Please pray for Stellan today in a big way!

Please pray for Stellan and family especially His MckMama!

Emergency Phone Numbers

Emergency Telephone Numbers
These are more effective than 911
When -
You are sad, phone John 14
You have sinned, phone Psalm 51
You are facing danger, phone Psalm 91
People have failed you, phone Psalm 27
It feels as though God is far from you, phone Psalm 139
Your faith needs stimulation, phone Hebrews 11
You are alone and scared, phone Psalm 23
You are worried, phone Matthew 8:19-34
You are hurt and critical, phone 1 Corinthians 13
You wonder about Christianity, phone 2 Corinthians 5:15-18
You feel like an outcast, phone Romans 8:31-39
You are seeking peace, phone Matthew 11:25-30
It feels as if the world is bigger than God, phone Psalm 90
You need Christ like insurance, phone Romans 8:1-30
You are leaving home for a trip , phone Psalm 121
You are praying for yourself, phone Psalm 87
You require courage for a task, phone Joshua 1
Inflation's and investments are hogging your thoughts, phone Mark 10:17-31
You are depressive, phone Psalm 27
Your bank account is empty, phone Psalm 37
You lose faith in mankind, phone 1 Corinthians 13
It looks like people are unfriendly, phone John 15
You are losing hope, phone Psalm 126
You feel the world is small comp ared to you, phone Psalm 19
You want to carry fruit, phone John 15
Paul's secret for happiness, phone Colossians 3:12-17
With big opportunity/ discovery, phone Isaiah 55
To get along with other people, phone Romans 12
ALTERNATE NUMBERS For dealing with fear, call Psalm 47
For security, call Psalm 121:3
For assurance, call Mark 8:35
For reassurance, call Psalm 145:18

I love this...

Giving Up Chocolate
I was walking down the street when I was accosted by a particularly dirty and shabby-looking homeless woman who asked me for a couple of dollars for dinner. I took out my wallet, got out ten dollars and asked, 'If I give you this money, will you buy chocolate with it instead of dinner?' 'No, I had to stop eating chocolate years ago', the homeless woman told me.
'Will you use it to go shopping instead of buying food?' I asked.'No, I don't waste time shopping,' the homeless woman said. 'I need to spend all my time trying to stay alive.
''Will you spend this on a beauty salon instead of food?' I asked.'Are you NUTS!' replied the homeless woman. I haven't had my hair done in 20 years!
''Well, I said, 'I'm not going to give you the money. Instead, I'm going to take you out for dinner with my husband and me tonight.'The homeless Woman was shocked.
'Won't your husband be furious with you for doing that? I know I'm dirty, and I probably smell pretty disgusting.'
I said, 'That's okay. It's important for him to see what a woman looks like after she has given up shopping, hair appointments, and chocolate.'
And there you have it...

Insomnia is not fun-neither is a mouse in the house

So here I sit at two in the morning with a case of insomnia. It’s not fun. What will be less fun will be tomorrow at work when I am bone tired. I think that Menopause is a mean trick invented by MEN wanting us to Pause in our sleeping habits and wanting us to sweat more than in our earlier life. I wish  we could retaliate with a Herobust –and they would get to feel the joy of childbirth and carrying boobs around on their chest all their adult lives. Just a random thought as I sit here awake tonight.

Also, I can hear the song playing in my head “There’s a stranger in my house”-there is and this stranger is a mouse! Boy he’s having lots of fun tormenting me. That’s probably why I can not sleep, I hear his little pitter patter as he scurry's about looking for food!!!!!I don’t want to use DCon and smell him for weeks and he is to smart to run onto the glue strips we’ve sat out.

Go home little mouse back to the Fields and bugs or I just might investigate getting a big cat to eat you!!!!

Dear Lord, I am going back to my warm bed and I just want to thank you for all the good things in my life. I do count it all joy,whenever I face trials of many kinds, because I know that the testing of my faith develops perseverance. Your love will be my blanket and a pillow for my head and the comfort I will feel to have all you have given me. I love you Lord-even with insomnia and unwelcome house guests!

Be blessed!

Weekends never last long enough!

My weekend was full of good things like family, friends, grandbabies and church. I just wish we worked 3 days and were off 5. That sounds like more balance if you ask me.

I wish I had got Ryder this weekend –he is getting to be a big boy. Watch this~

Oh how I love him!

Be blessed!

Look who came to Dinner

   Chase came over and made some rockin hot Chili~ I made some taco salad-we had key lime pie for desert, but the best part was all the good company.

Chase making  cheese biscuits

I loved the food, the family time and I missed my Bama Princess.

Not a bad Tuesday night if you ask me….

Be blessed!

I grew up with a drug problem...

I am so thankful I grew up with a drug problem as reported in this article.
I thank my parents who gave me this drug problem-I encourage my children to pass this drug problem on to their children.
Be Blessed!

This week I will have been blogging for one year!

Since this week is my one year anniversary- I began to look back over my first month or so of blogging when I had two readers and I want to share a few of my favorite posts from back then. It’s been a good year and a blessed year- just think when I started blogging a year ago I did not know I would have one more baby to love and I have had mostly ups with few downs the last year!

Here’s one of my favorites… because I love to tell the story-twill be my theme in Glory-to tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love!

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

A different kind of questionaire

AS I was reading other blogs as I love to do- I got on a path that led me to a blog entitled Always in Development and a lovely lady called Shalom Seeker. This questionnaire caught my eye because I made up one similar a few years ago in email and sent it to my friends and some of their responses made me cry, because they were candid in their answers and a few said they did not know where they would go when they die-this was some of my closest friends. Boy, that can grab you and wake you up when you realize close loved ones need to hear the Good News.

Here are her questions and if you read this and feel like answering them please send me a line telling me to come see.
1. When did you come to believe in Jesus? Tell your story! (as long or as short as you like) I came to believe in Jesus when I was about 6 and I vividly remember the day I went forward and made it public and was baptized - I grew up in church and loved growing in knowledge all my young life, then I had a few years or more where I was not walking with the Lord-I turned from him -He never turned from me.
2. What difference has #1 made in your life? In my darkest days, through many trials He has carried me. I truly have felt His love when it was hard to feel love from those around me. I feel like I can tell him anything and He cares. I place the things that matter most to me at His feet and for the most part leave them there-for example my children and grandchildren. I realize that they are truly gifts from Him. I honestly feel He is my best friend- I can't think of any experience good or especially bad that I don't turn to Him now. My thoughts are Pray about it or thank God for it.
3. What is your favorite Scripture passage? Why? I love them all -but my favorite chapter is Psalms 139- It begins with "O Lord you have searched me and you know me- you know when I sit and when I rise-You perceive my thoughts from afar, you discern my going out and my lying down, you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord." So many more precious verses-one I particularly love is "How precious to me are your thoughts, O God How vast is the sum of them. Were`I to count them they would outnumber the grains of sand"-Wow-God thinks about us more than the sands on all the beaches!!! It ends with "Search me o God and know my heart, test me and know my anxious thoughts.See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." That's my prayer.
4. Tell about a time God answered a specific prayer in your life. How did that affect/change you? I prayed for my children all their lives that they would desire to walk with the Lord and that He would be working on precious Christian mates for them. So far-one is married and he is a precious Christian man who loves my daughter and it was all a testimony how that happened- A God incidence that is a long story to share maybe later. This is just one that came to mind because there are so many. I've tried to teach my children to believe the power of prayer.
5. Do you remember a time that God made a Scripture passage especially clear to you? Tell!
When I found myself a single mother of 3 small children with a small income a verse God gave and made real in my life was "Once I was young but now I am old and I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread"Psalm 37:25 We might not always have what we wanted but we would have what we needed and we would never be hungry.
6. Who has influenced you in your spiritual walk (family, friends, mentor, pastor, authors, etc.)? In what ways? My parents raised me in a Christian loving home, that is a big influence- a woman who has been a spiritual mentor to me is Ms Inez- I love her and thank her. Ladies who I love to sit at their feet for spiritual food are Kay Arthur, Beth Moore, Priscilla Shirer, Jan Silvous and Joyce Meyer.
7. Sometimes we get to share His story with others. Is there a particular story that you want to tell about that? A story I love to share is how He sent an angel to intervene- Let me share- it was early in 2002 and my youngest child was going through a time of rebellion (That is enough to need divine intervention-Can I get a witness?). She decided at the age of 16 she would leave my home where there were rules and curfews and I knew where she was and her friends and expected her to be in church, to go to her Fathers house where rules were looser, curfew was later, he didn't have to know her friends and Church? not at all. I being the close mother I felt I was wanted her home-it was breaking my heart- every phone call was tears and please come home ending in hurt and anger. All I knew was to pray! In the midst of this my Father had a major stroke and we almost lost him. When I finally got her on the phone she being angry with me said she wasn't even going to come to the hospital. I cried and said our fight may be our fight but all her Poppy had ever done was love her. Much later after her aunt went and talked to her and other family members had called her she came-I remember looking down the hall and seeing a little girl with a big chip on her shoulder coming toward us-she went in and was a broken little girl seeing her Poppy laying there. When it came time to leave I wanted to walk her out and she didn't want me to -she thought there would be more begging when at that time I needed her love and she needed mine. We got on the elevator and she said don't start on me- I said cant we just get along right now and the elevator door opened a floor down and a large beautiful young black lady got on, we ceased talking and rode on down. We all got off the elevator and she went to the food area and we were sitting on a bench not saying anything when she came back up and said God had told her to tell us some things. She looked at my daughter and told her everything she was doing and that God was revealing that she should go home. She said there is nothing you are doing that your Mother won't love you-she prays for you. She was very specific and said things only few people could know- she laid hands on us and prayed out loud in that lobby over us and the little girl with the big chip melted right there. We sat there and agreed it was an angel- she went home that night and told her father God had sent an angel. She came home. I left out many personal things said and and details but I hope you see the picture of God coming in human form and speaking words that we needed. I told everyone and even spoke about it publicly and to this day know that God came in the Hospital in the form of a beautiful young black lady.
8. Is there something in your history that you would change if given a chance to?
I wish I had always walked closer with him, I wish there had been more of Him and less of me.
9. What's a vice in your life? Any virtues? ;-D Probably one vice I have is I am over sensitive and sometimes have low self-esteem-are these vices or faults? Virtues are my Faith and I feel great love from my Heavenly Father so I try to show love. I believe strongly in prayer.
10. What's your favorite way to worship God? I love to worship him with music and with prayer and praise for what He's done.
11. If you could possess one (real) talent or gift that you haven't already been given, what would it be and why? I wish I was a good speaker and could play an instrument.
12. What is an important lesson you have learned? How did you learn it? Unconditional love is loving someone for who they are, and not expecting more than they can give. People need love the most when they deserve it the least.
13. What things are you really passionate about? What sets you ablaze? I am passionate about Mercy, because I have received it. I am set ablaze to see someone come to Christ or see someone grow in their relationship with God.
14. What do you love or appreciate about God? That He loves me and I don't deserve it and that He has shown me great mercy and continues to.
15. Where have you been especially effective in serving God? (This isn't prideful; if you've been effective, it's because of His Spirit in you, so really it brings glory to HIM.) I believe I am effective in loving and learning with the Ladies Sunday School class I teach, we are a close group of ladies who have been through alot together and lift each other up. Ecclesiastes 4:9and 12 says " Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work. If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who has no one to help him up. A cord of three strands is not easily broken."

I know this was long but its a look inside your self to answer these questions.Maybe a Heart Check. Be Blessed!

How about a Do-si-do?

I saw this on sweet Pam's blog. She was my favorite Girl scout cookie -The samoa.
Good thing I'm a Do-si-do because it's my husband's favorite.
Let's see if you is really me...

You Are Peanut Butter Sandwiches / Do-si-dos

You are easy going and naturally happy. You don't need a lot to make you smile. You genuinely care about people and are a great friend. You're always doing your best to make the world a better place. Even though there isn't an immature bone in your body, you still are like a big kid sometimes. Why make life complicated when the best parts are actually quite simple? You enjoy the small joys of life.

What Girl Scout Cookie Are You?

Check and see what cookie you are and if it fits!

Be blessed!

These are a few of my Favorite things….

Emma and Her Boyfriend Thomas

My Little Boobear Abby smiling

I can’t get enough!

Anna is growing up so fast and a good big sister.

I had my first babysitting session Thursday night~Abby and I had a great time-she took her first bottle from Meme and her big sisters enjoyed a night at the circus  with Mom and Dad. Friday I ate lunch with Tab –a dear sweet friend I miss. Then I went to see the award winning Slumdog Millionaire- it was an awesome movie and I recommend it. Saturday was a busy day with a wedding shower and dinner with some of my best friends. My sweet friend Sharon moved to B’ham and we all miss her- we had a good Greek dinner at Papou’s downtown and ended the evening at Cotton Row and seeing Bubby. This morning we woke up to a white yard and not many people at church. I got the sad news that a young girl I know was killed in a car accident – please remember her family- her Mom’s name is Patti and my heart goes out to her. I enjoyed a lazy afternoon with a pot of Taco soup and one of my favorite tv shows tonight– Brothers and Sisters. Tomorrow starts another week-why do weekend pass so fast?

Be blessed -  I hope I’m better at bogging in March than I was in January and February!! It’s been almost a year since I started blogging and I may bring back some of my favorites.