Hearts in Service Blog

II Samuel 22:47 ~ "The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God, the Rock, my Savior!" Today is the day when I look back over the week and reflect on all the big and small ways that the Lord has blessed me. ♫ Praise God for a wonderful way our church is able to bless a woman from the community by providing her with a place to live. We are getting the church parsonage ready for her, which has been sitting empty for over a year. ♫ The week of snow and rain which is vital for the earth! ♫ Little tufts of green poking their way up through my flower bed, reminding me that spring is right around the corner. YAYYYY!!!! ♫ A much slower paced week, which was very welcome after the crazy weekend I had. ♫ That I was able to discipline myself and exercise everyday this week which did much to lift my spirits. There wasn't anything earth-shattering this week, but it's good to praise God even in the small things. What are you thankful for?

Every October people from our church go on a mission's trip to Chile to help out the organization, Vision for Chile. The group this past October helped to build a girl's home for older girls who age out of the orphanages there. It's called House of Hope. This year we decided to have a Chile Fest with a chili dinner. We had a local Christian band come and perform as well. We had great food! I've never seen so many different kinds of chili. Dinner went from 6:00-7:30 and then the music started. Dan and our worship team performed a song Dan wrote. Then the main event started with the band, Cross Purpose. A good time was had by all, from the older crowd.... To the youngest! We had a good turnout and raised a good amount of money so I considered it a success!

I found lots to be thankful for this week which is always nice! I very rarely have really down and depressed days. I may feel discouraged here or there, but for the most part I'm pretty upbeat. Yesterday though was a day that was just horrendous. I woke up in a crabby mood and I was afraid to open my mouth because I might take someone's head off. I had to go grocery shopping which takes about 3-4 hours because I only go every two weeks and the stores are about 35 miles away. So almost 2 hours of that is driving over back winding country roads. As I was driving, I began to feel sorry for myself and of course ended up crying most of the way there. However, I am thankful because the Lord sent just the right thing to pull me out of my mood. The last store that I went to had roses that were leftover from Valentine's Day. They were in bunches of 6 roses and get this, were $.99 each bunch!! So I got 18 roses for $2.97. I love roses but rarely have them because they are so...

My husband did the nicest thing for me for Valentines Day. He bought me a box of chocolate and under each individual piece of chocolate he wrote a little note. I'm supposed to have one piece a day and read my note from him. Wasn't that sweet? I love him so much!

Today is the day to list the things the Lord has done for me over the past week. I want to have a constant spirit of thankfulness so this is a good exercise. ♫ I can truly say that the boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. I love my family, church family and life! ♫ After 5 months of almost once a week phone calls, our insurance finally paid a bill that they should have paid from the start. It had gone into collections and was stressing me out because we always pay our bills on time. However, it was a huge bill and supposed to be covered 100% so we battled it out. Praise the Lord, that's over! ♫ I started my first class of Junior Church this past Sunday and it went very well. One of the girls told her mother that she really liked it. My other children workers are happier too not having to deal with a huge age span in Children's Church. ♫ The boys started their new classes for the new semester and like their teachers. ♫ Praise God that I have insurance so ...