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April 11, 2019: Hosea 9-14.
My Mother’s Day wreath is wrapped with green ribbon and pearls. I wrapped lace in the spaces between. I enjoy feathering my nest. (See Proverbs 31:13).
Each day starts with renewing my spirit. I work on tasks for physical and financial gain. I work to make our home beautiful and repair things as needed. These are God’s paths.
April 10, 2109: Hosea 3-8.
Each week I “deep clean” one room. I run a damp cloth over and under everything. I wash the inside of the windows and the glass on the mirrors and pictures. I vacuüm the edges and corners. And I declutter – a lot.
This week the office was my zone. I cleared off my desk and found a place for everything currently on the floor. My goal is to get my house ready to sell. God cannot give me a different house if this house is not ready to show.
This is why I love going to church! I get direction for my daily life. And I love Jesus. God has a plan for me. I don’t want to miss it.
It’s not about attendance; it’s about paying attention.
April 9, 2019: Amos 9; 2 Kings 15; Hosea 1, 2.
Ever feel like a nobody? Ever feel unimportant? Is your life turning out the way you planned? Do you feel hopeless – like it’s too late?
I’m reading “It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way,” by Lysa Terkeurst. She experienced all these feelings.
April 8, 2019: Amos 5-8.
First, I used alcohol. I dabbed it on the discoloration. Then, I tried hydrogen peroxide.
I’m working on my letters from school. I shoved them in a small box with the white, National Honor Society academic stole. The dye from the letters bled on to the white stole. I’m trying to get that red out!
Then I think, “I want to lose weight. Should I color my hair?” Of course, God answered that question right away.
April 5, 2019: 2 Chronicles 25; 2 Kings 14; Jonah 1-3.
Show me where I am not following you wholeheartedly.
April 6, 2019: Jonah 4; Joel 1-3.
It was a dangerous prayer I prayed yesterday. God did show me.
lost his temper, v. 1.
yelled at God, v. 2.
said, “I knew this would happen!”, v. 2.
wanted to kill evil people, v. 3.
wanted to die, when it didn’t happen, v. 3.
sat down and sulked, v. 5.
made himself comfortable in his pity party, v. 5.
sat back and waited to see what happened, v. 5.
was happy when God made things easy, v. 6.
wanted to die when things got hard, v. 8.
believed he had the right to get angry, v. 9.
changed his feelings from pleasure to anger overnight over things he didn’t work for, v. 10.
April 7, 2019: 2 Chronicles 26; Amos 1-4.
I thought God finished pointing out areas that I needed to work on. Nope. I learned from Uzziah.
Behaved well in the eyes of God.
Followed in the footsteps of his father.
Was a loyal seeker of God.
Was well-trained by his pastor and teacher Zechariah.
Lived in reverent obedience before God.
For as long as Zechariah lived, he lived a godly life.
Uzziah was doing everything right. Then his success went to his head.
After my nap, I read the “77 Habits of Highly Ineffective Christians,” by Chris Fabry. Below are 7 that made me the most uncomfortable.
April 4, 2019: 2 Kings 12; Psalms 42, 43, 88; 2 Kings 13.
On Fridays, I pray over our financial needs, wants, and desires. Sometimes, I get them mixed up.
A high school girl hit our truck in December and totaled it. We thought we “needed” a new truck. When we received the insurance settlement, we decided we “wanted” a new truck. After several months with only one vehicle, we “desired” a new truck…someday. In the meantime, we save for it.
We received a small income tax refund this week. (It’s not enough for a new truck.) We are debt-free and this money is not earmarked for any pressing need. We even considered giving it away.
There are many items on my prayer list for repair or replacement. I decided to make a careful accounting of them. I divided them into categories: Repair, Replace, Maintenance, and Improvement.
Now we pray over the list and the money. We ask God what to do first and how much to allocate for that project.
April 3, 2019: 2 Kings 11; 2 Chronicles 22-24.
This is my second year using “time study” sheets. It starts at 4:00 am and ends at 9:00 pm. Every half hour I record what I did.
Today I turned my time study sheet into a planning sheet. My task list is too long! There are not enough hours in a day. No wonder I rarely complete it.
And I have no breaks or downtime. Things will have to change. I may have to get creative.
Explore every option. …Albert Einstein said, ‘Imagination is more important than knowledge.’ Why? Because it looks for new ways to put your knowledge to work.
Embrace ambiguity. Creative people don’t feel the need to stamp out uncertainty.
Celebrate the offbeat. Creativity explores off the beaten path.
Joash had a plan to repair The Temple. He even implemented his plan. But it didn’t work.
Why didn’t it work? He left God out. He referred to it as the Temple of your God.
Joash never did make God his God. He feared and respected Jehoiada. But after he died Joash deserted The Temple, (2 Chronicles 24:17-18).
I’m glad I wrote my plan in pencil. With God’s help, I will have to erase a few things!
April 2, 2019: 2 Chronicles 21; 2 Kings 9, 10.
I forgot to check the setting. That roast sat on “warm” all afternoon. At least it was frozen to start.
David went to Taco John’s for “Taco Tuesday.” Our oldest son was picking up tacos for his family.
It’s always a treat running into our adult children. Our lives are so busy we don’t see them often.
Today we read about the mixed up family of the kings of Israel and Judah. King Jehoshaphat made a marriage alliance with King Ahab. Then they named their children after their uncles. We ended up with two sets of kings sharing the same name! And then there was Jehu!
Ahaziah was the son of Ahab, brother of Israel’s Joram (or Jehoram), and uncle to Judah’s Ahaziah. He continued the alliance with Jehoshaphat, building ships and conducting an unsuccessful joint trading venture (2 Chronicles 20:35-37).
Joram, (or Jehoram) was the son of Ahab, brother of Israel’s Ahaziah, and uncle to Judah’s Ahaziah. He allied himself with Jehoshaphat to fight Moab (2 Kings 3:6). Later he allied himself with Judah’s Ahaziah, his nephew, to fight Aram (2 Kings 8:28-29).
Jehoram, (or Joram) was the son of Jehoshaphat and brother-in-law to Israel’s Ahaziah and Joram. He married their sister Athaliah (2 Chronicles 21:6).
Jehu led a violent extermination of the Ahab dynasty. After killing Israel’s King Joram (Jehoram) (2 Kings 9:24), the son of Ahab, Jehu also influenced the deaths of Ahab’s wife Jezebel (9:33) and 70 sons (2 Kings 10:1, 7).
The slaughter of Ahab’s family continued with the killing of Judah’s King Ahaziah (9:27), who was Ahab’s grandson. Jehu continued an attack against Judah’s royal family by executing Ahaziah’s brothers (10:12-14). These attacks on Judah’s royalty allowed Athaliah to seize Judah’s throne.
Athaliah was the daughter of Israel’s King Ahab and sister of Israel’s King Joram (Jehoram). She was married to Judah’s King Jehoram. When her husband died, Athaliah’s son, Ahaziah became king, but was killed after one year.
April 1, 2016: 2 Kings 6-8.
David started measuring rooms and I went online. I chose our county at iowaassessors.com. Clicking on the GIS Map, I zoomed in until I found our home.
I clicked on it and then chose the “parcel report.” David was right. It was more than 634 square feet.
We entered the correct square footage on the insurance form. We had not reviewed our insurance coverage since 2005.
Yes, our home is small. Yes, we did look at larger homes when our kids were teenagers. We always liked our home better than the ones we saw for sale.
When our oldest was a junior in high school we stopped looking. We realized in another year or two our children would be moving out.
God led us to this house. We bought it while we were living under the poverty level and I was pregnant!
As we added children, it did get crowded. We did run out of elbow room. But God never directed us to another home. So we stayed put.
March 31, 2019: 2 Kings 4, 5.
It was my first Sunday without satellite TV or recordings on a DVR. While taking the Dave Ramsey course, Financial Peace University, we decided to eliminate that bill.
We purchased 2 antennas for less than $25.00 each. The first one we put in the bedroom. It gets 8 channels – 4 of them are IPTV: IPTV Masterpiece and music, IPTV Kids, IPTV Science, and IPTV Food.
I enjoy watching the British shows “Victoria” and “Call the Midwife.” I watched part of an educational show before my nap.
The other antenna gets ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CW, Comet, and Grit. David has even watched a few games.
That’s the secret to financial independence.
Sell what you don’t need.
That secret has been in the Bible for thousands of years!

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