white pants and dogs

White  pants and dogs don't go together...I love a deal...I love to shop...I am a clothes horse.
So, I found this pair of winter white pants for 99 cents...that's right...what a deal...I always say I could roll in the dirt with them for that price...I can't travel by the Coldwater Creek outlet without stopping...I find great deals.

So I am looking all spiffy...

First thing when I come home from anywhere is I bolt for the door and let out five squirming fur bodies...

Remember lil' Guy?  First think he does after he uses the bathroom is barrel as fast as he can and jumps on me...I saw him coming...I saw him running at full bore...all I could do it turn to the side...

It had rained the night before...
Do I need to say more...down the side of the pants...white pants...mud...

That's when I question why I have dogs...but one look in those cute puppy eyes and that lopsided puppy grin...who can resist...(Nick will love that response to his arch nemesis)

Sin is sortta like that...we are pure and white...and we keep getting really muddy with all that sin...one look in our cute lil' human eyes and our sweet lil' human smile and God forgives...thanks to his son who hung on a cross.

Just like lil' guy...we keep doing it over and over...it's a daily thing..

I keep saying, One day I'll spend time with him and break him of this bad behavior...I am sure God says that too...One day she'll learn.

Words with Friends

I am hooked...I love it!...I cheat...I have scrabble solver...not all the time!
If you live under a rock and don't know what it is...Words with Friends is your phone's version of scrabble.  Right now I have about 8 games going on with family and friends and 2 games with people I don't know.

The other night Jenn and I were sitting on the couch next to each other, not talking and having an intense game with each other!! One would play and you would hear "ARGGG" "What" "How did you get that many"

Even my grandson Zack plays Words with Friends. Most of the time I get my butt kicked...but that's OK...I love it...

So, the cheating...sometimes when I don't see a word I will put the letters into scrabble solver and find words or the other thing I do is just try letters until you get a word....that's when you learn those weird words you didn't know existed...I do the morning crossword in our paper, sometimes I know those weird what I call crossword words.

Sometimes I cheat with God...I'll read my horoscope...and think my day is going to be great! (thou shall have no other Gods...I am reading about those Baal's right now in Disciple class)... Sometimes I will say "My God" and not in the good way (thou shall not take name in vain) ...the Sabbath is when I get my most work done! (remember the Sabbath and keep it holy) my mom can drive me insane (honor thy mother and father)..I sometimes run stuff off at work for church (thou shall not steal)  and covet is a whole other story.

So, the other day I talked about Kathy and Mark and the commandments they broke...looks like I better look at myself and ask God to forgive those daily sins I commit and work on me.

I always wonder, what about those sins I don't even know about...those things God thinks are sins that are considered okay today and I don't even know it's a sin. See the things that keep me up at night! 

There is no way I can be a perfect person...all I can do is try...work on it and be the best I can be and ask for forgiveness every day.

The Shack

Prior to everything (do you see my life revolves around prior to the affair and following the affair?) I read the book "The Shack" and loved it.  It took on a whole new meaning following the affair.

One day my friend Leslie at work said "guess who is coming to Charleston...Paul Young...he wrote 'The Shack'...we have to plan on going to see him."  So, my daughter-in-law Jennifer, Leslie and I went to see him speak.  What a night...the witness was unreal...his story of how a couple of friends published this book and distributed it out of their garage to it becoming a world-wide phenomenon...is amazing...

also amazing was his story of cheating on his wife of many years...how his ego outgrew himself and how he struggled with all of it...and his relationship with God...and now 9 years later she is just starting to trust him again...she is just starting to love him again...what a fool he had been and how he let his pride and ego get in the way of all that he loved...his kids, his wife and his life...what a revelation...

we all sat shocked and stunned and cried...we stayed after and got our books signed and left saying "wow' we have just witnessed a God moment...God was in that place as he talked...you expected the witness from him about the book...but not the personal witness of his life struggles...the same struggles I was dealing with but from the other side...of the prideful and egotistical cheater...

it was special these special friends were with me and experienced it with me.

It was a revelation to me...I came home and sat down and packaged the book with a note that said Read this book and started to send it to Mark...but that little God voice inside my head said...stop...don't...the time is not right for this...he won't get it...listen to me...so I did... it still sits packaged ready to go when I get the word from God...

If you haven't read The Shack go out and buy it today and meet the father, son and holy ghost.  All three in ways you won't believe in a story of forgiveness...

Blessings today...