Bite the Big Apple Challenge

If you don't already know, Pizza Scene has this really cool challenge that's called, "Bite The Big Apple".

The challenge is: Consume a 24" New York Jumbo in 24 minutes and you win $200.00 (plus

the price of the pie). It sure has been a challenge. After over 10 challenges, we had our first winner. Then, challengers #12 Won as well!!

It was AWESOME seeing them go at it (a little more gross at times, but still awesome)!!!

Check out a few pics, and for more info, check out: Pizza Scene's web page.

PRIDE

Pride: a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.

• Pride is ugly
• Pride smothers
• Pride is hard to detect alone
• Pride controls
• Pride is ultimately lonely
• Pride annihilates

Hello, my name is Gloria and God has shown me that I have some deep rooted pride that will tap me out quicker than any UFC match.

Thankfully, God is The Ultimate Father who Cares way too much for me to leave me as is.

No matter how many rounds, may Your will be don Father!

Psalm 51:17

The sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Speechless

"Out of the mouth of babes" was my exact thought as I sat on the beach and heard this cute little girl tell her mommy, "Mommy, did you know that there's a lot of sand and you can't even count it"? It reminded me of something else that I cannot fully grasp this side of eternity - His Love for YOU and me.

Psalm: 139:17-18 (NLT)

How precious are your thoughts about me, O God.

They cannot be numbered! I can't even count them;

they outnumber the grains of sand!

And when I wake up, you are still with me!

• YOU are precious to Him!
• His thoughts about YOU cannot even be counted!
• His thoughts about YOU outnumber the grains of sand!
• And when YOU wake, He is STILL with YOU!

Take a breather friend...........and bask in the FACT that YOU are loved beyond comprehension!!

Be Still!

If you're anything like me (an energizer bunny), you just might have a hard time being still.

Still: Undisturbed, stationary, soundless, stagnant...etc...

Ugh... just reading the descriptions of being still makes me want to SCREAM.

I mean really (is there even any value in being still)!?!?

I can just feel the time wasting away at the being still thing. The whole entire universe is doing its thing, making a difference, living out their hopes and dreams - and I'm just being still.

How mortifying - UNTIL.............

• I realized that just because doing makes me feel as if progress is being made, that's NOT necessarily true.
• I realized that being still is an absolute necessity in what God has called me to be, FIRST (His, wife to my husband & mother to my children)
• I realized that I want to impart that on my children (in this fast paced microwave nation)
• I realized that God can & will use me in those still times. I just have to be obedient to His leading & not mine.

How about you?

Do you find it hard to be still (and what does being still look like for you)?

Do you think that you're wasting your life just by being still?