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Name: Kristie
Gender: Female
Interests: Jesus, Chad, MB, Noah
Expertise: the needs, wants, passions, likes, and dislikes of my husband...or at least I'm trying to be an expert.
Occupation: Jesus, Chad, & two great kids
Industry: Kingdom advancement
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Member Since:
4/11/2007
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| Religious? Yes, I religiously brush my teeth, make my bed, eat breakfast, workout at the gym... Faith? YES! By God's grace, through my faith (however, without His grace, I would have no faith) in the substitutionary death of Jesus as the penalty for my sin--His resurrection from the dead that overcame the power of sin and death--and the arrival of Christ's promise of the Holy Spirit's comfort and help...I have life! Without it, my life would merely be existence!
The relationship I enjoy with Jesus Christ, the only source of PERFECT love, gives me a reason to live, to breathe, to hope, to serve, to care! Without Him, I'd be all about me...and that would be completely sad!
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| So...finally, the time has come! We started seriously working on potty training w/ Noah this week. I think he did GREAT for his first week (his was MUCH easier than his sister's first week was). I put him in big boy underwear at 9 this morning, and he went all day (until 9 tonight) with NOT EVEN a "dribble" in the drawers! He did put on a pull-up for nap time, but he kept his little green briefs dry all day! So, anyway--tonight, he went to the potty right before he got into the shower, and he decided that instead of sitting down to pee like he'd been doing all week, he'd try to stand up and aim like Daddy. He stood on a little step stool, lifted the seat, and got ready to aim and "fire," when the stool slid out from under him, and my sweet boy who had stayed dry all day landed the entire upper half of his body IN the toilet! It was pitiful, and cold, and nasty--and he CRIED...but it was also rather funny! Still, I'm so proud of him for doing a great job today! YAY, Noah! :) | | |
| Wow...what's up round here these days? We are reading Proverbs (the chapter that corresponds w/ the day of the month) and the book of Titus as a family and as a church this week, and wow! I'm loving it!!! Titus is full of good stuff (WOWIE...how far our culture has run from the "Titus 2" mandate!), and Proverbs...well, if only we took some of that stuff into consideration before jumping into some irrational plan or activity or attitude...it is time to wise up! This week--MB is getting ready for her first ballet recital...fun stuff. She also just had a very "deep" conversation with her daddy as they read Proverbs 13 together, and I got to eavesdrop...her ultimate conclusion: "Girls who aren't very wise get lots of spankings." nuff said. Noah-boy is potty training...first poo in the potty today--what a celebration we had! This morning as I was checking e-mail, Noah came up to me with the decorative metal cross from our entryway table, and he asked, "Mommy, who died on dis cwoss for aw hins...was it God?" And I replied, "Well, Noah, Jesus died on the cross for our sins because He loves us SO much!" And, my favorite part: Noah, with a very serious look of approval on his 3 year old face, encourages me--"Dat's wite, Mommy...Dood job!" I was so excited that he looked at that cross and immediately thought of Christ's atonement for our sins! And I was so smitten by his cute little expressions. Man, I love that boy! And I love what God is doing in his little life! Lord, thank you for the privilege and the grace to be a parent. Thanks for making it more "fun" than "not fun" for me! May I ever strive to please You, Lord, in the way I communicate with, and train up, my children to be lovers of God! | | |
| Okay, once again, I have "overbooked" myself...some days, I feel like being a wife and mom is booking myself enough... This week: Saturday I got back from a Living Proof Live gathering with Beth Moore and thousands of ladies who love Jesus! It was incredible--and very refreshing! The gathering happened this past weekend, and I came home motivated to APPREHEND all that Christ has APPREHENDED me for (Philippians 3)! On Sunday, I met a long-time friend at church and helped get her little darling all situated in the nursery. Then I was blessed to hear a wonderful testimony from my sister Jackie and a great sermon from Mike Russell. I waited around most all day after church for my daughter to get back from a camping trip I had NO IDEA she was going on when departed for Living Proof. I got home, and found out that my five year old had gone out-of-town to CAMP in a TENT...at a STATE PARK...TWO HOURS AWAY...IN PANAMA CITY BEACH...DURING THE INFAMOUS "SPRING BREAK" SEASON...OVERNIGHT... with her Mimi, Uncle Allen, and cousin Langley (the same kid who explained to her "where babies come from" when she was but 4 years old). She had a ball, but the mommy in me was a basketcase waiting for her to get home. On Monday, I don't really know what I did...mostly house work, but it seemed like a ridiculously overwhelming task yesterday...I have no idea why (maybe b/c I was rather sleep-deprived, and b/c I was busy thinking about all the stuff I have to get done this week...all the while, I could hear Beth Moore going--"Stop the DREAD: Daily Rehearsing Every Advance Defeat!"). Anyway, my head was all-to-ready to hit the pillow last night. Today, I've been cooking most of the day. I'm preparing dinner for 2 families from church tonight (one family just had a baby...the other has a son who just broke his neck in a car accident), and I must say, I have created the most delicious salad to go with the meal (this makes enough for 12 people): 2 bags triple-washed-ready-to-eat baby spinach, 3 thinly sliced green onions, 1 can mandarin oranges-drained with juice reserved for dressing, 1 small bag walnut pieces, 1 jar real bacon pieces, 1/2 container crumbled Feta cheese with garlic and herbs...topped with dressing: juice from the mandarin oranges, 2 Tbsp. "E.V.O.O.", 1 cup store-bought balsamic vinegarette. We also have a birthday party for my sis-in-law tonight AFTER M.B. goes to see "Horton Hears a Who" with her grandfather and cousins. Guess I'll deliver the meals with the "Red Rooster" while they're at the movies. Tomorrow, I MUST finish writing my Show & Tell units for April (which are to start THIS Sunday)...I'm struggling to put the story of Esther into "three year old" appropriate terms. Lord, please help! Thursday, Chad and I depart for Mobile for 4 days of helping a Sister in the Lord (an amazing woman of God) with some repair and maintenence on her property. The kids will stay with the Grammy and the Papa, and they are sure to have a blast! So are we! :) Then, I get back and FINISH getting together all the thousand details of the "Miss Patty Cake" Rose Festival community outreach project. And, then there's ballet carpool, children's musical rehearsal, and start-up of a local charitable organization to minister to children. I'm so DIZZY...my head is spinnin'...I don't know who really sings that song (I always hear my buddy LRE singing it when it plays in my head)...but for now, I must go back to the basics...time to change a poopy diaper!!!! | | |
| While Chad and I did communicate a LOT by e-mail when we first got engaged, surfing the net for a fling is one thing (hallelujah!) neither of us has struggled with. Still, I get these "Marriage Builder" e-mail devotionals from Jimmy Evans at www.marriagetoday.org, and this is the January 6th edition. It blows me away: Dear Kristie, Recently, I wrote a letter to our MarriageToday partners and in it I told them about a couple from the U.K. who got divorced in a very strange manner. Without each other knowing, they were both surfing the internet and communicating intimately with people of the opposite sex. Interestingly, on the same day they both simultaneously found their "soul mates" online and decided to meet them in person. The shock of their lives occurred when they met and realized they had been communicating with each other!
That’s right, both of them were basically cheating on each other with each other. It sounds really weird, because it is. Even worse, realizing what they had both done, each of them felt betrayed by the other and decided to divorce. I guess it would be like two bank robbers trying to figure out if they could trust each other.
I was struck by the story of this couple for a number of reasons. First, how the internet has made emotional adultery common and convenient. I know of quite a number of couples who have divorced because their spouse cheated on them with someone they met on the internet. With this technology before us, every married person must decide to be as faithful while surfing as they would be in any other setting. Any time we communicate with a person of the opposite sex, it should be done in an accountable and appropriate manner.
The story of the British couple also interested me because of how they fell for each other online, but were unhappy in person. This is the old "grass is greener on the other side" scenario with a new twist. The grass they thought was greener was actually the grass in their own yard being shown to them from a different perspective.
What this couple was doing with each other online was what they did when they first fell in love; they were putting their best foot forward, working to communicate and being sensitive to the other. Even though they had gotten lazy in their real life marriage they found great solace in illicitly swooning each other electronically.
In seminars, I tell couples that when the grass looks greener on the other side, it’s time to water your own yard. I also tell them that even though the grass looks greener from a distance, you can be assured that there are numerous weeds and "poop" in that lawn you can’t see until you get close. We need to wise up in marriage. Everyone looks better when you only see them at work, church or on a social basis. Online, people can invent any persona they desire. It is fantasy and anyone who falls for it deserves what they get like the couple in the U.K.
I want to encourage you in two ways. First, be faithful to your spouse physically, mentally and emotionally. Secondly, work at your marriage and don’t get lazy. A humdrum relationship can be transformed by simply doing what you did when you first fell in love. Say and do something special for your spouse. Remember how you worked at the relationship and pursued each other at the beginning. It not only works when you fall in love, it works when you fall back in love. Blessings,
Jimmy Evans  I just love the quote: "When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it's time to water your own yard." Amen! Lord, thank you for sending Your rain to our marriage, and please pour down afresh upon the marriages of all I know and love!
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