Magic Mike

I don't watch tv much anymore but I have heard about this movie coming out called Magic Mike. Via Facebook many a ladies are planning their dates, cracking jokes, and dreaming about something called Magic Mike. I haven't seen any previews or really know what the deal is all about. I should also comment these aren't my "church ladies".
So this morning my sweet boys decide they will skip their morning cartoons to play ever so beautifully together (a rarity) and I decided to go from Animal Planet to the Today show for a change. This also never happens. So the Today show happens to have a star actor from this movie phenomena Magic Mike. Holy moly! Since when is it ok to move like that on morning television???!!!! Seriously???? I feel defiled. Not saying I'm better than anyone... Or on television period? That should stay in the club! And further more, have women lost their convictions? Never mind the actors. It was for a quick minute before it was over, just a blip, but it saddens me that women are so widely spread becoming more and more like men with their lustful desires and pleasures. We too need to guard our eyes and hearts from the lust of this world. Yes, women are sinful to the core too but it just makes me sad. This world is driving women apart from their men or men apart from their women more and more. Not only do women have a skewed idea of what they should look like but now men too need to be compared to male strippers and a woman has the idea a male stripper body is what her man should look like or maybe just desire him to look like. It just makes me sad. I know I shouldn't expect anything different from people who aren't in Christ. I more than likely would have been one of the excited gals without Christ in my life.
We do, male and female alike, need take care of ourselves and exercise, improve our health, yes, but rather than being satisfied with who God has given us and take delight in our spouses our world is bombarded with things like Magic Mike and all the other lustful scenes. And people are excited about this. And for the single ladies, look to a man with dignity and respect not one who seeks to sell their body.
Matthew 5:28 "But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman [man] with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her [him] in his [her] heart." Time to start dubbing in "man", "her", and "him".
Malachi 2:15 "Guard yourselves in your spirit and let none of you be faithless to the wife [or husband] of your youth."

P.S. I've decided anything outside of Nick jr, some of Animal Planet or the Christian music station is just not a good idea.

Summer days...

I hate to admit but me and my chillen's did absolutely nothing today.....zip, zero, zilch. Ok well we did a little work in the back yard. We watered, cleaned out their little pool and played. But that was it. Normally I try to be super productive in one way or another but not today! It was nice. I even rested while they rested today. For real! Ahhh....that's some good stuff. I recommend everyone do that every once in a while. As I currently blog my sweet ones are enjoying their indoor sheets and pillows tent. You've gotta just love summer days!

Not being in school, or considering what next step to take but just sitting in the moment with my darlings has been great this week. I've been out of school for a little over two weeks but its just now sinking in this week and I think I'm loving it. Thank you God for this peace and contentment.

On another note....
I am beginning to really get excited about serving in our new church. Still don't know what the future holds for my dear husband and ministry and leadership or medical career but for now I am signed up to serve where we are and I am really looking forward to it. Its so cool to live right next to church, serve around the corner and then run into your oikos on date night in your area. God has had us cross paths with some really neat people. So cool! I just love seeing how God works all of those things out. Praise the Lord! His ways are always better than ours.

"Many are the plans in a person's heart but it is the Lords purpose that prevails" Proverbs 19:21

June 14, 2003

Today I am reminiscent of the day I officially, under God (though I didn't have a personal relationship with him just yet), said I will for better, worse, rich, poor, sick and in health, love, cherish, and honor my husband. Being a little girl who thought I never wanted that, what a day that was. Looking back I still had a hard heart because I didn't have Jesus just yet but man oh man is He redemptive! I remember my fear and lack of secure hope because it wasn't in Jesus. Does He ever take things and purify them, make them whiter than snow, cleanse them from all unrighteousness and make it all to glorify him. I can now look at my husband and walk in accordance with Gods word and know what it is to love, cherish and honor my husband as unto the Lord.
These past nine years have been filled with fun, tests, growth, maturity, love, grace, mercy oh the list goes on. Today I look at it all and I am filled with thankfulness. I know that there isn't one moment we can begin to feel like we've accomplished it and conquered it. We have to always stand guard to the schemes of our enemy who would love to see marriage destroyed. We know that marriage is a picture of Jesus and His church and there isn't a second to let that take a back seat. Marriage is important and we have to nurture it always.
I often will read marriage books (Christian ones), listen to marriage sermons, pray for my marriage in a way you would think there must be trouble in paradise but that is quite the contrary. I feel that you have to stay on top of that in order to have a blissful marriage, to stay on it and pursue righteousness and holiness in one of the most important relationships a person can have. Not to mention our children are watching and I desire that one day when my little men grow up and look for a wife that they would find one that loves Jesus, that loves and respects them as men, and that together with their wife they would pursue Jesus with a passion.
Today I celebrate all that God has done in the love and unity of my marriage to Sean. I am thankful that God brought us together way back in elementary school, that He made Sean my very very best friend at  the age of 14 and I am even thankful for the rough times because of all that God has taught us through that. He has taught me to love, to give mercy, to give grace and to forgive because He first loved and forgave me.

                                                                 Celebrate Love!!!