Grace.....Rich, Lavish, Beautiful Grace

I've been thinking a lot lately about the Grace of our God.

As you know, if you've read my blog for very long,

my husband calls me "The Old Testament Girl".

I love the OT!

You may be wondering why, and I've had questions as to why as well.

It's not that I would ever want to live under the law.

i fail.

every.day.

fail.

When I think of all the sacrifices that were given to atone for sins

and still it was not enough.

Sacrifice

after

sacrifice

after 

sacrifice,

and true atonement was never reached.

A Savior was needed.

One sacrifice.

One time.

God provided
through His Precious,
Only Son,

Jesus!

The OT points to Jesus.

From Genesis to Revelation.

Jesus.

I love that.

It drew me in from the start.

I love that Jesus is prophesied in the first book of the Bible.

I love that all through the OT you see Jesus coming.

I love that.

I've been reading the book of Joshua,

and last week I read about Rahab the Prostitute 

hiding the spies.

She hid them in the flax on top of her roof,

(for some reason I love that picture)

sent the guards on a wild goose chase,

told the spies to go and hide in the hill country for three days.

By that time, the guards would be back empty handed,

since she'd sent them in the other direction.

What did she want in return?

Safety for her and her family.

She did as she was told.

Gathered her family, 

tied the scarlet cord in her window,

and was saved.

Why does this story interest me so?

Probably because of the outcome.

The outcome long after she had left this earth.

The outcome in Matthew.

Huh?

Yep in Matthew.

1:5

You see, Rahab the Prostitute, 

is listed in Jesus' genealogy.

Scandalous.

Beautiful.

She was imperfect.

She was scandalous.

She had not crossed all her T's and dotted all her I's just perfectly.

But there she is, in the genealogy of our Precious Lord.

How could this be?

Grace.

God's Rich, Lavish, Beautiful Grace.

He loves.

Beyond.

Loves.

When I read stories like this in the OT, 

I am moved to my very core,

because I am not perfect.

I have been quite scandalous at times in my life.

I have not crossed all my T's or dotted all my I's to perfection

or even close.

But.....

Oh how He loves!

Grace

Rich

Lavish

Beautiful 

Grace

is mine through Christ.

I am forever, eternally grateful.   

Random Friday.....A Top 10

WOW!!  I haven't done Random Friday in a while,

but I have a list of just random things I wanted to get down,

so here we go.....

1).  I am no longer a vegetarian.

I am a meat eater.

A reluctant meat eater.

It is still, and probably will never be my favorite thing.

But I am type O, and O's need meat.

So I am eating fish, some chicken and turkey.....

NO pork and a little red meat.

Ughhh.....

I've tried to embrace the red meat in my life,

but it is just NOT happening.

It hurts my stomach,

but most of all I just don't like it.

Ick..... it taste, well, meaty.

Yuck!

anyway.....

2.  I went and got my hair done the other day,

and my hair dresser gets the color on and then

takes me over to the dryer.

I looked at her kind of crazy,

because she NEVER puts me under the dryer.

She proceeds to tell me that my gray is getting stubborn,

as she pats me on the shoulder.

great.

Now I have stubborn knees, a stubborn back, a stubborn neck

and now stubborn gray?

Well I guess as long as my heart doesn't get to very stubborn I'm ok with it :)

3.  Speaking of which, I have been praying not to be stubborn lately.

I was praying one day and just telling God somethings on my heart,

and I started telling Him all I want to be for Him, 

and it just flowed out that I didn't want to be stubborn.

I am so thankful that prayer flowed out from my heart.

I have been praying that God will not let me get a stubborn spirit about me.

That would NOT be good.

4.  Sir Cuteness is, well, CUTE!!!!!

He is the smartest little thing.

He has started riding his bike.

Which to me is a scary business.

He crashed yesterday and has a little scratch/road rash on his cheek.

Poor guy.

He's fine.

Not bad at all.

He's a bruiser.

He jumps from about anything,

and LOVES to take walks in the dark with the flashlights

with his PaPa and Grandma.

He is the grandest little thing.

5.  Dak is in college.

He is trying to figure life out.

It is hard.

You remember right?

Trying to figure out what this big old world was all about without getting too caught up in it all?

Yes, you could say a prayer for him.

I love him so!!!

Spring break is next week.

He's staying at a friend's, 

but says he will see me sometime through the week.

YAY!!!

6.  Legg's is as well, working out this big old world as an adult.

Yep, you could certainly pray for her too.

She has a lot on her heart I know.

She is a joy to be around,

and makes me smile.

I love her.

7.  My Mr. Winslow is still and will always be the bees knees!!

He works so hard, and loves us so much.

I am truly a Blessed woman.  

Be still my heart, Mr. Winslow.

8.  Our insurance stuff is changing, 

again.

So this year instead of taking another 20% rate hike hit,

we are doing a program that will lower our rates,

but that requires us to do all this physical testing and health story stuff.

Yes, it has been interesting to say the least.

Well, I did my physical last week,

and WOW on paper I should be able to run 10 miles like,

right now this morning!

My height, weight, BMI, Good Cholesterol, Bad Cholesterol, Total Cholesterol, 

and waist circumference are all in terrific ranges.

YAY!!!!

The lady told me that she was suppose to give me a "teachable moment" and talk about 

things I could improve upon,

but she said she had nothing to say, except keep doing what I'm doing.

Now if I could just run that 10 miles.

Silly knees =)

Well, I wanted to do a Top 10 Random List for you,

but 8 is good right?

Oh wait,

9.  Check out my Scrapbook Blog.  

I am LOVING having a place to talk about my art and post lots of pics :)

Oh yeah,

10.  Today I am doing grocery shopping,

so this weekend I can work on my art.

My Mr. Winslow will be working,

Dak will be at school or a friends,

Leggs will be with Byrd,

and Chase will be here with Sir Cuteness,

so I will be hold up in my room getting some crafty love a going ~~

YAY!!!!!

So there we go, we made it.....

 A top 10 of Random loveliness going on in our lives right now.

I Love You So ~~

And..... We're LIVE!!!

So folks......

My Scrapbook Blog is LIVE!!!!!

I've been playing with it and decided to just go ahead and roll with it.
It is a work in progress, but so am I, so I decided it was time to make it LIVE!!

There are two posts on it right now.
One written a week or two ago,
and one written today about a challenge I am in.

Please let me know what you think.
I am going to be working on taking better pics,
especially since I will be taking lots of pics of my projects and I'd like for them to be nice ones.
So if you have any suggestions, (RJ, ahem.....  =) please feel free to send them my way.
I just have a regular digital camera.
Nothing fancy.

Well, check it out here and see what you think.
I'd love to hear your feed back.

Have a Beautiful day ~~