Why in a hurry?

A classic song from Alabama called "I'm In A Hurry(And Don't Know Why)" has been really hitting home lately. The lyrics go something like this.

I'm in a hurry to get things done
Oh I rush and rush until life's no fun
All I really gotta do is live and die
But I'm in a hurry and don't know why

Lately, I feel like that is has been the story of my life the past month.  Just going from one appointment to the next. I have to pencil in to make phone dates with my friends to just catch up.  When did we have to schedule times to just catch up on the phone. Whatever happened to just dialing the number and tell your friend a silly story and then move on with my life.  Nope, I don't even have time for that.

Even quality time with my parents need to be scheduled and we share the same roof. My dog and are together for 8 hours of the day and 7 of them are sleeping.

I cannot remember the last time I just stopped and took a deep breathe and relaxed.  When I am heading to bed, I am thinking about all the things I have to do tomorrow and the day after and what will my weekend hold, will I just be able to sit around and be lazy or do I have another social event to attend. And if I am not thinking about the future, I think did I do enough today or did I waste too much time doing pointless stuff.

When is the last time I rested? Well let's see when is the last time I prayed?  The question that many of us do not like to face.  When is the last time we scheduled time for prayer? Or should we even have to.  He is my best friend, right. 

1 Peter 5:7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

 He cares for more than I can even imagine; He even tell us 

Matthew 11:28-30  Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

 Why do I not listen to my own thoughts. I know the answer to my hurry, I am afraid of the silence. I am in a hurry to get things done because the more and more I do, the less and less I have to be.  Ever just stopped and just be for a second. In order to believe in yourself you just be.  Just be in a state of being. Allowing Jesus to become part of your daily life. Allowing Jesus to teach me who I am and teach me to be well me.  Not just when its convenient, but rather every second.

Thank you Jesus, for my job. Thank you Jesus, for my health. Thank you Jesus, for my family.  Thank you Jesus, for my friends.  Thank you Jesus, for wireless internet.  The list goes on. 

But none of these things are mine they are His.  He created us and knows that is best for us.

Luke 12:25 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his  span of life?

I need to stop being  in a hurry and just be. Be satisfied with my day and not grow anxious.  I mean all we really need to do is live and die.  So why live worrying.

I am not alone and neither are you.

(Pardon, the one year absence...but I am back for a while at least)....some thoughts I had today....

Today, a coworker told me that my clock is ticking and I shouldn't be so picky.  At least once a week I hear from someone, you should date so and so.  Getting older and having most of your friends already married and having children does make you realize that maybe these people are right my clock is ticking. But great news, I am not alone and haven't been for a while.

So this is the part where you think I have suddenly started dating and I found my vocation, but you are wrong.  Not dating and still no vocation.  I am as single as ever, but still not alone.

Because I am loved by the man who will never stop loving me and is by side 24/7.  Which if you think about it, kinda scary because I am a sinner, but that is a different story.  I could be brought down by all the chick flicks, love songs, and what people tell me, but I am not alone.  I have my best friend by my side each and every day.  Right now as I am typing this, Jesus is here.

I know I might be stretching this post a little too far, but this is all my single peeps out there, you are not alone and do not let media or anyone else convince you that you are.  If you can imagine a little more with me, your guardian angel is even by your side.  So this in room right now with me, I have my dog, my angel, Jesus and about a dozen fish, so not alone.

The point of this post (and I know I haven't written in a while) is to make you think and not feel discouraged and lonely.  You are never alone, HE IS WITH US. So people stop thinking my life is miserable and I am lonely because I am not.  Currently I am happier than I have been in a long time.  Why you may ask? Because started up a daily prayer life again and starting talking to the guy you loves me and knows me better than anyone else.  

Psalm 37:4 says, "Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart." It's amazing that if you put all your energy in our Lord, everything doesn't seem to matter and you have a sense of inner peace.  I will be honest, this peace might only last 5 minutes and you might start getting caught up in the worries of this world, but you have have to pulled right back in into this peace.  Trust in the Lord!

I was listening to the radio and a popular country song from Sugarland came on called Stuck like glue and it made me start to think...

"Absolutely no one that knows me better
No one that can make me feel sooo gooood
How did you stay so long together?
When everybody, everybody said we never would
And just when, I start to think they're right
That love has died....

There you go making my heart beat again,
Heart beat again, Heart beat again,
There you go making me feel like a kid
Won't you do it and do it one time?
There you go pulling me right back in, 
Right back in, Right back in
And I know-oo I'm never letting this go-ooo

I'm stuck on you....."

Friends, that is the description of my on and off again friendship with Christ. This world truly does not allow me to live a life with Christ.  We are so caught up with greed, jealously, anger, sins of the flesh, judgment to just name a few that we cannot see the purity of life.  The Bible even tells us that only the pure of heart shall see our God. (Matthew 5:8) It is no wonder that so many people live a life without Christ because there is a lack of purity in this world.

When you are caught up in this peace and love of the Lord, you do become a little bit like a child and you have a sense of innocence.  You begin to have the faith of a child.  Faith that is so real and innocent. Faith of a child is complete abandonment to Him, our Savior.  Children are weak and need their parents to protect them, to feed them, to nourish them.  We need this from our Lord everyday to have this peace in our live.  Matthew 18:3 "Truly I say to you, Unless You turn around and become as young children, you will by no means enter into the kingdom of the heavens."

People do say its impossible to live a life with Christ and might even laugh at you if you tell them you are never alone, but HE continuously pulling us right back in, right back in and we should never let go.

Some days I don't feel like trying
Some days you know I wanna just give up.....

It's a hard life to live against what culture is telling how to live, but if we all lived for what makes feel good, then we could never experience TRUE JOY.  I do want to give us because what makes me feel good does feel good, but will only last for a while.  But living a life with the man who never knows me better is worth it.


I am not alone, I am with the one who knows me better and this love has not died, He is pulling right back in each and every day.  I am truly blest and you can be to.


 

Why do we put salt on the roads when it snow?

Salt makes the snow melt right?  But why. Come on, now, you must have wondered this questions before.  Those big trucks come down the load and plowed as much snow and from the rear they are leaving salt mixture and magically you can drive on the road again.  But people always say, try to stay away from brigdges and over passes because those dangerous.  Why are bridges so dangerous?
It's actually pretty simple.The salt forms a brine on the roadway that melts the snow and ice. What is this brine a combination of moisture and salt.  As cars drive through this brine it breaks the bond allowing slush to form and then those giant plow trucks can do their job later and plow the slush out of way.  The bad new, the colder it is outside, the longer it takes for this process to take into effect. 

"Temperatures, time of application, weather conditions and the type of road surface, are among the many variables that can affect the success of deicing. For instance, at 30° F salt is five times more effective than at 20° F." Morton Salt assisted me in learning this simple trick.

The next topic, why are bridges more dangerous.  Road surfaces make a differience on the success of deicing.  Each surfaces absorbs heat differently.  Asphalt for example aborbs lots of heat.  That is with driveways that are pure asphalt, are easiser to clear out. However bridges are mostly built by steel and concrete not asphalt. There are two ways for heat to escape from above and below, while in road heats can only escape from above. Bridges do not absorb heat as fast making them less effective and having a less success for deicing.

I hope you learned a lot. So now that this new wave of snow came into my area.  I now know to avoid bridges and why I love salt on the roads, because I would rather drive on slush any day. Thank you for all those individuals who plow the streets of America!   

• Great site to learn more about why use salt on raods, check out: http://www.usroads.com/journals/p/rmj/9712/rm971202.htm