New Look at Life!

Since my MIL passed I have been thinking a lot! A whole lot about eternity! And about how I want to live my life from this point on. I thought I would share some of the things I have been thinking about.

I have decided that I NEED to put GOD #1 in my life! Yes I have claimed to do this in the past(and have honestly made an effort at it, with lots of failures), but I am really sincerely devoted now! I have never been this determined before. I am going to try to make every decision according to what I know HE wants me to do. I have been struggling with a few issues in my life lately, some of which I have to quit, some of which I need to be better at doing! (such as reading my Bible)! I would covet your prayers in this time!

I have never looked at life this way before. I have decided that there is NOTHING on this earth that is worth going to HELL over! NOTHING AT ALL! I don't care what it is that God may "ask" me to give up! I am HIS! I want to make it to HEAVEN! I have never had that ASSURED feeling before. I always thought that people who claimed that were ridiculously arrogant! But when God says something He means it. In the scripture there is a verse that states that we can KNOW we have eternal life! (I Jn 5:13) So obviously I was missing something! It's not arrogance at all to KNOW that God is right. IT'S FAITH! I believe with all my heart that we can KNOW we are saved by believing God's word, and obeying what it says! I think that before I had things in my life that were between Him and I and that was why I didn't KNOW! Things that I wouldn't give up. Things that were holding me back! Not that I was a "horrible wicked" person, just that I wasn't SOLD OUT for God! Not whole heartily devoted to HIM! I honestly believe that my life will change tremendously. I think that not only with the changes that I am going to make, there will be changes in my family life because of it and my marriage as well! GOD IS GOOD!

I think God has been working on me for a LONG time and he has given me this new outlook for a reason! I am so excited about my future in Him!! Thanks for all of you that have prayed for me in the past, and I hope you will continue to do so!

My New Year's Challenge to U and Myself also!

I am making it my goal to read the Bible through in a year! Trying to read it Every Single Day in 2009! That will be a tough challenge for me! I have been trying to do this for years and always fail! So I am thinking if I post it on here and you all can hold me accountable and I can post things every now and then to see if you all are reading your Bible everyday! Please help me in my walk with Christ in this? We are also challenging Mark to read through the New Testament this year. Reading a little bit EVERY day also. Pray for our success in this as well, Please?

God Loves U!

This video is a touching heartfelt story that just broke mine as I watched it! Thinking from a mom's perspective! Imagining that being one of my children! He really does love us!

Where do I begin?

We have been so insanely busy! We have been at camp and trying to squeeze a family vacation and trip to Adventureland! Plus try to get my DR and Kitchen painted and get our basement cleaned up from the floods. This is all why I haven't been doing much blogging lately! I am up to my ears in projects. I would love to squeeze some scrapbooking in all this but I know it is on the backburner for now.

I plan to post some pics form camp sometime. But for now I will just let you all know Mark had a first up in Bible drills for quoting a verse! "That's my BOY!"

We had a really great time. I cried when it was time to go! Those girls really touched my heart! Being a dorm mom was my calling this last week! I had some really good talks with some of them! Girls I love you! I will be praying for you all this year and can't wait to see you again next year!

I Am Yours!

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Turn off my music on the blog and up your sound, this is so beautiful!

We Had Our Youth Rally This Past Weekend!

Well we had our youth rally and had 47 ppl there. It was good. William Pope was the speaker for it and we had the old middle school gym for afterwards. The "men" played b-ball(I say it that way cause they let Mark play some too). They played 3 games!

I had games for the lil' kids and it was a lot of fun! I did loose my voice though. I am finally kinda recovering from it. I slept from 8pm till 7am the next morning. We played the clothes pin game and had a scavenger hunt. We also played the cottonball on a spoon race. We had a small ducky pond that actually turned into the lil' kids just playing with the ducks. I brought the kids' fold out house and bus. We had a bean bag toss for a few of the littlest ones. All in all it went pretty good. I had a hard time because I could have really used a helper. But maybe next year we can plan that part better.

FOOD was awesome as always. We had chili dogs or you could have it seperate! YUMMY! And way too many cookies. LOL

Thanks to all of you who gave me ideas for games and such!

The Faith of Children!

To set the scene: Hannah and her 6yo friend were playing on bar stools with their toys and sitting on them and such and Hannah was playing like the floor was water.
Friend: "How can we be standing on water? Why don't we pretend it's cement?"
Hannah: "God's lifting us!" Said in an attitude like duh can't you figure that out!

I was so touched and lifted up by this lil' scene played out in my home! Makes me feel like we are doing something right. Hope this blesses you!

New Book

Well I got a new book from the conference. It is called Get Off Your Knees and Pray by Sheila Walsh. I am really looking forward to reading it b/c this has been an area in which I have struggled. I feel like I don't really connect with God and I don't really feel him answering. Maybe it's b/c my ears are turned off I am not sure. I am hoping this book will give me a bit of insight. I will let you know what I thought when I get it done. Might be a while with 4 kids I don't have much leasure reading time.

Women of Faith weekend

Well I was so looking forward to this past weekend. The conference was great. Max Lucado was there. It was a lot of fun.

BUT... I ended up getting really sick. I still am kinda now. I got the FLU! Friday night I ended up passing out back at the motel room at about 3am! Not a fun weekend at all. I really don't feel like eating anything. I had called JR to let him know what was going on only to find out Mark and Lex had puked as well! G....RATE! We have stains on our carpet now (any clues as to how to get them up?) I hope this doesn't go clear through our family! I hate it when we are all sick... Man I can't wait for winter weather to be over!!!

Other then being sick though the conference was really good. It was nice to spend some time with friends I don't get to see much. I laughed and cried all in the same breath, on several occasions. LOL. I was convicted and encouraged as well.

I am going to the Women of Faith confrence this weekend!

I am really looking forward to an early birthday present this weekend. One of my friends bought my ticket for the Women of Faith confrence in Omaha! I am looking forward to going and getting a break from the kids, too. It will be nice to get away and spend time with some women and have a good time too. Also to lift my spirits and get encouraged spiritually as well. The topic is Infinate Grace! I am so excited!

Johnny that Baptist

Johnny's mother looked out the window and noticed him "playing church" with
their three kittens. He had the kittens sitting in a row, and he was
preaching to them.

She smiled and went about her work.

A while later she heard loud meowing and hissing and ran back to the open
window to see Johnny baptizing the kittens in a tub of water.

She called out, "Johnny, stop that! Those kittens are afraid of water!"

Johnny looked up at her and said,
"They should have thought about that before they joined my church."

Happy Valentines' Day!

I just wanted to wish you all a Happy Valentines Day! And to remind you about the best and biggest love gift we could have ever gotten was from Jesus. The ultimate sacrifice. Cost more then any diamond your loved one could ever find and purer and clearer in intent then any diamond as well! His Love is the biggest a greatest gift we could ever get or give for Valentines! So share your wealth with as many ppl as will listen! We truely are wealthy with what he has given us through His son! So don't ever forget that Valentines gift! Love you ALL!

Makes you think?