My Pets October 9, 2006

So the yearbook lady at school has her students interviewing different teachers for different pages in the year book. There is a Pets page that some of the girls stopped by the department to discuss. Well, I don’t have any pets (they would die of bordom). But, I do have plants! The girls were pretty sure that they had to be pets not plants, so they moved on. Well, a few days later they stopped by again, and this is what they said, ” Mrs. Gilliland, after discussing it among each other we decided that your plants can qualify as pets.” They took a picture of me, and then asked me to e-mail a picture of myself with my “plant pets,” to the yearbook teacher… below is a picture of me and my pets.

Desparate House Wives October 9, 2006

Ok, so I decided to stop watching Desparate House Wives on Sunday nights from 8-9pm and start reading my Bible, well… it is 8:50 and WHY AM I ON MY STINKING COMPUTER!?!?!?

Today Pastor Matt gave an amazing message, God really uses him to spread His love to the Church. Today was the fourth week in our “Mission Impossible,” series. The message was about who our target should and should not be when it comes to spreading God’s message. (I.e, our target should not be people from other churches that already know God, but instead those that are seeking to know Him.) Check out www.sandalschurch.com for more.

So, I have decided to step out and grow… (wow, look at that a step of obedience who knew) I thought I was just terrible at witnessing, when in fact I was focusing on the wrong people. My husband and I came to the conclusion that we have a tuff profession to deal with, not many educators are curious about God, they already have their mind made up about Him. And the kids, well if they ask, I will most certainly tell.

Ok, here goes… God please use me to be available to share with those that want to know more about You and help me to be aware of those around me that want to know Him. Please help me to seek out those that want to know you instead of those that want to fight with me about you.

 Easy to say, let’s see what happens next. Will I blow it, or will I let God actually use me?

To be continued…