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What Love Is......

a Lord who somehow is patient enough to let us keep coming back time and time again.

a husband who gently prays for you when your head hurts so bad you really can't see straight.

a daughter who belts out (offkey) Jesus Loves Me with her daddy.

a mom who sends an uplifting email after her son glorifies God in his sermon on Sunday.

a friend who fights for and agonizes over her schedule so that she can serve your daughter in school once a week.

anticipating spending the evening with a new friend you never thought you'd make.

seeing an open Bible on the bathroom floor when you go to clean it.

a dad who will buy Playstation 2 and then go back to the store for more controllers so that the whole family can play.

logging on to the computer and having four people ask to online chat with you before you can even type in your password.

a fiancee waiting for you at the airport after you've been gone for three weeks.

a husband who sets up your computer to blog with pictures included!

a mom who makes a phone call that embarrasses the crap out of you, but does it because she cares.

a husband who buys a movie to watch based on your word alone.

hearing that some friends of yours are starting a family of their own.

friends who still check to see if I'm blogging after months because well....
they love.

My new chick friends from Ireland.

Hey there all. I am back on this blogger thingy. Please do not remove me from your list:) What is sad is that two days ago I typed a pretty long blog and it was pretty insightful I must say and then when I went to go post it- I lost it. I could not believe it. It just goes to show how completely computer illiterate I am and how I really need to learn modern technology. So here I am once again- motivated and excited to be online. I still have one problem however-- TIME. Well hopefully I will stay comitted this time. Especially since I have been online the past few days emailing and text messaging my new buddies from Northern Ireland. So what have I been learning lately. I have learned that I still struggle with having to be in control of my life. Still having to have everything be just right. I think though that spending just a little time every day talking on MSN messaging and pouring myself out on my blog, I will hopefully be able to find the importance of other areas of my life, like relaxing a little and not feeling worried that not everything is done. However this is a constant battle for me so..... I am asking for prayer in this area. Is anyone willing and able??:) Thanks in advance if you can. Well for now peace out and keep er lit. Post back so I know your there.
Mandy

Okay, here I am again. So far I am already doing better at this than I thought. It has been a rough day. Kids fighting, crazy horse-back riding lessons, trying to get everything done that I need to get done. And yet, here I am sitting here at church writing in my blog and getting ready to pray for National Prayer Day. I realize that I need to get my heart in the right place. God does not care how clean my house is, or if I was a few minutes late somewhere. All He cares about is my heart. So here I am, laying my thoughts and struggles for all of cyber-space (or at least some of my closest friends) to see. And as I pray to God tonight for the youth at least I will hopefully have had a change of heart and be humbly before my King.

Wow. so I guess I will try this blogger thing. I thought of the reasons this should happen and came up with the following:
1) To become more computer litterate.
2) To be able to enter into conversation at the dinner table when there are discussions about the blogs of the day.
3) To get to know my friends better.
4) To get a little break away from the kiddos. (maybe) They will probably be sitting at my feet.
5) To link up to Ben and read all of his wonderful poetry about me, me, me!
AND
6) To get questions and prayers and thoughts about God written out, so I can look back and see the amazing things He is doing in our lives.

Can't wait to get feedback and read about all of you fellow blog addictors. Peace out (Ben's language already!)

A blog for a female praying mantis.