.spring cleaning.
This weekend was so productive...I loved it!! We have been out of town for the past two weekend and will be again next weekend so this past weekend was the only time we really had to catch up. On Friday night after work Nick and I decided to go for a little jog and then do some sprints and wall sits. It was a nice night out so it felt good to get some exercise. Then we showered, made taco's for dinner and then watched Slumdog Millionaire. I had heard such great things about the movie and it didn't dissapoint. We really enjoyed the movie, except that it made me so sad. It made me want to go do missions work and adopt all the little babies and people in the slums of Mumbai. My heart broke for the children who are forced to grow up in that environment :(.
Then Saturday morning we slept in and then got a call from our friend's Dani and Bryan who invited us to come to the Tulip Festival with them. I took my camera along and got some fantastic photos of the BEAUTIFUL tulips...I will post pictures later :) Nick even got a few awesome shots with the camera as well. It was so fun! Then we stopped and got Dairy Queen blizzards on the way home. All in all it was a really great day to get outside, spend time with friends and see the pretty flowers.
Yesterday, we got up and went to church and heard a great message on suffering. Pastor Ryan gave us a lot of things to think about and it really made me thankful of the God we serve. So much grace!!!! After church I went for a long run to continue my training for the half marathon and Nick started washing the cars. When I got back I cleaned the inside of the house, organized, and all that good stuff and then joined Nick outside to help clean the other car. Then Nick went to the gym and I showered and started cooking dinner. Nick volunteers at church once a month picking up the signs leading to the building, and so he had to go pick them up last night. So when he got home we ate dinner and watched the end of the Red Sox/Yankees baseball game.
So all in all it was a great weekend and we got a lot accomplished. It is always easier to start out the work week when you feel like your life is all in order. Now this weekend it's off to Spokane and Moses Lake for a wedding!
Then Saturday morning we slept in and then got a call from our friend's Dani and Bryan who invited us to come to the Tulip Festival with them. I took my camera along and got some fantastic photos of the BEAUTIFUL tulips...I will post pictures later :) Nick even got a few awesome shots with the camera as well. It was so fun! Then we stopped and got Dairy Queen blizzards on the way home. All in all it was a really great day to get outside, spend time with friends and see the pretty flowers.
Yesterday, we got up and went to church and heard a great message on suffering. Pastor Ryan gave us a lot of things to think about and it really made me thankful of the God we serve. So much grace!!!! After church I went for a long run to continue my training for the half marathon and Nick started washing the cars. When I got back I cleaned the inside of the house, organized, and all that good stuff and then joined Nick outside to help clean the other car. Then Nick went to the gym and I showered and started cooking dinner. Nick volunteers at church once a month picking up the signs leading to the building, and so he had to go pick them up last night. So when he got home we ate dinner and watched the end of the Red Sox/Yankees baseball game.
So all in all it was a great weekend and we got a lot accomplished. It is always easier to start out the work week when you feel like your life is all in order. Now this weekend it's off to Spokane and Moses Lake for a wedding!
.food for thought.
Lately I have been a little down and out of it. I think it is a combination of the rainy, cloudy weather, being lonely in Seattle without family and friends around, and Nick working so much for tax season. But this morning after an awesome 8 mile run (I am training for a half marathon...what was I thinking?!?!), I sat down to read my devotions before church and God really spoke to me so I thought I would share.
It is from "My Utmost For His Highest" by Oswald Chambers....
"The Initiative Against Depression"
-"Arise and Eat" 1 Kings 19:5
The angel did not give Elijah a vision, or explain the Scriptures to him, or do anything remarkable; he told Elijah to do the most ordinary thing, to get up and eat. If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed. A human being is capable of depression, otherwise there would be no capacity for exaltation. There are things that are calculated to depress, things that are of the nature of death; and in taking an estimate of yourself, always take into account the capacity for depression.
When the Spirit of God comes He does not give us visions, He tells us to do the most ordinary things conceivable. Depression is apt to turn us away from the ordinary commonplace things of God's creation, but whenever God comes, the inspiration s to do the most natural simple things-the things we would never have imagined God was in, and as we do them we find He is there. The inspiration which comes to us in this way is an initiative against depression; we have to do the next things and do it in the inspiration of God. If we do a thing in order to overcome depression, we deepen the depression; but if the Spirit of God makes us feel intuitively that we must do the thing, and we do it, the depression is gone. Immediately we arise and obey, we enter on a higher plane of life.
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