Zizzie Happenings

I'm waiting I'm waiting on You, Lord And I am hopeful I'm waiting on You, Lord Though it is painful But patiently, I will wait  I will move ahead, bold and confident Takeing every step in obedience While I'm waiting I will serve You While I'm waiting I will worship While I'm waiting I will not faint I'll be running the race Even while I wait I'm waiting I'm waiting on You, Lord And I am peaceful I'm waiting on You, Lord Though it's not easy But faithfully, I will wait Yes, I will wait I will serve You while I'm waiting I will worship while I'm waiting I will serve You while I'm waiting I will worship while I'm waiting I will serve you while I'm waiting I will worship while I'm waiting on You, Lord

Meet Cookie. She is a sweet little Cocker Spaniel that I am watching over the weekend while her owner, Christie, is out of town caring for her mother who is going through chemotherapy.  Please keep Christie and her mother in your prayers.  Most importantly for their salvation but also for health and strength.

During my quiet time this morning I was reading a devotional book called A Gentle Spirit .  It was speaking on Philippians 4:8 and how we need to take each of our thoughts captive. I'm really blogging this for myself, so I can refer back to it often. The things we think on are the things that feed our souls.  If we think on pure and lovely things, we shall grow pure and lovely like them; and the converse is equally true.  Very few people at all realize this, and consequently there is a great deal of carelessness, even with careful people, in regard to their thoughts.  They guard their words and actions with the utmost care, but their thoughts, which, after all, are the very spring and root of everything in character and life, they neglect entirely.  So long as it is not put into spoken words, it seems of no consequence at all what goes on within the mind.  No one hears or knows, and therefore they imagine that the vagrant thoughts that come and go as th...

A few months ago an older gentlemen at church came to me with a great "man"card idea he thought up one night.  The idea was to have one card that could be used for all occasions.  The card came together quickly once I sat down to work on it.  I remembered I had these brads that look like screws and then that made me think about duct tape.  I didn't think I could make this "man" card without putting some duct tape on it.  I hope he gets a good laugh out of this card.