Unity

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. ~ Philippians 2:3-4, NIV



My prayer today is "Father teach me and lead me to value others above myself." Do not let my actions come from selfish ambition but out of love.

Learning

I have been learning about how we bring glory to God by the way we act and react in difficult times.

We were created to bring glory to God but so much of the time I am thinking when or how or if I do this or that I will bring God glory. In essence just being God's child and walking in the spirit is to bring glory to God.

That brings me back to being and not doing! Just what i am thinking about today.

Reading

today I have been reading an e-book by the author of the The time warp wife.
"Messy-Faces" It has been very entertaining. Children are so fun!!!!

I have had the blessed privilege of the two little boys from next door to come over and visit for an hour or so and it has been so fun. Miguel is the same age as Braden and he is taking english classes at school and so he likes to practice and I like to practice my Spanish. Brother is 4 years old and full of life! He always calls me by name and I love to here him say it. Darati. Yesterday when they came over we played Uno and that was fun.

The first day

Today we began southbeach again! Rocky keeps saying it will be suffering!! lol it is not so bad! For breakfast we had flax seed pancakes topped with cream cheese that has splenda and maple flavoring, homemade breakfast sausage, an egg, and tomato juice.YUMMMMY Mid morning we had a boiled egg, hummus with cucumber. not bad!
Lunch Salad, gazpacho, broccoli, ground beef patty, with sugar free jello. Now we are having a cup of decaf coffee with a little flavoring (Rocky-Vanilla)(me- cinnamon)and a little milk.
And we still have a snack and supper and desert still to go today!

About 11:00am Rocky came down to the kitchen and I ask him if he was hungry and he said no he was good. I had a big pan of broccoli sitting on the stove to roast for lunch and I said lunch is going to really good and Rocky looked at the broccoli and had a disbelieving look on his face. to funny.

Today

I am thinking...Where will I be next year at this time?

I am thankful...For so many things! God is so good to me,,,,I have so many things that make life so much easier.

In the kitchen... Dirty breakfast dishes and marinating chicken that will be fajitas for lunch. Need to get tortillas made now.

I am wearing...Jeans and My favorite "Deep in the heart of Texas" T-shirt.

I am creating...An embroidery piece about loving deeply.

I am going... To Naichap today for bible study.

I am wondering...If we will get approval for the house in Qualaquiza and will move there.

I am reading...Exodus 14 today. Parting of the Red Sea!!! The Israelites were so human...14:12 Didn't we say to you in Egypt, Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!

I am hoping...For a clear answer as to whether we are going to the states to stay in July or returning to Ecuador in October.

I am looking forward to...April 11-13, Rocky and I have to go to Quito and on the way we are planning to stay in Banos for 3 nights and just chill!

I am hearing...The birds and the rooster and Rocky practicing Spanish upstairs.

Around the house..Clutter( It is me you know)

I am pondering...If I will stay true to a study on

One of my favorite things...Little children!!!!! I am exciting because tonight I will get lots of hugs and hand holding!!!

A few plans for the rest of the week:Keeping the house going!

Here is picture for thought I am sharing...

River Baptism service!

Dust Bunnies

I remember my mom talking about cleaning the dust bunnies out of the house. I think that maybe since there is so much carpet in the states that maybe we do not have as many these days. I do not know, but in Latin America especially under my bed they are not only bunnies but full grown Jack Rabbits!!!! Today was the day to clean some of them out. So instead of standing on my head with broom to evict the rascals, I use my blow dryer and get on the back side of the bed and let them have it!!!!When finish I walk around the bed and WOW! It was a dust bunnie farm today.
Later I was thinking about them being mostly under the bed, and I was wondering if maybe they get scared and hide under the bed. Just a thought.

Blessings

Today Rocky and I left early to go over to Qualaquiza where we are planning to move and be much closer to our people group. We have found a house there to rent but it needs some North American amenities, ( window screens, kitchen cabinets, and security bars on doors and windows. To get this work approved we have to get 2 bids for each thing. Gualaquiza is a very small Ecuadoran town so we were thinking it would be really difficult to get 2 of each of the bids. We went over early and got to key from the neighbor and had another look inside.
We went into town to find someone to get the first bid and we encountered a young man at the first cabinet shop named David and he speaks great English. David has been in New York for 3 years and had been back just a short time and is waiting on a visa so he can return to the states. He helped us and translated for us several times today and we were able to get all of the bids we need(we hope). When we said good bye to David this evening we told him what an amazing blessing he was to us and he said that many people had helped him when he was a stranger in the states.
Pray that we have a chance to share the gospel with David and his family. He has a wife and little girl that he leaves behind.