Family Chaos
Where do I begin?
I have only been home for a few minutes, the dogs are snoring, Tall Man in on the couch cuddling his phone, I know that the Professor already informed me that the best part of her weekend was finding her own bed, SnackPack is reading a book for class tomorrow, and all is quiet. Not that I have missed the quiet, but it is nice. The past few days have been a bit chaotic. I am surprised how much I let it get to me. I apologize to those who perceived it as something else, but I was just getting a bad case of cabin fever. I had to get out. I had to be doing something. But getting out felt like it was sending the wrong message. I guess I did either way. This weekend was the tail end of a week long vacation. I was starting to go nuts. I realize, again, that I need to work on the part of me.
So, now you ask, what's on your mind? Or maybe you just don't care. Many of you who will be reading this post have spent the past few days with me and are probably glad to be rid of me. If that is the case, close the email, jump to the bottom, or just delete me from your contacts. It is all your choice. I am going to try to share where my thoughts have gone. I will warn you know, they may be very similar to last weeks.
I have really been pondering Romans 8:16-17. My thought have been more on 16 that 17, though the thought of being an heir and joint-heir is thrilling to think about, my thoughts were drawn to being a witness along side The Spirit. This does not say that The Spirit bears witness to us, but with us or we with him. Together, we stand as two witnesses that we are indeed children of God.
What does that mean?
First, to bear: To hold up; support or To hold firm or remain firm under stress/load.
Together with The Spirit, we are holding firm, supporting the knowledge that we already have (spiritually) that we are children of God. He is our Father.
Second, who are we bearing this for? If the Spirit knows, and we (a spirit) knows, who do we need to hold firm for under stress/load? Why is this such a hard concept for other to recognize?
I was reading from the New Era this week and found an article "My Search for Truth" explaining this. The author of this article did not know what she was missing, why she was missing it, but she knew that she was needing something more. The witness was there, she just did not know how to see or understand it. She was raised in a home, culture, or environment where everything she was taught was to taught to ignore feeling and just base everything on facts, figures, and Darwinism for the most part. She was growing up in a vicious world and needed to be prepared to win at all costs. Yet her heart was feeling something different.
So back to my question, who are we, The Spirit and our spirit, bearing witness to? The Natural Man, our mortal bodies, the flesh, or what ever you want to call it. We have been sent here to Earth to learn to overcome the Natural Man, not overthrow, but teach and bear up that together, we may be like our Father. He has learned to master both body and spirit.
If we do so, we become Sons and Daughters of God. Not just spirit children, but physically as well. Think about it. Are you feeding your self spiritually that you will be able to BEAR the weight of such witness with The Spirit? What Lack Ye? These are the questions that have been going through my head. As you can note, I lack much, but hold fast to the faith and hope that I will be able to overcome such lacking.
Enough rambling.
This week has been busy.
The Queen has also been on vacation. She spent a great deal of her time finishing or preparing holiday gifts. I believe we have most of the ideas and she has completed most of the projects, at least for the nieces and nephews. Now on to the adults and family.
The Professor has been off track, but busy, busy, busy. She spent all of Tuesday observing for her roll as student, and then had to put it all together to share with others.
Tall Man has been spending every possible waking moment with his Ehl-Bo before she headed off to school. It has been an emotional roller coaster to say the least.
SnackPack has done all to make the best of a short school week, get trained for his new job, and make the most of our weekend get away.
Speaking of weekend get away, we all took some time to be with Grams and Gramps down south. They were released on Wednesday. It has been a bitter-sweet experience. They are not sure what to do with themselves. We drove down on Thursday and spent some time celebrating 55 years together with them. They are not sure they will be back from their road trip before their actual anniversary. It was a fun weekend. I am still amazed that we all fit under one roof and still have most hairs attached.
The weekend was topped off with a proposal for the Archuletta's to start their own 55 years. Shout out to both of them.
That is about all for this week, you know were go come for answers to what you don't understand.
Have a great week!
I have only been home for a few minutes, the dogs are snoring, Tall Man in on the couch cuddling his phone, I know that the Professor already informed me that the best part of her weekend was finding her own bed, SnackPack is reading a book for class tomorrow, and all is quiet. Not that I have missed the quiet, but it is nice. The past few days have been a bit chaotic. I am surprised how much I let it get to me. I apologize to those who perceived it as something else, but I was just getting a bad case of cabin fever. I had to get out. I had to be doing something. But getting out felt like it was sending the wrong message. I guess I did either way. This weekend was the tail end of a week long vacation. I was starting to go nuts. I realize, again, that I need to work on the part of me.
So, now you ask, what's on your mind? Or maybe you just don't care. Many of you who will be reading this post have spent the past few days with me and are probably glad to be rid of me. If that is the case, close the email, jump to the bottom, or just delete me from your contacts. It is all your choice. I am going to try to share where my thoughts have gone. I will warn you know, they may be very similar to last weeks.
I have really been pondering Romans 8:16-17. My thought have been more on 16 that 17, though the thought of being an heir and joint-heir is thrilling to think about, my thoughts were drawn to being a witness along side The Spirit. This does not say that The Spirit bears witness to us, but with us or we with him. Together, we stand as two witnesses that we are indeed children of God.
What does that mean?
First, to bear: To hold up; support or To hold firm or remain firm under stress/load.
Together with The Spirit, we are holding firm, supporting the knowledge that we already have (spiritually) that we are children of God. He is our Father.
Second, who are we bearing this for? If the Spirit knows, and we (a spirit) knows, who do we need to hold firm for under stress/load? Why is this such a hard concept for other to recognize?
I was reading from the New Era this week and found an article "My Search for Truth" explaining this. The author of this article did not know what she was missing, why she was missing it, but she knew that she was needing something more. The witness was there, she just did not know how to see or understand it. She was raised in a home, culture, or environment where everything she was taught was to taught to ignore feeling and just base everything on facts, figures, and Darwinism for the most part. She was growing up in a vicious world and needed to be prepared to win at all costs. Yet her heart was feeling something different.
So back to my question, who are we, The Spirit and our spirit, bearing witness to? The Natural Man, our mortal bodies, the flesh, or what ever you want to call it. We have been sent here to Earth to learn to overcome the Natural Man, not overthrow, but teach and bear up that together, we may be like our Father. He has learned to master both body and spirit.
If we do so, we become Sons and Daughters of God. Not just spirit children, but physically as well. Think about it. Are you feeding your self spiritually that you will be able to BEAR the weight of such witness with The Spirit? What Lack Ye? These are the questions that have been going through my head. As you can note, I lack much, but hold fast to the faith and hope that I will be able to overcome such lacking.
Enough rambling.
This week has been busy.
The Queen has also been on vacation. She spent a great deal of her time finishing or preparing holiday gifts. I believe we have most of the ideas and she has completed most of the projects, at least for the nieces and nephews. Now on to the adults and family.
The Professor has been off track, but busy, busy, busy. She spent all of Tuesday observing for her roll as student, and then had to put it all together to share with others.
Tall Man has been spending every possible waking moment with his Ehl-Bo before she headed off to school. It has been an emotional roller coaster to say the least.
SnackPack has done all to make the best of a short school week, get trained for his new job, and make the most of our weekend get away.
Speaking of weekend get away, we all took some time to be with Grams and Gramps down south. They were released on Wednesday. It has been a bitter-sweet experience. They are not sure what to do with themselves. We drove down on Thursday and spent some time celebrating 55 years together with them. They are not sure they will be back from their road trip before their actual anniversary. It was a fun weekend. I am still amazed that we all fit under one roof and still have most hairs attached.
The weekend was topped off with a proposal for the Archuletta's to start their own 55 years. Shout out to both of them.
That is about all for this week, you know were go come for answers to what you don't understand.
Have a great week!
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