Happy Thanksgiving!

Psalm 100

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.

Worship the Lord with gladness,

come before him with joyful songs.

Know that the Lord is God.

It is he who made us, and we are his;

we are his people; the sheep of his pasture.

Enter his gates with thanksgiving

and his courts with praise;

give thanks to him and praise his name,

For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;

his faithfulness continues through all generations.

I'M THANKFUL FOR...

Scenery

Smiles

                     

My Black Dragon

                                                                   

1 Chronicles 16:8
Give thanks to the Lord, call on his name;
make known among the nations what he has done.

                                                                         

 1 Chronicles 16:23-26
Sing to the Lord, all the earth;
proclaim his salvation day after day.
Declare his glory among the nations,
his marvelous deeds among all peoples.
For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise;
he is to be feared above all gods.
For all the gods of the nations are idols,
but the Lord made the heavens.







1 Chronicles 16:31-33
Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;
let them say among the nations, "The Lord reigns!"
Let the sea resound, and all that is in it;
let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them!
Then the trees of the forest will sing,
they will sing for joy before the Lord,
for he comes to judge the earth.

Friends...even if they are a little crazy. :P

1 Chronicles 16:34
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
his love endures forever.

God's love!

1 Chronicles 16:36a
Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting.

...AND SO MUCH MORE!!!

Happy Thanksgiving! :D

Answers to Thanksgiving Jokes

1. What kind of key has legs and can't open doors??

A Turkey

2. What happened when the turkey got into a fight?

He got the stuffing knocked out of him

3. How do Pilgrims draw pictures?

With crayon-berries

4. What's the friendliest vegetable on earth?

Sweet potatoes

Happy Monday!

Disclaimer: I put this picture up merely because I thought it was humorous and was the best way to remind peoples that Thanksgiving was coming up. It was not because I recommend eating ham! Pork can be filled with nitrates and that is very bad for your blood. There is some pork that is okay, but I do not have time to go into it all, so for now....enjoy your turkey and eat your ham at your own risk!

WARNING: Jokes listed below are very corny! :P

1. What kind of key has legs and can't open doors??

2. What happened when the turkey got into a fight?

3. How do Pilgrims draw pictures?

4. What's the friendliest vegetable on earth?

Answers to come...

Let me know what you think the answers are in a comment if you want. :P

While You Were Sleeping

While You Were Sleeping

By Casting Crowns

Oh little town of Bethlehem

Looks like another silent night

Above your deep and dreamless sleep

A giant star lights up the sky

And while you're lying in the dark

There shines an everlasting light

For the King has left His throne

And is sleeping in a manger tonight

Oh Bethlehem, what you have missed while you were sleeping

For God became a man

And stepped into your world today

Oh Bethlehem, you will go down in history

As a city with no room for its King

While you were sleeping

While you were sleeping

Oh little town of Jerusalem

Looks like another silent night

The Father gave His only Son

The Way, the Truth, the Life had come

But there was no room for Him in the world He came to save

Jerusalem, what you have missed while you were sleeping

The Savior of the world is dying on your cross today

Jerusalem, you will go down in history

As a city with no room for its King

While you were sleeping

While you were sleeping

United States of America

Looks like another silent night

As we're sung to sleep by philosophies

That save the trees and kill the children

And while we're lying in the dark

There's a shout heard 'cross the eastern sky

For the Bridegroom has returned

And has carried His bride away in the night

America, what will we miss while we are sleeping

Will Jesus come again

And leave us slumbering where we lay

America, will we go down in history

As a nation with no room for its King

Will we be sleeping

Will we be sleeping

United States of America

Looks like another silent night

(Yes, of course I'm listening to Christmas music already! ;)

Praise The Lord!

Psalm 150

Praise the Lord.

Praise God in his sanctuary;

praise him in his might heavens.

Praise him for his acts of power;

praise him for his surpassing greatness.

Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,

praise him with the harp and lyre,

praise him with tambourine and dancing,

praise him with the strings and flute,

praise him with the clash of cymbals,

praise him with resounding cymbals.

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord.

Understanding

Sometimes, when I was younger, I would get frustrated (IKR? Y'all thought I was a perfect child! *not*) when people would do things that didn't make sense to me. My Daddy would encourage me to look at the situation through the other person's perspective or to "put myself in there shoes." This concept was very hard for me (and still is sometimes). I couldn't fathom that not everyone saw things the way that I did.

God has been working in my life over the last couple years, teaching me that you have to have understanding for people who don't think the same way you do or who do/say things that don't make sense to you.

There's two examples to this that I've been learning to deal with: Pet Peeves (of which I have *way* too many) and things people do/say that don't necessarily annoy you, but don't make sense to you or you think it's a silly thing to say or do.) 

One example of the latter is piano lessons. Sometimes my former piano teacher would tell us students to do things that would frustrate us because they didn't make any sense. Now that I'm a piano teacher, I find myself doing the *exact* things that I questioned the reasoning of "back in the day". Now that I'm "in their shoes" I totally understand why they did that. I have a feeling it will be the exact same way with marriage and parenting. The things that I think I will not do or say will probably make sense one day when I understand what it's really like to truly love someone like Christ loves us.

When it comes to pet peeves you have to learn to be a servant. Pet peeves are extremely self-centered. I have had to learn that not everyone likes their room to look neat and orderly, or their closet to be organized by type of clothing and then by sleeve length and then by color, or their choir music to be in alphabetical order. Not everyone cares enough to replace the toilet paper roll with a fresh one when they use up the last one. They just leave it for the person that uses the restroom next. I've had to learn, that instead of letting it frustrate me, it was better for everyone if I just quietly replaced it myself.

The point of this post is to encourage you to have understanding and grace for people who make decisions that possibly affect your life, but that don't make sense to you. (I'm mostly charging younger people who are dealing with "older" people.) Give them the benefit of the doubt and humbly assume that at this time you just don't understand all their reasoning. Assume they have a wisdom that reaches higher than yours. Assume you don't know it all! (Imagine that! ;) Have grace for people who aren't as neat as you or who like to do things differently than you. God didn't make us all the same (thankfully!)...there's going to be quite a bit of differences among us. Embrace those and enjoy the differences you find in other people, instead of letting them annoy you!

I've been wanting to do a post on understanding/grace/and putting-yourself-in-other-people's-shoes for a long time, but couldn't figure out quite how to say what I wanted to say. I still feel like this post is kind of choppy and doesn't flow very well, but hopefully some of it made sense. If you have questions about what I meant by what I said feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer! :)

Happy Tuesday?? :P

I "forgot" to do a Happy Monday post. :( So I guess Tuesday will have to be extra happy. :P (Since I know how much y'all *love* my Monday posts...I probably sent some of you into the depths of despair when you opened up your blogger dashboard or email and there was no notification of a post. So sorry. :( :P ;) 

Just for laughs: I was studying my Natural Sciences CLEP book today and started laughing at the description they give for Class Mammalia.

Body covered with hair, glands, teeth, fleshy external ears, usually four limbs, four-chambered heart, lungs, larynx, highly developed brain, warm-blooded, internal fertilization, live birth, milk producing.

(I don't know why this struck me so funny, but the way it reads at first, sounds like our bodies are covered with teeth and fleshy external ears. :P)

So anyway, I've had a request from a faithful follower for me to post a certain Jostie flick on here. I would also like to educate y'all on how to say their name, so I'll post that here as well. ;)

Joel explains how to pronounce "Jost" while getting his hair cut. :P