Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Life's Crazy

Hey everybody. I hope life is finding you all well. I have to say if it isn’t go to God, he will provide the comfort needed to get through life. Life is so crazy. Everything going at once, and the season doesn’t seem to have an end is sight. You will hear me talk a lot about seasons because I believe that God not only has seasons for the weather but seasons for our life. The season God has me in now is being so hungry to learn His word and how to demolish the strongholds that satan has deceived me with. As I told you I am in different bible studies and am extremely active in Vacation Bible School. On Sunday nights RC and I are attending one that is Extraordinary Marriage, on Tuesday mornings I am in one by Beth More called Living Free, and Wednesday mornings I am in one by Cynthia Heald called Loving Your Husband. Yes it seems like a lot but as I said earlier I am just hungry and I know that part of defeating the lies that Satan tells us is by replacing them with the truth of Christ, the truth is revealed to us via the Word of God. God has also placed me in a position of leadership, as of this last Sunday and am a co-vessel (I am referring to it this way because I by no means am qualified to teach someone, God is doing the teaching and I am simply one of the vessels he is using) of a class for young mothers. We have a few young girls in our church that have come into the role of motherhood sooner than planned. Yes I do qualified to be a member of the class, the advantage I have that these girls don’t is that I have the support of a loving husband to help me raise my precious little boys. I was approached about this and before I had the chance to even think about it the word yes was coming out of my mouth. I know that was the Lord because had I had time to think, my fears of inadequacies would have come into the play. I am excited to see what God does through this class so that the girls of the class can learn that they have the support of God to get through their raising of children.

Any ways wow sorry about the rambling about me, now about my kids. They are cute as can be and at the same time onery as can be. They are at the stage of beginning to fight with each other and being tricky about it. AC gets up every morning and his first words to me are “Mommy it’s a wonderful day outside” and Trace is all about the snuggles in the morning. They play together even though they don’t necessarily play the same thing it’s really kind of cute. Yes I think my kids are cute, not that I am bias or anything. They look a lot like their Daddy and yes I think their Daddy it cute. :)

About their Daddy, RC is doing pretty good. He is working the two jobs and that is exhausting to him but he is handling it all right. He still has time for fun, on Saturday mornings he tries to get a ride in with the guys, he still plays guitar at church and family time has become more important to us all. He loves the fellowship of the bible study on Sunday nights. It is really cool to see that as I better fulfill my wifely duties, he stands up more and shines as the head of our house hold. By no means are we to the point of the perfect marriage but we are to the point of trying to have a God driven marriage.
Well I guess that’s all for now. I send out my love and prayers. May God bless you all.

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

I Really Don't Know What to Say...

Hey everybody, I just don't know what to say. I guess I will start with I'm sorry for not updating my blog. My computer is broken again (hint hint Daddy!) and I went out of town. So anyways well lets see what's going on in my world....?

RC is working a second job. He had this job fall into his lap and it helps us out. It is taking a lot of prayer on my part because he works his 40 hours at Signs By Tomorrow and then another 15-20 hours at the other job. There are a lot of lonely nights until he gets home but I know he is doing it so that I can continue to stay home with our boys. We do have special Family times and this makes the time with him so much more special. I love him and ask for you guys to pray for our family, for him so that he has the strength to continue until God tells us to stop and for me and the kids to support him and let him know that we love him and appreciate all that he does for our family.

Now onto my boys. They are getting so big. I don't know what to do with them. They both act like they are the kings of the world. They both love to pray. We will be doing just about anything and they will ask to say AMENS! It is really sweet listening to them talk to God. They love to go to Sunday School and bible study. They love to play and eat. If you want to see them My mom has pictures of them on her blog. I haven't figured out to do the whole picture thing. (Mom - Tasha y'all have to teach me!!)

Me well lets see I am feeling a bit overwhelmed. We are having issues with our car, we had a family of racoons take residents in our attic, the air conditioner started leaking, and our dish washer is leaking. Now let me tell you I am not whining I am simply telling you why I am feeling overwhelmed. I am also trying to handle preparing things for Vacation Bible School, writing skits, putting together packets, planning things for Family night, and getting things together because I am teaching. Then there is Wednesday morning bible study, It is on a book by Cynthia Heald called Loving Your Husband. I am really enjoying everything individually but together it is a little rough. I am very thankful for a Heavenly Father who loves me so much that he gives me His Strength to get through everything that He places on my plate.

I hope and pray that all of you have the comfort of the knowledge that Christ will be your Stronghold. He will protect you and love you no matter what idiot thing you did today, yesterday or even tomorrow. I ask for your prayers for my family and I pray for yours!

The Lord is my light and my salvation - whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life - of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1

The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him. Exodus 15:2