Tick!!

Yesterday I saw my first tick of the season.  I am sure that they have been around I just have not seen or noticed them.  My dog was on the couch laying by my side when in horror I watched a tick crawl off of him and right onto my hand.  In that second of terror I really thought that I was going to scream and jump!

BUT I didn't.  Somehow I composed myself as the thought popped into my head that if I did the tick dance that crazy tick would probably go flying never to be found again! (maybe as I am getting older I might be realizing that if I let a bug, spider or tick fly I just have to find it again to get rid of it)

I picked that tick up between two fingers and took it to where it could go away with the flow of water hopefully to never ever be seen again!!

Now my dog did not know that he was bringing me a pest that I hate!  He did not even know that it was on him!  During the night I thought about how my sin is like a tick!  Ticks are a lot of times so tiny a person does not even see them but as they suck the blood they get bigger and bigger!  Sin might start small like that tiny little tick but if that sin is not sent away it can become like a big fat tick!  

I can not get rid of my sin by sending  it down a drain but  I can take my sin to my Savior!  Jesus took my sin, and yours, to the cross with him!  Don't let you sin be like a tick that sucks away your life!

John 3:16  For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

 

Spiders already

                                                 

                                      
Today was the day of the spiders!!  The first spider that I saw, I almost stepped on it with a bare foot.  It was in my bedroom.  I somehow composed myself as I chased that giant spider!  I grabbed a shoe and yelled as I killed that spider!

I killed another one later in the living room as it ran up the wall.  I really hate it when they are on the wall or ceiling because they could fall down at any second and land on me!  Then I would be jumping up and down and doing the spider dance!!

I also noticed nasty spiders when I walked out to see if there was any mail.  I looked really close before I opened the mail box also because I have seen spiders hanging out inside the box.  I am glad that I did not  have to do the spider dance right there in the middle of the cul-de-sac. 

I have heard that peppermint and lavender plants can help with spiders and some other pest.  I really think I need to get maybe ten or twenty of those plants.  I could put some outside and some on the inside and surround my house with their protection!!

Sin is just like the nasty spiders that pop up just when I lest expect it!  I don't need plants to save me but I do need to make sure I am planted in the word of God!

What about you?  Where are you planted?

James 1:21 

21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.

New International Version 

It's been a while

                                               

It has been a while since I have written.  I am going to blame it on my mind.  Most of you that know me, know that my mind can be on a journey that does not involve writing.  It tries to trick me and tell me stuff like, oh you can write later but than later becomes never.

I don't want to be in the never write again group so I am going to try to blog more plus work on some of those books.  I should have already written more books.  I don't care if I get famous but it would be nice if my books do!

I am going to try to blog several times a week and get started again on the book about Richard's journey.  I told him I was going to write that book and it is time for me to do it. 

Maybe you guys can tell me that you will beat me with a wet noodle if I don't write something every day or even every other day!

This is my new start and I am happy to be blogging again!   Please feel free to share my blog with your friends.

Remember we are all on a journey.  God has given us gifts that we should be using.  I believe God wants me to write and I am going to try my best to do just that.  What does God want you to do?  Do you know and if so are you doing it? 

Colossians 3:23-24 (NIV)

23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, 24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.