My Biggest Lesson

God has been teaching me one lesson in the past few months: Forgiveness.

I wish I didn't have to learn this lesson. I hate it. I really hate it. 

I have learned some valuable truths about Forgiveness.

1- It's hard very hard. 
2- It requires a supernatural power from God. 
3- The prisoner it frees, is you. 

I want to write and write about this topic but I do not feel like I am able. I do not have the words to describe how the God has changed my life because of this. What I do know is that if I do not forgive I am a hypocrite and a liar in my faith. I know that the world knows me by how I forgive. I know that God has forgiven me beyond what I ever deserve and if I claim to by follower of Him, I should forgive the way he has forgiven me.

I will leave you with a new song from Matthew West called "Forgiveness" He was inspired by a woman who forgave a man who killed her daughter while he was driving under the influence. 

Another Saturday

Saturday's are just magical. I am not sure if it is because they come after a long work week or if it's just because I put so much emphasize on Saturday's in our house.

This Saturday Roger and I had big plans. We were going to sleep in, enjoy a nice breakfast, and then go shopping. 

We did sleep in but I only made it until 8 until my body was screaming it is time to get up. We enjoyed a nice big breakfast together. Roger was able to order his school books and save us a ton of money so that was a wonderful surprised. After cooking breakfast, Roger even cleaned the entire kitchen. Man I love that guy!

I snuck in a quick conversation with Jeanne and found out how wonderful our God is. He has provided for them in just perfect ways and I was so glad she called. I also got to  hear my nephew Jaxon's voice and honestly I had to hold back tears until I got off the phone. There are days where it really hits me that I am far away from him and his brother. I really miss those boys. I mean really really miss them. But I got it together so Roger and I could enjoy our day ahead.

We ran around like crazy people shopping for curtains, desks, school supplies, school clothes for Jaxon,  night stands, Christmas shopping and a number of other items. I am laughing because I was standing in the store holding up some curtains for Roger to look at and he said "babe, no one is going to judge you if our curtains don't match in every room." Let me tell you what, that man is stretching me, he also some other comments about patience and what really matters. 

We scored some great deals on some back to school items for Jaxon and also for Roger. We found some great picture frames at the thrift store and even found Jaxon a warm up UNC jacket. After all the running around, Roger treated me to lunch. It was really a great day up until 4PM....

When we got home, we discovered that the desk we purchased had a crack in the top so it needed to be returned. Roger refused to return it after being out all day and I refused to let it sit in the apartment. We fought like children, it was childish really childish but Roger so graciously offered to help me take it back. I apologized for being so demanding and he apologized as well. We thought that was the end of until we actually had to put the stupid thing together. Talk about patience! It took us 2 hours to get all the pieces together. It's together and I will never buy something else that requires assembly. (Ok, maybe I will but not for a few years...)

So that was our Saturday. God is continuing to work in our lives and we are continuing to trust Him with what He has given us. We both feel blessed, so blessed. God is good to us and we do not deserve His goodness and kindness and yet He still gives it.

Let me leave you with a few pictures our new office!!

This is the frame I scored for 2 bucks! It had several marks on it but I repainted it and now you would never know! I didn't want to put pictures of us in it since it was hanging in the guest room so I filled it with black and whites  of the ocean from our honeymoon. Cute right? :)

This is the shelf that came with the desk. We finally have a place to store all our books and some of Roger's trophies like his signed Red Sox baseball and a very cool black and white picture of some baseballs. I am very happy with it!

And of course the desk, man what a pain but now it looks great. We got  great deal on school supplies and the awesome bulletin board you see hanging. I also had to hang Roger's sign from his mom because well I really believe he needs to feel like this is his office too. Yes, there are two calendars in our office, I mean seriously I can't just work with one! Over all, very pleased!!