A dog followed me home

Over the past years I've developed a habit of running in the morning. Living here with our slow life style has made that a lot more enjoyable. Well today while I was at the begining of my run I was joined by a beautiful bassethound. Most people who know me know I love bassethounds (I grew up with them), and so I was friendly with him. I guess he likes running as well because he joined me for my entire run including all the way back to the house. At this point I wasn't sure what to do because I'm bad at turning animals away but knew he wouldn't be welcomed into our home. He had a collar but no tags, so I at least knew he belonged to someone. I open the door slightly because he wants to go in and am yelling for Nolan, but Nolan is too slow and he runs in the house anyways. I guess he thought he was home, and maybe should of been at home here, but by force I walked him down to where I found him and Nolan picked me up in the car and like some sad movie drove away as he chased us. My heart broke and I just hope he lives there and will join me for some more morning runs. I have missed having a running partner.

Abes' Corner: Attack

So I'm just sitting here on my computor minding my own business. For Andy who has been to our house, I'm sitting on the couch in the tv room and you know the chair next to it... well out of the corner of my eye I see something black and white (abe) bounce off of the chair and flying straight towards my head. By flying I mean arms up and in a flying position and the next thing I know hits me in the head his front arms/legs around my neck biting my ear. So I wrestle him a little and then put him on the ground. He ran away and about 60 seconds later the above has repeated itself. The cat can jump alright.

The Psalms

In my bible along these verses it reads:
The Fortunate People.
Who are the most fortunate people in the world? The psalmist tells us it's those who know the true source of joy and make it a practice to consciously rejoice in what they know. Ethan the Levite models this for us in all the preceding verses. To recall the astounding works of the Lord leads inevitably to spontaneous praise and exultation in his righteousness. We have a choice about where we will place our focus (Phil. 4:8). The psalmists show us not only that God demonstrates great compassion toward us when we are sunk in the mire of a negative perspective, but also how blessed we are when we learn to focus on God's attributes and works.

This put a huge conviction on me and how I've been acting lately. How much do I really reflect on the attributes of God? I think my worship has weakened because I fail in doing this daily and I am missing out on the joy he has had for me because my focus has been mostly on communication to God, not that this is a bad thing to have in my life it's been great but not all that was intended to be between me and God. We (I) say he is worthy of all our praise but what am I allowing my capacity to grow when I don't reflect on the great things of God or don't focus on them? How will my faith grow? I am challenged in this today and I just encourage you to think about who the God you are serving is. Wouldn't it make our days a little bit more exciting?

MacBook

Lots of fun for abe...

Vision.

We sang this song at church this morning and it stirred something in me. It's funny how my mind can get me so lost. For a while now I've been so upset about not being in Denmark. Nolan and I came here to be married and nothing else. I don't know why I've been so mad. My emotions took me to focus on what I had and now don't have. This song made me remember the Vision God gave me to come here and where will go after this. It challenged me in that moment to remember the bigger picture.

Isaiah 26:3 "You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you."

early.

But the kids were really cute today with the snow coming and going. They were so excited. I've been meaning to post pictures but I never remember my camera and the other day nolan reminded me but did not remind me to get the memory card so it was a waste of reminding. Plus I will have to show you our bunny. The new joy in my life. We got a bunny for our preschool room and he is HUGE. He's called a flemming giant, and he's about the size of chunky if you've met or seen pictures of him. I'll show you, just remind me to grab the whole camera tomorrow.

NEW: abe's corner

Abe has started to sleep with us well so we've been letting him more often than before. A couple days ago I woke up to him lying on his back (as usual) but under the covers like a human with his paws over the quilt like a sweet tucked in kitty. He tucked himself in like a human. His mouth is hanging open and snoring.... YES snoring! Nolan doesn't even snore.
Other human traits: Abe has also started to come in the shower with me. Yes I thought cats were not big fans of water too, but Abe seems to have no fear. He has been sprayed and yet continues to come in the shower to drink the water in the tub not caring of that fact that he is getting wet. I guess he just likes to be close, not wanting to miss out on whatever we are doing. Traits of a good kitty.