CRAZY SUMMER

This Summer has been happy, fun, crazy, busy, restful, restless, and so many more adjectives. I went on vacation at the end of June til the beginning of July. I went to Louisiana for a wedding. I met some real Cajuns and fell in love with there hearts. I also was able to see my first alligator that wasn't in a zoo. It was up close and personal.
I even got to see the TABASCO factory on Avery, Island.

 Everything was so cool. And then there was the wedding. It was the first wedding I had every gone to where the pastor preached just to the couple and two things stuck out about his sermon: 1. Don't dig up bones. (That means don't bring up the past during an argument.) 2. Adam (from the Bible in the account of creation) was given the ability to name all the creatures that God had created "¹⁹ So the Lord God formed from the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and the man chose a name for each one. ²⁰ He gave names to all the livestock, all the birds of the sky, and all the wild animals. But still there was no helper just right for him." Genesis 2:19-20.   
This pastor said that God gave Adam the responsibility to name the animals and what he named them that's what they recognized as being. A husband has the responsibility of naming his wife. He can call her a "battle ax" or "nag" and she will live up to that. Or he can name her "beautiful, beloved, honorable, strong" and she can live up to that. 
Then the pastor said that woman was made from the rib of Adam.
" ²¹ So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the opening. ²² Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib, and he brought her to the man. ²³ “At last!” the man exclaimed.   “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken from ‘man.’” ²⁴ This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one." Genesis 2:21-24


This was important because God took Adam's Rib to make Eve because she would be able to influence her husband more than anyone else. And she could do it for good or evil. It's important for a wife to know that God made her special for her husband and respect him as such. 


And then I went to Florida to see my in-laws. And we had so much fun! God used my husband and I in ministry. It was so much fun to see our friends and family. 


Once we got back to Long Island it was back to work. It's been this way from the moment we touched down in NYC. But now I am in a pensive mood. What do I do know? Just work like a frantic person until next vacation? Things must be different because I need to enjoy life. Vacation is a couple of weeks a year. But life is the rest of it. I am praying hard for direction.