thoughts

Oh what to write??? Naturally writing about the end of the year and the start of a new year would be a suitable topic considering it is the last day of 2009

Top 10 events of 2009

#1. Homeschooling Olivia (5th grade)

#2. Chris went to Thailand on a mission trip

#3. My grandmother was put in a nursing home

#4. Chris had a good deer season.

#5. Olivia turned 10 (two digits now)

#6. Chris killed a bobcat

#7. Olivia is 3 inches taller than me.

#8. I found out I have high triglycerides

#9. I joined facebook

#10. I turned 40 in December

My New Year's Resolution is to do what Psalm 141:3 " Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips." I want to be the woman Christ created me to be! He knows my strengths and weaknesses and I pray that He will guide my every word and every step. I want many things for myself ... to be thinner, to be healthier, to be smarter ... but why? for my own glory??? oh to be so vain ... I pray to be all He wants me to be and nothing more.

Love and prayers are sent your way because you are my brother or sister in Christ and I care about you. Happy New Year to you and your family from all of us. May the Lord bless your life with joy. Seek Him and you will find Him, for He is already there waiting on YOU.

Merry Christmas with love

Hello sweet readers, if I have any left ??? I want to wish you a Merry Christmas from my heart. I have been extremely busy lately, so much so that I can't believe I am even writing this right now. My schedule has been filled to overflowing and I am exhausted like never before. I am also blessed like never before. This year has seen many changes for our family. I have started homeschooling my sweet 5th grader :) what a new and challenging life style we have. She is two inches taller than me, but still my innocent little girl. She gave up the notion of Santa last year, but we still have fun with Christmas. I love that she is into dolls and likes to play Barbie and American Girl and other little girl things. She is in her second year of piano and plays it like she was born to play it ( I am not bragging, it's true). I am very proud of her talent and thank the Lord for giving her such ability. She is an excellent artist and draws in wonderful dimensions ( I am jealous :) Life is good. Chris is still working at the same computer company and got a promotion to Vice President of Technical Development. He is so smart :) He still enjoys hunting deer in the winter and fishing the rest of the year. I am happy taking care of him and Olivia.

Life is good. The Lord has blessed us with a great family and many wonderful friends. I pray peace for you this Christmas. I am not writing all that I would like to write, because time and energy fail me. Soon ... I hope to ...

Merry Christmas

Prayer request

Dear friends,

Please pray for two, sweet little girls today 12/15 and tomorrow 12/16. One little girl needs to be protected from an abusive situation from her father of all people and today is a critical day. The other little girl needs to be protected from her mother of all people and tomorrow is her court date. I know both of these families and the children involved. I wrote a letter to the court on behalf of one of these girls (at the request of a family member). For their privacy that's all I will say. Just pray that the Lord will intervene and that the court system won't make another mistake that could cause more harm to these precious girls. Thank you for praying.

Will write more later ...

We who believe

With Christmas all the buzz these days I can't help, but think of the lost. You know half the population who will celebrate Christmas. What does it mean to them? I find it so interesting that people who blatantly deny Christ celebrate Christmas. What gives ??? What's the point for them? Could it be that "we who believe" have bought into the commercialism so much that we aren't doing a good job of sharing the true meaning of Christmas with non-believers ? Are we all just going through the motions? Non believers put up Christmas trees and decorations. They go to Christmas plays, Christmas parties and even sing Christmas songs. They Christmas shop and give Christmas gifts. What's the deal? What is Christmas really about anyway? What does Christmas mean to you?

Christ-mas is Christ's birthday, PERIOD...... It is the day our Lord and Savior was born. Jesus Christ came down from heaven as a babe to this earth to show us how to live. To teach us, to deliver us, to love us and ultimately to die for our sins (MINE and YOURS). Yes, we are all sinners. He was sinless. He took the shame of all I have done and will do so I can be made holy, so I can one day enter into the presence of Almighty God. So I can live FOREVER in heaven. People He is REAL. Hell is real. Heaven is real. He is there right now preparing a place for me and all who believe.

Luke 2:10-12 "Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord."

The Bible tells us in John 3:16 -17 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him."

Romans 5:8-9 "God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him."

Matthew 13:41-42 "The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth." This is a biblical picture of hell.

John 14: 1-3 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. "

We who believe need to start telling others what we believe. We need to let them know WHY we celebrate Christmas and what it really means. What does it mean to you?