I cannot say enough about how awesome this book it!!!! I would HIGHLY recommend that you get this encouraging book!

I have really enjoyed this book, (minus a few issues) It has helped me REfocus on what I am working on and striving for.

So here is the quotes out of today's chapter, " Satan's best tactic forus to forget God lies in getting us busy: Get us too busy to worship, to busy to laugh, to busy to enjoy life, too busy to be in His presence, too busy to notice the simple things that scream of the sovereignty of God. That kind of busyness is a sure-fire formula for a life of no joy. Don't let the enemy, or life in general, rob you of the meaning of life---- to love God and enjoy Him forever.
Psalm 55:6-7  "6 So I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
         I would fly away and be at rest.
 7 Indeed, I would wander far off,
         And remain in the wilderness.  Selah " (NKJV)


My THOUGHTS:

I so often feel robbed of JOY. It brought to mind the verse,  In Thy presence is FULLNESS of joy. How often, I leave Your presence RUSHING to LIVE and really inside I begin to spiritually die!!! How heartbreaking it must be for You to watch me do "life" without the proper guidence waiting for me to recieve from YOU!

So as King David said in repentance,  Psalm 51:12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,
         And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.

May you do the same for me as well, today and FOREVER!

I am doing the book, When Women Long for Rest. It has been sooooooooo eye opening and encouraging!

Paraphrase:

We are here to do the will of the Father.  Jesus came and DID the will of the Father, He did no more of no less. He is our perfect example of a faithful follower of God's will. We need to strive to do ONLY the things that HE gives us to do.

She puts here, What are those things?

#1 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. Matt 22:37 "And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. "

#2 Love your neighbor as yourslef Matt 22:39 "And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. "

#3 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 "He has told you, O man, what is good;
   and what does the LORD require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
   and to walk humbly with your God? "

#4 Be still and know that He is God Psalm 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God.
   I will be exalted among the nations,
   I will be exalted in the earth!"

His burdens are not heavy OURS are! I am amazed that I put so much on my own shoulders and really I am making life so difficult and HARD. This is NOT his plan!!!! Father forgive me for doing that!

So what I heard this AM for myself was, ENJOY your day in ME! Serve with gladness as you would serve others serve your family, with a smile. Love them as a neighbor! Seek to be merciful. Have justice and do it with kindness. Be humble and walk quietly with the Lord.

Take time to be STILL today and seek the Lord so HE can be exhaulted in your/my life.


May we be women who are diligent in the RIGHT things and the things we CALLED to do and not just the RUSH and DO that seeps in.

I posted these words a few days ago on a website I am part of.....

I am having a rough homeschool year. I knew it would be one BUT I had hoped I would be wrong.

I feel like a failure. I do.

I just want to jump ship and well give up.

I don't know what to do...except pray of course.

I am getting everything done...........it is one particular child that has me in a stew.

**************UPDATE*************

Not only am I nutsy coo coo, I am a completely pathetic parent. GRRRRRRRRRR!

I had a child spill my LONGED for once a month cup of Starbucks tonight before Bible Study..............
NEED I SAY MORE!!!!!!!!!!!! Shall I leave you to your imagination!!!!! OY I STINK!

******************I MEANT IT WHEN I SAID************

all I can do is pray!

And I did.
Fri AM is when I posted this and then I posted the edit on FRI night after our BIble Study. We are doing Shepherdin a Child's Heart.

I was so convicted FRI night , mostly by the quote,  You need to engage and not just reprove.

I mulled on that Fri night and into Sat. On Sat I was convicted that I needed to get a vision which I also posted about, but where that went off to..who knows.

I got down on the paper, Brandy's Vision, and that was it, but I prayed, Lord help me fill this page with YOU plans and not mine.

So this AM SUN, I sooooooooooo did not want to go to church. I felt like lousing around the house. Well , of course, we went.

The Lord over the past few days had, PREPARED THE WAY for what He was wanting to teach me today.

The sermon was on John 6. The feeding of the 5,000 and then some.

The WHAT IN YOUR LIFE DO YOU THINK IS TO BIG FOR GOD TO HANDLE? Hummmm, did not take long for me to write, my homeschooling. What is my "if only"......... Well, mine was IF ONLY MY HOUSE WAS IN ORDER then God could use me.

Our pastor said, God reduces our resourses and magnifies our NEED! God wants and will answer my prayer ABUNDANTLY!

So this afternoon, I played a praise and worship CD and as I was mopping the floor on my hands and knees this song came on and I was overwhelmed!!! I lifted my hands and worshiped, I mean worshipped, for the first time in a LOOOOOONG time.  The next song reduced me to tears once again.

I went out to Matt and said, come here!" grabbed his face between my hands and planted him with a kiss that made him forget his name. I said, I LOVE YOU! and walked back into the house.

THEN, my mom calls and says, Brandy, I want to keep all the children (that means all 7) tonight so you and Matt can go and see this movie we just saw. (We hardly go to the theater)

It was called, Facing the Giants.

Now girls!!!! Let me tell you! God had/has been working on softening my hard heart for 3 days now and I am/was already spiritually exhaused and on the verge of tears.

This movie, MINISTERED TO ME IN  a way I can not explain!

All I can say is I want to give GOD 110% of my homeschool, marriage, children life!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to go to the filed goal line no MATTER WHAT! (run the race and have perseverence!)

I am overwhelmed what God has taught me the past few days. I feel like I have been hit with a SPIRITUAL Mac Truck!

The whole thing wrapped up in a neat package is, With God all things are possible."

Do we believe it??? I am telling you I have been chugging along IN MY OWN STRENGTH! I THOUGHT I was givin' it to God, but I was holding back!!!! I released to today! I want nothing but for GOD to have all the glory for everything!

Praise him in the good and praise him in the bad JUST HAVE TO PRAISE Him, LIKE JOB!

So, I ain't cured of my weaknesses and faults, but I am RELEASED AND FORGIVEN and I aim to move forward FOR CHRIST and HIS GLORY!


AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Lord for helping me and forgiving me and MINISTERING to me even when I am NOT worthy! I love you and praise you!!! Your daughter, Brandy

Just wanted to post and stay active....

Do you vituperate?

Huh?!?! What do thos words mean? Reviler. Vituperate.

I was reading my Bible this morning and I decided to look up words that I read often, but needed to know the deeper meaning. (like integrity, immoral, swindler,covetous,effeminate, and revilers) As always I was blown away.

I am sure I have been told in the past what this word meant, but until this AM when the scales came off my eyes and I really heard what it says, I was blind and unknowing.

Revile means: assail with abusive language, vituperate.

I then had to look up vituperate, because, well, I did not know what that meant at all.

Vituperate: rebuke or critize harshly, abusively, berate.

In 1 Corinthians 6:8-10, It says, "8On the contrary, you yourselves wrong and defraud. You do this even to your brethren.

 9Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

 10nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. "

DISCLAIMER:

I know these verses are about the unsaved and it was about sueing your brother .....we having been bought with a price have a free pass to heaven because of the blood of Jesus Christ. We get to inherit the Kingdom in HIS righteousness.

Now on to what struck me. When I looked up the word revile, I was not expecting this definition.

There are times, in frustration and anger, I say things to my husband or children that I ought not. I lump myself back into the word ever so quickly by my tounge. Words spoken that are like daggers to anothers heart.

Father forgive me for being a reviler!

Help me not to revile my husband or children. May my words be like honey and smooth to their ears.

Father, I am sorry I have read that word so many times in the Bible and did not look it up. I wish I was more of a scholar, or at least had more time to dig deeper without distraction. You know my heart though and I desire to do good and not evil. Help me to work on this area today, tomorrow and for all my time here on earth.

Thanks for teaching me through your Holy Spirit. I am sure I make Him tired....

The Conflict of Two Natures

 14For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.

 15For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate.

 16But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good.

 17So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

 18For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not.

 19For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want.

 20But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

 21I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who wants to do good.

 22For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man,

 23but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.

 24Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?

 25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.

I hate Mother's Day! I really do! How can I sit in a place of esteem and celebration when I am such a wretched sinner and mom. As everyone said HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to me my heart was sad and my soul cried out for them to STOP!

Then Chirst in HIS love had preordained for me to read this chapter this morning in my devotion! Oh how my heart rejoiced! Paul, a bond servant of Chirst, felt just like me. Bless this man for writing down the Words of God so I could read them this morning and be released form my self hatred!

When I read the words, I am doing the very thing I hate, I paused and wept in my heart, knowing full well this was me!

I yell, when gentle words should come, I glare, when I should smile and re direct the sweet child, I say, Leave me alone for ONE min., when I should gather them up in my arms and cuddle them,  I sit and dawldle when I know I should be diligently working to get things in order. The list could go on believe me!!! OH believe me!

For the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not, Father God! You know this of me! I am in awe that you still love me and want me to be your child (I read that this morning too!) You adopted me! You accept me! YOU DIED FOR ME and are preparing a place for me.........EVEN though I sure don't deserve it!

I am willing Lord, but my flesh is so weak! Strengthen me UP! Stand me on the solid rock! May I hold up my head PROUD that I am your child, BUT so humble that I am not worthy on my own and need your covering! Thank you for setting me FREE! Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our LORD!

Lord, You are AWESOME! You know I needed these words this morning! You gave the next chapter in Romans 8 as a gift, like a bandaid to the soul! I am resting in YOU and in YOUR love! Thanks for adopting me....eventhough I am a repeat offender! I love you!

and in my hair.

The crib is clean from where the 2 yr old finger painted the poop that ended up on me, my shirt and my hair.

There is a smidgen of blood on the tail of my shirt where a 2 yr old bit his lip and came running for cuddles.

My pony tail is at the base of my neck and it started at the top of my head.

Speghetti spilled on the floor and it needs swept.

All the little ones are cleaning thier rooms and my 13 yr old is making a speghtti dinner (i.e. how the speghtti ended up on the floor) Baby is sleeping in his crib and the catergory 4 hurricane Nate is watching the older brother cook.

Lord, thanks for the day. Even though when I first blogged this AM I did not expect the day to end this way, it is a good ending. RIGHT? This was your plan. I am searching for the nugget of treasure here (not the nugget of poop) Lord, help me find the sparkle amidst the trials of the day.  I love you Lord. I love my children Lord. May I be found worthy to be called Momma.

  2 Make your ear attentive to wisdom,
         Incline your heart to understanding;
    3For if you cry for discernment,
         Lift your voice for understanding;
    4If you seek her as silver
         And search for her as for hidden treasures;
    5Then you will discern the fear of the LORD
         And discover the knowledge of God.
    6For the LORD gives wisdom;
         From His mouth come knowledge and understanding. (all highlighting and emphasis mine)

Do you believe this? I was sitting at my table having my devotions this AM and I saw these verses. These were not my daily reading verses, these just "lept out" so to speak.

    I sat in awe for a moment, just chewing on the word of the Lord. These verses rained down on me like HOT fire and consumed my thoughts!

   The Lord ministered to me and pricked my heart with these verses.

If you are anything like me the drudgery of the day can overwhelm me. All the cooking, cleaning, schooling, training, and just plain living can take all my attention and energy! The LITTLE things just sap me dry (remember my all licked shut blog) and I am empty.

   These verses reminded my of why I get up before the children. :)

   These verses tell me that I am to seek these things and the Lord like hidden treasure. Did you watched National Treasure? It was about this family that gave their LIFE/lives to find this treasure. People mocked them, laughed at them and they were really considered NUTS! In the end they, of course, they found the treasure.They were HAILED victorious!

   I think I need to be like these nuts in the movie. Searching and going into the scriptures DAILY. Looking and getting "dirty" for the Lord.

   The Lord gives is what the last verses say. In the END at the END of my journey, when I have finished the treasure hunt (race) the Lord will give me what I have so earnestly sought!

   I just need to continue to be diligent to seek Him and His ways like treasure.

Lord,  from 5 min to 2 hours, whenever I seek You, you give me blessings and treasures here on earth. I can only imagine the WONDERFULNESS and AWESOMENESS of heaven! What JOYS and gifts You have in store for those who love you and seek YOU!

   May all I do bring you glory and may I love you FAITHFULLY and DILIGENTLY!

I needed to get that schedule fixed and in line and working and sitting at the computer reading and blogging won't get things in order :)

I am NOT getting up at 5 AM. It was just not workable. The baby was up to much at night and I was way to groggy. I am getting up between 6 and 6:30 and that is WONDERFUL. I fit the work out in during the afternoon and I am feeling really good about that!

   My friend Rosanne has been encouraging me and I am reall want to thank her!!!! SO here is a BIG OLD THANK YOU ROSANNE!!! and walk, walk, walk, walk! :)

I did a MAJOR cirriculum overhaul! I dumped ALL the PACE's and went to Math U See and Spelling Power. I am doing Mystery of History and Apologia Science. I need a Language Arts or Writing Cirric yet. Any suggestions?

  We are getting done in a timely manner now and the children are asking, yes you read right! ASKING to do MATH!!! Praise JESUS!!! He does care and answer prayer!!!

    I am still not where I want to be, but after taking some time for prayer and diligence I can see the Lord's hand is not far from them who want Him and desire to do His will...

Blessings

Brandy <><

I need to find another time to workout 5:20 will kill me. I need some advice from some other mommas!

Do you ever just PRAISE the Lord? I mean, standing at the kitchen sink, looking out the window, noticing the wonder of God's creation, and in awe lift up PRAISE to Him for waht He has done?

Have you ever in abandon fell down on your knees in the kitchen and lifted up your hands and cried out? Abba Father! or knelt down and lay before Him in prayer?

The Word says, Luke 19:37-40    As soon as He was approaching, near the descent of  the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen,

 38shouting:
         "BLESSED IS THE KING WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD;
         Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!" :  39 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, "Teacher, rebuke Your disciples."  40 But Jesus answered, "I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!"

     We are to PRAISE HIM!!!! What will happen if we don't....dumb ole' rocks will be the ones!!!

    What keeps YOU from PRAISING? A bad attitude, frustration, your mind is to busy with other things, to embarrassed?

     I think my biggest one is embarrassement. (I wonder why though, I embarass myself in many other ways and it does not bother me)

     Does this make me ASHAMED of my faith? Am I embarassed of the Lord that I don't want others to see me praise Him?

     A city set on a hill can not be hid. I want to be a city for all to see. I want others to know that my faith is ALIVE and VIBRANT and that I am NOT ashamed!

     I want my children to see me PRAISE the Father! I want to be a living breathing example to my sweet children. When they leave this haven called home, I want them to take with them the simple knowledge that we should PRAISE the Lord everyday and all day!

     Let us purpose in our hearts to Priase the Lord. In the BIG in LITTLE things let us PRAISE Him.

    Lord, I just want to praise You Father! I mean  REALLY praise You in UTMOST adoration! When I walk about may I just have a smile on my lips and not a frown so others will know I am HAPPY in all things and in that small act I show YOU praise and give GLORY! to You! I love You Father! If there is anything in the world that I want to be a considered a fool or silly I want it to be about my praise and worship of YOU! The term, "Fool for Jesus" Let me wear that title well. :) I PRAISE YOU FATHER!

Last week was CRAZY!!!

I had my friends 4 children, plus my 7 children, and their DOG! It was NUTS! My children are still in the "let's be lazy" mode.

My friends children don't really help to much so the house is pretty well trashed. 11 children, 4 days and nights, well you can get the picture!!!

I am going to adjust my schdule to get back on track this next week. I need to start getting ready for our www.MOMYS.com trip to Willimasburg, VA! It should be WONDERFUL! 2 weeks with a group of large families getting together!! YES!

All the children are sick with colds now and the tissues are being laid everywhere. Hope we mend soon.

OHHHHHHhhhhhhhh and we bought a piano! It is, um, shall we say a noisy addition to the house. I look forward to the day the children can play real songs, verses the pound pound pound, Mary had a Little Lamb, songs ;)

Blessings

Brandy <><

This has been a thought on my mind this week. HOLY LIVING.

          I have found myself being caught in the trap of fear and uncertainty. I was afraid to stand firm in some of my beliefs and skirted the issues. I walked in TRUTH, but did not take the oportunity to SPEAK of the truth. I just was silent and then once I laughed off the opportunity.

       What is HOLY LIVING? Holy living to me is doing what I know is right and not detering from the course. Who can have HOLY LIVING, none of us in our own strength! We need CHRIST to give us His grace because we are such lowly sinners. In my mind then if I can't obtain HOLY LIVING why try? The DEFEATED mentality!
         It was a JOY to read the Word today and see some exciting TRUTHS!

Psalm 119::9 "How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your Word"

         HOLY LIVING comes out of a heart LONGING for Your Word and Your precepts. Psalm 119:113, " I opened my mouth wide and panted, for I longed for Your commandments." As a deer panting for water is what I ought to be like. HUNGRY!!!! DESIRING!!!!! NEEDING your Word!!!!!!!Ps 119:103, "How sweet are Your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!" How blessed and tasty is the Word of the Lord. May I daily eat Your Word to grow and be strong in You!

          I think HOLY LIVING is also, being of a contrite heart and spirit. Psalm 119:136, "My eyes shed streams of water, because they do not keep Your law." Humbleness comes when we know we do not keep Your commands Lord. We are so frail and lowly! Lord, lift up our heads and help us to know YOUR grace and mercy! In our weakness we become strong, may it be so.

          Lord, walking in Your way is so fulfilling!!! May I learn to not be ashamed! May I not bend my head down and divert my eyes from those who attack me or speak out against what I believe. May I hold my head high, even though I am a sinner, and speak truth! To walk as HOLY as I can and be in humble submission to You, for I am not holy in myself or deeds done, I am only HOLY in You and the covering of your precious blood.Psalm 119:32, "I shall run the way of Your commandments, For You enlarge my heart."

   Enlarge my heart as I walk in Your ways. May I be a shining light for You!

  www.candacejoy.org

Thank you for all who were praying for Candaces thirteenth surgery today
but we recently found out because of technical difficulties in the
hospital,the surgery was postponed till tomorrow.  She will be in
surgery at about 8:30 a.m.   Please hold her up in prayer for good
results.  We will have some photos a little later today and a special
word to all our prayer warriors from Pat.
                             
         Thanks for standing with us for the long haul,

                               Cathy for all

My friend did this YESTERDAY! She is an inspiration.

I had run to the 4-H extension office for our 4-H books and picked her up a family guide. I dropped it off on my way home.

   When I walked into her house her family was cleaning! She had a SMILE on her lips (she always smiles but this was a satisfied smile) The accomplishment of jobs well done were her crown for the day.

   I, on the other hand, was wearing the black cloud of the paper mess on my head. On the way home from her house I told the children, "We are going to do cleaning school!" I need to get the house "in order" or at least peaceful looking!

   Thus we did!

   I rewarded everyone at 6:30 PM with a popcorn party at the kitchen table with kool aid and then I read a chapter outloud from out reading book, Amy Charmicheal.

     Everyone was sitting and talking about how tired they were. It was a good time to tell them this is how I feel every night! They all got a good idea in their mind as why I am sometimes grouchy at night. They all were very appreciative to me last night. One son even stayed up and rubbed my feet and brushed my hair.

    I need to remember it is not all about PAPER work, but LIFE and HEART work!

    The lessons learned yesterday will have life long impact. Those papers they did will sit and rot. (the papers are necessary but not ALL THAT!)

   Lord, help me be a quiet example to my children. That I will joyfully teach them to help me in the tasks of the day. Yelling does not teach them! Help me to make time to SHOW them!

  I know I prefer when you gentle show me "how to" do it! Let me do it like you do!!!

I seem to have a reoccuring theme here.

The theme being a lack of joy, a spirit of laziness, attitude of frustration and a sprinkle of discontent.

    I sometimes wonder when I will learn. I wonder if I will EVER learn. I don't like failure. I don't like being a LOSER in the areas that really seem so basic.

    JOY has been better! I have seen a marked improvement in this area. I have been able to FORCE out smiles when I would rather just nod and acknowledge a child who is interupting me. This is a BONUS!!! I am pleased about this as are my little blessings.

   Laziness. What a nasty word. I hate to think of myslef as lazy. I guess you could say it is a poor character trait. I don't think I am a SLOPPY lazy, but more of a PROCRASTINATER lazy. I prefer to do things in MY time and not the PROPER time. This I must pray on more.

   Frustration. This comes because I PROCRASTINATE! I would not be frustrated if I would do things in a TIMELY manner and FINSH the job well. I get frustrated because I don't do what I need to do at the time I should do it and when I FINALLY decide to do it I have to hurry because I am BEHIND schedule and then I only do the job half. THUS leaving me FRUSTRATED! (How frustrating is that!!!!)

    Discontent. This is just a smidge. I am FINALLY getting a handle on this. I am learning to put aside worldly wants and think about needs. Needs of the day and not wants of the month.. I am very content being a wife, mom, and friend. Getting to this point has been a long journey.

1 Timothy 6:7-9 

    7For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.

 8If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content.

 9But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.

Lord, may I continue to work on my weak areas and give glory to you in my weaknesses.  Teach me how to teach my children your ways. My I not be lax in this but do this faithfully!

Thanks for loving me Lord. Thanks for not giving up on me, but gently refining me and growing me into your daughter!

I am seeking You Father. Show me the way.

We fall down we lay our crowns at the feet of Jesus. The greatness of mercy and love, at the feet of Jesus, and we cry HOLY, HOLY, HOLY  and we cry HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is the Lamb.

This praise song really gives me a sense of what it is I should be doing for the Father.

While having communion on Sunday I was kneeling at the pew and praying. This picture came to my mind of the woman kneeling at Jesus' feet and weeping and her tears falling onto his feet, and her opening her jar and annointing His feet and then wiping her hair over them and just giving her whole being to Him.

I knelt there. My spirit cried out! I WANT TO DO THIS FOR YOU LORD!

Luke 7-37-38

 37^(A)And there was a woman in the city who was a sinner; and when she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume,

 38and standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and kept wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume.

These verses are me. I #1 am a sinner, like this woman. I am not in her sins, but in sins of my own. The sins I have are great. They entangle me like a snare.

How I wish I were more humble. That I could be more like this woman!

Can you see this?? I mean close your eyes and picture this. It is incredible!!

Luke 7:38

39Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were ^(B)a prophet He would know who and what sort of person this woman is who is touching Him, that she is a sinner."

The Lord knows what kind of woman I am. He knows that I need to be there at His feet in humblness! Falling down and weeping at His feet.

We are not to be like the Pharisee and sit at the table thinking we are equal to Christ. We are ALL like this woman at His feet.

I want to glorify You Father! I want to be at Your feet! I want to give You glory and honor and praise!

Lord, I want to be at Your feet. I want to learn of You and Your ways at Your feet. I want to be open and spilled out, like the alabaster oil, at Your feet for Your glory! I am Yours Father! Every bit of me, everything I have, all that I do is Yourd and for You!

Teach me to be more like this woman who knew her place and where she ought to be. At Your feet. I love you Father!