Acceptable?

Are we all perfect? Absolutely not! Should we as Christians try to be? Absolutely! We should try our best to be Christ-like---right? How many excuses do we allow ourselves and/or others when we know the effort is not there? Shouldn't we command ourselves to be the best we can be in Christ's eyes? How many times do we say we are sorry for the same sin committed a million times? Are we sorry? I know we are flawed, human and in desperate need of the salvation of Christ---yet at the same time do we use that as an excuse to allow someone to disrespect us? hit us? betray us? How many times would you allow someone to lie to you, say their sorry, yet at some point not put up a guard and say to yourself "I need to watch this person....they have lied to me before" or how many times would you allow someone to spit on you or slap you in the face before you say 'enough is enough'???? How many? Yet our gracious Jesus continues to forgive us---over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over for the same sin we just finished committing and know we will commit again.Take profanity. When are we sorry? Are we sorry when we use it? Or only when we use it around someone who would find it rude and disrespectful? Or when it's an Elder or even a fellow Christian---but hey when we are alone or when it's around someone who uses it too---is that acceptable? Doesn't God still exist? Isn't He omnipotent? Isn't He everywhere at all times? So He is there when you are using the profanity around people you think won't mind or who use it themselves and don't we as vessels for Christ know that it disrespects Him? It grieves Him? Then we are not even real people are we? We are fakes! We are not ourselves or who we strive to be if we are different around other some people and then different around others. Aren't we now people pleasers and not God pleasers? Please tell me fellow Christians when is profanity acceptable? How about gossip and lying? How about adultery and murder?I am speaking to myself also. I find myself caught up sometimes in what should not be comfortable to me as a Christian but is ok with the group of folks I am around. I have found myself on my knees before Him.....That's where we need to be. In complete repentance and surrender to Him. Knowing He forgives us and takes our mud and garbage and makes us white as snow. He intercedes for us. He died for us. Let us remember that whatever company we are keeping---no matter who we are talking to or where we are --what is acceptable and what is not---He is there---with us---and we should remember if it is sin, disrespectful and rude to HIM then it is unacceptable, no matter the company we are in.

I Hear The Best Round Is The Third

Ok, its been a really long time, so I figured that would give me the license to start over {again!!!}. I don't know, maybe I just get so caught up in other things that I forget! I hope you all forgive me and take me from here.

I have been really busy: Nonny just finished her last concert of the year, she is graduating elementary school on June 24th, I am coming alongside a sister {Karen} to lead a women's bible study concerning hospitality, my Boink moved back home with her family till taking off to college again in the Fall, my best friend since pretty much the womb has moved in and brought another kitty with her, I am with another sister {Donna} trying to get a ministry off the ground for domestic violence, sexual assault and all the ugly things such as stalking & human trafficking that are going along with it, I am doing a bible study with a friend & we have started at Genesis we are now in Exodus, I am studying Spiritual Warfare with another friend........ok, I think you get the picture.....

I have been trying to watch my health {I have lost 29 lbs--and it's holding, not an ounce more in a bit--but I know it will go} & have become interested in growing some of my own food.

One of our Elders was called back to service--he is a Major in the Air Force. Do you think its alot going on? :D

So this entry was just mainly to catch you up---I have alot of work to do to set up my blog {again, again} and pray for your forgiveness!

In Christ