Marketplace Connection

You know how you promise yourself that you're going to do better? Maybe that's just me. I had every intention of doing better, getting all my blogs done and all the things I need to do for all my extracurricular activities done with time to spare.

But I'm late. I haven't done better. In fact, I've done worse this week.

I have a looong list of excuses.
But I'm not going to share them.
And I needed a blog post so I'm using this, something I meant to do better earlier this week (so it may show up again), but this is my first ever attempt at building a website. I've been working with Marketplace Connection for almost a year and I've done some things I didn't know I could do. And it's just a website, following templates (which is more difficult than it sounds), and it took some time, but I feel pretty good about doing something I didn't know I could do. Yes, someone else could do better, but right now, I'm available and I worked at it even when I wanted to just say "Not me" and it's up and running. And that's a battle that I fight sometimes and it feels good to accomplish something new when you really have your doubts. You know? (Of course, it would feel even better for the right person to show up and take it over and improve it and pat me on the head and send me on my way. I'm just going to patiently wait for that day. OK, well, I'm going to wait anyway.)

And that reminded me of Ephesians where Paul says that God can do "immeasurably more" than we can imagine. That probably means that we can too. Here it is in the Message (Eph. 3:20)

^20-21God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.

If you want to see all the bells and whistles (and who doesn't?), go to www.marketplaceconnectionarkansas.com. If you're web-design-gifted and would like to improve the MC site, let's talk. Seriously. I'll be posting more info here soon (and casting a net for volunteers to help) about our upcoming fund raiser. I think it's gonna be good.

Next week, I'm so totally going to do better. I mean it.