Does Revelation 12 Confirm The Blood Moon 2014 Timeline?

I don't know if this persons timeline is what will happen, but it really made me think. If I really only have a week left on earth how will I want to spend it? Who will I want to spend time with? How will I want to speak to others? I strongly believe the end times are here, and I don't know if that means today, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, or several years but it will be soon. How do I want to spend my time? I want to live my life as if every day is my last, so when my last comes I don't have as many regrets. I want to love on my husband and kids. I want to share Jesus' love with others. The video made me think, I hope it makes you think too. 

~Lizz

Finding joy, despite failure

Hey,
  Sorry I haven't posted in so long. My husband isn't really a fan of blogs, and I have debated posting or just deleting it. I am horrible at writing, spelling, and grammar! So I am going to use this to try to get better and also as a space to encourage other women. Anyway...

  I love being around happy people! I always have and probably always will. I was watching Amazing Race season 17 recently with my girls, and God used my favorites (Nat & Kat, the winners), who based on a comment they made I am assuming are not christians, to convict me. The thing that I liked about them is that they were almost always smiling! I realized that Jesus was probably someone like that! I don't think people would be flocking around him and want to be with him if he was like the pharisees, and was always so focused on every little tiny thing that he was a downer! I think Jesus was an absolute lover of people! I think He found joy in the little things! I am attempting to smile and find joy more, because I want to be like Jesus!

  Within a day of that realization I stumbled across a blog (http://theorangerhino.com/) by a mom who decided to not yell at her kids for one year (and made it a lot longer!). Talk about conviction! I yell at my kids a lot! Most of the time when I yell at my kids it's just to be heard over them, but not always. And that makes me sad! It's hard to type that and realize that people are going to read that. I don't want everyone to know that I yell at my kids! I want to be viewed as a great mom, but I've realized that we tend to hide our failures and shortcomings and publish our successes and that doesn't always help others. I have felt like a failure so often because when I complain ask for advice about my kids people around me tend to tell me how their kids are never that bad or never do anything like that. The most encouraging person I've talked to about my kids told me that all kids struggle with something or another, most parent's try to hide it to make themselves look like better parents, but all kids sin! They sin just like we do! It's all about grace! As parents we should come alongside each other and encourage each other, instead of trying to build ourselves up we should be building each other up. So, I will admit that I yell to at my kids, but I am changing that. Some days I succeed  and other days I don't go an hour all day without failure. But every day, every hour, every minute, I am trying to choose to be gracious, loving, tenderhearted, joyful, and soft spoken towards my kids.

I am off to yell less and smile more :-)

Lizz

Big Girl Panties

I've been fighting with baby blues for a couple of months now, and I will have times feeling no desire to get out of bed in the morning. I mean, I can feed Nate without getting out of bed, I can change his diaper without leaving bed, so why get up?  The girls will get into things and make messes with or without me around, so what's the point?
  I started feeling like just going back to bed a couple of hours ago, and I did. I didn't feel like my family would even notice. As I watched Nate playing on the bed in front of me I thought "come on, put on your big girl panties, get up, go make dinner, and pretend to be happy!" I then realized that I didn't want to! I wanted to take my big girl panties, burn them, and throw a pity party! A big pity party, with loads of chocolate and coffee! Then I heard the Holy Spirit's little voice reminding me that when I am weak Jesus is better able to show me His strength.

2 Corinthians 12:9 "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me."

So although throwing a pity party is wrong and hiding in my room for the sake of essentially pouting is wrong, feeling exhausted isn't wrong, feeling weak isn't wrong, and wanting chocolate isn't wrong! As long as I look to God above all else and I remember his promises, at the end of the day I think I'm doing pretty good!


~L