a great night for a stroll....

happy monday. hope you all (is there anyone reading this regularly after my hiatus?) had a great monday. mine? busy at work but only a few unexpected bumps in the day so overall good. after a quick yummy dinner my hubby and i went walking together out at the state park near our house. all in all we went about 2 1/2 miles and were pleasantly tired. this made me particularly happy since i usually walk alone. i loved having him with me and being able to count on each other to keep going. hopefully it will become a summer regular with us. he's sitting next to me right now wittling on his walking stick so that must be a good sign. the only potential hitch is that along this trail there is an all too convenient icecream stop! we resisted tonight but i have a feeling we may succumb in the future. i suggested maybe every third time or so we could indulge.....we'll see how that holds up. so if you haven't already, grab your honey by the hand and get out for a stroll. all the great nature you see will remind you of God's amazing power and goodness. Kendra

intentional.

intentional. most afternoons i listen to Dr. Randy Carlson's radio call in show on my way home from work. he gives advice on a wide variety of issues but the common thread in his advice to "be intentional". he stresses that things don't happen by accident and urges people to start by picking one thing to be intentional about. i was listening to his show today at the gym and it got me thinking....what could i be intentional about? of course the potential areas are limitless, but my environment at the time got me thinking that maybe i should choose exercise as my thing to be intentional about. just recently i have gotten back into a regular exercise routine after several weeks of being off after our pregnancy journey and miscarriage. i thought about this and decided that in the upcoming months i am going to choose to be intentional about regular exercise. By regular I mean a goal of at least 30 minutes of exercise 4-5 days a week. have i tried this before? of course i have. have i succeeded? yes at times, no at other times. will this time be different? i don't know, but maybe since i am thinking about it differently i will be more successful longterm. i guess maybe it's a bit like quitting smoking where they say don't quit quitting, but itstead it should be don't stop starting! so, doctor carlson, here's to being intentional!
remember, when the time on the treadmill moves slowly, and the weights in your hands are heavy, God is sooooo good. kendra

Back to blogging

Wow. It's been a whole month since I've posted. The month has been a real roller coaster of emotions but as I write this I can truly say that God has seen us through it and we are hopeful for the future of our family. Every so often even now, something happens or someone says something that jabs at the healing part of my heart but I am much more emotionally stable to say the least. (Really honey I am!) For a while there I was starting to wonder about myself! We are making plans to undergo another round of fertility treatments in the near future and are praying for God's blessing on our efforts. We still feel strongly led that we are in His will in pursuing this. We have grown in our relationship through our struggle through the past few months.
Summer has set in and we are busy as ever. Both working long days, busy with some summer church activities, family gatherings, etc. Before we know it we will be staring fall in the face. Not that I mind that since fall is my favorite and we plan to try to get away somewhere for a week or so in September.
Something exciting that we hope to see come to fruition this summer is paying off the credit card debt that has been a heavy burden we are eager to be free of! God has done an amazing work in our lives financially and spared us from the disaster that we deserved after years of mismanaging God's money! In His mercy, he led us to the Crown Financial Program where we learned how out of line we were when it came to stewardship of what God had blessed us with. We committed in February of 2006 to getting out of debt and we set our goal to be credit card free by 9/9/09. Now I know in your head you are thinking "Holy crap, that's almost three years of paying on them!" Good math skills. However, God has been so abundently graceful to us that we are on track to be debt free with the exception of our mortgage by the end of this year! It has been hard, really hard at times, to stick to our plan, but the reward of being out from under the debt is worth it to say the least. As we near the end of this, we are praying for the determination to finish it strong and stay committed to finances that are pleasing to the Giver of all resources. What an amazing day it will be when we make that last payment!
Well, that's it for my return to blogging. I have a feeling my readership has dried up over the past month but that's OK with me. I can amuse myself my reading my own random musings!
God is so good, He's so good to me. Kendra