WAFTEP - We Are Far Too Easily Pleased

Whew...what blew through Dallas last night?? A spectacular light show INSIDE my house! The lightning and thunder were maybe one second apart---dead center storm. But it was the unbelievable lightning that was breathtaking and I kept pulling the covers over my head and listening for sounds of little feet ... remembering what it was like when the kids were little and they would show up at the door terrified. But my grown children slept right through it last night! I kept plotting how I could rescue them if the house caught on fire---sometimes I am too obsessive! Let the house burn but I'm getting those kids out.

We have power but our school has none. School's out!! So, all I can do is laugh when I say, my job fell through again today. No work, no money for today. So, I came into the study to check my e-mail and found something I have been thinking about for over a month! I can't tell you how excited I am! I've been asking God to help me find this ONE QUOTE for weeks...how do you find one quote in the mass of writers??? I thought I knew the author. I've asked. I've searched. I've skimmed. I've prayed. Please let me find that quote, God! There it was this morning in my INBOX. It was from fellow blogger Jean, who has no blog, but leaves great comments where I go.

So whether it's a verse or a thought or advice or a word you want to share with me---GO RIGHT AHEAD!!!! My beautiful God is so showing up in my life to lift my head and encourage me in bleak circumstances. My job testing students with accommodations fell through cause the school can't find any power. That's never happened in 18 years in a row of going there. What's up? I don't know. All I know is this. He holds my life together as HE says in Colossians. And I believe I am seeing things I have never seen before. I am alive in ways I have never been before. There's a great quote that says I believe in Christianity, and that my God is alive in me, just as I believe that the sun has risen this morning in my city. Not only because I saw that Fort Worth sun rise, but because by it I see everything else. So grateful to Him for eyes that see beyond the moment. No way I could do that. Ephesians 1:17 - may HE continue to open the eyes of our hearts by His resurrection power that we really see life as it is and can be.

Read the next post how HE keeps speaking the same verses to me over and over.... and then you bloggers tell me the same thing and it so touches my soul! Over 30,000 verses and God lays on your heart something for me. But life is not about my story, it's about being lifted up into His story and finding HIM today. And I so want HIM more than life. May we all go "flesh" our lives out today for things of eternal value, not this life.

So what will we do on our snow day with no snow! I'm looking for a job! And, we're going to the Mavericks must-win bsketball game tonight, complimentary of some pretty wonderful folks. Britt gets to "shoot around" with the players before the game cause of some awesome contest thingy so come back tomorrow for pictures with Dirk. What a perk.

So, what's the quote you ask? Here it is. It's the last six words that stick with me. I think about those six words a lot as I reflect on my life, my motives. Sixbrandons says: May those six sink surprisingly surreptitiously into your sweet soul.

Here's the quote: “We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. WE ARE FAR TOO EASILY PLEASED.” C.S. Lewis