Melissa in the House

Last Spring the boys and I were studying life science and plants.  I told them we would have a garden, but they had to be on-board with helping me plant the seeds.  Let me first say, I do NOT have a green thumb and have tried for years to have a successful tomato garden or cucumber garden, and I normally have to buy my flowers already grown at the garden center and plant them. I began studying on soil because my neighbor who happens to have a green thumb stressed to me that it's all about the soil first, sure you need a sunny spot in your yard, but even if you have the perfect spot, the soil has got to be right. I began first getting the soil ready.  We started to make compost with some help from youtube videos, gardening websites, and of course my neighbor's tidbits.  Then I studied what else is good for vegetable soil.  Next thing you know, the boys and I are buying styrofoam cups from dollar tree and mixing our soil, planting our seeds. ...

I decided two years ago to quit drinking coffee. I completely cut out coffee altogether and switched to decaf.  Coffee had become "that thing" in my life. I started drinking coffee again because in my mind, the justification for coffee had more advantages than disadvantages. I just missed "that thing" every morning. Where am I going with this story? Well, after reading Samuel 11, and putting together my faithful 100% blog about God, it is apparent that God has "that thing" too.  I have concluded based on biblical evidence that God's Thing is you and me, and Israel, and if you are a direct relative to the Jewish nation of Israel or an adopted heir to the blessing of Abraham, you are "that thing" that get's God going in the morning.  You are "that thing" that he stocks up on and  is in the cupboard, or the photograph in the wallet. So if you started your day out discouraged, don't be, because you get God motivated and st...

Today's reading covers I Samuel 10.  I want to italicize and grab these verses as our key discussion.  The theme of this post  is God Faithful, 100 percent.  I Samuel 10:17-19     17  Samuel summoned the people of Israel to the  Lord  at Mizpah   18  and said to them, “This is what the  Lord , the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the power of Egypt and all the kingdoms that oppressed  you.’   19  But you have now rejected  your God, who saves  you out of all your disasters and calamities. And you have said, ‘No, appoint a king  over us.’  So now present  yourselves before the  Lord  by your tribes and clans.” Have you ever got the call or you happened to ease drop in on a conversation that is got people talking....Did you hear so and so did so and so.   Sure, we've all been there at some time in our life.  "Are they ...