This morning I was rummaging around in the fridge because it smells really funky, but I can't figure out what is causing the smell.  Karly came downstairs and was ready for me to give her a ride to school and she is wearing her fuzzy frog jammie pants today because they have special dress up days for reading month....

I was kidding around with her because frogs are....well.... not my favorite animal.  I do appreciate them for their role in the ecosystem and I am sure they are very important to the food chain, but I just wouldn't really want one as a pet.  Karly, very matter of factly, said to me..."Mom, frogs may be slimy, but they are misunderstood!!!"....what can you say after that?  I just drank some coffee :P

Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHjKzr6tLz0

"Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.  Grace is the free, undeserved goodness and favor of God to mankind." 

~ Jonathan Edwards~

Grace That Won't Let Go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3anotgP5MJI

The Our Daily Bread devotional for today had this insight....

INSIGHT:

Do you ever find yourself hurting those you love, and maybe even forgetting in the emotion of the moment how much you really do care about them? If so, keep in mind that long before Paul wrote 1 Corinthians 13 he was an angry man who was mindlessly hurting the God he thought he knew and loved (Acts 9:1–6). So what brought about Paul’s change? First he needed to see how wrong he’d been about Jesus. He also needed to see that knowing the law is not the same as keeping it—and that he himself needed not only mercy but also the help of the Spirit of God to love others as God loved him. The Spirit who brought him from law to grace now invites and leads us into the loving patience and kindness that our Lord wants to express in and through us.

Perfect Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMwd1wUY2go

God is good and it was wonderful to celebrate the life of our friend, Chris Cardwell, today with many friends and family members!  I had the privilege to talk with his mom several times throughout the last few days and I have been blessed at the way God has been showing her comfort in very specific and personal ways throughout these hard days of grief!  Chris worked as a steerman on a ship and would be gone for a month and then back for two weeks for his job and he had very close friends on the ship because he basically lived with them during those months on the job.  One of his buddies had this picture painted for him when he was diagnosed with leukemia.  His friend was able to connect with his mom this last week and found out one of the things she always treasured from Chris was that while he was away for his job he would send her beautiful pictures of sunsets from the ship.  His friend has determine to keep doing this for her :)  I just thought that was incredible sweet!.....Really, isn't God's LOVE amazing!!!

The River

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rUzmjTmSBU

I understand why she loved these so much!

So, I am not sure how Biblically sound that statement is :)  HOWEVER, I am blessed/do suffer from deja vu and maybe something like empathetic intuition frequently.  I sometimes sense things I think may happen or I feel like what I am experiencing I have seen before....do you ever do that?  If so, do you ever want to test your hunches....like put the idea out there so you can have some proof that you maybe had the hunch before it happened?

I had one of those "intuitive aha moments" today and I'd love to say what it was about because the outcome is exciting, but I guess I am trying to discern whether those ideas originate from God or my own mind and I'm learning that sometimes those things are best left unsaid and just enjoyed as I watch God's plan unfold.  (Don't mind me.....I'm just going to leave myself a hint here so that I can look back a year from now and remember my aha moment "MARCH FORTH, Friends")

It would be funny though, if the statement above was somewhat correct and God couldn't help but show some of His friends a little peek into His plans because of how delightful they are :)