Making dinner, cleaning house, watching tv

So right now I should be cleaning the house up while dinner is cooking in the oven, but instead I am watching tv and typing a blog. At this current moment I feel that the blog is more important because I have the gumption to actually write one! Anyways, this week kirstin and I made a fake stick and berry arrangement for a vase this week. It turned out prettty nice. I have to say it was kind of fun putting together the various colors, shapes, and textures. I know, it seems kind of fem for a male to do, but I guess that is just who I am! Haha.

OK, so maybe something more product in my blog...today I put in for a new job at my current place of work. If I get the job I will be able to do some more professional work. Although it is not managment level or anything, I will still be able to develope some of my management skills. The pay will be increased by a little, which is a plus. I am not sure when I am going to get interviewed and then who knows if I will even get the job. Worth a try I guess. I am still apply to hospital jobs and to no avail...but I guess I will keep on trying. Who knows maybe one will go through for me. I just need to be trusting the Lord and keeping my eyes on Him!

This past weekend I went shopping for Kirstin's birthday gifts! It was fun...In fact I could not wait to her birthday so I made her open one of her gifts already...haha. I am worse than she is about it and the gifts are for her and not me. lol. I can't wait to give her the rest of her gifts...hehe. Anyways, Kirstin is going away this weekend to visit her frieind in MN. So I guess it will be easier to hold off giving her gifts to her when she is not here.

ok..now I am talking to talk. I don't really have anything to say. I guess I will end this blog for now.

peace

Joseph

It has been awhile.

ok, ok, ok...so it really has been awhile since I last posted a blog. This is due to two reasons: 1) My new cell phone allows me to check my mail. My e-mail was usually the only thing that drew me to my computer. But now I go to the computer less because I have the e-mail at my finger tips. 2) I didn't blog all that much in the first place. In my last last blog I was wondering how many people actually read my blog. I have a total of 6 people who read it and respond. Although that is not much, I guess I will try and keep writing in it.

As of late things have been kind of boring. There really has not been much going on. I have continued to work at Gardner Denver as the UPS shipper. It is not a bad job and God has provided something for me to do while making a decent wage considering the type of job it is. I am glad to have some work to do. I do look forward to the day in which I will be able to switch jobs, but for now this is where I am at and I am positive God has is under control.

Kirstin and I have been going to the same church for some time now and really enjoy the Sunday service. We are still struggling to get connected as we don't know that many people yet, and the small group we belong to is very nice, but they seem to have there cliques and we are reluctant to just invite ourselves to things. I am sure that things will work out. I do not mean to speak bad of them, because that is not true, they are all friends and have been doing things together for awhile. I bet it just doesn't cross their minds to invite us along on things. It will happen in due time. Anyways, in the small group time we are going over a financial study. It is really good and Kirstin and I really want makes some improvements on how we handle and use the money God has given us. The study over all has been really convicting and I am feeling more and more the importance to be good stewards of our money.

Personally...I have been learning about alot of things. Most recently I have been learning about suffering. Mark Driscoll did a sermon on it that was really good and as a result of his sermon I have been thinking about it and in my devotional time God has shown me a few things about suffering. It is interesting to note that multiple times when the bible talks about Joy it also talks about suffering. Driscoll says that we should not 'waste' our times of suffering because they are times in which God can draw us closer to Himself. Thus, making our Joy complete. It is easy, at least for me, to whine and complain and to act out against God in times of suffering. Christ calls us to something greater and that is to abide in Him and to find Joy and satisfaction in Jesus. I have a long ways to go to be a good sufferer. Haha...not sure that is a word.

One last thing I want to share with you before I end this blog...it comes from John 16:33 : "These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world"

Just let that sink in...

Love you all...God's Blessings

Joseph

So I want who ever reads my blog to leave a comment. I have this feeling that no one reads it. So why write it. Please leave a comment if you read it...just so I can take a small inventory

I am not sure if it is Fall or Summer around here. On one hand the leaves are starting to turn colors and fall to the ground. However, the other hand gives us 90 degree heat and warm winds. I hope that we will get the cool winds before all the leaves fall. As mentioned before, there is nothing like a nice cool Michigan Fall. Anyways...just a little blurb about the weather.

I started a job last thursday working at GardnerDenver in their shipping department. I pretty much retrieve parts and then pack them up and get them onto the UPS truck every day. Over all it is not a bad job, although it is a job I will be glad to be done with when God allows me to move on to the next job. I have been really struggling with my job situation and how much I am making given how much I know I could make per hour. I am learning to trust God and to wait patiently while I am learning the lesson He has for me in my current situation. It has not been easy, but I believe when it is over I will be pleased with the results that God created in me. Those who read my blog this is a huge prayer request...if you would not mind. The Lord knows I need every bit of help I can get.

Also this week Kirstin and I got together with some people around our age that also just moved to KY. They are an amazing Godly couple and we are so excited about the possiblities that a friendship my bring. I actually had kind-of known the girl from when I went to Ocean City, NJ for a summer. I just happened to discover that she was living in Louisville one day while I was going through some of my facebook friends profiles. You know the friends that you have on there that you really don't talk to. You just have it because it adds more people to your list of friends. Haha. That might just be me. Anyways, I think it was God that I just happen to run across her facebook page and notice where she was living. They are a neat couple and I thank God so so much for having us get together! what a blessing!

I have developed a new resolution to lose some weight. I am trying to take it slow this time. I want to make small suddle changes so that I wont fall back into old habits out of frustration. I have already lost 3lbs just because I started working at the new job and I am on a consistant schedule. Not eating as much because I am bored all the time. That helps too.

I think I am going to sign off for now...

the blog I can't write

well I had a song I sang two weeks ago at church that I wanted to talk about, but I was one day to late and Kirstin threw out the paper with the song on it. No fault to her, because I had left it out on the dinning room table with out telling her about my intensions for it. Oh well. You win some and you lose some. This one was a loss. ;) Anyways, I will get something good in here soon. Unfortunatly becuase I can't type on my song anymore I am unprepared to type on anything else. Peace

Joseph