WOO HOO! What a week!!! It has been busy....but very blessed, too! We are SOOOO excited.....today Ambs (our 22 year old daughter) is coming home. Her trip home will be quick, and then she and Clay (dh) will be driving her furniture/clothes up to Washington DC, and then Clay will fly back home on Thursday morning, and Ambs will go back to work that morning, too.

You know, God has been speaking a lot to me about TRUTH......especially HIS Truth. John 14:6 says, (NASB): Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. Jesus says that He is THE way, THE truth and THE life.

I was always taught by my parents, that I would get in a whole lot less trouble, if I would always TELL THE TRUTH! What do we define truth as......a recall of facts, right? But is that really TRUTH? The above Scripture tells us that TRUTH is a person......Jesus Christ! I'm also learning, in this journey that Clay and I are on together, that facts are not always TRUTH! A doctor can give you a report, it can be written in black and white and the tests run and re-run, but 1 Peter 2:24 (NASB) says:
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. So, I am learning that we have to seek HIS Truth (Jesus) with all that we are, and let HIM transform our minds, and teach us HIS ways, which are so much higher than our own (Is. 55:9). I am reading a book that Ambs' pastor, Mark Batterson, wrote, called In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day, (awesome read, and highly recommended!). Anyway, Chapter 3 talks about that 1/2 of learning is learning, but the other 1/2 of learning is UN-learning. Mark even mentions that Jesus spent more time trying to help others UN-learn rather than teaching. WOW! How true! So I am trying to allow God, through the Holy Spirit to help me UN-learn things that have been set up in mind as truth and facts, and transform me so that I can truly begin to operate in and have the mind of Christ. GO GOD!

Enough of this sermon (more later, though!).

Have a super-blessed weekend and holiday......we're gonna!

God's love & mine,
Nonnie
aka Lauren