A still and quiet Place

This week Joel (my wonderful and dashingly handsome husband) started his 1st 7 week stint of in class learning in his carpentry program. I felt like a proud mom as I loaded up his backpack and handed him an apple as headed out the door. O.K. so there was no backpack and he doesn't like apples but I still felt like a proud mom. As he drove away I entered the world of being, for the 1st time, the primary financial provider of the house. I thought to myself "o.k. Domnique time to bring home the bacon, lean bacon, but bacon none the less" It's day 4 and aside from my stress level being unusually high do to a lot going on and a lack of time on my hands I've found myself sitting here...at work... pondering the concept of a still and quiet place.

When life gets busy and as a direct result stressfull I tend to lose the ability to filter out the not so important from the important. I usually find when this situation comes about that my creator lets me go just long enough to really make his point. Well this time around he obviously didn't feel it so necissary and gave me what I call a God smack. It's pretty much the equivillent of running down the hall, your body going one way and your head turned the other way and just as you go to aline your head and your body it happens......you run right into a wall, which for the record I have acutally done and will never forget how quikly my actions were put in check.

" Be still and Know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth" Psalm 46:10 (ESV)

God Smack translations

Be Still = Dominique slow down, breath, take a sip of water

KNOW = I love you, trust me, take my hand

I will be Exalted = Dinner can wait, laundry can wait, cleaning can wait, everything can wait, I have so much more to offer

The Picture above is of Joel just outside our cabin doing his favorite thing.....fishing. Since the day I meet him he has said that being in God's creation is where he meets Jesus, it's his still and quite place. I'm not sure that I've found that still and quiet place that I undoutably meet Jesus but until I find that place I'll continue to accept the randam places like at my desk at work that I do meet Him.

Plans for a D.I.Y. hurricane

So I'm sitting at my desk at 2pm on the Friday before the long weekend counting the minutes until I can escape from my desk and head home. In order to pass the time I've decided to write about some of my plans for the next 72 hrs of freedom. I love long weekends when we get to stick close to home because in Saskatchewan, the land of lakes and cabins, people clear out of the city at a rapid pace leaving behind quiet streets and the perfect time to shop and walk by the river and enjoy a slower pace of life...it's amazing. Joel's family also owns a wonderful cabin on a beautiful lake and I love going up there...but not when everyone else is up there also. So here I am anticipating pure bliss. So what's on the menu for the next 3 days? Well first of all what I've been waiting for my entire life (o.k. that's a bit extreme), the designing of our first kitchen. We'll meet with the cabinet lady tomorrow morning and hopefully soon I'll have a picture of what life could be like cooking in a kitchen that will fit more then one person. The thought of being able to cook with my husband seriously gives me goose bumps. Also, I have some big plans for some DIY (Do-it- yourself) projects. Joel thinks I'm crazy and wishes I could join him in his weekend asperations of being a bum but I'm thinking not. He's been working really long hard days so I will support him if that's what he would like to do, he deffinetly deserves a break. Anyways, here are a few or 4 of the projects I have planned for the weekend

Project #1: Joel has been building a beautiful bench and coat hanger type thing for our front entrance so we're/I going to paint that and then I'm going to look for some fabric to make a bench cusion.

Project #2: turn some plain, nothing special, cheap wine glasses from wal-mart into something I'm very excited about. I saw this done on someone elses blog and I had to have some, so now I will...hopefully, assuming nothing goes wrong that is :/

Project #3: Joel's great aunt gave me all her canning stuff so I was thinking I would like to try and make Salsa and maybe some jam. I've never canned before so the outconme is to be determined

Project #4: last but not least involves some cheap lanterns I bought at Ikea, I'm not sure what the plan is with these yet so we'll just have to leave that one as a mystery

anyways, I've successfully wasted 47 minutes and at the same time figured out how to get paid for writting my blog. Although I tend to complain at times about my job it deffinetly has some perks and I am very blessed by it.

I'll keep you posted on my weekend progress.

have a great long weekend