.

I pondered the comment and firmly disagreed with that whole theory, that it was okay and just accepting it means you just get used to seeing it. What!!! So we have seared our conscience, so it doesn’t help us out anymore.

Oh how we need help from the Almighty God….come and save us from ourselves!

God is taking me to new place with Him……no, its not a place where no man has gone before! But for me, I wished I had gotten here alot sooner. Trusting Him has taken on new meaning, and not sure I could have had that without just time, or probably because I just wasn’t ready to hand over my whole life, that would involve travel medical insurance, because surely it would have some pain to go along with it.

I don’t know……when I start to ponder all the details and why I took so long to get here, I realize I’m in over my head, and should just accept where I’m at right now, and be thankful!

I’m often reminded of the old chorus, “I keep fallin’ in love with Him over and over and over and over again, He gets sweeter and sweeter as the days go by, oh what a love between my Lord and I, I keep fallin in lover with Him over and over and over and over again.

Or the song, Trust and obey, for there’s no other way. To be happy in Jesus, then to trust and obey.

The end of songs for today……

Why is it that kids like to sleep in their parents bed? Maybe because our mattress is so much nicer than theirs and the parents have all the nice thick lining, expensive sheets, the down comforter. I don’t know maybe thats it. Just a thought.

Could be that I need to get some baby bedding for the boys room, they’re old enough maybe now to have some good stuff, not to say what they have now is not good, it is. But maybe make it more like the parents room.

Strange though, I didn’t know until a few years ago that there were different sheets, I know, I lived a very sheltered life even when it came to sheets. Maybe thats why I didn’t care about sleeping in my parents bed.

Today I took my hubby to train station yet another time…..am I sad at heart, absolutely but on the ride back home, I saw a sunrise and was listening to a message on the radio about being thankful that help me see a different view.

In that sunrise I saw shades of red, pink, gray, yellow and the whole morning brought tears to my eyes. I am so thankful for my husband, who loves me and see things in me that could only be seen by love. I am thankful for my two boys who gives me energy and a joy that I am privilage to be a part of their lives forever, I am forever a mom! I am thankful for my God who loves me in spite of my shortcomings, failures, and sees the best in me and has a plan for my life, that He wants me to put my whole life in His hands……what a relief! I am loving Him more everyday and along with that I’m finding a love for others like I haven’t before, only because of Him of course, its not because of anything I am doing. Being hidden in Him is a glorious wonder, that I want to be a part of. As I put my trust in YOU may YOU filled me with Your joy and peace by the power of Your Holy Spirit. Thank You my heavenly Father for making all things good.

I could be thankful for online car insurance too.

The other day I was thinking about friends and people in our lives, how God brings people in our lives and when sometimes we don’t feel the need to respond to the Holy Spirit, and listen. We walk right by that person who might need us.

Basically what we have is a no vacancy sign in our heart’s window, we are not willing to keep in step with the Holy Spirit and walk in Him. Of course, I guilty of this, sometimes without even thinking about it, I’m just doing my own thing, but I am trying to be more conscience of it. I want to be used for His purpose, I want more of Him and less of the Anoretix. I want a vacancy sign in my heart’s window.

What a wonderful day! It felt like a fall day here in the midwest. The oldest had baseball practice, then we picked him up and all of us went out for lunch. Chinese food, it wasn’t that good, then we went to see Journey to the Center of the Earth…..good movie and rated PG. Yeah!!!

We almost needed Rimowa for this day, because they had a neighborhood baseball/picnic right down the road from our house. So thats where we went next, of course I picked something up from Walmart to take there, I didn’t have time to make anything.

We had so much fun….we all played softball and kickball. We probably will be sore tomorrow, but it was so worth it.

The oldest son has started baseball….with practice everyday. He complains that something might be wrong with his leg, I asked him where it was hurting and in my professional opinion, I believe its just from running!! I think its funny, I would and did think totally the same thing the first week of basketball practice, when I was a kid. I was in so much pain, my legs were so sore!

School will start next week here, I think a little later than last year. I haven’t got my bus license yet, I’m closer. I went on Friday to try to finish up, I passed the test, only missed 1, passed the pre-trip, and went to the driving inside the lines for points, I failed on one of them. You see if you hit the line at all, its automatic failure…..how rude! So I’m two steps closer than I was, I don’t have to retake the other tests, whew…..I was studying alot. After Friday, I just wanted to do the Vegas vacations…..I was drained. Hopefully it will be soon, bad thing is I have to do my physical again because its only good for 90 days unless I get the license. Bummer! So that was my Friday.

Stop it now. As a kid, I heard that comment alot, and my kids hear it alot. But as adults, do we hear it as much as we need to hear it? Do we hear it when the Holy Spirit says, “Stop it now?” The times when He prompts us to do something, to go somewhere, to change directions…….to not touch the hot boiling water!

With kids especially little ones we are always warning of the dangers, but again as they get older it is just a matter of obedience and them choosing to obey. That is really hard to get thru to their heads and mainly into their hearts. It gets really hard for me to figure out which way to go, what words to used to try to get into the heart of the matter…..yeah I’m talking about my oldest son.

Then I’m also talking about adult life and how we need to be a mover NYC…..we need to move with the Holy Spirit, keep in step with Him. God wants us to be doing things for the Kingdom, not getting involved with stuff that just keeps us busy. He wants to be our priority, the love of our lives!

We have fast food, microwaves, instant dinners, and even snack bars that take the place of a meal……how about the drive thru church.

The modern furniture today or the modern way today is less communication by mouth and lets text, email, or better yet no talking at all. Lets just guess what we have on our minds!

If there’s a issue lets figure it out by way of confrontation, a meeting face to face. Not in a battle for whose right or wrong but in love, a way to solve the issue.

What would happen if we did confronted the Biblical way, go to the person, then a witness, then before the church? Pride would be wiped away, at least eventually and maybe we would solve things before it got to the church congregation. Would it hurt, yeah, but would it be better, absolutely!

I’m tired of all the stuff that satan uses to divides the family of God and our physical family.