For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matthew 11:30

I heard a devotion on this passage this week, about the yoke is easy and the burden is light...
I've read that many times, and heard it too... but this was explained in a different way...

The yoke is the harness/strap that will fit on your shoulders.. each of our shoulders are different~ some are skinny some are broad, etc etc., but the yoke that we are given fits completely to us... and I always thought of "my burden is light" was my burden... like...
what I'm going through, or the burdens of 101 Grove.....

but the way I heard it this week~ was God will place a burden on your heart, like youth group, or the homeless, or the family that your'e not sure if they have enough to eat... and if he places the burden on you~ it's yours... like we all have jobs to do for the better of the kingdom.. and don't be messing with anyone else's job.. He used the example of : if its his job is to cook the stringbeans for the homeless guys, don't be coming over and saying that your Aunt Birdee makes a better recipe.. Let the person that was given the "burden" of cooking the beans do it and do it to the best of their ability... that God doesn't place the burden and not give you the tools to follow it through.

and I'm now looking at it this way, it's not a burden, like you are dreading it... it's a opportunity .. that God has placed in your heart to see a need and follow through.

mind is cluttered...

A few weeks ago, I had a God moment, I was alone in the car, no radio and I was praying... and I heard a voice and clearly heard what he had to say. I can honestly honestly say that has never happened to me before. I have been doing what I feel I need to do since I "heard" !

But since then I've felt very cluttered in my mind.. can't seem to get to a free spot, I read the Bible and I pray (all the time)... but it doesn't feel like its enough. I do know that I have alot going on in my life right (who doesn't ) and I know when we have that I tend to pray alot more!

I'm distracted! that's what it is.... I'm to high tech :) or to busy with only 1 car and 3 drivers (harold ~ son has his..) but that's alot of people to get where they need to go.... and it's just busily filling my quiet, devotion time.

I want to hear, it was an awesome experience! I've signed off of facebook for a little while... that's a huge time breaker for me!

Praying for my quiet time to be all it's suppose to be. No stress, no interruptions~ just me giving all I can to the Lord.

In the blink of an eye.. Christmas 2011

I truly had a wonderful Christmas! Lots of traditions ! Mom's sugar cookies, my mashed potato's, Traci's mac and cheese! It was a wonderful Christmas Eve dinner, Mom made her famous dumplings too! Gosh it was so good, and so much fun to sit in the different rooms and chat with the nieces, nephews, sisters, brothers in law. All the kids said that could be enough~ I love that~ that having their Mom Mom cook all her best for them is enough.. they don't need any more of a present than that!

I received an email yesterday, "in the blink of an eye" everything can change. It's so true, the email went on to say ~ to say "I love you" to the ones you love and hang out with the ones you love, because life changes so quickly you don't know whats going to happen tomorrow.

In the blink of an eye Christmas 2011 is over, my goal this whole time was to enjoy it.. I didn't want to get caught up in the buying, or overspending, I just wanted to be able to sit back with my family and have fun. We mailed Christmas cards this year, I haven't done that in a while, and it's something that I love too do!!

Just think that as we get older, we need to do the traditions that make us happy.

Thank you God for all the blessings of Christmas 2011 and throughout 2011! I see you working in the Brown family lives and all around us.

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... as doug potvin chatted about in his "talk" on going to Columbia ~ God connected the dots for him ... to line up what knowledge was needed (taken from all of his jobs) to help the people of Columbia with their fish project. ... such strong words.

I've tried so many things and yet, I don't feel I've hit the target with what I'm suppose to be doing. Sometimes I wish I was one of those people that were satisfied with what they were doing at any moment or content, I've always been one that looked ahead, I get bored easily with task oriented jobs, need challenges, love to be apart of a team that "steps out of the box". I don't mean to not be content, I've always felt that I could do more, so I keep trying to learn and improve my situation.

...God ~ you got this!!

College of Charleston

Kevin and I drove many miles for him to check out the College of Charleston~
what a lovely area or as he says~ it has a good vibe too it! The houses were colorful and big and the palm trees were beautiful! The college is in the center of the town, with lots of buildings! The dorms (at first we thought it was all of the small apartments near the college) but realized that they have actual dorm rooms! I asked him to walk ahead and I prayed~ prayed for him, for his choices, for the city, for people in the town. I want him to go and get the experience of living away ~ I want him to be happy and work hard! We drove to the beach(cause that's important to the brown family) ~ and it's maybe 10 mintues away from the center of Charleston and it was a lovely day~ many shells on the beach (yes I did get a few :) ) !

Not sure how any other town could compare to this, but here's to choices!!

Good luck Kevin~ no matter where you choose, we love you and are proud of you!

a new to me couch!

Belinda called me Sunday, to ask me if I knew of anyone that needed a couch~ as the Potvins (frank) were going to give their's away! I said omg !! We do!!

Our living room is small, with the woodstove and brick taking up so much room~ and I knew they had the huge wrap around couch, so I wasn't sure really if it would work out! But it did!
we feel so blessed to have new !! It's perfect! I had made a list several weeks ago, of things that I thought we needed to work on in the house and getting a new couch was first on the list!

Do believe that God cares about all the things in our lives and lines it all up when we have the faith to see the blessings! Some people wouldn't have taken the new to us couch, but we will be forever grateful!!

2 more things on the list :) God will find a way, when we can't!! Another blessing today, Harold (son) had a interview at Pizza Hut and got the job! He is thankful to be able to go back to work! It's not good for him to not be busy, too much time to "think". He has other jollies lined up, so I've been praying that Gods got this!

fun filled weekend

What a great weekend I've had!

Love the commradery of the COJ folks~ lots of fun working with the youth group folks for the Chinese auction, and of course the Youth!! Had great conversations with Doug, Martin, Sharon, Cindy and Sara during the event! Nice to catch up!

Tonight, we celebrate Harold's, Shelby's and Terri's birthdays~ that will be a alot of fun!

Big H brought home the star newspaper on Thursday and there was a job opening for a PT innkeeper in St Michaels... I've applied... and the tour lady emailed me and wants to meet with me again on Thursday, she has more info to share! She has some wonderful ideas for tours in the county and beyond!

Thankful for Gods constant provision, and am hopeful!!