Tuesday Words

Let's face it, I am not the most organized person in the world. Although reading some helpful tips and buying some things at the Container Store are helping my world become a little bit better. Even paying bills has become more efficient and organized until this morning. I was reading and heard from Roy's cell phone a voice that said, message received. I looked at the text and realized I hadn't paid this month's bill. So I got online to do so, I am not organized enough to remember our password and log in information. I grabbed my phone and made a call to customer service. The Lord gave me favor with such a nice representative as I explained that I was an idiot and merely overlooked paying the bill. It was due in that now I am retired and have no idea what the date of a day is time line. She got everything processed and we are good with Sprint. Whew... This afternoon I called Sallie Mae after repeated attempts to access our online account and it would not let me in. Roy took out student loans when he went to law school and because he was self employed during his law school years, we took out some pretty big loans to pay for school and living expenses. Through the years we have paid down a significant amount of the balance. We've also saved up some money and now are going to pay those loans off. You would think getting an amount in these bad financial times would be easy, but it was difficult to get any information out of the representative. I answered ALL the secret questions to verify that I am who I say I am yet no dice on an amount. While talking to her I kept playing around with the online account and finally just as I hung up the phone, the pay off amount appeared. Praise Him! I'll go old school and write a check because I don't know if I will ever get back into that website and I think it was God parting the waters on the Internet for me to get the balance.


I am reading this awesome book, The Attentive Life by Leighton Ford. Actually, I am on the second reading of it. It is that good. I was re-reading about Mary and Martha last night because he used them as an example. The ESV Bible has been my Bible of choice for about a year and was surprise to read this, "Mary has chosen the good portion." Suddenly it all began to make sense, Luke 10. I mean I have no problem understanding Martha at all and I get what Mary is doing, but not the full effect like Martha. Then reading portion and doing Beth's Bible study on inheritance, it all began to make sense. Mary is getting her inheritance listening to Jesus, she is getting HIM. Wow!!! Martha is just getting pulled apart and torn up. Jesus is telling Martha not to live on the circumference of life, merely reducing her activities but telling her to live at the center by refocusing her heart. This is why I am trying to pay attention and not miss the most important things like Martha was just about to do.


This morning was a good workout and I increased my time and level on the bike. Then in strength training, a few more machines were added to my regimen.

Buddy just woke up from her morning nap. She'll probably be up for 20 minutes and then it will be time to start her afternoon nap. I might just join her.