Well this is Embarassing!

So since June I have been MIA in the blogging world as I FORGOT my password!! How do you FORGET your password...but I did, and then refused to take the 4 minutes it would take to recover it...THEN I forgot my USERNAME...yup, that's right, I forgot my name...well I sat down today and decided to figure it out without calling my husband to the rescue and I surprised myself at how easy it was to recover all the information that I had forgotten! So now I am back to the world of blogging after a 4.5 month break.

My (monetary and materialistic) world has been turned on its head in the last 4.5 months. Details of this will come in bits and quips throughout this blog, but the gist is this: On July 18, 2011 Frank and I lost our house in plow wind. We had been in the middle of re-shingling our house and had the shingles off the south side of the roof. Though the roof was tarped, pollyed, and strapped it was no match for the storm. The water damage was so extensive that the entire house was gutted. The integrity of the structure was then brought into question due to pre-existing code violations that were uncovered during the gut. An engineer was brought in and it was determined that the most financially feasible option would be to demolish the structure. The loss of the house is not covered by insurance, only the damage to the house due to the water. We are displaced (though the house we are displace in is beautiful!). We are rattled (though we have peace that things will work out). We are in over our heads (though we have faith and certainty in what we can't see). 

In the next couple of weeks I want to read through a book, that I think will bring encouragement to Frank and I in this crazy time in our lives. It is called Forgotten God by Francis Chan. Like forgetting my username and password...I feel like I have been forgetting God in all of this chaos, sure I have been praying cracking my Bible from time to time over the past 4 months...but have a really been keying into the Holy Spirit? Have I really been seeking out the big answers to the big questions that situation like this might bring to surface? No. I know I haven't. Like refusing to recover my password and username, I have been refusing to recover the Holy Spirit. He hasn't gone anywhere, like my blog and my gmail account, but He has been sitting dormant. Hopefully I can change that! (and get back to blogging!)

Ephesians 5: 11-16

 ^11-16Don't waste your time on useless work, mere busywork, the barren pursuits of darkness. Expose these things for the sham they are. It's a scandal when people waste their lives on things they must do in the darkness where no one will see. Rip the cover off those frauds and see how attractive they look in the light of Christ.

   Wake up from your sleep,
   Climb out of your coffins;
   Christ will show you the light!
So watch your step. Use your head. Make the most of every chance you get. These are desperate times!