I am finally coming to a place in life when I realize it is now or never.
1. It is now when I need to start taking one moment at a time and thanking God for each and every day He gives me.
2. It is now that I need to not let the little things in life stir up my blood pressure.
3. It is now that I need to realize that everything and I mean EVERYTHING is under God's control...that nothing can happen w/o Him allowing it to happen.
4. It is now that I need to realize that now matter what I will never on the side of Heaven be perfect..not a perfect body, not perfect hair, not a perfect singing voice, and not a perfect boss at work...etc...
5. It is now that I need to start to realize how much God loves me and if He loves me that is enough. I do not need to let those people that don't like me and defianitly don't love me, bother me and let it ruin my day.
6. It is now that I need to start to realize that God has put so many wonderful people in my life..and especially my family that I am blessed beyond measure.
7. It is now that I need to put the past totally behind me, old friendships that have been lost...all the bad choices that I made and all the bad things that I have done...I need to go forward, onward...not to put my hand on the plow and look back...
8. It is now that counts. I am going to be a Greatgrandma soon and how much better does it get then that??
9. It is now that I need to let go of things that are not in my control and not feel guilty.
10. It is now that each day I am going to take God at His word..He says "Never will I leave you or forsake you." He says that I can cast All my anxity on Him because He cares for me..and that His love is for Always!!
Monday, May 10, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
A week of Celebrations
Family, they are so wonderful...in all the diversity of personalities. God makes each and everyone of us different...and how we can all blend together in love. I am so thankful for each and everyone of my children and their spouses and all my grandchildren. WE have so much fun together.....
Happy Birthday Everett and Stephanie...may God bless you this year and always...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
JOY
Nehemiah 8:10 says Do not grieve, for the JOY of the Lord is your strength.
Psalms 43:4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my JOY and my delight.
I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God
Psalms 96:12 let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for JOY.
Proverbs 10:1 A wise son brings Joy to His father
Isaiah 35:10 and the ransomed of the Lord will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting JOY will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
John 15:11 I have told you this so that my JOY may be in you and that your JOY may be complete.
James 1:2 Consider it pure JOY, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kind..
I Peter 1:8 Though you have not seen him, you love Him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious JOY.
The Word of God talks so much about JOY
Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always, again I say REJOICE!
I wonder sometimes " where is my JOY"? Do I have the kind of joy in my heart that the Bible talks about?? Am I rejoicing in the Lord..?? Jesus tells me to...we are to have JOY in our hearts...have a JOYFUL heart...
I will tell you when my heart is not joyous...when I am harboring sin..talking negative about someone.. not being obedient to the Holy Spirit when He lays on my heart something that I need to do and don't...we are to lift others up...this is what the Bible says to encourage our brothers and sisters in Christ...
No doubt about it today's life is hard, there are so many things that are happening..but not everything that is going on is bad we just need to look around us and see the brightness that God puts in our life...
This last week here are some of mine..not in any particular order
Celebrating the Resurrection of my Savior
Being able to fix Easter dinner for my children...
Getting hugs from each and everyone of my kiddos big and small
Health
Job
Being able to skype with my granddaughter in Chicago
Sitting and talking with a dear friend today
Sharing another birthday lunch with a dear co-worker of mine
Now listening to my hubby play his guitar and singing
The love of my family that surrounds me...
The Love of God that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him shall have everlasting life...
Psalms 43:4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God, my JOY and my delight.
I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God
Psalms 96:12 let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them. Then all the trees of the forest will sing for JOY.
Proverbs 10:1 A wise son brings Joy to His father
Isaiah 35:10 and the ransomed of the Lord will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting JOY will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.
John 15:11 I have told you this so that my JOY may be in you and that your JOY may be complete.
James 1:2 Consider it pure JOY, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kind..
I Peter 1:8 Though you have not seen him, you love Him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious JOY.
The Word of God talks so much about JOY
Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always, again I say REJOICE!
I wonder sometimes " where is my JOY"? Do I have the kind of joy in my heart that the Bible talks about?? Am I rejoicing in the Lord..?? Jesus tells me to...we are to have JOY in our hearts...have a JOYFUL heart...
I will tell you when my heart is not joyous...when I am harboring sin..talking negative about someone.. not being obedient to the Holy Spirit when He lays on my heart something that I need to do and don't...we are to lift others up...this is what the Bible says to encourage our brothers and sisters in Christ...
No doubt about it today's life is hard, there are so many things that are happening..but not everything that is going on is bad we just need to look around us and see the brightness that God puts in our life...
This last week here are some of mine..not in any particular order
Celebrating the Resurrection of my Savior
Being able to fix Easter dinner for my children...
Getting hugs from each and everyone of my kiddos big and small
Health
Job
Being able to skype with my granddaughter in Chicago
Sitting and talking with a dear friend today
Sharing another birthday lunch with a dear co-worker of mine
Now listening to my hubby play his guitar and singing
The love of my family that surrounds me...
The Love of God that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him shall have everlasting life...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Roots
I have worked at Rama going on 33 yrs this coming July.
Many, Many things have changed in those 33 years including me.
When I started there Chad was not even in school yet, just getting ready to start pre-school. It is so hard to imagine I have been in one place that long. I started out working with Evi and her and I became life long friends. We worked together for 28 years she was from Germany and I learned a lot of things from her. When she retired 6 years ago I missed her so...others have came and others have left..but there is still one there that has been with me for 19 years and another one for 10 yrs.
Talk comes up every now and again about Everett and I moving to McPherson since after all the kiddos and grand kiddos are all there...12 miles away...if we were all in Wichita or KC 12 miles would be nothing but since our drive takes us out in the country 12 miles seems like everything sometimes..it really isn't..
Today Sarah called and said " a tragedy has happened the little white cottage across the street from them has a 4-sale sign up and we didn't buy it...they have wanted us to buy it ever since they knew it was coming up for sale...
Now then, I have lived in my home here in Ridge since 1971....done a lot of work to it, raised all my kiddos here...grandkids have memories here...I was born and raised here...our oldest Granddaughter got married in our back yard...
Let's see.....39 years in the same house....Everett was at his job 38 years...I have been at mine 33 years and we have been married 46 years
Now does anyone get the picture...I don't like change...very well...
It almost makes me shiver to think of going through all my stuff and packing it and moving it...even though I know that one day I probably will...I can't stay here forever....
Many, Many things have changed in those 33 years including me.
When I started there Chad was not even in school yet, just getting ready to start pre-school. It is so hard to imagine I have been in one place that long. I started out working with Evi and her and I became life long friends. We worked together for 28 years she was from Germany and I learned a lot of things from her. When she retired 6 years ago I missed her so...others have came and others have left..but there is still one there that has been with me for 19 years and another one for 10 yrs.
Talk comes up every now and again about Everett and I moving to McPherson since after all the kiddos and grand kiddos are all there...12 miles away...if we were all in Wichita or KC 12 miles would be nothing but since our drive takes us out in the country 12 miles seems like everything sometimes..it really isn't..
Today Sarah called and said " a tragedy has happened the little white cottage across the street from them has a 4-sale sign up and we didn't buy it...they have wanted us to buy it ever since they knew it was coming up for sale...
Now then, I have lived in my home here in Ridge since 1971....done a lot of work to it, raised all my kiddos here...grandkids have memories here...I was born and raised here...our oldest Granddaughter got married in our back yard...
Let's see.....39 years in the same house....Everett was at his job 38 years...I have been at mine 33 years and we have been married 46 years
Now does anyone get the picture...I don't like change...very well...
It almost makes me shiver to think of going through all my stuff and packing it and moving it...even though I know that one day I probably will...I can't stay here forever....
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Alive
Some of you that read my blog are probably wondering if I am still here or
if I have just up and left...nope I'm here...seems as though I am going
through a season of my life that is yet bringing another change...not sure
just what it is..but I know that it will be something special, because you
see I have totally surrendered all of my life to my one and only Savior
Jesus Christ...now I have done this before...but there were parts that I was
so unwilling to surrender and now I have let go..from here on out what He
wants is what I want...takes all the questions out...now I know I will still
mess up...but I know that He is there right away to forgive and hold me
again...things just seem so uncertain in the world today..and I think that
if we all knew really what is going on we probably couldn't sleep tonight,
so I am glad I don't know it all and have my trust in someone that
does..that is where I will rest...
In my life...broken relationships have been mended recently....accepting
things that are and can't be changed...watching and waiting...embracing
God's blessings...thanking Him for them...Filled...overwhelmed sometimes at
what God has done in my life...if anyone has doubts that He is real give me
a call..I will tell you just how real He really is!!
Upon God's care I lay me down, as a child
upon a Mother's breast...
No silken couch, nor softest bed could ever
give me such deep rest!
if I have just up and left...nope I'm here...seems as though I am going
through a season of my life that is yet bringing another change...not sure
just what it is..but I know that it will be something special, because you
see I have totally surrendered all of my life to my one and only Savior
Jesus Christ...now I have done this before...but there were parts that I was
so unwilling to surrender and now I have let go..from here on out what He
wants is what I want...takes all the questions out...now I know I will still
mess up...but I know that He is there right away to forgive and hold me
again...things just seem so uncertain in the world today..and I think that
if we all knew really what is going on we probably couldn't sleep tonight,
so I am glad I don't know it all and have my trust in someone that
does..that is where I will rest...
In my life...broken relationships have been mended recently....accepting
things that are and can't be changed...watching and waiting...embracing
God's blessings...thanking Him for them...Filled...overwhelmed sometimes at
what God has done in my life...if anyone has doubts that He is real give me
a call..I will tell you just how real He really is!!
Upon God's care I lay me down, as a child
upon a Mother's breast...
No silken couch, nor softest bed could ever
give me such deep rest!
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Reflecting
I have been here, sat down to blog and before I can even get half finished writing what is on my mind I delete it all...can't seem to get my thoughts down here...
Seems as though lately I have been reflecting on where I have been, where I came from and where oh where am I going..sometimes when the days run into each other and not much is happening out of the ordinary I start to wonder if I am really doing what I am suppose to be doing here on earth...I lately have ran across some other blogs of young Christian women and mothers and I start reflecting on my own life and where I have been. I start feeling so ( lack of words) regretful...of how I lived back then, how I was as a Mother and wish that I could go back just for a few years and do some things over...there are so many things that I am so sorry for..never could understand when my mother always use to say I wish that I could do this or that over she always seemed to live in the past..I don't want to go there and so I have been doing a lot of soul searching and praying and asking God to put the right attitude and His will in my heart...I then reflect on Joel 2:25...I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten...
Today I again want to focus on now and never ever forget that when God forgives He completely forgives as far as the east is from the west..and never to remember anymore...and even though I won't forget..here...unless old age takes care of that for me...I can learn and become better because of it..and also cherish the forgiveness of those that I love so much here....and be so thankful for that...
One lady wrote about the thorns....and how we can either look at inconvenience in our lives as thorns..and then remember that Jesus also says "My Grace is sufficient for you" and the best and favorite verse Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him / who have been called according to His purpose...
So when I wonder if I am where He wants me to be..that I am...and if I wonder am I doing all that I can be ...probably not...but my desire is to.....do exactly what He wants of me...and to serve Him totally....and bloom where He has planted me..and be content....
Seems as though lately I have been reflecting on where I have been, where I came from and where oh where am I going..sometimes when the days run into each other and not much is happening out of the ordinary I start to wonder if I am really doing what I am suppose to be doing here on earth...I lately have ran across some other blogs of young Christian women and mothers and I start reflecting on my own life and where I have been. I start feeling so ( lack of words) regretful...of how I lived back then, how I was as a Mother and wish that I could go back just for a few years and do some things over...there are so many things that I am so sorry for..never could understand when my mother always use to say I wish that I could do this or that over she always seemed to live in the past..I don't want to go there and so I have been doing a lot of soul searching and praying and asking God to put the right attitude and His will in my heart...I then reflect on Joel 2:25...I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten...
Today I again want to focus on now and never ever forget that when God forgives He completely forgives as far as the east is from the west..and never to remember anymore...and even though I won't forget..here...unless old age takes care of that for me...I can learn and become better because of it..and also cherish the forgiveness of those that I love so much here....and be so thankful for that...
One lady wrote about the thorns....and how we can either look at inconvenience in our lives as thorns..and then remember that Jesus also says "My Grace is sufficient for you" and the best and favorite verse Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him / who have been called according to His purpose...
So when I wonder if I am where He wants me to be..that I am...and if I wonder am I doing all that I can be ...probably not...but my desire is to.....do exactly what He wants of me...and to serve Him totally....and bloom where He has planted me..and be content....
Friday, February 5, 2010
LOVE
Love is Silence----------When your words would hurt
Love is Patience---------When your neighbor's curt
Love is Deafness---------When a scandal flows
Love is Thoughtfulness---For other's woe
Love is Promptness-------When stern duty calls
Love is Courage----------When misfortune falls
Unknown
Love is Patience---------When your neighbor's curt
Love is Deafness---------When a scandal flows
Love is Thoughtfulness---For other's woe
Love is Promptness-------When stern duty calls
Love is Courage----------When misfortune falls
Unknown
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