“So yesterday while I was on the phone with my mom talking..as we do daily..and sometimes we will google duo one another but most of the time that is an accident..her not meaning too do so..but any who..I was telling her that I was gonna get the clippers for the bushes and go around the house trimming them up a little..Amen..and she commences to telling me, Mandi Ellen get your gloves on..she says you never know what can happen when your doing yard work..so get them gloves on..as a mommy does..Amen..we always tell our kid or kids what to do..not for the fact of being bossy but just for the fact that we love them..Amen..so anyways I keep saying mom I am okay..i’ll be okay..I promise..lol..and of course she keeps persisting..and so I am cautious as I am trimming them up because I did not get my gloves on..for the simple fact that I didn’t want to go in the house and get my keys to get in my car to get my gloves out..Amen..because usually throughout my whole life if she says to do something or would tell me something and I didn’t listen it seemed to always happen..Amen..moms just kinda know..they have this intuition..Amen!”

“So I finish the ones up in the front of the house and I call Erik and were talking and I am working on the one by the side of the house and all of a sudden I scream..it felt like the worst sting or bite ever..but I didn’t see anything..so I wasn’t quit sure..so Erik is like honey what in the world happened..and I am telling him..and Anthony hears me scream..and he is calling my phone..so I get off the phone go in the house and my mind is like take your rings off..so I did..well..within I would say five minutes my whole finger was completely swollen up and stiff as a board..I couldn’t move my finger..and it was numb..so I am texting my sister and she is like Mandi it looks like a spider bite..so grab my stuff and go to my doctor..and she just happened to be there yesterday..thank goodness..but long story short..she says to me well..its not a spider bite..it is a bee sting..and you had a really bad allergic reaction to it..and as I was leaving she says ti me..next time girl put some gloves on..Amen..and I said well..my mom told me I don’t know how many times to put my gloves on..my husband said honey why didn’t you have your gloves on..you always have them on..and my son says mom why weren’t you wearing your gloves..Amen!”

“So I said all of that for the simple fact of this..why do we not just listen?..I mean we get the warning signs..we hear it from the ones who love us so much..and still choose to not listen..it’s not that we don’t hear..it’s just we don’t listen..and if I would’ve listened..I wouldn’t had gotten a bee sting..which by the way my finger is still sore as ever and still swollen but thank goodness it is going down..but guys we hear and we just don’t listen..and when we don’t we do suffer the consequence at time for our not listening..Amen..it’s like last Sunday at church a guest pastor preached and message about Jonah..and well we know the story Jonah didn’t listen to the Lord..so again long story short he ends up in the belly of a big ole fish..Jonah 1:17..Amen..and that had to be horrible and so if he would have listened he wouldn’t had went through all of that mess..Amen..but I do know we all always have a voice helping us and telling us a better way..and then its up to us to follow through and listen..and hear that voice..accept that wisdom..Amen..so if you have the warning signs..if you have someone in your life that sounds like a broken record telling you the same things..then by all means take heart and just listen..don’t suffer consequences that could had been avoided if only listening and taking advice would have been applied..Amen..so let us hear..let us listen and then let us all follow through with obedience..not suffering things in our lives that could’ve been avoided if only we would had listened..Amen..for it is in His name, Jesus’ name, that I do ask and pray..Amen and Amen..Be blessed today my dear sweet friends and remember wherever you go and whatever you do, Be a light for our Father, Much love to you all, Mandi ❤