Just reading...

I get so excited when I get on Blogger.com and read all of my friends new postings. All of my friends have new updates and I enjoy reading them all. I am encouraged by what they write. My friend Teri has wonderful news for us that had God's work written all over it. Do we serve an awesome God or what???

I am on day 3 of my teenage fall. I got up, put makeup on, fixed my hair and ventured out again today. Slowly, step by step, I am moving around. Against doctors orders, I drove to Publix today (only 2 miles away). I was in pain, but praise God that my daughter went with me and she is such an encouragement. Her birthday is next week and I am getting nervous because we are hosting 8 girls for an American Idol party.We have lots to do including cleaning our home.

I mentioned in a previous post that I was reading Satisfy My Thirsty Soul by Linda Dillow. This weeks lesson focused on bowing my words to Christ. "Do not grieve and sadden the Holy Spirit by my rotten garbage talk." This is much easier said than done. My challenge for the week is to encourage the people closest to me with encouraging words. I am to bathe then in encouragement all week. I am replacing all of the nasty things I would want to say with all positive words. I tell you what, Greg thinks it is the medicine talking. He's not sure what is going on. This is very difficult for me since I am a "glass half empty kind of person." Every time I replace a negative with a positive, I know I am pleasing God.

My key verse for the week comes from James 3:9-10 With the tongue I praise my Lord and Father, and with it I curse me, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth comes praise and cursing, this should not be.