I am sitting down with my dinner of birthday cake and ice cream after resting for 3 hours--my Sunday highlight of the week nap. Hannah Montana was as difficult to sit through as I was afraid it would be. We went there at 1:00 and watched 5 minutes of it before the fire alarm went off. And it really was a fire. I think maybe the popcorn machine burned, because there were bad burned popcorn smells when we arrived. So, I had to take everyone back to our house and GO BACK LATER at 7:30. I punched out as soon as I got home. Headed,exhausted, straight for a bubble bath.
Kristi and Dennis stopped by at 3:00 and had coffee and cake with us and watched Zoe open her gifts. Good to see them!

The realtor will stop by Tuesday to take pictures of our house so it can be listed. Yikes!

Our pastor talked about the fight of faith this morning. I do stumble with the faith thing, because I ask myself, What am I trusting God FOR? What am I believing about and for? You can't really say, Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and He will work out YOUR plans and WISHES as quickly and as smoothly as possible. The definition of faith the pastor gave today, that he had us repeat after each verse he read about faith is REALLY GOOD:
Faith is complete TRUST in God, His CHARACTER, His WORD, and His WILL for me; because of His LOVE for me, regardless of the OUTCOME.
He talked about the people in the Bible who died without seeing the promises fulfilled, and how God WILL "disappoint" us....when we hope He will meet OUR expectations.
During first service, He was saying something like, "When we lift up our worship and praise to God, it's like incense going up to God, and He causes lightning to be hurled upon the earth." I was like, "What?!" I looked it up, and in Rev. 8:3-5, it does talk about it. There was a man I don't know there, who didn't want to be there praising, because his daughter has kidney failure, and it's a serious, scary thing, with "no hope." Well, after pastor said the thing about the praise and the lightning, this man had a vision that lightning came down from Heaven to/on his daughter! I expect we will hear an exciting update on her health.