Comments on: Embracing Our Calling https://treasuringthemoments.net/2007/12/30/embracing-our-calling/ "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven" Ecc. 3:1 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: EagleHeights https://treasuringthemoments.net/2007/12/30/embracing-our-calling/#comment-2860 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:41:40 +0000 http://treasuringthemoments.net/2007/12/30/embracing-our-calling/#comment-2860 You are SUCH an inspiration and encouragement to me. I thank the Lord for you. I'm also absolutely amazed at how much we are on the same wave length, so to speak. Day before yesterday, I was having a discussion with my eldest daughter. I had given her a job that I knew she wasn't going to like, but needed to get done anyway. Before she even had a chance to have a reaction, I shared with her something I went through that morning. The kitchen has been somewhat a…. battle for me. I was grumbling in my spirit that it seems like no sooner do I get the kitchen nice and clean, then it's time to make another meal – thus messing it up again. That's when the Lord started dealing with me. I know that my place is in the kitchen…. "Then Lord, can you help me love that part of my job?" Remember the card I gave out? The one that I have stuck to my wall where I can see it everyday that says: "To be happy, don't do whatever you like, LIKE what ever you DO. The lights came on. The Lord was encouraging me.

Another thing that happened recently… Lyddie had an opportunity to work at the little sandwhich shop I had said – pretty recent – that I would let her work at. Well, the Lord put me to the test. The job was offered to her. I immediately said YES! Then…. after a few uncomfortable pricks, I began to realize that I hadn't even asked the Lord's will in this matter. But the more I thought about it, the more I knew this was NOT His will. It started making me have a sick feeling thinking of her working out of the home, so young, with unbelievers, piped into rock music all day, and …. away from us. I remembered when I first started working in a restaurant and how it changed me. This is not what I want for her. There is so much more to this, but I'm starting to write a book here.

Thank you for being you… You're so much loved here.

God bless you,

Love, joane

]]> By: kellieann https://treasuringthemoments.net/2007/12/30/embracing-our-calling/#comment-2859 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:49:19 +0000 http://treasuringthemoments.net/2007/12/30/embracing-our-calling/#comment-2859 Hmmm…interesting finds. My dd is 11, and I wholly admit that I am confused about her future. I was not raised at all like we are trying to raise her, so I find myself in new, strange territory sometimes as she grows and matures. Thanks for mentioning those titles!

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