The Lighted Path

My car is ready for the scrap yard.  I dropped the title off to the garage, and I just got back from pulling out my cd player and the remaining items from the car.  It kind of makes me sad that this was the only thing that my wife and I really own.  We finished paying it off back in 2007, but it is time to say goodbye.  My wife was the one who bought it back in 2001, but I have been driving it since 2008 and I am going to miss the old girl.  I am sure this all happened for a reason, and I know that God has a plan for me in all of this, I just have to listen and follow my heart in whichever direction He leads me.  It is time to move on. I think that this is actually going to turn out to be a good thing.  I know I still haven't the slightest idea about where a new car or the money for a new car will be coming from, but it is alright.  I have nothing to worry about.  I am actually going to look at this as just another symbol of the changes tha...

Okay so this may not be the most flattering picture but it is a picture of the first step in a long journey of smoking cessation!  I think that my prayer was answered last night and I was given the strength to put on the patch, and as I write this it is just a little bit under one full day.  I know that in the grand scheme of things 24 hours is not much, but after a summer full of failed attempts (lasting only mere hours) I have had my first taste of success.  I am excited and looking forward to being smoke free tomorrow too.  The only problem I see is when I run out of the five patches that I have now.  Money is tight now so I am not sure where I will be coming up with it but I am sure the Lord will show me a way.  I am just feeling really good about it this time.  Please continue to pray for me! Speaking  of prayer and praying, I have been doing a lot of this recently.  I have been reading my Bible daily and just really loving and appre...

"   8  Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him:  9  “I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you  10  and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth.  11  I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”   12  And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:  13  I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.  14 Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,  15  I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never a...