Relaxing weekend

I had every intention on going to school to get some work done, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I have had such a relaxing and fun weekend. Friday I left work at 4:20 (the earliest in a while) and got ready to go to the Kimbell Art Museum. I went with my friend Brandon that I worked with last year.

We saw the Picturing the Bible Exhibit that I have heard about since November and I absolutely loved it. I was amazed at the difference in how we express our faith these days from the early Centuries. They were not distracted by media and they knew their Bibles hands down and created artifacts with Biblical images on them that were amazing. Why don't we do this today? Why don't we act on our belief the way they did back then? Why are we so complacent when they were so obviously not? Another observation is that there was so much emphasis on a certain scenes, Noah in the Ark, Moses striking a rock (learned that it symoblized baptism), Jonah going in the animal and being spit out of the animal, and Adam and Eve. Those four images were on about 85% of the items we saw there. I loved it, was encouraged and convicted by it, and recommend it to all of you. It goes until the end of March I believe so go see it. It is half off on Tuesdays all day and on Fridays from 5-8 PM. After that we walked around in the beautifully cold weather and then went to eat at Gloria's Restaraunt. It was a little on the pricey side for my taste, but good and a fun environment...and good company as well.

I got home and later fell asleep on my couch, one of my favorite things to do. Then Saturday I relaxed all day, something I have needed to do. I ironed clothes, cleaned my closet, played on teh Internet, organized some, started the Falling in Love with Jesus Bible study, napped for almost 4 hours Sat. evening, and watched a lot of "Best of Friends, volume 1 and 2" What a great day it was, and how I long for more of those? I refuse to feel guilty for lack of teacher productivity.

Today I got to sleep in a bit and then went to church to hear about putting God's Kingdom first and how that can be evident by if I put him first in my money management. It was neat to finally get to tithe 10% of my new salary. I have never got to come close to tithing as much as I get to now, and it felt great. Then instead of going to work as I had planned I went to the grocery store and then went home to much, watch more Friends, and now type on the computer.

I can't wait till the summer and I can have more than the weekend to relax, that will be fabulous. By the way, don't get used to me coming on here and giving you a rendition of what I have done over a certain period of time. For one, I do not have Internet so I am just taking advantage of getting it in the office finally. For two, I had to record my relaxation weekend since they are few and far between.

I feel God restoring and bringing me unto Himself and it is amazing! I pray this for you as well.

Love,

Your sister

Finally back online!

Hello friends!

I created this and then didn't look at it much. I do not have Internet at home and almost everytime I have come to the apartment complex office to use their computers, it hasn't worked. Well, I figured I would give it a shot today and it worked. Now I am thankful I do not have Interent at home becuase I have been sitting here over 2 hours doing nothing, but browsing the Internet. I even have people to email and things to do online and I haven't even done it. I have just spent a lot of time on people's blogs and was inspired to give a quick update. I also know that not many people have this blog address so I need to figure out how to get it out to people.

I have an update letter started as of about 2 weeks ago, but still have not finished it to get it ready to send out.

Let's see, I haven't written since October. Wow, I do not even know how to sum things up since then. It's hard to believe I am now over half way through with my first year of teaching. I keep hearing that it will get easier and that the first year is the hardest....I hope so, I really do hope so because I love the kids so much but I have to admit that I am sick of working 50-60 hour weeks. I did decide to take this semester off of graduate school and I am glad because I have no idea where I would fit that into the semester on top of work and new Bible studies. I am thrilled to say that I think I have found a church and am getting involved with it! It's been over a year since I was involved with a Bible study with other women and now I am doing several. I think I might need to drop one of them though becuase I don't want to spread myself to thin, hence the reason I am not taking grad school this year. hmm, we'll see.

Anyway, God has been bringing me closer to Him and teaching me much about prayer and dependance on Him, and Him alone. One of the Bible studies I am apart of is from the book called "Falling in Love with Jesus." I think I am in love with Him now, but I know going through this study will show me that I am not nearly as I would like to be. Instead, it will reveal to me His mysteries and I will fall more in love with Him...and I'm incredibally excited!

Anyway, I better get going b/c I'm on the phone and I just wanted to give a little update.