What is shakin bacon????!
Not much? Cool!
Same though.
Soo I know it’s not Friday. It’s become a habit. A bad one at that. So I’ve decided that I will blog on Saturdays. Makes it so much easier. Fridays I have a lot that goes on and I hate that I’m always late, but putting it on Saturday, the day I tend to post on anyway, then I wouldn’t be considered late. Get my drift? So that’s it no more Friday blogs. Mom hope you are okay with that. Ope.
So I had a good week. Yesterday I almost bought all of my equipment for CamRoRica. AND…I got a deal on my hiking pack. Which was totally a God thing. If we would have gone last week or even next week the bag wouldn’t have been there. We were able to be helped by the great team that I felt really had our best interest at heart. One of the team members,Devon, helped us for over two hours straight, not even bothered by the crazyness of my family. He used his personal experience to recommend items some of which the store doesn’t even sell. He wanted to make sure my gear was going to last the entire trip and keep me alive. By the end of the day, all we had left to buy was a water bottle, sandals, sneakers, a waterproof coat, and a day pack (bookbag that I’ll use as my carry-on). I was extremely happy with this store and would definitely go back. In case you are wondering I went to Scheels in Cedar Falls. 100% recommend and if you go look for Devon he was the best!
Also, Daddy came back yesterday and we met up with him in Cedar Falls and we ate out, I was so hungry I could eat a cow, and I did I ate steak. Mmmmm it was sooo good! Applebee’s is by far my favorite restaurant! I go there almost every time I’m out shopping. But anyway food was not the point of this paragraph. Daddy was. You should have seen the look on our faces when we ran up to him, in the middle of the store, to give him hugs. You also should have seen the faces of the bystanders looking at us funny, but hey I didn’t really care I had my daddy. So all is well at the Tenney house well until we have to say bye again tomorrow. Just 15 more to go I think I can handle that, well at least until the big one. That one is going to be hard. But I’ll make it…somehow.
Okay, enough of that sappy stuff how about we crunch some numbers!! I have been gifted $270.00 this week. One of them being a monthly donor. I really appreciate all the support I have been given. I know I could never do this alone, having people donate is a great thing, but I don’t want the people who didn’t donate and are only a part of my praying support people to feel like I don’t appreciate them. Prayer is just if not more important than giving me money. By praying you are not only showing me, support but you are showing God that you support his plans in his world.
This brings me to my next thought. I know I said I was going to write something from my “Jesus” book, but I haven’t found the book so I can’t write double, but I can write what stuck out the most to me in my class I’m taking for CamRoRica.
All my life I’ve grown up with the understanding that nothing in this world is actually mine. And no it’s not my parents’ either. Everything in this world belongs to God and he is just gifting us permission to use it. All our money is his. The roof over my head, his. The laptop I’m writing this on, his. Nothing that I consider mine because I used my money not my mom’s isn’t even mine. I know some of you are like whatever I’ve known that since infancy. But have you actually thought about how that affects us and our relationship with God? I didn’t. Like I knew to tithe because God will reward me, but I couldn’t help but feel that it was an obligation that was a nuisance in my paycheck. I wanted to tithe, but at the same time I was only looking at what was left in my paycheck. Which is a common thing. But it is also a mindset shift I need to make. If I am only tithing because I have to, not because I want to, God isn’t going to reward me. Not that I feel the need to be rewarded and whatnot, but you get the point right?
Deuteronomy 8:1-18 talks about how God is commanding us to not forget him. He is telling us that if we follow his commandment we will be fine, he has been doing this for a long time and knows what he’s doing. So to tie that into what I was just saying. I was forgetting that God deserves his credit. I was only doing it because it has been ingrained in my head, that’s why I never did it on time, always forgot, and I didn’t make it a priority.
Then In 1 Timothy 6, it says not to put your trust in wealth with is fleeting, but to put in Christ who will ALWAYS provide for me. To tie that into what I was talking about with tithing, I was putting too much of my trust in money, not first giving to God who will always be there for me, but in money that can easily disappear from my life.
Now, tithing is only one example of where I have been forgetting God and not given him the due credit. But it’s the same mindset shift I need to make in my life. I need to stop forgetting God and make giving him credit a priority. Anyone else with me?
I don’t write these things to call you guys out, I write them so that you know my struggles and can pray with me. But if I happened to open up your eyes in some way then I will pray for you too.
Have a GREAT day!!! Be HAPPY!! and please please please remember to PRAY!!!! Love you guys! And I’ll see you guys on Saturday!!
PS: I hope I didn’t forget anything.
