Love vs. Lust

Today was a busy but good day! I had my Mother's Day Tea at Luca's school at 9:30am and they had muffins and juice for us. They had 3 poems that were really sweet and they made us a card, each with their own words. Luca is so sensitive and sweet. His said that I was a nice and beautiful mom and he loved me. With their finger tips, they made petals to a flower on a piece of tile that said I love you Mom, Luca, 09. It has a ribbon for me to hang it and Luca suggested I hang it in my bedroom, perfect idea! After Luca's tea, Logan and I jetted to his school for the same thing. Logan invited me into the class with a rose and walked me to a chair. With his entire hand in his mouth from embarrassment, I watched him gather his courage to begin singing the songs he had been practicing. Keeping his eyes on the classmates right next to him, he followed their lead as they did the hand motions to the song. When they got to "M-O-M-M-Y", he was good! He had that down pat! Then he offered me my cookie and tea and a great big hug and kiss! What a great morning for a MOM!
After the special Mom moments, off to work I went. Tammi and Alex were there to greet me and Tammi had me rolling because she was there at 11, while Alex, who was "opening" for me got there 15 minutes late. Tammi jumped right into the server roll as a table of 3 sat and began to ask her a ton of questions she had no clue about. After all, she's our PR gal, early to meet with me, not a server at the Spuntino. She is a trooper though! She covers like a pro! She actually likes "working" there! I took over, a not too busy lunch and was able to do a little on the computer while helping the couple tables I had. Breanna showed up and took over the tables and Tammi kept my attention focused on getting the last little things we needed done for our PR packets. At 330 she left, I went to pick up Luca and came back. I blogged a bit then Vanessa showed up with Logan to take Luca. I was going to a benefit for All About Kids put on by Luca's next year teacher and friends of mine, Rob and Trish Shea. Michelle met me at Spuntino and when we got in the car to leave, I decided I needed hairspray to complete my "freshening up". With CVS right there, we stopped and got me spray and Michelle body spray. Now, we were ready to roll!
The event was nice, there were a lot of people from the school. There were about 50 baskets in the silent auction to bid on. I bid on 3: a photography session with Prema, a TECHNO KIT and a Dog House with stuff. I usually do one bid on each thing I like and don't look again. If i win something, great, if I'm outbid, good for the organization! This time for some reason, after we ate, I went out to check. I'm outbid on Prema, then I go to the Techno Kit, outbid. Then to the Dog Stuff, and of course, NOT OUTBID! Oh great! $90 on Dog Stuff that I don't need because it's only enough for 1 dog and I have 3!!! I placed another bid on the Techno stuff because I saw what was in it... Microsoft Office, Vista, 2 flash drives, 120GB external memory, wireless mouse and some HP wear. The value was $963.37 and my second bid was $200. I was going to buy Office and the price was almost $300!!! This, my friends, was a great deal!! I kept watching the dog stuff and NO ONE was outbidding me! Oh great! I get home and tell Alex I spent $300 and it included DOG STUFF??? NOT GONNA FLY!!! What was I thinking???? Sometimes I JUST DON'T!! The speaker calls 2 minutes left for the silent auction... no one, no one, oh no!!!! My Techno is safe too... that's great, but so many people do that last minute OUTBID... hope it happens on the dog stuff, but not my PROGRAMS!!! I turn away for a second and the call is made.... "bids are now closed"! So I go over to check my bids, Techno is MINE!! Yay!! And low and behold... a last minute save! OUTBID on the dog stuff!!! Fhew!!! That was a close one!
The more I realized what I got for my $200, the more others did too!! I don't believe people really understood what was in this basket!!! I know Alex will be proud!
We stayed a bit, watching everyone dance. It was fun, but for some reason, I wasn't all over the dancing. I love to dance, just wasn't in the mood I guess. I kept an eye on the time, not to push it with Alex. He is supportive until I carry things out MUCH longer then necessary and he has to feel like I'd rather stay where I am then come see him. Perfect timing! I arrived at Gourmet and he was happy to see me, asked me about the event, was happy for my purchase and we all WON! :)
OOOOOHHHHH.... this chapter's goooooood.....
Here's my notes from this chapter....
There's a gentle progression of infidelity and it goes like this... eyes, heart, action. BEWARE!
"We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either" Having the basic food and clothing, we should be "content". yet, we aren't if we don't have God. We have emptiness that we don't understand so we try to fill it with things that don't work such as pornography, money, "things". Pornographic images are designed to FEEL like a real person. (They are not) Have you ever told your child or yourself that a movie isn't real? Same.
Lust is the opposition to love. It means to set your heart and passions on something forbidden. To expose lust is to see it for what it really is - a misguided thirst for satisfaction that only God can fulfill!
Lust is the best the world has to offer, but LOVE offers you the best life in the WORLD! AMEN!
Dare: End it now, identify every object of lust in your life and remove it. Destroy your object of LUST and fill it with God's perfect LOVE!
I'm all over this one! :)