Building a Home

I am a follower of the blog “living learning and loving simply” this gal is living my dream life. No she is not wealthy in diamonds but her streets are paved with gold, no she doesn’t live in a mansion –yet! , no she doesn’t sit back eating bon bons all day –she makes her own. Sometimes you have to draw back on the reins of jealousy or coveting what your neighbors have not that I am “truly” jealous or coveting her life I am just missing my own. I miss being a Mama and I miss having a home to decorate. The light is at the end of the tunnel and sometimes I can see a faint glow. I just need to learn to walk instead of constantly trying to run and get no where- the treadmill of life.

When Scott and I married we decided (or had the decision made for us) that we would physically build our own home with help from no one. Well the foundation is set, the walls are up, the roof is on and things are starting to come together. It would have been much easier to just sit a double wide on this little spread God has given us but that wasn’t an option (it’s a money thang~). So one tree at a time (trees that would have been destroyed) one board at a time, a few band-aids, beans for supper, lots & lots of sweat and time and we are actually talking about buying our first new bed for our first new room!

I was reading Joyce Myers (whom inspires me) she says you can do anything God tells you can do- Awesome~). She also says it okay to ask God for money/wealth (for us a home) the key to it is ask that the Lord to bless you in order for you to be able to bless others. Well when building this house all I have ever wanted is to be able to fill it with love and laughter, family and friends. Imagine actually being able to say “come over, have a cup of coffee and talk with me”.

God doesn’t always make sense to us, as Scott and I have learned through our lives but that’s God! he isn’t suppose to make sense we are just suppose to follow his instructions. I know! easier said than done but it would save a lot of headaches if we just would.

Thank you God for all you have given me –All that you have taken from me and All that you have left me with.

God has given me much: a wonderful husband ,a precious little boy (which, yes, he has taken ,maybe I should say received from me) the ability to build a house and a home, wonderful parents, a knowledge and a thirst for learning more about a natural way of living and the tools in order to accomplish my goals.

The year 2009 has been my “waking up” year. As one of my friends puts it “I'm officially saying my goodbyes to tainted-immature-psychotic-jealous-mentally unstable people…that are so jealous of the happiness and good fortune God has blessed my family with…knowing these people think so little of themselves that they try and bring me down!” I am not sure of her situation but I can say “Amen”.

It is just not worth sacrificing your joy when your Joy is a gift from God.

Religion and Rules-

Religion and Rules-
Being Friends with God

As I was reading one of my favorite authors, Joyce Myers, I am amazed how God works. He knows exactly what I need to hear out loud. In Joyce’s book “Joy redefined – Loving Jesus” Joyce is speaking on a truth I have been carrying around for years. Of course the thoughts get stronger every time we leave a church, we have become members of, because of some rule or regulation “THEY” have set that determines if we are appropriate for this job or that within the church. What happened to Christians being led by the Holy Spirit and not the rules and regulations of the church? I have a few things to say to those churches who believe they are the authority; My God knows me better than your rules writing committee and your bylaws. If I listen with my heart He will lead my path through this life.
I have been so hurt by so many religious organizations (churches). They preach forgiveness but don’t forgive. They preach love for all but don’t love all. We were members of one church where the preacher stood in the pulpit and said that the best thing for the homosexuals would be for all “us” Christians to round them up and kill them all. A preacher in the pulpit!! I only wish that were the worst thing he ever said.
We have been members of 3 different churches since we have been married –we have been hurt by each church in different ways. Preachers that won’t lead and church members who won’t follow, Preachers who do not stand up for their convictions so they can be people pleasers. Church members who only go to check off their list-went to church √ .
Each one of the churches has taken a little bit of my spirit and left me questioning my Christianity. I stopped questioning my Christianity and started questioning theirs. I have held animosity and bitterness towards them. God is opening my eyes that they are not my problem and that if they need to be told how to live it is His job.
I have always wondered if anyone else believed the same as I did –of course I know there are a lot of people who condemn the church for hypocrisy and have their own ill will toward the churches. But I mean someone who thinks that all the rules the church sets forth is just not right. Listen to God and let him lead your life not people. And low and behold here comes Joyce Myers!

Religion and Rules will never give you true Joy-JM
Being a Christian is not about following rules and adhering to some sort of religious code-JM

Jesus loves everyone and no one is excluded. Do not worry about being allowed into some churches because Jesus would say “Don’t worry they don’t want me in there either”.
It is not the place of Christians or the church to judge others –we need to focus on bringing people into God’s circle- having a personal relationship with Him. Christianity is not about rules and regulations is about the Relationship – The Holy Spirit will guide and lead new Christians (and old ) in the right and wrongs of their walk.
I will never become a member of another church but I will always be a Christian.
God is my commander and he believes in Me and my Marriage.

Scott and I have been talking for years about how nice it would be to have just a small group meet here at the house- no one “in charge” but a group of Christians fellowshipping and learning about God without someone telling them its time to do this or let me tell you the rules. This is the way the author of “Purpose Driven Life” book started one of the largest churches in America. He and group of friends would meet in his living room because he saw that the way the churches were doing wasn’t working to bring people closer to God. As Doug Kaufmann says “If you always do what you have always done; you will always get what you always got” in this case dead in the water Christians just going through the paces of theirs lives. We will see what God thinks…..