SENATE Bill, No. 2028

 It's called "The Massachusetts Pandemic Response Bill" (S2028).  The fear here is that this will pass the MA house and then become precedent for other states to initiate their own versions.
http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/186/st02/st02028.htm

Mass. Alert: Bad "Pandemic Bill"

http://www.healthfreedom.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=888&Itemid=1

  Love never gives up.
   Love cares more for others than for self.
   Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
   Love doesn’t strut,
   Doesn’t have a swelled head,
   Doesn’t force itself on others,
   Isn’t always “me first,”
   Doesn’t fly off the handle,
   Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
   Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
   Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
   Puts up with anything,
   Trusts God always,
   Always looks for the best,
   Never looks back,
   But keeps going to the end.

1 Corinithians 13: 4-7

We have been so busy through the summer that my blogging  has suffered. I started blogging to keep an account of happenings and memories pictures,etc. I am going to find time again to keep an account of thoughts and happenings and such. I have 2 memory cards loaded with a summer full of pictures.
I have spent my summer playing with my children and running A LOT. I am really trying to declutter my home with a vengeance more than ever. I want to keep bare minimum necessities here. God has inspired me with ideas that I have loaded into my spiral bound notebook. Some I have implemented others I am still pondering.
Things have been challenging lately. Living in an older home, things eventually start needing to be replaced. I just wish they would spread themselves out about. Maybe something in my home missed my MEMO!!!
I've  see glimpse of God's love. Knowing that we are strapped for cash and time Two gentlemen brothers in the Lord have volunteered their spare time away from their families to come do repairs for us. The church's Agape fund is helping with parts. Their presence and knowing that they are not charging or asking for anything in return has really had me contemplating AGAPE LOVE  a LOT lately. How God loves me so no because I have merited his love. He just does.
Agape:
divine, unconditional, self-sacrificing, active, volitional, and thoughtful love.

Agape is love which is of and from God, whose very nature is love itself. The Apostle John affirms this in 1 John 4:8: “God is love.” God does not merely love; He is love itself. Everything God does flows from His love. But it is important to remember that God’s love is not a sappy, sentimental love such as we often hear portrayed. God loves because that is His nature and the expression of His being. He loves the unlovable and the unlovely (us!), not because we deserve to be loved, but because it is His nature to do so, and He must be true to His nature and character. God’s love is displayed most clearly at the Cross, where Christ died for the unworthy creatures who were “dead in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1), not because we did anything to deserve it, “but God commends His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). The object of agape love never does anything to merit His love. We are the undeserving recipients upon whom He lavishes that love. His love was demonstrated when He sent His Son into the world to “seek and save that which was lost” (Luke 19:10), and to provide eternal life to those He sought and saved. He paid the ultimate sacrifice for those He loves.

In the same way, we are to love others sacrificially. Jesus gave the parable of the Good Samaritan as an example of sacrifice for the sake of others, even for those who may care nothing at all for us, or even hate us, as the Jews did the Samaritans. Sacrificial love is not based on a feeling, but a determined act of the will, a joyful resolve to put the welfare of others above our own. But this type of love does not come naturally to humans. Because of our fallen nature, we are incapable of producing such a love. If we are to love as God loves, that love—that agape—can only come from its true Source. This is the love which “has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit given to us” when we became His children (Romans 5:5). Because that love is now in our hearts, we can obey Jesus who said, “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. As I have loved you, you should also love one another” (John 13:34). This new commandment involves loving one another as He loved us sacrificially, even to the point of death. But again, it is clear that only God can generate within us the kind of self-sacrificing love which is the proof that we are His children. “By this we have known the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers” (1 John 3:16). Because of God’s love toward us, we are now able to love one another.

God reminds me to love my family sacrificially. I have had days where I got tired and wanted to run a way for a little while( Just for a day) because of my job being thankless and feeling of  everyone constantly draining  me even when I am empty. I have had to make a point of arising always before everyone including my husband so I can have a quiet time with God so he can fill me. I am reminded to seek God's love and peace and see and hear only him despite chaos and busyness of this world. I used to crave a Titus 2 Woman for help to learn to be a godly woman. I did not grow up as a Christian and really want a biblical encourager. I have found that God will raise me up one day to be that person whom I've  so desperately needed.

I am going to be more deliberate and focused in my prayers for my husband. I  must find a strength to pull my family towards God and this is my job and focus.
As for me and my house we WILL serve the Lord!!

I Pray today that Ronnie might become a purposeful man, driven with well thought through and prayed through goals in life.

Php. 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Another busy day of preparations for Noah's birthday tomorrow. He wants pizza so I got a few. I picked up his cake. I have been saving his gifts for months now. I hope he likes them. The girl's worked at DT dance camp again today. I did House Blessings.  We are having a hard time convincing Noah that he will be three tomorrow. He is so upset that everyone is insisting that he will have a birthday tomorrow.