KISSY KISSY KISSY!!!!




This picture cracks me up for two reasons.....first, because it looks like we missed...but, I don't remember missing! :) Second, because it looks like John is laughing. Look at those dimples...aren't they adorable!? The Cagle's are not afraid of a little PDA!!!
Things are good here in our household. We are super busy with all the Christmas prep, like everyone else I'm sure! We have our big Christmas concert at church this Sunday, I'm excited about that. I am singing 2 songs and Josiah is in the kids choir. Come visit us...there's free food afterwards!! :O)
I love Christmas time, I always make sure to slow down and savor this time of year. I love to go to the malls, even if I'm not buying anything...just to see things all decorated and to "people watch". I love to get a white chocolate mocha with peppermint (sugar free these days!) and bundle up in a sweater and scarf. I LOVE our Christmas tree, it just makes the whole house so cozy. We had a great time decorating it, I have some fun pictures and a funny story, I'll post that later! I love walking around the neighborhood at night with the kids and looking at everyone's Christmas lights...Josiah has been counting...45 houses now have decorations!
Let's see there is so much going on in my heart and mind as I walk with the Lord and He continues to take me out of my comfort zones and use me for His glory and purposes...it's an amazing journey and not an easy one. It's costly, to lay down your life for the purposes of God is not any easy path. I can't say that I just skip along it. There are days, many days, when I want to go back to being "unnoticed". Let me explain. I don't ever have a desire to not walk with God, or to walk away from church or anything like that. But there is a "safer" christianity...one where you can fly under the rader and people don't care too much what you do and you can kinda just live how you want and then slide on in to heaven :O)...am I making sense? There are days when I say "this is too hard"! I don't want people watching me or looking to me anymore, or caring what I do! I don't have it all together! I can't live up to this! Who am I to stand up there and lead these people in worship? Every decision I make must guard the call of God on my life and the anointing.... and sometimes it's just plain hard. There is that pull that sometimes whispers in my ear "Wouldn't it be easier to just go back to being in the background". The answer is YES!!! But that is not my true heart desire. I desire to live my days for Kingdom purpose, that's a big fancy christian term :O), which simply means I desire to use my whole life to serve God and do His work on this earth. I don't want to know anything but Him, my time is His, my days are His, my family is His, my plans are His. I simply want to be about the work of my Father. But, it's not always that simple. It is costly, yet the rewards are greater than anything this world can offer me. I will let every decision I make guard the call of God on my life. Do I screw up? Daily! :) But, I am growing...from strength to strength. He uses my weaknesses, to show Himself strong. God doesn't usually choose to use the ones who "have it all together". He chooses those that he can be shown strong through. He uses "the foolish things of this world to shame the wise". I answered up to the call of God on my life, and have just begun to really walk it out, and it's still quite laughable to me that God uses me. But, it's all I want.
I want to know you Lord and nothing else. In you I live, and move, and have my being.
"Yet my ultimate hope is not set on this world; my hope is set on heaven and eternity.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
C.S. Lewis