I cannot believe it is Friday. I hate the week the work rotation hits where I get Friday off and have to work Saturday. I have to work today for Chick-Fil-A, we will be passing out free sandwiches for the Crusade for Children on the intersection of Hurstbourne and Westport Road. So, Michelle if you read this, I will be getting my train on out there today! Wow, I don't think I have ever walked so much as I have this week. I am pooped.
Today is prayer request day, but since I did not do a 'Question Day' feel free to ask your questions too. Ashleigh, I am still working on your question. Here is a link to a page that was really interesting to me and I think it might help you a little also. You can even click on the blue headlines and it will give you a further commentary about that section Now mind you the commentary is 'Matthew Henry's Commentary' and its older and it is not my favorite. But, for now until I can go to a bookstore and read a commentary I like, this is all i have to offer:: http://www.biblegateway.com/resources/commentaries/index.php?action=getBookSections&cid=35&source=2
Here are some of our prayer requests:
1. Stephanie Chandler as she serves in Iraq(former teen in our youth group) for 6 months.
2. Pray for moments of rest and relaxation this weekend.
3. Please pray for healing of two families who are going through a very difficult time right now: The Carder Family and the Hogue Family.
What are your requests for this weekend?
Have a great weekend everybody!
NChrist,
Susan
Friday, June 6, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Whoo-wee
Wow y'all I am exhausted! Emotionally, physically. I worked from 10:30 until 9:00PM today and I am so tired. I am sorry that I did not write this morning, I was working on getting all my clothes in order. I am finding that I really don't have all that much to wear to the Chick-Fil-A job and am getting together clothes to sell on Cheap Cycle so that I can buy a few new pairs of clothes for the summer for Chick-Fil-A.
God has been a very active part of my day lately. I have had to rely on him for my emotional state and my phsical endurance of each day. Yesterday, I think I walked 3 miles in the mile. I walked the mall in the morning and then walked it in the afternoon. My feet were so sore, but I just kept crying out to God and wow I am finding out how much I can just talk to Him during the day. It's like He is just there with me and its fantabulous! It's like I have had my time to get the word in me and rest in Him and now its Action time. Go out and and live it and turn to Him at all times as I work in the world and work among those who don't know Him. It's amazing how much I have to rely on Him and He is so faithful!
I am so thankful that he laid on my heart to work on the anger stuff, because dealing with it has made me the woman of God that is being used in my jobs currently. There would have been a point in my life a couple of months ago where I would have been really stressed with working with the public. I would have been easily angered, but the word of God has been used to transform me and those verses are in me, used to be making me the woman of God He wants me to be to the public. Wow. I am so humbled!
Love to you all, how is everyone.
NChrist,
Susan
P.S. Michelle, thank you for the lovely comment you left me on my Wed. blog. I really needed that and it was so good seeing a friendly face! How I am thankful for you and your amazing exuberance of grace!
God has been a very active part of my day lately. I have had to rely on him for my emotional state and my phsical endurance of each day. Yesterday, I think I walked 3 miles in the mile. I walked the mall in the morning and then walked it in the afternoon. My feet were so sore, but I just kept crying out to God and wow I am finding out how much I can just talk to Him during the day. It's like He is just there with me and its fantabulous! It's like I have had my time to get the word in me and rest in Him and now its Action time. Go out and and live it and turn to Him at all times as I work in the world and work among those who don't know Him. It's amazing how much I have to rely on Him and He is so faithful!
I am so thankful that he laid on my heart to work on the anger stuff, because dealing with it has made me the woman of God that is being used in my jobs currently. There would have been a point in my life a couple of months ago where I would have been really stressed with working with the public. I would have been easily angered, but the word of God has been used to transform me and those verses are in me, used to be making me the woman of God He wants me to be to the public. Wow. I am so humbled!
Love to you all, how is everyone.
NChrist,
Susan
P.S. Michelle, thank you for the lovely comment you left me on my Wed. blog. I really needed that and it was so good seeing a friendly face! How I am thankful for you and your amazing exuberance of grace!
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Craziness and God's Faithfulness
Wow, it has been an intense few days. Since Sunday it has been non-stop at the Luka house. Sheesh. I finally got to see down for a few minutes this morning and read Job a little. Ashleigh, all I know currently is that Chapter 3 is Job's Lament and that chapters 4-31 are Jobs dialogues with his three "friends".
Monday and yesterday have been so busy, and I am looking forward to actually spending some time with my hubby this afternoon. I did not see him until 9:45PM on Monday because we both worked and then he went to the Prayer Meetting at church and that went a loooong time. Then yesterday I worked at Chick-Fil-A until 1PM and then had to be at the library at 1:30Pm. My library shift was from 1:30-9:00. Michael picked me up and we were headed over to Ronnie's where Michael had been babysitting the kids. I had to go to Wal-Mart and by the time I was done and back to Ronnies, he was back from doing Prison Ministry. So, needless to say, I am pooped.
Chick-Fil-A started out rough yesterday. I did my business of the day and then I came back to start refills and second mile service to the customers. Well, there weren't any yet. So, I tried to make conversation with the crew, but that was really hard. They just weren't very talkative and I felt so alone. Then when it started to pick up, it seemed like every customer was annoyed that I was asking them for refills. Sheesh! I felt even more alone now and dumb! To make things worse, I have to walk around behind the restaurant to get refills and they are doing construction where the bathrooms are and all those construction guys are there and I just feel like I am being eyed like a piece of meat. ERRRRRRRRRR. I definitely got my work out having to walk to the food court and around the back to the restaurant to get refills. Thankfully, I saw some people I knew and after that things got a lot better. I just kept praying for God to be with me, to lift my head up even though I felt like crawling in a hole. He was faithful. The library was good, it was my shift with my crazy friend Kelly and it was fun! However, I was so tired during those last 30 minutes.
God was so faithful to me yesterday. I am learning and will probably always be learning to call on Him at all times. I lived out James 1:19 yesterday 'Be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger'. It was tough at times, but God was with me, using the Holy Spirit to guide me.
I hope all is well with everyone! Let me know your stories and how God is working in you.
Love to you all,
Susan Luka
Monday and yesterday have been so busy, and I am looking forward to actually spending some time with my hubby this afternoon. I did not see him until 9:45PM on Monday because we both worked and then he went to the Prayer Meetting at church and that went a loooong time. Then yesterday I worked at Chick-Fil-A until 1PM and then had to be at the library at 1:30Pm. My library shift was from 1:30-9:00. Michael picked me up and we were headed over to Ronnie's where Michael had been babysitting the kids. I had to go to Wal-Mart and by the time I was done and back to Ronnies, he was back from doing Prison Ministry. So, needless to say, I am pooped.
Chick-Fil-A started out rough yesterday. I did my business of the day and then I came back to start refills and second mile service to the customers. Well, there weren't any yet. So, I tried to make conversation with the crew, but that was really hard. They just weren't very talkative and I felt so alone. Then when it started to pick up, it seemed like every customer was annoyed that I was asking them for refills. Sheesh! I felt even more alone now and dumb! To make things worse, I have to walk around behind the restaurant to get refills and they are doing construction where the bathrooms are and all those construction guys are there and I just feel like I am being eyed like a piece of meat. ERRRRRRRRRR. I definitely got my work out having to walk to the food court and around the back to the restaurant to get refills. Thankfully, I saw some people I knew and after that things got a lot better. I just kept praying for God to be with me, to lift my head up even though I felt like crawling in a hole. He was faithful. The library was good, it was my shift with my crazy friend Kelly and it was fun! However, I was so tired during those last 30 minutes.
God was so faithful to me yesterday. I am learning and will probably always be learning to call on Him at all times. I lived out James 1:19 yesterday 'Be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger'. It was tough at times, but God was with me, using the Holy Spirit to guide me.
I hope all is well with everyone! Let me know your stories and how God is working in you.
Love to you all,
Susan Luka
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
My new job:)
You wouldn't think your job would teach you lots about our walk with Christ, but mine did yesterday! I began at Chick-Fil-A yesterday at the Mall. Jenny, my boss, was telling me all about their marketing, which is what I will be doing at the Mall. She had this box of stuff and I got all excited because I love looking through boxes!
Basically, Chick-Fil-A's marketing is all about giving away. Can you believe it! I can't believe that everyday I just get to look for ways to give stuff away and make people happy. This is so biblical on so many levels and yesterday really impacted my normal life. How much do I give away, and if I do give it away do I give it away cheerfully and without the want of getting back. We don't get paid on sales, we just get paid to make people happy without the need or want of getting back. Whoa! That is radical!
I am especially excited about something I get to do everyday. It is the Chick-Fil-A Business of the Day. I get to go to a store in the Mall and tell them that they are our business of the day and give their employees that day free chicken! Yesterday we did the Body Shop and their reactions were awesome, they were amazed and that is the whole point! As I think about their faces and reactions now, I am realizing how I reacted and felt the first time I really grasped the free gift of Jesus Christ to me. Wow, if I and all of us would just be continually thankful for His gift the same way we get excited about free chicken and want to share that knowledge with others so that they might experience the gift of God; salvation through Christ alone. Please pray for open doors to share. Right now its all about building relationships and if God wants to open doors, then just pray that I will be an obedient child of God and willing to say what He wants me to say!
CHALLENGE OF THE WEEK
Be looking for how you can partner with God this week in doing His will for your life.
NChrist,
Susan Luka
Basically, Chick-Fil-A's marketing is all about giving away. Can you believe it! I can't believe that everyday I just get to look for ways to give stuff away and make people happy. This is so biblical on so many levels and yesterday really impacted my normal life. How much do I give away, and if I do give it away do I give it away cheerfully and without the want of getting back. We don't get paid on sales, we just get paid to make people happy without the need or want of getting back. Whoa! That is radical!
I am especially excited about something I get to do everyday. It is the Chick-Fil-A Business of the Day. I get to go to a store in the Mall and tell them that they are our business of the day and give their employees that day free chicken! Yesterday we did the Body Shop and their reactions were awesome, they were amazed and that is the whole point! As I think about their faces and reactions now, I am realizing how I reacted and felt the first time I really grasped the free gift of Jesus Christ to me. Wow, if I and all of us would just be continually thankful for His gift the same way we get excited about free chicken and want to share that knowledge with others so that they might experience the gift of God; salvation through Christ alone. Please pray for open doors to share. Right now its all about building relationships and if God wants to open doors, then just pray that I will be an obedient child of God and willing to say what He wants me to say!
CHALLENGE OF THE WEEK
Be looking for how you can partner with God this week in doing His will for your life.
NChrist,
Susan Luka
Monday, June 2, 2008
Oi!
Well, fellow sojourners, this has been quite the weekend! I am not going to get into details, just know that I am pooped out, emotionally and mentally. I am sorry that I am so late in the day getting to this. I worked at Chick-Fil-A today and then got together with some friends to talk. It has been a very productive and good day.
Ashleigh, I am going to ask for your patience on the question you asked last week. I promise I am going to get to it. With events that happened this weekend, it is spilling over into my life as we speak and I have to say I am a little overwhelmed. But, I promise this, I am going to get to it and my plan is to have an answer for you at the end of the week. I appreciate you so much and I hope you know I take very seriously every question that is asked of me.
There is nothing really spiritual today except a quote from my pastor yesterday that was amazing. 'Foolishness is defined as follows: the absence of intelligence, the absence of thinking through truth.' Wow, how it affected me and related to all that happened this weekend.
Love to you all and may you have a restful evening, full of the Lord's grace.
NChrist, Susan
Ashleigh, I am going to ask for your patience on the question you asked last week. I promise I am going to get to it. With events that happened this weekend, it is spilling over into my life as we speak and I have to say I am a little overwhelmed. But, I promise this, I am going to get to it and my plan is to have an answer for you at the end of the week. I appreciate you so much and I hope you know I take very seriously every question that is asked of me.
There is nothing really spiritual today except a quote from my pastor yesterday that was amazing. 'Foolishness is defined as follows: the absence of intelligence, the absence of thinking through truth.' Wow, how it affected me and related to all that happened this weekend.
Love to you all and may you have a restful evening, full of the Lord's grace.
NChrist, Susan
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