the candid files

it’s MORNING!!!!!
and I’m up and I feel good. Albeit a little hungry.
my cuzzin is still in bed, which is good, because flying makes you tired.
i finished my painting yesterday. all i have to do is paint the edges black. so that’s exciting.

have a great one!

you know, the people I love are the first ones to get hurt.
why IS that?
and can I just please go one day without something to stew about?

I really want to see the New Jerusalem. I want to see the people I’ve lost and the streets of gold…and see my Lord Jesus face to face.
But the thing I’m looking forward to the most is No More Sin. Ever. no more tears of frustration and beating myself over the head with “why did I do that? why did I say that? why DIDN’T I do this? what’s WRONG with me?”
I read this morning about how we humans are given an eternal soul. How the years we spend here on earth are like merely the title page and cover of a book so vast that each chapter is more wonderful than the last.

I really want Jesus to call me His good and faithful servant.

I was thinking in church yesterday. We were singing Psalm 136, that’s the psalm where every second line is “His mercy endures forever.” It says in the Bible that no man can conceive of what God has prepared for those who love Him. and yet we say with certainty that His mercy endures forever. There’s a limit to our perception. God breaks thing down for us…his love has got to be far more reaching that we can even imagine. Can it go farther than forever? Is there a dimension that we are incapable of seeing?

I certainly hope so.
Not that forever wouldn’t be far enough…but there’s nothing that makes me feel smaller but at the same time more grateful than contemplating how uncontemplative is God’s love for me.

Today is the day that my cousin Daylinn arrives from BC. Which means I shouldn’t be doing this, but should be trying to round up some furniture for the poor girl. Inventory: my brother’s old bed, Former change table upon which my own diapers were changed, now transformed into a dresser, and a reading lamp that actually belongs on my desk. oh and my old alarm clock. I thought I had got rid of that awful sound forever, but since she’ll be sleeping across the room from me, I guess I’ll be hearing it. Whenever we get up the same time I’ll tell her to leave it off and just use mine. That alarm gives me the heebiejeebies.
Today is also the day we vote. On a new government (i hope). I’m not one to follow politics…meaning I don’t always know what’s going on. I do know, however, that the way legislation in this country has been going, we need a fresh outlook. I’m tired of a government that gets its fingers in everything, and stands up for nothing.
SO I say “GO STEPHEN HARPER”!!
apologies to all you CHP peeps out there…I think I’ll have to address that later.
Off to work!
Candice