Please come see the pics of my cute and hysterical children… and COMING SOON… my 34 week belly and my 35 week belly!! yes. if you can stand it, you may look at my beautiful baby through my skin! 
Its been a while since I have blogged over here…
For the most current notes and thoughts by Renee you must come to
http://alifeofbalance.wordpress.com/
Eventually I’ll move everything from here over to there, but that hasn’t happened yet. Too much going on amidst trying to get renters out, and getting them out finally and finding the place TRASHED and doing major renovations as fast as possible trying to get it rented out, then changing our minds and trying to sell it. That is where we are at now… renovating adn selling. SIGH!! HUGE job! amazing!
I am 33 weeks pregnant !! yeah – getting large and uncomfortable!!
anyway… come visit over at the other place and say hi!
We’ll start with the Bad… its 1 degree outside!!! YUCK!! SO cold.
Ugly… me teaching Keenan math. oh my word. I can’t get over how frustrated I can get over a few measly math problems, that he’s probably figure out in a year on his own anyway with NO teaching!! The kid is so, so bright and I could screw that up that love of learning, and that confidence with crappy attitude while teaching math. sigh.
Good … it was starting to look light outside this around 8:00!!! – sunrise officially at 8:35am… but for us, at 9:52, it JUST peeked over the mountain, and there is hope for spring yet… (I know, its only mid-February!!) and it doesn’t set about 5:30 – wow.
I think the title of this post is kind of funny and ironic, since I have recently entered into some conversations on prayer and the perceived "evils" of contemplation, using our God given imagination (for good, as opposed to the crazy out of control imagining my mind tends towards without Him), listening to hear God speak, praying anything but the model of the Lord’s Prayer… etc. you get the idea. Fear of anything different, under the guise of being watchful and vigilant for the lion seeking to devour is my take, personally.
Anyway, that isn’t what this is about… so I’ll stop on that.
The main gist of this weekend was the real power of prayer. how to enter into the work of prayer. how to pray effectively. how to pray and know God’s heart. and what to pray when you don’t! there was much covered, and much not covered, of course, but one thing the speaker spoke of at the beginning was that the work of prayer flows / or grows out of intimacy with the Father, not the other way around.
click here for the rest over at the "other" place… Prayer
ReneeM (numonohi)