This is Who I Am

I've been thinking a lot lately about who I am.  I don't want to get all philosophical, but just want to think about the kind of person I am.  You see, I'm an oddly sort.  Here are some things that a lot of people don't know about me....

I'm a dork... I love Star Wars and Star Trek, and I'm not ashamed... I love them to the "I-have-a-Jedi-costume" extreme... I wanted to make a Klingon costume but never got around to it...

I love video games... they are fun and suck up way too much of my time...

I'm a 30-something year old wife and mother of 4...

I don't have a precise theology nailed down... I believe the Bible... I believe that Jesus and God are the same... I believe that Jesus Christ is the ONLY Way, Truth and Life... I believe that there is only 1 God (the God of the Holy Bible) and only 1 way to get to Him... through Jesus.... I don't believe it is logical for people to believe that the gods of all different religions are the same god... they can't all be right...

I've wanted to move to Africa and live in a mud house for about 10 years now... I'm getting ready to move to Honduras and live in an adobe house... this is good enough for me... I've never heard anyone say they dreamed of living in mud house before...

I wanted to have 8-12 children, but my body couldn't handle it... this still makes me sad... I hope to one day adopt at least that many... I'm excited to be another foster mother to the 23 girls at Project Talitha Cumi in El Obispo, Honduras... I don't speak nearly enough Spanish to live in a Spanish-speaking country...

I believe that evolution is a religion... it takes just as much faith to believe it as it does to believe the Creation account of the Bible... I believe that God literally created the world by the sound of His voice in 6 literal days...

I believe that all people are created with a need and desire for God... but most people don't recognize this for what it is and try to fill their lives with stuff, sex, drugs, money, food... I believe that this breaks God's heart...

I believe that bad things happen because of Satan... good men die... children get cancer... people go hungry... I believe that this also breaks God's heart and He wants the hurt, lonely, sick, poor and hungry to come to Him so that He can love and comfort them... I believe it breaks His heart even more when His creation chooses to blame Him for the bad things rather than cling to Him...

I believe that peanut butter is one of the most wonderful foods on the planet... combined with bananas, I believe it may be the perfect food...

I want to lay my life down for Jesus... I want to give up all hold or control of my life to Him... I want Him to lead and guide me every step of my life... This scares me... a lot...

Sometimes I don't have the faith of a mustard seed...

I am not a great, faithful person... I simply want to be obedient... I believe Jesus when He said, "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him." John 3:36

I don't mind washing dishes, but I don't like putting them away... I hate washing silverware...

I wish I could adopt every orphan in the world...

I think my children are cool people... I like to hang out with them... but they also drive me crazy a lot of the time...

I think my husband is nearly perfect... although I don't really want him to know I think this...

I wish I wasn't scared to talk to people I don't know... I want the Holy Spirit to fill me with love and boldness and power so that I can minister to hurt and dying people without being nervous....

I believe that the greatest thing in the world is LOVE... God wants us to love each other... I think that people who claim to be Christians and bomb abortion clinics or beat gay men to death are lying... they are not really Christians... I believe that God can heal the world through our love... Jesus said that the greatest commandment was to love the Lord your God with all your soul, mind and strength and to love your neighbor as yourself... if we would truly love our neighbor as we love ourselves there would be a lot less pain and heartache in the world...

I am naive and gullible... I want to believe that people are good (even though the Bible says that no one is good)... I can also be a little ditzy and airheaded... I wish I could fix that, but I can't...

I'm a wife, mother, teacher, friend, sister, daugher, Jesus-seeker, dork, dreamer...

This is who I am...

~Linda

Life Goes On

Well, I haven't had time to post blogs since we left for Honduras.  Our stay there was wonderful.  Many of you know by now that we are planning to move to Honduras full time to work with Such is the Kingdom Ministries.  Read more about us on our family blog.

We've been home for a month now, and life is anything but "normal" (not that our lives were ever very normal).  Football season is in full swing and the team is doing well.  Evan is playing, Elizabeth is cheering.  Nathan will begin flag football this weekend.

I've had a hard time getting into the swing of school and cooking meals/caring for a household since we came back.  I cooked supper yesterday AND today, which seems to be a real feat.  I haven't done that since we came back.  I'm trying to get back into the swing of things.  My healthy eating has taken a nose-dive since we just haven't had access to things like whole-wheat flour and coconut oil while in Honduras.  And as I've said, I haven't done much cooking since we got back.

Anyway, here is a menu plan for the rest of this week.  Hopefully this will kick start me back into my routines. I'm starting simple...

Tuesday:
Chili and cornbread (just wanted to through this in to show that I really DID cook!)

Wednesday:
cereal (blah)
chili nachos or chili dogs
Crock Pot Lasagna, biscuits, gelato (15th wedding anniversary dinner)

Thursday:
Baked oatmeal with raisins and bananas
hamburgers
burritos

Friday:
Banana muffins, scrambled eggs
mac & cheese
Dirty Rice

Saturday:
Blueberry pancakes
sandwiches (on the road to the football game)
?? - dinner out as we'll be in Atlanta for a football game

Sunday:
muffins at church


Well, that's as far as I've gotten.  I'll probably need to go shopping again Saturday morning so that we'll have something for Sunday.  Oh the joys of settling back into life!

~ Linda