Spring

Today was a gorgeous spring-like day. I enjoyed it, which is a good thing since it's supposed to start raining in a day or two and get down cold enough to flurry. Gotta love Tennessee weather.
Where else can it be 65 one day and 35 the next?

I am going to the cabin tommorow. I think I'm going to leave in the morning and come back tom. evening. It's only about a 30 or 45 minute drive. I have the keys and can go back whenever I want. I may go back up for a part of a day later this week.

Today's sermon was equally good as last weeks, if not better. I had tears in my eyes before it was over. We watched the video "amazed." It was awesome. It ended with Jesus hanging on the cross. I haven't seen the Passion movie (I know I need to), if this video didn't show scenes from the movie than it closely resembled it. Then my preacher spoke on forgiveness again. This is the part that made me tear up. I again felt like he was speaking directly to me. He said that the only thing strong enough to carry the weight of hurt, betrayal, and bitterness (I hope I got that right) is God. The human body is not made to carry our problems and bad feelings around with us. It eats away at us and harms us. Thats why it's so important to forgive people who wrong you and then turn those feelings you have over to God. God is so perfect that he can bare all those things for us without it harming him.

My response to this is "I get it God." I know I need to work on forgiveness and giving some things over to God. I think that god knows I am stubborn so he makes me hear things more than once to make sure it sinks in. Two sermons in a row on forgiveness is probably not a coincidence.

I told Jonathan, the praise leader at my church, that I want to place membership today. He went with me to one of the shephards (elders) and I told him. So now I am a member of Stones River. Wednesday night I think I have to get the secretary or whoever handles membership to put my name on the members list, then it'll be official. I finally feel like I belong somewhere. now I just need to find an area to plug into (examples: teaching sunday school, praise team, choir, youth group etc...).

I'm not sure how God feels about praying for animals? I have finally decided that since God made them also, they are his creation and therefore can be prayed for. So tonight I want to pray for my cat, Abby. She has had a tummy upset problem (throwing up) since yesterday morning. She will be going to the vet first thing in the morning. I pray that she not cost too much and that she doesn't have anything seriously wrong with her.