Can't Wait!

Feels good being here...I miss everyone!

As I have said in a previous post, my new teaching job is a 40 minute commute for me. It is great prayer time for me and also GREAT praise and worship time! CD's are scattered everywhere in my car as I try to decide who I am going to worship with each morning. Currently, Kirk Franklin and I have been getting our praise on each morning. His "Rebirth" CD is the bomb! It's been very difficult keeping both hands on the steering wheel! Between the tears in my eyes and my hands going up, my guardian angels (I just know it takes more than one for me) have been working overtime. One of the songs on the CD talks about the day we will finally see Jesus...the song says "I can't wait to see you." My heart began to race as I thought about that and I realized that really and truly, I can't wait to see Jesus. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not asking for a death wish. There is so much more I want to learn of Him and know of Him before that day, but I honestly look forward to the day my eyes finally behold the One who has loved me before time began and caused me to fall in love with Him. As the song says, "I can only imagine...." Wow!

So tell me my sweet blog sistas...who are you currently worshiping with? Let's make His praise glorious!

For You, O Lord, have made me glad by what You have done, I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands. Psalm 92:4

MINOR PROPHET: MAJOR LESSON III

I so miss being here! I'm afraid that until I find my groove with my new job, my postings are going to be few and far between....yuck! I have a 40 minute commute everyday, the early mornings are my coffee time with Jesus and by the time I get home and take care of my family and prepare for my next day, the day is gone...no computer time! Pray I learn the ropes and find my groove...soon!

In the midst of this transiton time the Lord has been reminding me about ATTITUDE! I've been studying the book of Malachi (another minor prophet with a major lesson) and the Lord God had a few choice words for His priests and His people about their lackluster devotion to Him and the slipshod way they worshiped. Words like, despised, contemptible, useless, just to name a few. They began to question God's love for them and thus began the descent into the pit mediocrity, complacency, and flat-out disobedience. People were offering and priest were accepting defiled sacrifices. The people served in a perfunctory and mechanical manner, going through the motions with no heart or conviction about what they were doing. They came to believe that offering stolen or lame or sick animals as sacrifices to God was not a problem as far as worship was concerned. They had the nerve to believe God would accept these offerings and be pleased with them. Worship was a mere drudgery, a meaningless activity they did out of habit. Their attitude toward God was reflected in their actions....are we getting a clue? I know I am! The Lord has reminded me that my actions are always connected to my attitude...my actions are always set in motion by my attitude! My actions reveal what I believe about God. Some of the harshest words the Lord God utters in this book are found in Chapter 1 verse 10...."I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you, says the LORD of Hosts, and I will accept no offering from your hands." Can you imagine that kind of rebuke on our worship today? What would we think if God said, "I would rather you nail the doors shut than have you worship me halfheartedly as you do." I get goosebumps just thinking about it!

So, I have had an attitude adjustment. Just because I am experiencing some difficulties in this time of transition does not mean He still does not deserve my very best...He is God...the LORD of Hosts.....King of Kings.... the great I AM. He wants my wholehearted devotion and nothing else will do!

Quick Note

Just a quick note to let everyone know I have not completely disappeared! This past week with my new job involved more than I anticipated and I never even got to turn on the computer! My first day with students is tomorrow and I hope things will settle down a bit after that. I have much to share and much to VENT! See you later....I hope!

Times of refreshing....

I'm back! And so thankful for the time of refreshing the Lord gave my family. Our visit with our eldest and her husband in Kentucky was so sweet. We worshiped with them in the little Kentucky church where our son-in-law is a youth minister. The church sits right in the middle of some mountains and it was just so picturesque. Our daughter had arranged for our family to sing, something we haven't been able to do in years. They even had us listed in the church bulletin as "The Worsham Family Singers"! Do we sound professional or what?! My heart was just bursting with thankfulness to God as our whole family sang our praise and worship to Him. How blessed am I?!

There is so much I want to tell about our trip and I hope to do that this week. For those of you who prayed for us, thank you, thank you, thank you! God is faithful! For now, I have to transition back to the real world! I start my new teaching job tomorrow...actually, I have New Teacher Orientation for the next couple of days, then Staff Development and students return on the 6th. I have to get back on my "work schedule" which mans I have GOT to get to bed earlier!
It's good to be back and to catch up with all my "bloggity friends!"

Here I am...but here I go...

For you sweet friends who come by fairly often....I'm so sorry for the absence. Since returning from the retreat, life has been coming at me FAST and FURIOUS! What is it about taking a little R & R that causes life to go into a tailspin when we return? I think I recognize the work of ol' slewfoot himself! The retreat was refreshing. Although it rained most of the time, my man and I got some wonderful quality time together while being able to fellowship with other pastors and wives in our state. The Lord confirmed some things for me and reminded me that I am not in this race alone. Sometimes in ministry we feel like Elijah under the juniper tree....I'm the only one serving you Lord...just kill me now! And just like Elijah, we receive the lovingkindness, mercy and grace of our God. He is ever patient and provides all we need to carry on. Thank you, Lord!

I will be away for a while again. Friday morning we are leaving for a little vacation time in Kentucky. My hubby and I and our 3 daughters will be visiting with our eldest daughter and her husband, who are students at Southern Seminary. We have not been able to visit with them there since they moved last year. Will be gone for a little over a week and most likely will not get on a computer while gone...we're going off into the mountains while we're there...no internet....will I make it?.....you bet! For those of you who will pray for us, pray that God will gives us this time as a time of relationship building and strengthening. This has been a tough year for the Worsham clan and each one of us has some specific hurts that we are dealing with. Pray for healing and rest from our worries and cares. Thank you friends. I'm just blown away with the fact that I can ask this of you and know that you will intercede on our behalf. You are too much!

I want to leave you with a quote I received while at the Pastors/Wives Retreat. This is from Andrew Murray when he found himself in a place of great pain and heartache.....

First, He brought me here, it is by His will I am in this strait place: In that fact I will rest.

Next, He will keep me here in His love, and give me grace to behave as His child.

Then, He will make this trial a blessing, teaching me the lessons He intends to learn, and working in me the grace He means to bestow.

Last, in his good time He can bring me out again...how and when He knows.

Let me say I am here,

By God's appointment

In His keeping

Under His training

For His time

And all God's people said..........

Thankful Thursday

I have just enough time to make a short post before I leave for the event I am very thankful for today. I am so thankful....

to be leaving in just a few minutes to our state camp for the annual Pastors/Wives Retreat. I am so looking forward to a few days of renewal and refreshment with my hubby. As the Lord brings us to mind, please pray for my man who is under heaps of discouragement right now. Pray that God will give him a fresh vision of ministry and renewal of spirit.


for the beauty of God's earth. Truly the earth is full of His praises and I'm looking forward to being smack dab in the middle of it!


Have a great weekend my bloggity friends. I'll let you know what the Lord did this weekend when I get back!

Helped By Dr. Phil

I caught the "Dr. Phil Show" this afternoon and watched slacked-jawed as a husband who claimed to follow Christian principals, attempted to justify demeaning his children and wife, and verbally and physically abusing his wife. He said he was "forced" to have extra-marital affairs because his wife was not meeting his physical needs. To Dr. Phil's credit, he quickly explained the Christian teaching of being a husband and then in true Dr. Phil style, went about giving the guy "a clue." Go Dr. Phil!

I tell you all this to say.....I LOVE MY MAN! While watching this, I just fell more in love with the man God gave me and I intend to let him know it very well when he gets home this evening! I realize that sometimes I am so used to what I have, that I don't realize what I don't have.

This week I will let my man know OFTEN how grateful I am that he is obedient to God's Word in fulfilling the role of husband and father in our home and I will do my best to make that job as easy as possible for him.