Word Wednesday on Thursday

Today's Bible verse is my absolute favorite one ever. It has been a constant reminder that God is in control, no matter what. It come from the book of Jeremiah:

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

I just love this verse and have for such a long time. I actually was able to find a framed wall hanging with this verse on it and my parents bought it for me for either Christmas or my birthday one year. I now have it hanging in my living room and whenever I see it, I just remember that I can not control my life... that is God's job.



And now for the real Thursday deal... Thinking of you Thursday!

My first shout-out will go to my sister, Jenny. She is over at Create Everyday. My sister has been with me for my entire life, but we weren't always so close. I was always the annoying little sister who would sing things like "Jenny and (insert current boyfriend's name) sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g." Yeah, I was nice like that. Anyways, since I moved from home and came to live in a town relatively close to her, we have become such closer friends and sisters. I absolutely love her and wish I could share more time with her, but between my full-time teaching job and her full-time mommy job (of the 2 cutest boys ever) we don't have much time :(

I will add my favorite story about her: When I was younger I was in gymnastics and usually my mom would pick me up from school and take me to practice. Well, I don't remember the reason, but one day my sister picked me up and was going to take me to practice. So I go outside and I get in her car and we start driving. Now, if I was about 9, that would make her 16, so new driver. Anyways, we are getting ready to make a right-hand turn and my sister was doing everything perfectly... her blinker was on, we were buckled in, and she was looking for traffic. She saw an opening but did not feel there was enough space to go, so she inched forward and changed her mind and put on her brakes. Well, it's too bad that the pizza delivery guy behind us did not get that same memo. He thought there was enough space for her to go and thought she had gone, so he went too... right into the back of her car. Now, the best part of the story was that my virgin ears and never heard certain words in my life until that incident. After the nice pizza man rear-ended us, my sister let out a few choice words that I can not bear to repeat... even in my typing. You would think the story would end here, but no it doesn't. This was the time before cell phones, so they decided to leave the scene of the accident (yes, you read that correctly... leave the scene of the accident) and drive to a gas station to use the phone. They got to the gas station and my sister called my dad. This was not the best idea... I later found out that when it comes to a wreck and making the decision to leave the scene of the accident it is best to just call the cops and deal with dad later. Anyways, dad got there and proceeded to chew Jenny out because she left the scene of the accident. Now, this somewhat worked in her favor, as the cop did not end up giving her a ticket for this minor infraction. We always think it's because the cop felt bad about my dad being so mad and yelling at her, which I still completely agree. Eventually everything got handled and no one was hurt or anything like that, but to this day we are all a little wary of driving around pizza men.