NAKED & no place to hide but Christ...

I am HIDDEN in Christ - He knows me FULL WELL!!!

Read this link for more encouragement to be REAL before others:

                                                                Coming Out of Hiding

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LET YOUR LOVE GOD COVER ME UP TODAY!!!  Let IT cover the multitude of sins... the ones in my life.... the ones that have been done against my life...  AWAKEN ME TO YOUR LOVE so I can love others the way You love me!

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Romancing the Throne: Bless You

Romancing the Throne: Bless You: Found this verse in Job this morning: "Adultery is a fire that burns the house down; I wouldn't expect anything I count dear to survive." ...

                               Our precious Grand-Prince was born October 5, 2012 - Zion Daniel!

Zion: HIGHEST PLACE or point.  

Daniel:  God is my Judge.

Worry is just concern gone bad!

Timothy Keller Forgiving & Forgiven on iTunes podcast

Hook UP!

turn on a switch inside of me that brings me back to 

THE GREAT LIGHT 

Who daily can inspire us to burn brightly when we turn to Him

for Life sustaining Power! 

Continue to soften my heart, Father God...

I'll pour pure water over you and scrub you clean. I'll give you a new heart, put a new spirit in you. I'll remove the stone heart from your body and replace it with a heart that's God-willed, not self-willed. I'll put my Spirit in you and make it possible for you to do what I tell you and live by my commands. You'll once again live in the land I gave your ancestors. You'll be my people! I'll be your God! Ezekiel 36:25-28  

HOPE4BROKENHEARTED

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DROWNING in GREATER GRACE...

I'm doing another Bible Study on James with Beth Moore.  Oh how I SOAK up her teaching more with each study!  Talk about soaking - I share this from Day 3, Week 5:
   "BUT HE GIVES GREATER GRACE!"  James 4:6a
   Beth says,  " Sink yourself into those 5 words until all your fears of failure, inadequacy, unforgiveness, & insufficiency DROWN."
(Let me tell you, my worst fear is drowning.)  
DROWNING in the GREATER GRACE of MY GOD sounds like the best way to go under!

 Beth goes on to say, "If greater grace does not mean greater victory, deeper depths, gladder joy, and higher heights with Jesus right here in this land of briers - what good is it?" (James 2:14a) 

The painful swim I've been through for the past 7 months has been such a massacre of sorts in my deepest parts!  World tipped upside down - I've found my heart, soul, mind & strength challenged to loving God deeper than I ever have!  

Holding my breath as I find more relationship with God's Word as the GREATEST oxygen, lets me know that Living Water is ALL I desire to keep me alive!  I must  submerge myself in His greater grace and mercy to that unknown point of dying to self!  Oh it has been a swim!  Upstream... downstream... white rapids... screaming... choking... so that I can barely take another dog paddle!  

My goal now is to begin to spurt out just a bit of this GREATER GRACE to the ones I need to...
I must tell you, I'm sporting the most Indestructible Life Jacket of Righteousness - - - so that when I do go under, He pulls my head back up & says again "I have GRACE that is GREATER than your woes!  MERCY that is deeper than the vast sins anyone has committed."  

Humbly... I walk WILLINGLY into the ocean of GRACE to get more ENGULFED by the waves so maybe I can drop just a trickle of it each day!    
"...God gives grace to the willing humble." James 4:6b The Message

My 2 Oldest Grand Princesses

got their pictures in our local paper -  "The Lynden Tribune"
http://issuu.com/lyndentribune/docs/clife3.12?mode=embed&layout=http://skin.issuu.com/v/color/layout.xml&backgroundColor=000000&showFlipBtn=true

BE VULNERABLE... C.S. Lewis quote

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”

listen to Brene' Brown on Ted

http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame.html

Heart Condition...

Wayne Grudem  "To some extent, then, the degree to which we actually long for Christ's return is a measure of the spiritual condition of our own lives at the moment."

 Desiring daily 'to live sober, upright, and godly lives in the world, awaiting our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ' (Titus 2:12-13)"  

The family is ever-changing & growing...

 Zeke is 10 & in 4th grade

 April & me - oh how thankful I am for my daughter (in-law!)

 Becky turned 8 this year!  Our oldest Grand Princess.

 Grace is 16, driving & turning out for track.  She & her friend AnnaBeth went to an 80's dance at MHS - a 1st.  Grace is also taking 3 classes at the high school.

 Danielle is expecting #4 in Sept 2012  - hoping for a boy.  Evony is 18 mos

 We took a quick trip to Cave Creek, AZ Feb. 2012 - our favorite WARM place.  A dream that someday...maybe... we can live there part time...

 Isaiah turned 15 and Eden 3!  Aren't they both BEAUTIFUL!!

Elianna is 4 and still loves horses!