People are in a fury to prepare their taxes for tomorrow. They are scurrying around making sure each line is filled in appropriately and the proper documentation is available if needed. There are exemptions that can be taken if you qualify for them on your taxes.

Even though I am a Christ follower, I will still experience sorrow, pain, sadness, and hurt, I am not exempt. The difference between myself and a non-Christ follower, I have the power of Jesus Christ to overcome the situations and circumstances that come into my life. Many times the overcoming is a process and a path Jesus takes me on.

Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting a gracious woman who had prayed for her husband for many years. She had loved him, honored him and watched him almost destroy his life. He told me how God took him to the edge of death and gave him the opportunity to see how he was living. He gave his life to Christ and has followed him for a year now.

His wife had a copy of “The Power of a Praying Woman” with her. The cover was worn and tattered and the pages were coming loose from the book. She shared with me how she had prayed this book over her husband and how it had changed her life.

For the next 31 days, including Saturday and Sunday, I will be blogging from The Power of a Praying Woman by Stormie Omartian. Join me as I examine different areas of my life.

Watching tv commercials was one of my favorite past times as a child. I think I knew the Old Spice commercials by heart. I thought the bottle was really cool too.

Well, it seems I have a different kind of old spice in my house. I have a cabinet full of old spices. While cooking dinner one evening a couple weeks ago, I decided the overcrowded cabinet had to go. I was tired of looking for spices and not being able to find them.

I threw away a garbage bag full of old spices. Bryan and I have lived in our current house for almost 9 yrs, and there were spices in the cabinet that we brought with us from the other house. There were no dates on the spices, but I knew how long they had been there. I think after 9 years they had lost their flavor.

The most exciting part of cleaning this cabinet is the amount of time it took. I was already in the kitchen making dinner, so why not tackle a cabinet. One cabinet, drawer and shelf at a time here I go!

I recently saw a post about a new spice rack that mounts on the inside of the cabinet door with it’s own bottles. It would free up space in the cabinet and be another space saving feature. These are of course on my dream list from Ikea. It would take more than one of these for all my spices.