Many years ago, my great-grandfather Daniel was on a mission to find the perfect nativity scene. He was very strong in his catholic religion and felt that he couldn’t just decided on one.. it had to be the perfect one! So for many years he searched and searched. Continue reading
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Our home is always welcoming new children’s books. We love to snuggle up and read together, and we do this quite often! So when I was asked to give a review of a new children’s story, I was so ecstatic! And it’s not just any story, but a Christmas story… and even better.. A Christmas story about Christ! The Gift Giver, by Continue reading
Heavenly Father,
Today marks 5 years that my husband and I stood in front of friends and family on a calm fall evening. The room was lit with candlelight, and filled with an evident love.
Not even a year prior, I remember coming to you Lord…
My heart was heavy, and my soul felt lost… I had no where else to turn. It was Christmas eve, and very much like the night of our wedding, I was again in a church filled with candlelight. All of my church family surrounded me praising the birth of Jesus Christ with the traditional Silent Night song. I had a hard time focusing on the purpose of the evening because I had been so full of emotion. I came to you that night with a prayer. Continue reading
I truly feel that Thanksgiving is a gift from the Lord.
The pilgrims left to find another place to call home, so that they could worship God the way they wanted. The Natives created friendships with them that later helped them to create a survival harvest, etc. We all know this story well…The LORD provided them all with what they needed. Continue reading
Dear Busy Mom,
Everywhere we look there are articles saying, “Slow down Mom!” and “Enjoy every moment!”. But coming from a Mom who is busy, it isn’t that easy! I can’t just clear my work schedule, or my household schedule to create time! I can’t just say the magic words and have an extra 2 hour pop up on my already scribbled up agenda. And quite frankly, I AM GETTING SO TIRED of feeling the pressure that I am NOT spending enough time with my kids. Continue reading
This November the hubby and I will have been married for 5 years! I know to some of you this doesn’t seem like a long time, but to us… it means we are doing it right! Both of us come from families that may not all have the best marriages. So when we said “I DO”, it was a decision we came into with full force and big expectations. We wanted to make it work, no matter what! Continue reading
This week I turned the dirty, dreaded, delightful, 30. Why do we put labels on these birthdays? To psych ourselves out? I have been putting the second D, “Dreaded” on my #30 since I can remember! But, this week I woke up with a whole different perspective. 30 will do that to you 😉
It all started when I was 12. I can’t remember what I was wearing, or where we were… I just VIVIDLY remember my mother. It was her 30th Birthday, and she was, (how do I put this nicely?) losing her marbles! 30 was the number she had been dreading and I remember sitting with her, mascara running down her face.. sobbing. As a pre-teen… THIS TERRIFIED ME! I thought… “30 seems like Forever away, I’ll be so ooooollllddd, I DON’T WANT TO BE OLD!”. Ever since that moment, I was setting myself up for inevitable doom.
Fast forward 13 years. I was turning 25! This was the peak for me. I had always had the goal of “by 25 I want to be married and have my first kid”, and I achieved that (Barely). But I kept thinking I only have 5 more years until I turn 30! OH NOOOOO!!! Does this mean that my boobs will sag and I will be a gray- haired crank monster? From that day on, for the next 4 birthday’s I had that lingering DOOM.
So here we are. This week I woke up to 18 years of dreaded doom. I may have a few aches in the bones sometimes, and my boobs.. well… let’s just say they hang where they should after nursing 2 babies. haha! BUT to my surprise, I don’t magically have a head full of grey hairs, and I don’t have a huge neon sign on my forehead that says, “THIS OLD BAG IS 30!”
Instead, I woke up to my amazing husband, who may or may not have gave me a bum grab first thing, and two perfect kiddos rushing in to say “-APPY BIRFDAY MOMMMMMMYYYYY!”. AND the best part of waking up was I realized that the truth is, I am TRULY happy with where my life is right now! So I decided to challenge myself to remember and celebrate the Blessings that I have had in the last 30 years! Continue reading
What is love? When Christians are asked this simple, but yet complex question many people often think automatically of the well-known 13th chapter of 1st Corinthians.
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 13 NLT)
But, there is more to love than what is noted in this well-known verse. God speaks of love through the bible, and here I will make note of 10 of them. Continue reading
Hope. What is hope? The definition in a noun form is: 1. a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. And 2. a feeling of trust. If we were to open up a copy of God’s cookbook of everything, what do you think would be the main ingredient of Hope? I would think Faith. To truly have hope, that certainty, beyond-a-doubt expectation, what is the glue? Faith. Faith that the Lord, my God, YOUR GOD, will always step up to the plate and hit a home run.
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people. Ephesians 1:8 (NIV)
“So that YOU may know the HOPE to which he has called you.” Why don’t we take a look at some places where it is hard to find hope when all seems broken. Guaranteed, we can find the Lord within all the mess. Continue reading
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