Rainbows

1 admonition(s) by yours truly maritesser around 1:34 PM


Interesting lately at work...

We've gone through restructuring a few times in the last 6 years and wasn't particularly phased by it until now... We had a big meeting about the changes to rapidly take place...in a nutshell will know where we are by Sept 1, 2K8. Since the announcements, I can totally understand that feelings of anxiety, fear, frustration and so much more surface...but really...DO THEY HAVE TO SNAP AT ME?




Not sure if I'm being overly sensitive, but DANG...I don't know HOW MUCH MORE I CAN TAKE...please pray for me to remain civil and understanding of where people are coming from.




Thank GOD for forwards (never thought I'd say that) but got this one from someone who NEVER sends forwards...gave me hope =)


The most beautiful rainbow As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back. Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.


 

Parents and Marriages...

0 admonition(s) by yours truly maritesser around 1:51 PM

Got a chance to serve last weekend as part of the sponsoring class for Marriage Encounter 31...what a beautiful experience. It was with so much joy that I was able to serve side by side with the man the Lord created and hand picked to be my life partner and father of my children.

ugh...its funny...people think the grass is greener when you are married when in fact its just as challenging as being single...as it get more complicated when you have children. But God is good, whether single or married...He meets our needs when we let Him.

As usual, the encounters are crazy emotional...my prayer to the Lord during one quiet moment was here I am Lord, waiting on your word...what is your message to me. As I was kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament...PS 130 was ringing over and over...and so I read it...

Lord, hear my cry! May your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.
If you, LORD, mark our sins, Lord, who can stand?
But with you is forgiveness and so you are revered.
I wait with longing for the LORD, my soul waits for his word.
My soul looks for the Lord more than sentinels for daybreak.
More than sentinels for daybreak,
let Israel look for the LORD, For with the LORD is kindness, with him is full redemption,
And God will redeem Israel from all their sins.

I was like wow...like yea...that's my prayer right now.

With the ME was I was emotional, reminded of my dad...and how this weekend touched my father's heart as it set a new path of healing for him and my parent's marriage and our family. To think...this was where it all started, our growth in the Lord.

I went on reading to PS 131 and 132...bot Psalms of David...My pop's name is "David"...

LORD, my heart is not proud; nor are my eyes haughty. I do not busy myself with great matters, with things too sublime for me. Rather, I have stilled my soul, hushed it like a weaned child. Like a weaned child on its mother's lap, so is my soul within me. Israel, hope in the LORD, now and forever.

This is what moved me most...
LORD, remember David and all his anxious care;
How he swore an oath to the LORD, vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
"I will not enter the house where I live, nor lie on the couch where I sleep;
I will give my eyes no sleep, my eyelids no rest,
Till I find a home for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob." ***My Pop's prayer at Marriage Encounter #6
"We have heard of it in Ephrathah; we have found it in the fields of Jaar.
Let us enter God's dwelling; let us worship at God's footstool."
"Arise, LORD, come to your resting place, you and your majestic ark.
Your priests will be clothed with justice; your faithful will shout for joy."
For the sake of David your servant, do not reject your anointed.
The LORD swore an oath to David, a pledge never to be broken:
"Your own offspring I will set upon your throne.
If your sons observe my covenant, the laws I shall teach them,
Their sons, in turn, shall sit forever on your throne." *** The Lord's promise to my Pop and the blessing upon we, his children =) how that brought JOY to my heart...
Yes, the LORD has chosen Zion, desired it for a dwelling:
"This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I desire it. ***The Lord is telling me my Pop is in home, in HEAVEN...*twinkle in my eye and over flowing with peace...
I will bless Zion with meat; its poor I will fill with bread. ***The Lord's providence for us for choosing life with Christ...
I will clothe its priests with blessing; its faithful shall shout for joy.
There I will make a horn sprout for David's line; I will set a lamp for my anointed.
His foes I will clothe with shame, but on him my crown shall gleam."

WHAT a weekend =)

 

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PET PEAVES!!!

1 admonition(s) by yours truly maritesser around 10:37 AM

1. Rude front desk staff of medical/dental offices
Is it really that bad? That some front desk people, in particularly Receptionists that they have to be sooooooo OBNOXIOUS? Is it necessary to be short and rude? I guess not considering they don't own the business but just REPRESENT the business? Makes you want to seek services from other businesses. What's up with that?

2. Disposable Paper Toilet Seat Covers
I totally appreciate the facilities department- HOWEVER, what's up with stuffing ALL the paper toilet seat covers into it's dispenser to the point where you go to pull them out and THEY RIPP because its stuck? Its like the WORST THING EVER when you really gotta pee!

3. Know it all New-Hires
Whenever I am being trained or learning something new, in particularly in work, I try to let the person FINISH and explain everything to have a better understanding. Following the presentation...I'll ask questions or express concerns. How is a person who has been sitting in their cube for all of a hot second working on their first project in an industry they NEVER EVER had to deal with possibly know in 2.5 days the nature of the target market? Or know how to navigate through the company's CRM and order entry systems...If they are a genius, then heck, they need to find a job elsewhere. HOW YOU EVEN GONNA?

Is it me??? Maybe it IS me!!!

 

I am the Vine, you are the branches...

0 admonition(s) by yours truly maritesser around 3:17 PM

"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.
He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and everyone that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit. You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you.
Remain in me, as I remain in you.
Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.
Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you. By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.
"I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
This is my commandment:
love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
I no longer call you slaves,
because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
This I command you: love one another.
John 15:1-17


I have not laughed as hard as I did Saturday night and Sunday morning...ever. Peace, love and joy...Such love...
to be filled...here I am Lord, ready to do your will...
He breathed life into me...restored my heart and mind...
Utterly a new creation.
He truly is the vine...and I am a branch...I choose life to remain in Him to bear much fruit...
argh...I'm in LOVE
I keep giggling!

 

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