Just thinking of an old song that I used to love by Anointed, entitled, “The Call”.  Here are some of the words:

“For the sake of the Call, I am laying down my all

No turning back, looking straight ahead

I’m on the right track

And it’s all for the sake of The Call.”

This is where I intend to live today and everyday.  Just saying…

Isn’t it amazing how stepping out in faith and changing one area of your life impacts everything in your life?  It’s like that scripture in 1 Corinthians 12:26 that says when one part of the body suffers the whole body suffers and when one part of the body is honored the whole body rejoices.

One change can seem so insignificant and yet when it is directed by God, and we obey in faith, everything in our life is changed. I find that amazing! And it inspires me to obey.

I think it is the most amazing thing that we can be led a step at a time into the greatness of God’s plan for each of our lives when we don’t even know all that His plan encompasses for us.  The more I grow in the knowledge of God’s Word the more I come to appreciate the ministry and help of the Holy Spirit in my life. He searches the mind of God for His plan for each of us and then in accordance with God’s plan, He leads and directs us a step at a time. He gives us insight into things we could never access with our human minds.  WOW!

I am grateful for my salvation and for the reality of heaven in my future.  But I am also extremely grateful for the gift of the Holy Spirit in my life RIGHT NOW, coming to my aid and assistance to maneuver me and keep in the path prepared for me by God. Thank you Lord for the Holy Ghost!

We just purchased a new mattress that is heavenly -thus it’s name - heavenly bed.  We haven’t slept this great in years!!  Until last night.  Last night Olivia jumped up on the bed and crawled up to lay down in-between Kevin and I.  (We just recently purchased Hugh and Olivia a nice, new bed of their own and they have been happily sleeping on them at night.  Until last night.)

We were just getting in to bed when Olivia jumped up to try and worm her way in to sleeping with us.  Kevin got up with the intent of making her get down and into her new bed but then she gave him those Springer sad eyes and he caved - crashed -dive bombed - folded - No seriously he just couldn’t make her get down.  He looked into those big brown Springer eyes and he felt like a total creep.

So… this morning we awakened but with very little sleep. Olivia and Hughie (yes he soon joined her) had me shoved to the edge of the bed where I vicariously clung for the remainder of the night.  I froze because the windows were opened but I had no covers.  The dogs were laying on them and I couldn’t pull hard enough to compensate for their weight.  I awakened with a stiff neck that I have been nursing all day.  Kevin had his left arm pit shredded by the claws on her flinching back feet which moved according to whatever weird dreams she had during the night.

THEY woke up feeling great.  WE woke up feeling like we had been hit by a mac truck and suddenly being a creep was sounding REALLY good.

At least I’m looking forward to tonight’s sleep.  Kevin’s armpits can’t take another beating so I know the Springer eyes won’t work tonight. 

Hughie and Olivia are staying with Trent and Jess and little Jake at their house while we are gone to Europe.  So in an effort to keep the dogs off their furniture we invested in a kids gate so they can be kept in the laundry room on their beds while T&J are gone to work.  We tried it the other day when we went to work.

You can imagine our curiosity as we were driving home.  We pulled in the garage opened the door in to the laundry room expecting to see them in there wagging their tails.  They were wagging their tails - on the OTHER side of the gate.  The only ones gated into the laundry room were Kevin and I.  I bet they weren’t kept in there longer than about 3 minutes after we left.

Plan B - We purchased a HIGHER gate.  If they get out of this they are stinking Houdini’s!! Or they paid someone to break them out of the slammer.