Update

so, its been a while since I've updated on.here. that tends to end up that way a lot but hopefully I will do better.

We found a new church home Thank you God!!!! The people are wonderful and it is so inspiring there. And there are a lot of kids stuff for the two monsters.

We have also found a house we want to rent if it is still available. It will be perfect for us. Pray that it works out. We really need to get out of where we are.

I've got more to say but it'll keep for now.

Ravelry!!!!

Ravelry.com

Is so much better than pintrest! There are things on there that I can actually do!

Am off to visit again

Am going to head over to Dasher Church of Christ for evening service. Will update after I get back.

Word of God

So, my 7 year old last night while saying her prayers, asked God why is it called the Word of God, when there are like millions of words in there? Now, while this made me smile and makes me appreciate that she is thinking about things in her own way and feels like she can ask God questions I feel like as her mother, I should help her find the answer. However, I am completely at a loss as to the answer as why it is called the Word instead of Words.

Anyone have any words or scriptures for her and I to read to understand this better?

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Visitation Time

Possible churches to visit....  Let me know if you know of any others nearby and any opinions you have on those on the list.

Lake Park Church of God

 

Corinth Baptist Church

 

Cross Pointe Church Valdosta

 

Dasher Church of Christ

 

Lake Park Methodist

 

Solomon's Porch Valdosta

 

Azalea City Church of God

 

Truth Apostolic

 

About My Father's Ministry

Tired

I am so very tired today.... I don't even think I have anything to say.


God loves us, this I know and this will help me to sleep for tomorrow is bill paying day and there isn't enough to go around. :-(

One

One woman
One God
One prayer
One life
One forgiven
One redeemed
One reborn
One Woman
One God
One who will praise Always.

To see you on that cross
the very perfect of us all
Your blood dripping down
as the despair went all around.

Your love always shown
Your eyes never faltered

You hung there till the last,
never failing, never seeking
their approval or feeding their
disdain, only letting your love flow.

Eyes full of tears watching
Never leaving till you were gone.
How broken they must have felt as the watched
the greatest they had known leaving them this way.

The sorrow to see, the despair to feel
not knowing what the next days would bring.

His love for us never died
only moved to the inside.
We can no longer see, we must feel

That seed within us, we must nourish,
let it begin to bring us new.

A journey that starts and yet takes
us into the dark

Stretching, reaching

The Son gives us all we need
brings us to the light and sets us free.

Our seeds sprouted
leaves reaching out
showing the world.

All beginning with the dripping
of the blood of the worlds'
most perfect man.

Hidden

Hidden o God
under your wing
You love spreads over me
Protecting and clothing me.

How I long to hear your voice
resonating
To hear you speaking only to me
and me alone.

I let you in- so I say- and
yet I still think I am holding back pieces of me

Those pieces you have already
put together and your have
rearranged to better suit us both.

Yet I still wander
aching to know my path
hurting deep inside for my
lack of trust for you, for me.

Letting go and letting you
take control is the hardest for me
Yet, this I know I must.

Daughter of God

Daughter forever

I am a daughter of God

He will always be there for me

As I fall he will reach down and help me back up

No matter where I go, he is always by my side.

Loving me, Guiding me.

Always he loves
Always he is there
Always he will be.

Sunday Ramblings

Sin...
Sin is all around us and yes, even still within us. Trying, seeking to push us towards the side of the devil. I'm still a little strange at mentioning the devil at times even to write it. I spent so many years denying that he even existed, that evil only came from people and not some other being that had once been so close to God. It's been a definite mind shift for me, like several other things. Like getting rid of old rituals, I had thought for a while that some of the celebrations that I used to celebrate could be incorporated into a Christian life, but then I've come to realize that if I am letting God make me new, then that means all of that has to go.

Like it says in Hebrews 10 22:25

We should draw boldly nearer to God which only became possible after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
We should hold hope, be faithful to God. Do not hold on to old rituals of the former self. That can lead you to stray back to the easy ways.
We should work together and with each other and for each other, always encouraging one another and ALWAYS LOVING one another as we are commanded to do.

Remember God will never forsake us and it is impossible for him to lie, so the rewards and blessings that he has promised us through his word will one day be ours, only in his time, when we are ready to receive them.

A Prayer

Dear God,

Bless us this week as we try to keep your words and remember how you would have us to be.
Give us peace when we fret, trust in when we start to worry and let us always remember that you are with us today and all our tomorrows and that you will bless us.

In Jesus Name,
Amen.

Giving it all to God

I have to give it all to God, let him take over my soul and make me whole.


One night after listing out all of the blames that I had, the study I was doing have me list my blessings.

I am so very blessed.

• I have a loving, forgiving God
• I have a loving, supportive Sean
• I have an awesome Liliana that I get to watch grow
• I have a wonderful adventurous Jack monkey
• I have other family that loves me and sees me as better than I do.
• I have a steady job.
• I get to spend time with my family daily.
• I am able to watch/hear my children grow & express themselves and know that they can complain to me.
• I know that even when I am cranky and not so good that neither God nor Sean will leave or quit loving me.

October 12th, Notes from Luke 17

~These are all notes from my devotional time this morning~

We should forgive someone each time the sin against us, especially after they apologize. I'm understanding that to mean that the normal we forgive them even if the don't apologize.
This did leave me with the question of, what about sins committed against you by you? What is the proper course of action there?

Verse 5-10 gave me problems- I had to ask for some help from a friend.
But, she helped me realize that I was reading too much into it. Simply put, it is that we should do our duty to God, for God and not for the praises of others.

We should always remember to praise God for all the he has given us, all that he has promised to us and for ALWAYS standing by our side.

God's kingdom is amongst us, we will not recognize when it comes and thus we should live each day in the ways that He has laid out for us and seek the path that he wants us to walk down in our daily lives remembering him at all times. When he does come, we are to put down all our 'human stuff' and follow him. Otherwise, we will be left.

ALWAYS PRAY!

Admit your sins and failings to God, for he will see them anyways, do not seek to make yourself bigger than others.

Remember to follow where God leads you for he will reward his followers in time and to seek his kingdom and rejoice with him as if you were a little child.

We must keep God first in our lives, from the moment we wake until we lay down to sleep. For all our troubles and for all our praises, he is with us, he is for us and he will guide us. His love lives within us!

All study this morning comes from Luke

Specific praying…part 6

Specific praying…part 6

Specific praying…part 5

Specific praying…part 5

Specific praying…part 4

Specific praying…part 4

Specific praying…part 3

Specific praying…part 3

Specific praying…part 2

Specific praying…part 2

Specific praying…part 1

Specific praying…part 1

Frustrations

You know, some days just get to you.
Things can be rolling along smoothly and then poof!
One thing gets out of whack and just sticks in your head all day long.

Today has been one of those days. From patients who refuse to take their medicine properly to those who want things done immediately and do not realize that I cannot make the doctor sign things!!!!
I really do have sympathy for those who come in and do not understand how to take their medicines, but for those who decide they know better and just change them anyways..... yeah, that stretches it a whole lot! And to make your 93 or 91 year old momma come see another doctor just because they said to, when she already has cancer everywhere makes not a single lick of sense to anyone. And also add a boss who doesn't always read what has been written in the note and changes something in a way that makes no sense with how the patient actually takes it. And yet, WE are the ones who get fussed at by everyone and talked down to...

Obesity 

This article hits home on so many levels. While I am not considered obese I have several family members that are and we all live in the South. We do tend to take our eating very seriously down here, that is a fact, we are also not doing so well on the taking our health seriously. I see so many people who swear up and down that they are eating better and working on not eating as much, but then you see them somewhere and they are having 2 or 3 servings! That's not eating better, that's just eating the same amount with a small break in between plates.
Take my house, we have a family history of high cholesterol and heart problems, so our diets need to reflect a more healthy approach to eating. We are a multi-generational household at this time, and cooking is hard.  We have one who cooks a lot but uses lots of grease- bacon/old grease type of grease and lots of butter. Now, this I realize is how they cook and how they are used to cooking, but with the same type of family health history that I have they know that they should be eating better for their health but are refusing to do so. And, we have two others with family history of diabetes, they are 2 of the biggest sweets eaters in the house. They make them and they eat them, they do share though, but they tend to eat more of it than the rest of us. And finally, there are the kids, whom we all want to grow up to be healthy, happy eaters. I don't think they are getting that right now and I can see this being a problem with trying to teach them at this time about it. I love my family and my household and want them to be around for a long time, but I don't feel like I should have to be a watchdog, especially when they get upset with me about it.

So many people are going to say that the reason the South has more obesity is due to the fact that there is more use of food-stamps and such down here. We do have a lot that are on food stamps, I've been there done that. You can eat healthy on food stamps, but you have to be WILLING to change how  you cook! I think that is a bigger problem, is that people here don't know how to cook healthier and to make the changes that would show up in their health and on their scales and their children's' scales. There is not much of a push around here to get people to eat healthier even by health professionals, they keep telling people to lose weight, but they don't offer much in the way of the how to part. Nor, do we have any exercise facility that is low enough in cost for the lower income people to use when it is extremely too hot to be outside, which is pretty much July - September during the day, so that does make it hard on some people. I think there needs to be more education on how to be healthier, not just saying that people are not doing their own part. They don't know what to do or how to do it!

Ok, ramble over now.

How perfect is that for me this week. With so much going on and getting ahead of myself in my anxiousness I definitely need peace  and not be afraid and remember that God has 'got this' and will direct my family and I in the way that we should go.

He is always with us...

Wonderful Reminder

Girlfriends in God

Girlfriends in God

There is so much to say about this devo--- so many topics that I can apply to my own life here.

Women do have this tendency to take on way too much and I am completely guilty of this, don't believe me ask Sean, and I know it when I agree to do it. I think it all goes back to parent pleasing. When we are growing up, we are taught that if we please our parents our life will go smoother. Then school, please the teachers and your days are much easier. Work just continues the pattern and at times, our spouses and children keep this pattern going on for what seems like the rest of the life. Please everyone and life goes smoother and everyone is happy. So, it's almost a natural extension to lump God in with the rest of the people in our life.

I think that's where our problem starts, we lump him in that little God box and think the same way that if we can please him by doing everything that anyone asks of us. Good service and being helpful and having a loving attitude and all of that jazz. Problem is, that is not what he wants, he wants us to live with him, through him, let him live through us. He wants us to take time to read his words and just enjoy the world that he created for us!

Now, for the hard part, finding that balance. I certainly do not have it. I remember last night, I finally stopped around 845pm and looked at my husband and said that I felt like I had been going since I got home. After I said that I realized that is exactly what I had been doing. I get home around 6pm and then it's straight into the supper, check homework, get clothes ready for school and work, bath and bedtimes. And often times, there is a load of clothes or something from the store that has to be gotten. So, I'm really clueless on finding the balance.

Anyone have any ideas on how to find the balance? 

This is the advice from the devo:
Now It’s Your Turn

• Set aside 30 minutes this week to spend alone with God.
• Examine your life for areas that are out of balance.
• Record each area in your journal.
• Surrender that unbalanced area to God and ask Him to show you how to abide in Him instead of relying upon yourself and your own strength.
• Set aside one day this month for a silent retreat. Go to the beach – a park – or even your back yard! Just get alone with God and take a spiritual inventory of your priorities, time management and goals. The results may surprise you. 

I'm going to try it and see how it goes. Now, if I can get my husband and children to let me be while I try this....  

August 13th

Today is 1 month...
1 month until I leave this job.
1 month until I get to spend a bit more time with my children :-D
1 month until I get to spend more time with my husband. :-D

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On the other hand
1 month until I have no stable income


So what's going to happen is a really big question around my house these days. There are several things in the works right now and I know that God will help me get to where we need to be. I'd love to say that I'll be writing more and posting more but I'm not sure how that will pan out with the other ideas. I want to work on a book as well that is rattling around in me. But, first I have to make sure the money stays coming for the bills that won't stop coming, wish I could figure out a way around that one...

Today's Devo.

GIrlfriends in God

Asking God “Why”…. there are times when we have all done this and I’m sure still will be in the future. Especially people who like to have things all planned out and set, do not always appreciate the little surprises that God throws out. And we want to know “Why”

He definitely has his reasons for everything that we are going through and even for the emotions that we are feeling. There is something that he is trying to lead us to, or to teach us or even just show us about ourselves, our situation or our place in the world.

This verse speaks the most to me today,

No matter what we have gone through or what we will go through in the future, God promises: “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand: “ (Isaiah 41:10).

Whenever I think of all the things in my life that I have gone through, I am amazed at how some of them have turned out and know that could only be because of God’s hand being on me at that time. That he was leading me to where he wanted me to be and trying to shape me, even while I was fighting him and trying to keep control for myself. I can only give my everlasting thanks to him for keeping me during those struggles.

What are you struggling with right now? Do you need prayers? Email me, I might be one person, but I will pray for you.