Hurray! It's time to go on our annual vacation to the mountains of North Carolina!! We go twice a year, once alone (this time) and once with my parents-in-love! This is the time of year we go to get away from our hectic routines and just rest and relax and try not to think about what we have to do when we get back home. This year will be a little hard on us because we will be leaving our little Jack, our 7 month old toy poodle. He's our new baby!
Our other baby, our 20 year old son will be leaving soon to go to the University of Florida College of Pharmacy! He's just finished up his two years at our local community college and will start pharmacy school in August. So our last child will be spreading his wings to fly out of the nest. Wow, how time has flown! When we get home, we will start feverishly looking for a place for him to live in a strange city. I started to have anxiety about it, then reminded myself that we have prayed a long time that the Lord would open the college door that He had for our child and so since this is the door He opened.....He surely also has a place for him to live! So we are trusting God to help us as we start this process.
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Too Wonderful For Me
A Prayer for a Son
Oh, God, our help in ages past....Our hope for years to come....Be his shelter from the stormy blast .....and his eternal home. In recent years, when I would be singing in church services, I would begin putting my children's names in places that were appropriate and making the songs a prayer for them. A wonderful and wise friend of mine who has been with the Lord for several years said her favorite scripture for her children was 3 John 4 "I have no greater joy than to hear my children are walking in the truth." Ah what joy!
You have probably figured out by now that I am troubled by one of my children. So I cling to the promises of God. I love the scripture about the vine and I envision the vine and holding onto to it while being blown about by the storms of life and the winds of worry. I know that as long as I am connected to the vine, I will always have hope that my childrens' eyes will be opened to the truth
Oh, God, our help in ages past....Our hope for years to come....Be his shelter from the stormy blast .....and his eternal home. In recent years, when I would be singing in church services, I would begin putting my children's names in places that were appropriate and making the songs a prayer for them. A wonderful and wise friend of mine who has been with the Lord for several years said her favorite scripture for her children was 3 John 4 "I have no greater joy than to hear my children are walking in the truth." Ah what joy!
You have probably figured out by now that I am troubled by one of my children. So I cling to the promises of God. I love the scripture about the vine and I envision the vine and holding onto to it while being blown about by the storms of life and the winds of worry. I know that as long as I am connected to the vine, I will always have hope that my childrens' eyes will be opened to the truth
Too Wonderful For Me
A Prayer for a Son
Oh, God, our help in ages past....Our hope for years to come....Be his shelter from the stormy blast .....and his eternal home. In recent years, when I would be singing in church services, I would begin putting my children's names in places that were appropriate and making the songs a prayer for them. A wonderful and wise friend of mine who has been with the Lord for several years said her favorite scripture for her children was 3 John 4 "I have no greater joy than to hear my children are walking in the truth." Ah what joy!
You have probably figured out by now that I am troubled by one of my children. So I cling to the promises of God. I love the scripture about the vine and I envision the vine and holding onto to it while being blown about by the storms of life and the winds of worry. I know that as long as I am connected to the vine, I will always have hope that my childrens' eyes will be opened to the truth
Oh, God, our help in ages past....Our hope for years to come....Be his shelter from the stormy blast .....and his eternal home. In recent years, when I would be singing in church services, I would begin putting my children's names in places that were appropriate and making the songs a prayer for them. A wonderful and wise friend of mine who has been with the Lord for several years said her favorite scripture for her children was 3 John 4 "I have no greater joy than to hear my children are walking in the truth." Ah what joy!
You have probably figured out by now that I am troubled by one of my children. So I cling to the promises of God. I love the scripture about the vine and I envision the vine and holding onto to it while being blown about by the storms of life and the winds of worry. I know that as long as I am connected to the vine, I will always have hope that my childrens' eyes will be opened to the truth
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Too Wonderful For Me
Of trust in God and handstands
Recently, because when I feel depressed I do this, I've been in my bedroom when not performing some "official" duty. You know like washing clothes or thinking about cooking supper. I tend to isolate myself if I have the blues. So as I was sitting, o.k. lying, in my bed the other day, I was thinking about aging. I am the primary caretaker of my mother and aging has been on my mind lately. I'm not afraid of it, don't particularly like the things that go along with it, things I see my mama going through. So I kept thinking, if I could only still do handstands. Handstands??? Now where did that come from, I probably haven't done one in 25 years. But nevertheless, my mind kept wandering back to handstands. So I finally thought, well only one way to find out, and if I can do a handstand, maybe I'm not as old as I think. So I bravely stood up (o.k. did that!) contemplated how to swing my body into an upside down position without breaking anything. Took precious husband's picture off the wall.....and just did it.....I DID IT!!! I honestly don't know why, but I felt better all day! So I've been doing a handstand against that wall every day since and I haven't been in the bed any of those days.
Then as I was reading another sweet Christian's blog who is going through a storm right now, some of her friends had posted this scripture. "In quietness and in trust shall be your strength" Isaiah 30:15 I love that scripture! I'm not a really quiet person....in fact it's been said that I'm loud.....I have 5 brothers and sisters, what can I say? In our house you were loud to be heard. But I want to be a quiet person, with a quiet spirit. And I DO trust in the Lord.
I think my point is (and i'm not sure) that even when you love the Lord and trust Him, you can still get down. But from now on, I'm going to try to remember to get up and do something......a handstand?? Maybe, maybe something else at another time.
But one thing I know and one thing I am sure of .....I want my life to bring glory to God and I want to enjoy Him every day!
Recently, because when I feel depressed I do this, I've been in my bedroom when not performing some "official" duty. You know like washing clothes or thinking about cooking supper. I tend to isolate myself if I have the blues. So as I was sitting, o.k. lying, in my bed the other day, I was thinking about aging. I am the primary caretaker of my mother and aging has been on my mind lately. I'm not afraid of it, don't particularly like the things that go along with it, things I see my mama going through. So I kept thinking, if I could only still do handstands. Handstands??? Now where did that come from, I probably haven't done one in 25 years. But nevertheless, my mind kept wandering back to handstands. So I finally thought, well only one way to find out, and if I can do a handstand, maybe I'm not as old as I think. So I bravely stood up (o.k. did that!) contemplated how to swing my body into an upside down position without breaking anything. Took precious husband's picture off the wall.....and just did it.....I DID IT!!! I honestly don't know why, but I felt better all day! So I've been doing a handstand against that wall every day since and I haven't been in the bed any of those days.
Then as I was reading another sweet Christian's blog who is going through a storm right now, some of her friends had posted this scripture. "In quietness and in trust shall be your strength" Isaiah 30:15 I love that scripture! I'm not a really quiet person....in fact it's been said that I'm loud.....I have 5 brothers and sisters, what can I say? In our house you were loud to be heard. But I want to be a quiet person, with a quiet spirit. And I DO trust in the Lord.
I think my point is (and i'm not sure) that even when you love the Lord and trust Him, you can still get down. But from now on, I'm going to try to remember to get up and do something......a handstand?? Maybe, maybe something else at another time.
But one thing I know and one thing I am sure of .....I want my life to bring glory to God and I want to enjoy Him every day!
Thursday, May 4, 2006
A good day!
Too Wonderful For Me Recently, I have been kind of down. I'm the only one of my "old" group of friends that is home all day....making for the occasional lonely day! Yesterday, I ran into an acquantance and when I asked how she was, immediately told me she had been experiencing severe depression....reminding me that I often forget there are others out there who might need a friend as much as I do! So often, I am fooled into thinking I'm the only one who feels a certain way. So over the next few weeks, I am going to try to reach beyond my small borders!
Russell and I have been walking in the evenings when he gets home from work, which is so much fun. We first met at the walking park so it brings back many happy memories! We are so blessed by God to have a happy marriage! These past few weeks, we have been trying to stay away from t.v. (no small task!) and Russell reads to me at night either from the Bible or from the Bible study book we are reading. I love to have him read to me and this is a very new experience for two old dogs!
Russell and I have been walking in the evenings when he gets home from work, which is so much fun. We first met at the walking park so it brings back many happy memories! We are so blessed by God to have a happy marriage! These past few weeks, we have been trying to stay away from t.v. (no small task!) and Russell reads to me at night either from the Bible or from the Bible study book we are reading. I love to have him read to me and this is a very new experience for two old dogs!
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