There have been so many “technical difficulties” around here lately… if you are a normal visitor to my blog… you probably recognize that something is WRONG.  I finally did too!!!  If you are viewing this in IE… it looks nothing like if you are looking at it in FF.  Also, somehow, it has started randomizing which post it shows when you type in the address.  Its not showing the LATEST post.  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH… stupid irritating thing!  I had noticed for a few weeks now people were landing here posting comments on OLD posts and I thought… hmmm… normally they post on the newest post!  Thus also the reason why I haven’t closed the contest for the “Believe” bunting.  Most of you, who read us through reader, likely are seeing the posts in succession… if you hand enter the address…. you probably get (as of today) “8 weeks til Christmas” which today definitely is NOT.

So, my dearly beloved is working furiously to correct this problem.  Thank God I have a programmer for a husband!  LOL

At any rate…. I think its also safe to say that “I” am having technical difficulties!  I am normally a pretty creative (I think) and festive person and this year I have just had a mental block.  I am SO excited and LOVE the holidays in ways I cannot explain but this year, I just cannot find the motivation to get it together.  Last night I FINALLY took my tree skirt to be monogrammed (been on the list to do since oh say… September), and picked up some more coupon finds along with a few new laundry baskets ( I am a instituting a new method to the laundry room that is currently a PIT!).  There are so many things I WANT to do and trust me … my house looks like a bomb went off….  but I just cannot find the energy to do it.  I end up on the couch with the kids curled up and watching dora or sitting on the computer trying desperately to motivate myself to at least get some photographs proofed but no sooner than I open the program does a headache set in that grips my head, travels down my spine and ruins every muscle in my body.  I have never give a lot of thought into being “disabled” mostly because I guess I never thought it would happen to me…. now I sit here, the very definition of disabled, and it sucks.  I rarely have the energy to drive so I am honestly glad that we are down to one vehicle and even getting the energy to go out with the kids to dinner is a challenge.  I feel like I could use a good dose of speed.  My docs ask if I am depressed… honestly… no.  Unless its totally subconscious and I have no idea that I am and I am internalizing it and that is coming out in my ability to function.  But I generally think life is good, and beautiful and the holidays are here (they ARE the most wonderful time of the year after all!) and my house is close to being finished on our never ending list of remodeling tasks, and I am ready to bake and wrap and decorate and ….. I can’t find the energy to get off the couch.  And that sucks too.

So I have decided to try and combat these “exhausted” days with prayer.  I figure if people can have a prayer “diet” I can have a prayer kick in the pants motivator adrenaline rush!!

My prayer adrenaline rush for today is: PSALM 30

¹ I will exalt you, Lord, for you rescued me.
You refused to let my enemies triumph over me.
² O Lord my God, I cried to you for help,
and you restored my health.
³ You brought me up from the grave,^[a] O Lord.
You kept me from falling into the pit of death.

⁴ Sing to the Lord, all you godly ones!
Praise his holy name.
⁵ For his anger lasts only a moment,
but his favor lasts a lifetime!
Weeping may last through the night,
but joy comes with the morning.

I truly think that there is some form of clarity that comes from reading a passage in multiple translations.  There are many points of view from each translation of the Bible that can give insight to any situation at hand.  Hearing the scripture in another form, another translation sometimes helps one to pin point the “ah ha” moment that helps them apply the scripture to their life.  So I think its also important to read THIS scripture in “The Message” translation.  It is powerful to understand it in this way as well at the New Living Translation above.

¹ I give you all the credit, God— you got me out of that mess,
you didn’t let my foes gloat.

^2-3 God, my God, I yelled for help
and you put me together.
God, you pulled me out of the grave,
gave me another chance at life
when I was down-and-out.

^4-5 All you saints! Sing your hearts out to God!
Thank him to His face!
He gets angry once in a while, but across
a lifetime there is only love.
The nights of crying your eyes out
give way to days of laughter.

I have nothing to add… that pretty much says it all.  I would say that THIS translation is exactly how I would have translated this scripture into my own life.  He got me out of this MESS… He pulled me (and Kyleigh and Troy… and every human being for that matter) out of the grave!  But there is something still so true about the last line of this passage in the good old King James Version:

⁵For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

But JOY cometh in the morning.  Enough said……………

Today I am praying that I would be able to be filled with that Joy that is the breath of LIFE straight from our Heavenly Father.  I am praying that he breathes life into my soul and energy into my bones.  I am praying that He would allow me to be productive but most of all to be a BLESSING to anyone I come into contact with and in order that I should do that that He will remove from my bones their exhaustion and turn my mourning into DANCING.  That God will allow this morning and every morning ahead to be THE morning that the Joy comes.  For it to be the day in which beauty rises from the ashes.

Musical Inspiration of the day: Beauty will Rise- Steven Curtis Chapman

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