Nervous Nellie...

I am a nervous nellie when it comes to storms...especially tornados..now I know I do not stand alone in this fear..mine is just very...well....out there. I become very anxious....I can become very quiet...because I don't know exactly how to handle my fear with it....because I know that it is all in God's hands anyway...I just can't comprehend the thought of losing my home...or worse yet a member of my family....I wanted to crawl in my mom's lap last Saturday because she used to make me feel secure in her arms when I was a little girl....

I know there are a lot of little ones still like that....in Mom and Dad's bed....snuggling up to them..I spent many of stormy nights in my mom's bed....oh the comfort...I got being there...and really, what could she have done if a big one would have hit....

I thought that when I surrendered my life to Christ that maybe some of my big fears would go away...and some have...but I want to snuggle up in God's arms of safety when things here on earth get bumpy....I want security....I want protection...and He did protect last Saturday....I pray for those that got hit...and lost loved ones...I do....but in return I want to THANK HIM for answered prayers....praying for protection of my  loved ones...and my home...we were gone and He watched over.....prayer....prayer....Thank you Father...I want Him to know that I am thankful...and I do not take it for granted when our prayers are answered...

There is a song we sing....Everett and I.....In the Shelter of His Arms.....

There is peace in the times of trouble,
There is peace in the midst of the storm....
There is peace when the world seems raging
In the Shelter of His Arms.....

Passing from this life to the next...

Today is Good Friday, the day we set aside to ponder and let our thoughts drift back to what it much have been like over 2000 years ago....when Jesus was crucified...innocent of all wrong...completely sinless and yet they found Him quilty...I have thought about that the last couple of days and what it must have been like for Him to take all the sin of all the world ever...upon himself .....oh the pain He must have bore...I thought of how painful it is when I stub my toe, hammer my finger, a tooth ache...so much pain and yet it is nothing compared to what our Savior went through....I want to thank you Jesus...for taking my sins...that I may have ever lasting life....and you didn't stay in the grave...you arose....and I too, will not stay in the grave...because of what you did for me......

Today...Good Friday.....2012.....another soul left this earth and went into eternity.....my son-in-law's father Bon Walker....I remember the first time I met him almost 30 years ago....he was painting a house..that's what he did he was a painter...We would aways be together for our Grandchildren's birthday parties...Abby, Annie and Abe....every year....the day our first granddaughter was born...Bon and I were both at the hospital...when our Abby was born we stood by the window of the nursery and both of us argured about who she looked like ....I said my side of the family and he said no she was a Walker all the way through...made me mad....she look like the Boese's...... But you know today she is a beautiful Abby a mix with both of us....

We went to see Bon on Monday..at Cedars...so glad we did...he talked to us yet...he will be missed....