I LOVE FRIDAY!!

Oh Glory, Hallelujah!! Today is F-R-I-D-A-Y!!! I'm so happy. I love Fridays. I love the anticipation of the weekend. I like knowing when I wake up early to get the kids up for school that tomorrow I get to sleep in! I love knowing that the evening will be longer without early bedtimes. I love that the weekend will be full of time with the people I love best. So, I can really and truly say, "THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY!!!" I truly thank Him for getting us through another week. I truly thank Him for being with us and leading us to yet another Friday. Have you ever noticed how people are just in a better mood on Friday? You never hear someone say, "Oh well, it's Wednesday!", in response to something that has happened that might be negative. However, I don't know how many times I've heard someone say, "Oh well, it's Friday!" WHO CARES! Tomorrow is Saturday! Just like this morning, I went out to the super mini-van to take my kiddos to school. I was ready for them to GOOOOOO...so we were in the van early today. I pushed my handy dandy little button that's part of the console in my van that opens the garage and....nothing happened. So, I pushed it again...and then realized that the dome light was eerily dim. Just then, Mason said, "I turned the radio up in the van when we were playing yesterday!" Battery...dead. So normally the rush that ensued after that to figure a way to get them at school and all would have ruined my entire day...but nope. I just shrugged it off and told myself, "Today is FRIDAY!!"

This leads me to think, shouldn't I have this same attitude about each and every day? After all, is there a day of the week that is void of the Lord's creation? Shouldn't I rise everyday with an anticipation of what the day that the Lord has made will bring? I really should proclaim on a sleepy Monday morning..."Thank God It's Monday!!!"

I had my bible study group this morning (which I walked to, begrudgingly at first, but then realized it was a blessing, a GORGEOUS morning, and exercise!!) We reviewed this week's lesson and watched the taped session with Beth Moore. She was discussing the manna that I spoke about in yesterday's blog. She explained that God was not only seeking their daily obedience and dependence, he was seeking a daily relationship for them. Our daily bread is Jesus...and in order to fully experience Him, we must have relationship with God. We can't just follow the rules, we must enter into a relationship with our Lord. So, why do we often fight it? Why do we choose to take things into our own hands. She pointed out that our problem with that daily approach is that we are often full of pride and/or we are full of fear. It's scary to think that we are putting all our hope in God. What if He decides we aren't worthy? What if He doesn't come through? And that is where faith enters in...that believing in something that we cannot see.

So, back to the weekend...I am really excited for this weekend. First of all, thanks to my van battery, I get to start my weekend early with the Dan Man. He's going to ride in early this afternoon on his great white steed to rescue me...I'm the damsel in distress, get it? Anyway, then Mad is having a friend over to spend the night. We will get to sleep in tomorrow morning, as we have no where to go, Praise Jesus! And tomorrow night, we are going into Wichita to try out a church. It's a mega-type church...and it's not a Methodist church...a few years back, that would have been two strikes AGAINST it...now, it's sort of two checks in the pros side of things. We have a whole new outlook on what we "want" from a church...and that is really, nothing. We aren't coming with a long list of qualifications that they must meet. Our only real qualification is that we hear the truth of God, the Gospel, being shared and that it's biblically based. I have had a yearning in my heart for the last several months to be part of a worship service again. I miss the experience of standing among fellow believers with voices and arms raised. It will be fun. Some of our fellow wandering Methodist, misplaced in the last few months, have attended this church and really liked it. They have a five o'clock service on Saturday nights, so that fits us like a glove! We are also beginning a couple's group with some of our church friends. It's called, "Laughing Your Way to a Better Marriage", and it sounds like a lot of fun. Mostly, we are really looking forward to fellowship with some people that we haven't seen in a long while.

Good stuff.

I pray that the Lord blesses you this weekend. I hope that you will wake up each and every day and rejoice in what He is doing in your life. I hope that we will all remember to go out and collect the manna that He has offered to us.

Blessings!
Melissa