So LATE! It's 2:50am and I just cannot make my mind slow down long enough to go to sleep. Andrew and I went out this evening and enjoyed time with our sweet friends Trisha and Justin at Starbucks. Evidently either the conversation or the coffee was just too stimulating because now I can't make my mind stop going. 8-) It was probably the amazing pink playing cards. We played hearts for hours using solid pink playing cards that I found at Walmart today, and let me tell you they are positively magnificent. No, really, they are so pretty. I am fairly certain I am the only one who enjoyed the pinkness of our playing cards. Trisha did say she liked them, but the boys seemed to be a little overwhelmed by them. Ok, enough about pink cards. We really did enjoy our evening.

I read something from a Beth Moore study that I have done twice in one year, and it has just played over and over in my mind. She was talking about the different kinds of people amongst the body of believers and how there are two extremes in the area of believing in what God can or will do. She said that to one extreme people don't believe that God is in the business of doing miracles this day in time, and to the other extreme there are those who focus and obsess on God doing miraculous things all the time. She made the statement that people can become more concerned with what God "can do" rather than focusing on who "He is". I have come to the realization that I have spent much of my Christian walk asking God to "do" things and not nearly enough time just praising Him for the awesome God that He is. I'm quite certain that if we open our eyes and look at the amazing work of God all around us we can find a miracle in everything He has had His hand on. When my 5 year old daughter goes to God in prayer most of her words are thanking Him for anything and everything. That is the walk that I desire to have with my Creator, my King. Don't you know that He would be so pleased if I spent more time talking with Him about how amazing I think He is, and if I showed Him proper gratitude for the miracles He does in my life every day. After all, that is why He created us. If He never gave me even one more breathe in my lungs He has given me more than I ever deserved, but He loves me so much that He continues to bless me.

Alright, if I don't somehow make my mind stop and go to sleep I may not make it tomorrow.