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| After having this blog sitting here for 3 or 4 years, it's time I started posting more regularly. Today I worked on getting the order forms ready to send to BJUP for the PEACH testing orders. Then I took the boys to a practice for a skit and then we celebrated Aaron's 15th birthday which is tomorrow. Hard to believe. Zach is now in Mexico teaching at Puebla Christian School. He seems to enjoy it very much and is thinking about returning in the fall for another year, providing that the Lord supplies the funds for him to do so. Rebekah is working and going to school.....she's slowly but surely getting through school. Jordan and Aaron continue to do their school at home and Wynn is working at National City Mortgage still. Me, I'm still at home, but no longer working at the church office. I am still trying to get things in order, guess I will be doing that the rest of my life, it seems.  More tomorrow . . . | | |
| I can't believe it has been almost a year since I posted anything here. This last year has been one of big changes and difficult times. Yet, God has brought me through it and taught me much in all things. Zach is done with his internship at Scioto and yet is still there. He thrives on being there and being involved. God has taught him many things too, I am sure. I am glad that he has a servant's heart and wishes to serve the Lord where ever God chooses to send him. He will be getting ready to go to Mexico in the next few months. May the Lord bless him and watch over him. Rebekah is still working and going to school. I can see her growing up in so many ways. She is becoming her own person and I see her serving the Lord in so many ways. She is so different than Zach, yet God is using her and shaping her and molding her into what He wants. Jordan and Aaron have finally started school and are doing well. Aaron has been playing soccer and is enjoying that.. Jordan needs something to be involved in and I am hoping that we can find something that he will enjoy and do well. He needs to begin to learn to drive and is almost ready to start the college experience. Wynn is busy with work and has been trying to get things in order around the house here with our big room change. The change is still good even though Zach has decided not to come home right now. I just have to do decide exactly what to do with the room now. It surely needs to be a place Zach can stay when he is here at home with us. Well, it is very late and I suppose I should try to get some sleep. I pray that I can get myself on a better sleep schedule because what I am doing now is just not working at all for me. More later . . . | | |
| Change......it is one of the things in my life that causes great upheaval and pain for me. I like life to be predictable. I don't handle out of the ordinary things so well. God is using change to mold me and make me in to what He wants I think. Right now, it feels like a pile of things are being put into my path in life. I know there could be many other changes that could happen. In the past month, I feel like I have lost people in my life....and in many ways I have. It is hard to have things that have been part of your life for over 20 years removed from day to day contact. It is hard to stop being something that you have been for such a long time.....at least on a day to day basis. One thing I am glad that doesn't change is the fact that I am a child of God. My Lord is always there and I can always tell Him how I am feeling. I can feel His presence. He picks me up in His arms and holds me and gives comfort. Right now, things seem so uncertain. Some things, I know what to do, how to handle, how to pray about.......others just have me befuddled and I don't even know what to say to the Lord about them. I am grateful that Jesus can take my petitions to my Heavenly Father and express them even though I can't seem to do that right now and find the words to say what I am feeling. Thank You Lord, for loving me, even though I am full of sin. Thank You for your forgiveness that You give to me each day. Thank You for lifting me up and holding me in Your arms when I am weak....and when I feel strong and I forget it's Your strength and not mine. Thank You for You mighty power and for being in control of all things. Thank You for knowing what is best for me and providing it for me when I don't know or understand that myself. Help me Lord to remember to trust You and not my understanding. Help me to acknowledge You and let You direct my paths. Thank you Jesus for loving me and giving Your life for me. The sorry state that I seem to get my life into at times does not seem worth what You have done for it, yet I know that You consider it worthy and care as much for me even as you do the small bird in the field. I cannot see Your perfect plan Lord, but help me to remember it is there nonetheless, whether I can see it or not. Help me to remember You are in control, You are all powerful and that because I love You, all of these things that are going on in my life will work together for good. Be my Vision Lord and help me to keep You before my eyes at all times. I pray in Jesus' name......Amen | | |
| Well, I don't post on here very often these days. Life seems to be consumed with various things. I have been trying to improve things around the house here and have been making progress. Lots to do. I miss my Zach and look forward to seeing him for a bit here in a while. School comes quickly and I have work to do for that too. Membership packets to make for PEACH, SS class to teach, my own kids to teach... Helped with a wedding rehearsal dinner this summer. Wynn has been working alot! I miss him being here. Well, it is late and time marches on....time for bed. More later.... | | |
| Sometimes I wonder if people ever really grow up....we may have lived alot longer than 3 or 4 year old children, but are we really more mature? Or are we just more adept at hiding our true feelings and actions? As we grow older, are we still always trying to get the best of everything for ourselves? Now, please don't misunderstand me here....there are some things that we need to strive for the best....such as making our Bible Study and prayer life the best that we possibly can and I am sure there are other things as well. But....when we have a choice in something, such as equipment, a choice in the color of something, do we always choose the best, the prettiest, knowing that someone else will have the less nice? Do we ever take the not so nice for ourselves, showing deference for others and leaving the best for someone else? the premium seat in the car, the biggest piece of cake, the most comfortable place to sit, the easiest chore.....Lord help me to show deference to others....help me to not always take the nicest, the biggest, the prettiest for myself. Help me to be concerned about what You want Lord, to put the needs of others ahead of my own wants and desires, to be willing to make do with less that others may have more. | | |
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