Carole's Blog

I am so excited to be starting a new blog. Why did I have to start over? I`m not sure really, I guess it`s just my personality, new thoughts deserve a new notebook, and a new pen no matter how many old ones you have sitting around half used. The good thing about starting a new blog is that there are no old ones to leave behind because you delete them.

Everything new, everything clean, so let`s get started. OOPS, a smear, a mark, tear out that page, delete that post. let`s start again; Ready? More clean paper, a new pen of course and a new blog post box. Oh man, just dragged my hand over what I wrote and smeared the ink, tear out that page again and again and again. Ever notice how life can be like that? A new day, a new beginning and then we drag our old baggage over a moment and wish we could delete the whole day. Instead, we develop defense mechanisms that eventually turn into bondage and captivity. Captivity is defined by Beth Moore in her Bible study, "Breaking Free", as anything that keeps us from having the abundant life God has planned for us.


Yesterday was very busy but also very rewarding. I was up early making several pots of coffee for our Tuesday morning bible study. I also needed to put some things in my study notes that I had thought about after going to bed. The morning was chilly and as I carried the carafes of coffee to the car I noticed I could actually see my breath in the cool air. I hoped it would not take the car long to warm up as I sat down on the cold leather seat. I prayed for our study and then put in a worship CD and started singing. I pulled up to the stop light and as I helped the singers finish one of my favorite worship songs I turned in time to see the guy on side of me staring at me. I had to laugh as I thought to myself, "Beth would have put the window down and serenaded that man".

We are studying Breaking Free by Beth Moore and it is amazing. This week was really thought provoking and challenging. We had wonderful snacks and coffee. During the video time I walked down to the nursery to see how the workers were doing. There were so many kids I ended up staying to help. It wasn`t long before a blessing came along in the form of a sleepy little boy. I picked him up and sat down to rock him and within a few minutes he was asleep. I thought, "What a privilege it is to rock this little one". After all the moms came and went with their babies I cleaned up and went to lunch with one of my good friends, Ethel. I love being around Ethel, we always have soooo much to talk about and I can tell her anything and know I won`t be judged and she is also my shopping buddy. After lunch I called my daughter and praise God she feels better. I went home with all the intentions of scrapbooking but just as I settled down to look for pictures to scrap, I heard the familiar little voices of Em and Si calling for me and my heart melted. I spent the next hour walking in the woods, laughing at the girls trying to keep their crackers away from Bella, my Schnauzer. I walked with Lis and the girls to their home and we played ABC`s. It just amazes me that they already know the ABC's by sight. Later that evening Virgil and I went over to watch the girls help mom and dad carve pumpkins. Then I got the privilege of helping to put them to bed, watching them pray to Jesus and after lots of hugs and kisses and I love yous, I closed the door, I stopped out side the door for a minute and thought, "What a blessing" and all of a sudden I felt very close to God.