Armouring with Swords

I have started on my book - girls with swords by Lisa Bevere

It is a black or white book and I love that and she states that by the end of the story there is hot or cold, strong or weak, emgaged or disengaged, soldier or traitor, free or captive, and hero or victim.

God's word - God Sword

This book is seriously going to arm me.

The little people have got so messy over holibobs that I have had to revert to doing some hand washing.

I don't mind though as I'm stuck inside so I might as well be useful.

I just have to make sure I don't scrub too vigorously and not break out in a sweat due to these little spots that are covering my arms and legs.

I did have a little day dream whilst dunking the clothes under the water and dreamt I was in bible times washing my families clothes in the sea of Galilee.

I imagine that actually it was kinda going a coffee shop with your Ladie friends. A place to relax, chat, while away an hour or so catching up with the latest chit chat.  ( I hate the word gossip, I hate gossip as it can be really damaging like Chinese whispers so we will stick to chit chat)

Maybe a place that they match made, braided others hair and let the children splash around in the water handing off tree branches whilst the husbands are off fishing or what knot.

That simple kinda life sounds good doesn't it!

I get so frustrated with 'stuff' sometimes that it takes a holiday to be able to step back and see a different kind of picture.

A picture that is brought on by washing clothes in a tub.

Growing up, we didn't have a lot of 'stuff', there was a time that my Dad was out of work.

We made up games as we didn't have a hoard of plastic toys to entertain us and this continued  through the years into my early teens.

I used to go shopping with my friend in town. She would have £50 to spend. I would have £5 and buy excessories to jazz up something that I already had.

My mother bought us clothes from a catalogue on a few occasions, it was ace:)

I had blue knickerbockers and a white with blue spotty t shirt. I was so fashionable and totally cool. 

Have little growing up made me appreciate 'stuff'.

I didn't have a hard life. I don't look back and think - we had nothing.

Those little games that my Mother made up for us became treasured memories.

I'm even inclined to call them traditions as I pass those made up, imaginary games onto my own children.

Now that I am older, certainly wiser, married with my own children.  I am careful to always appreciate where I came from.

My husband has a good job and never makes me feel without and doesn't deny us much. I thank god for him and for that fact. He is not stingy but he is careful.

I appreciate what God has given us and never take it for granted.

There are very few things that I hold dear.

None material as you can't take 'stuff' to heaven.

I hold dear -  my relationship with Jesus - God's word.

- My husband and my children

- And my church family.

Isn't that all you need in the end!

God's word

The simple life :)

Day 5

So with heat rash I am confined to the shade and no sun cream. I am totally pissed off. I actually feel like crying but my eye isn't 100% better and I have ointment in it so crying will just wash that all out.
Every time I feel a bit of heat on my left arm it burns like fire.
Seriously if hell is like constantly being on fire, then I am so glad that it is not where I am going.

So here I am lying on my sun lounger under a natural umbrella ing reading my Miranda book, when I glance to my right and BOOB.
There is one lady going topless around the family pool!
Apparently this is ok as it's Europe. Although I think it is totally inappropriate and hoping my kiddies don't glance over and get an eyeful of BOOBIES.
I did ask one of the reps if this is normal and she said yes! I also realised that asking made me sound as if I wanted to get my bits out. I quickly explained that that wasn't the case.

There is a difference between seeing your Mummy get dressed and seeing one {yes one} Lady get it all out at the family pool.
Seriously you would think that if no one else was topless you would have the decency to comply with the majority.
But no!
In a mo the small people are off to a Chocolate (does chocolate have a capital C? If not it should) party and eating enough chocolate to fill a large shoebox and I will be going for a swim with my bikini top firmly in place.
Thanking you. 

Keeping in Check

A little over 3 years ago I had my little boy. And before I was pregnant I had my last dentist appointment.
So you can imagine I was a little nervous upon arriving at my dentist appointment yesterday.
I read in one of Joyce Meyers books that you shouldn't just wait for a sore tooth. You should keep up with your check ups which will prevent getting a sore tooth.
It is making a good habit.
So I booked
And I went
And as it turns out I have really healthy teeth and just needed a little clean, how amazing is that.

It makes me think about praying and having a personal relationship with God.
He wants us to chat to him all the time. Not to just run to him when we need something or are in pain.
Obviously he wants us to go to him about those things too. But he also loves us to come about the small things too.

He delights in us. Wants to share in our lives.

Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart
He is not just our father but our friend too.
Psalm 37:4

He is our friend as well as Father.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you
John 15:15

So don't sit there and wait.
Book a dentist appointment now!.

Stay Connected

I have been thinking a lot lately about connection and disconnection. Probably because I have been reading Danny Silks new book - Keep your love on.
It is soooooo good and explains a lot about relationships in general, what type of person you are and what time of person you are living with.

You see God made us to be together - People.
We are not meant to be alone.

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.
Genesis 2 :18

A helper which became Eve.
Obviously there was no instruction manual on how to get along with one another. Although they only had one another so I guess that it wasn't hard to escape.
So not only could they not get away but they had to learn to work alongside one another.

I think that these days we, as man and woman, give up quite a bit. Working along side one another is tough, there is something always to distract, we get tide up with 'stuff' and it is easier to hide than it is to work at getting along. Its also easy to be in competition with one another and not realise we were made with different skills and for a different purpose.

In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. - Ephesians 5:28

Adam had already stated this fact in Genesis 2:23

The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones
    and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
    for she was taken out of man.”

Men and woman are not so different after all if we take it back to the beginning. We are made to be one.
Connected.
Not disconnected.

Lets be a connected nation of people.