I will Praise Him in the Storm!!!!!!!!!

O.K., so life has not been so easy the last few months and the saga continues, but God is the pilot so he's in control, not me....(I AM NOT GOD!) I have to remind myself this after being a member of the (I AM NOT GOD SUPPORT GROUP) I have had a range of emotions ..that I will not go into, but right now I am just thankful! No , things aren't perfect or even fixed by any means, but I know this is a growing process and as the saying goes...NO PAIN, NO GAIN...this is also true with your walk with Christ. You can go along for years thinking I've given everything...I Love God, I serve God, I teach, I teach my children about God, but God says Do you really Love ME? Will you love me when things get hard? When you don't understand? When your heart is broke? When I let your children fall? Well, God is teaching me new things through this...even though things may get harder. I don't always like them and I can't say that this has been easy at all!!!!!!!!!!!I have a good support group of friends who have been encouraging me and praying for my family. THANK YOU! So, Kali and Charlie have been found safe and She is getting treatment right now. She was gone 11 days this time and I'm over being mad! (which would do me no good anyway) I just keep praying for her and Charlie to make the right good choices daily...it's living for God through the little stuff that make the big stuff easier.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. Prov. 3:5-6

As my husband would say (How can we help others if we don't know what they are going through?) I would have chosen to pass on this one, however. Well, I know God is going to use this for good sometime...

We also had a visit from Roland's family today...they were on their way to the mountains. It went very well and we had a nice visit. I did miss going to Disciple Now with my youth at church because of all the stuff going on over the weekend, but I hear they had a great time. I'm excitied for them and I can't wait to see the changes they will make in their lives because of a renewed commitment to the Lord.

A new week tomorrow.....with new challenges ahead....but It's all good! God's ways are not my ways. (this is a good thing!)

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation....

So, thank you to all my wonderful friends who made comments on my post...you guys are so encouraging! I tend to be a negitive person...like the glass is half empty instead of half full. I don't know why, but it is definitely one of my many character flaws. I am trying to change this by the grace of God. I do wish I would have worked on this years ago. Well, what can I say about this past week. I worked quite a bit so I wasn't home much and so now I'm trying to catch up with laundry and stuff around the house. Some things happened this week (involving my children making bad choices) I'm really just hurt and disappointed about the whole thing. There are no guarantees that come with the children God gives you...and especially not if they happen to be pastor's kids. They did not like this label (PK) when Roland was the pastor of a chuch for 4 years in FL. However, you think you are doing all you can to teach them the word of God , like in Deut. 6:5-8...Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strengh..These commandments that I give you today are to be upon you hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. I guess the world just gets in the way of the one true God we are suppose to Love with everything instead of all the other stuff we put first. So all that to say, I have been praying harder than ever before....and God is so awesome to reveal new things to me daily. He has brought our family through so much in recent months. He is faithful to walk us through our trials even in my weekest moments(after all I am human ya know)

Now on the lighter side, I'll attempt to do some painting this week in my living room (the one room I could not pick a color for) so I tried this mustard with gold (wall magic) I think it has grown on me and the whole room will look good when I'm done. (I hope) Then I get to pick some curtains to match, oh noooooooooooo! (they have to be cheap on my budget)

I amost forgot, my niece is coming from FL this week and Kelci is so excited because she is going to take her to see High School Musical #3. They are really good about spoiling her...then I get to bring her back to reality.

So, I guess I'll save some more stuff for later...my mind is still in go mode, but I'd write a book if that kept up. I could say THESE ARE THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES........ ok well I know that was cheesy, but I'm old school.

A New Day

o.k., so I really stink at this computer stuff, but I am trying...this is my first blog and I'm still working on it. Life, hummmmmmmmmm...well, God has been good to me even though I'm a sinner. Daily, I've had to just say lately, Empty me God so I can be full of you. This is my one true desire.
Well, as far as the weekend goes..it was very nice. We spent some time celebrating our friends 40th B-day(the name withheld to protect His identity)ha, ha...it was kinda like a this is your life thing. His parents were there and they had lots of pictures(we really change when we get older).They had great stories to tell and it was very enjoyable to get to know them. The one thing we all had in common was our faith in Jesus Christ. What a fun time!
So, Sunday was church and what a great group of Girls I teach. They were actually interested in learning more about the Laws from Leviticus. Praise God for a hunger for knowledge! That pretty much took care of the weekend. So this is going to be a busy work week for me...I'll try to get this up.