Nothing but blue skies, and sunshine!
This week I finished up working for Elly, a rather unfortunate thing, but I definitely won't be missing the drive there! I had an interview this past Monday for another long term-full time nanny position with some pretty awesome benefits! I won't know about that for another couple of weeks though, meanwhile I am still hunting for anything that may look interesting! Sarah and I went on our second shopping trip of living together yesterday! :D So fun, and interesting to see the patterns we are getting into with our schedules. We have started watching The Office together, I have seen all the seasons, and Sarah hadn't seen them yet so I am soooo excited to watch them with her :D It's even more fun then watching them alone so it is a new experience for me as well. It's interesting to see the things I missed the first time through as well!
This week has brought along another couple of new things as well! I got some super soft yarn to make another afghan with :) It's pretty crazy how far along I've gotten it in about an hour + 4 Office episodes :D I only got 2 skeins of yarn to start so I'll need to take another trip to Michaels and get some more :)
This is about the length of a full size bed.
Another new thing that has come into my life are some new Van "wannabe Converse" shoes :) I almost got these sweet purple converse, but in the end the Van's won my heart over.
Grey shoes yet again, but they are oh so pretty, and on clearance! :)
I have a rather large list of things I need to be getting done this week, and I won't bore everybody with the details, but its a lot! Plenty of free time to do it in this week, but that just makes me feel guilty haha.
I am going to check out FCBC in Loudon today. This is a church Sarah has been attending and loves, so I am really looking forward to going! After that we are going to visit with her family (which I am super pumped about! :), and then head to Meadowledge Farm to pick us some apples, and hopefully find good pumpkins for carving, I am in the process of creating a sweeeeet TNBC (The Nightmare Before Christmas) stencil for my pumpkin! YES! Sarah and I are hoping lots of little children come to our door this year so we can give out lots of candy, but I don't know how busy it actually gets around here, though there are a TON of houses! Time will tell :)
There is not really anything else interesting to report! I am super pumped for my birthday and the trip that is being taken to Mass to hitup Six Flags! (if anybody wants to go let me know!).
"My Utmost for His Highest" (the book I am reading for devotions) was pretty awesome this morning. It was on prayer, which is great. I have been trying to work on my prayer life since the beginning of this summer, being more intentional about praying for my brothers, and sisters, but not just asking for things to happen in their lives or just asking for something to happen in my life. I really want to strive to have great communication with my Father. I know that I have all the ability in the world to communicate with people. I am doing it right now through this blog, I do it all the time with my roommate Sarah, and all my other friends, I am pretty open about myself with friends & family, there isn't to much that I don't share with people. It brings me to think what do I share with God. Yes he knows what goes on in my life, my inner most thoughts, my deepest desires to strive to be a better daughter, friend, sister, aunt. However, do I take the time to listen? Truly listen? I'm not so sure of this. Do I view prayer as if IT is the greater work or do I view it as something to prepare me for greater works? How should it be viewed? Anywho, I am going to post the whole devotional here because I think it could spark an interesting conversation, and I love to share things that have been meaningful to me, even if it isn't meaningful to you guys right now ;) hehe....
"And greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father." John 14:12
Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the greater work. We think of prayer as a common-sense exercise of our higher powers in order to prepare us for God's work. In the teaching of Jesus Christ prayer is the working of the miracle of Redemption in me which produces the miracle of Redemption in others by the power of God. The way fruit remains is by prayer, but remember it is prayer based on the agony of Redemption, not on my agony. Only a child gets prayer answered; a wise man does not. Prayer is the battle; it is a matter of indifference where you are. Whichever way God engineers circumstances, the duty is to pray. Never allow the thought - "I am of no use where I am;" because you certainly can be of no use where you are not. Wherever God has dumped you down in circumstances pray, ejaculate to Him all the time. "Whatsoever ye ask in My name, that will I do." We won't pray unless we get thrills, that is the intensest form of spiritual selfishness. We have to labour along the line of God's direction, and He says pray. "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth labourers into His harvest."
There is nothing thrilling about a labouring man's work, but it is the labouring man who makes the conceptions of the genius possible; and it is the labouring saint who makes the conceptions of his Master possible. You labour at prayer and results happen all the time from His standpoint. What an astonishment it will be to find, when the veil is lifted, the souls that have been reaped by you, simply because you had been in the habit of taking your orders from Jesus Christ.
Okey doke :) That is about all for today folks! I'll post photos from apple picking sometime later today :D
Much Lovin
~R
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