Prayer

May I just encourage you to pray? Ask for God's love. Ask for His wisdom. Ask for help for a friend. The power of prayer is unmeasureable. ASK.
Then THANK. Thank the God of the universe for His unfailing love. Thank Him for His most precious gift - Jesus Christ.
Pray - it will change your life.

40...can it be?

wearing my dad's police boots
Easter baskets
foster brothers
camping trips
sunday school with the LaCroix's
ECS
harvest festivals
band
fall drama, spring musical
friends
traveling to the Grand Canyon
high school graduation
Florida trips with my precious family
St. Louis trips with my precious family
Mid-South Bible College
singing
cheering
dating
"societies"
Caryn, Melissa, Jeana
ensemble
PMT and Guatemala
MARK BAKER
wedding
Ren
Muireann
Reed
Aiden
Sarah
Leah
smocking
LOVE
40 years..............Thanks, LORD!!!

Sewing.....

Bought white lawn today for making a Christmas dress for my niece. I washed it, starched and ironed it, and hung it to wait for cutting out! I have to get my pattern out and trace it off. I have Christmas ideas just bouncing around in my head! I think I am making a "Frannie" from Children's Corner. DELICIOUS!
Are you reading Isaiah 58? Is it changing you? What do you think? Let me know in the comments section.

Isaiah 58

If you are up for a challenge....try reading Isaiah 58 everyday for a month. I am starting tomorrow on this journey. I can't wait to see what is in store. "Studyinbrown" says that it is life changing. She also says that you should try to read different translations so that you get a fuller picture. If you don't have several translations around your house, then look up biblegateway.com and use their site to read! For other questions, go to www.studyinbrown.com Look at the top of her page and you will see the Isaiah 58 prompt!!! Let's do it!

New Blog Background!

Check out all this new stuff!!! Hope you like the new look. The children and I are headed to the pool. Anything to ease these DOG DAYS of summer is appreciated. We have such wonderful friends who have invited us to come to their pools anytime. We go to one particular friend's house every Friday. We take a picnic lunch and stay all day. We are all brown, tired and happy at the end of the day. THANKS, dear friends!

Sleep

I am just wondering, what is it in a 12 year old's life that keeps him from sleeping. His lack of sleep is KILLING me. I am falling into bed in the evening. I am barely waking up in the morning. He is outdoing me on both! Lots of activity, or no activity....he just isn't the "sleepy teenager" that I was expecting. I was never a big sleeper when I was a kid...well, until my thyroid went wacky.....but I was never a sleep all Saturday long type. I would stay out very late, and still only be able to sleep until 10 am. After Himself and I were married, we would stay up late on a Friday night. Saturday morning, I would be up at 7:30. He would sleep until noon. You can't make someone sleep. I guess it is a good thing he likes to read.

What is in Store...

I never know what is in the future. I never know from one minute to the next what is coming. The future could be good, or it could be bad. When the future arrives, how will I respond? In panic? With tears? In frustration? Jeremiah 29:11 tells me that "He KNOWS the plans that He has for me....plans for welfare, NOT for calamity, to give me a FUTURE and a HOPE." I want my responses to the future to be for His glory. They are NOT always that way. I want my responses to be from a heart that is not afraid. Fear is paralyzing. Fear makes me run away. God doesn't want me to run away, He wants me to run toward HIM. He gives the peace that surpasses ALL understanding. Help me, Lord, to run to you in my times of fear.