Yeaterday I made it offical I went and got my Minnesota drivers and fishing license, then I took the girls out last night fishing, what a great time. The girls did really well, Abbey caught 6 fish including two walleye, Hayley got four and Daddy had 5, including two really big largemouth bass. But into each life a little rain must fall, as the bugs started there attack at sunset last night I went to start the boat.....nothing the three year old battery had its last day. Here we are about a 1/2 mile from the boat launch, not a boat in sight and under major bug attack, in the pitch dark. A moment of panic set in. Called Jodi and told her our issue, bless her heart like she was going to be able to help? The short moment of panic lead to a idea started by Abbey holding a rope and me saying maybe I will swim the boat in. Yes finally, all those years of swim team finally paid off. I grabbed a life vest and tied the rope to the front then around my waste and proceeded to swim a 3500 pound boat a 1/2 mile to the dock. All my working out started to kick in. Doesn't seem too bad, if you think that you should try it, there isn't a work out on the planet that can hit all the muscle groups I did. So a bad situation turned positive and Abbey at the end thanked me for being so brave, kind of made me feel good.
In my reflection time this morning I used god's message he gave to Pete on Sunday about praying and put it into use. One of the greatest tips given in the message was to create a prayer list. I sat down and made one this morning I ended up with about ten topics to pray on, the first one was thanking god for this blessing of time he has given me to enjoy my life and to prepare for what is next. We all have heard messages on praying and that its important. We all have said and heard I will be praying for you, how many of us actually have done what we have said? I will admit it 99.9% of the time it was just words to comfort in the momment. I challenge all of you who are reading this to take 5 minutes and jot down what you believe you should pray about, then carve out a small amount of time today and pray theough the list. Our lists will all look differnt but God wants to hear from us even though he knows all. There is no right or wrong way to pray god isnt judging or presentation, our father just wants us to talk to him about what is on our minds. Matthew 6 verse 5-8 gives you instructions for how to pray if you need to see in the word what god is looking for, no better instruction manual than the word of god, is there? This will be my focus now, it is clearly the one area I am lacking in greatly and the message on Sunday truly hit home. Just think you might be on my prayer list as I am talking to the father about what ever it is your going through in a quite private moment with the one who can fix everything, there is great peace in that. Thanks to all who have been lifting me up in their prayers through the years, I look to return the favor now. I know one for sure in Franky who has been praying for me long before I ever met Jodi and with him on my side praying I know he is listening!!
Have a blessed day!!!
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