Last Spring the kids and I went to Mt Vernon to see the tulips and we purchased some. Here are some of the beauties we picked!
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Spring bulbs and more snow in the forecast...
It's April! In fact today April 27th. With only 3 more days in the month, can the weather man be right about snow again tomorrow? We've had it twice this month.
Last Spring the kids and I went to Mt Vernon to see the tulips and we purchased some. Here are some of the beauties we picked!
Last Spring the kids and I went to Mt Vernon to see the tulips and we purchased some. Here are some of the beauties we picked!
5...0... just a number...
that's what people keep saying to me! It has a dreadful feeling/sound about it... Like life is more than 1/2 done. (My Gramp will be 99 in July and still lives and drives on his own!) This 50th birthday I just tried not to celebrate, is pretty tough. I'm asking myself, "Have you done it well?... only for Christ so that it will last?"
I know things in my life that look "Christ-like" but when thinking what I did and do that aren't, it gets ya in the heart! This reflecting is a normal part of growing old, almost as if I'm seeing my life pass by as watching a race in slow-motion. Dan continually reminds me there is no living in regret (a genetic trait I fight against.) But as I sit and do life in the same routine ways of teaching my children every day with still many more to go, the weariness gets the best of me if I don't look at God's Promises.
Yesterday while doing Bible & Anatomy with my lambs, (Oh - Apologia Anatomy ROCKS! ) completing our study of the eye, Psalm 32:8 was I will instruct you and teach you in the way your should go; I will guide you with My eye.
How awesome to think that God has been seeing my life pass before His eye! Oh He is so Faithful!
Thank You, God, for keeping your eyes on my comings and goings... my doings and wanderings that have kept me safe & secure from myself! Your Vision is so much clearer and knowing You are watching over me, baffles my tiny finite vision! Oh You are Good!
I know things in my life that look "Christ-like" but when thinking what I did and do that aren't, it gets ya in the heart! This reflecting is a normal part of growing old, almost as if I'm seeing my life pass by as watching a race in slow-motion. Dan continually reminds me there is no living in regret (a genetic trait I fight against.) But as I sit and do life in the same routine ways of teaching my children every day with still many more to go, the weariness gets the best of me if I don't look at God's Promises.
Yesterday while doing Bible & Anatomy with my lambs, (Oh - Apologia Anatomy ROCKS! ) completing our study of the eye, Psalm 32:8 was I will instruct you and teach you in the way your should go; I will guide you with My eye.
How awesome to think that God has been seeing my life pass before His eye! Oh He is so Faithful!
Thank You, God, for keeping your eyes on my comings and goings... my doings and wanderings that have kept me safe & secure from myself! Your Vision is so much clearer and knowing You are watching over me, baffles my tiny finite vision! Oh You are Good!
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Middle of life... middle of the road... middle of somewhere
Riding on Mt. McClure by our place in Twisp, WA
I'll be 50 next spring and my extrovert personality has done a 180! A friend who has has a "life-coach" certificate, says that around mid-40s we practically switch to the opposites of the personality traits we endeared. She said that when we hit our 60 & 70's we balance out the two differences rather nicely. It's probably just because we obtain more wisdom...
So my love to live for being with people is now the opposite. I love to be alone. I love to have time-outs!
I wonder if it's from always being surrounded with people & children... busy-ness of life which I've now come to know as the barren of busy-ness! For me the constant pull between being a Mary & a Martha... I'm so torn! I love to serve but I love to sit in stillness & worship my Father - Author who began my story & will be the Grand Finisher of my Faith-walk! He is still writing this adventure God-tale!
Monday, November 8, 2010
Mama to 5... ( really 7!)
Danielle & her family Oct. 2010 
Ted and his 2nd buck. It's been 13 years since his 1st.
April w/ the girls at Molbak's Dec. 2010
Keeps me too busy to blog... so pictures of my 5 will be it for today.
Grace is 15, Isaiah 13 1/2 and Ezekiel is 9 October 2010
Ted and his 2nd buck. It's been 13 years since his 1st.
April w/ the girls at Molbak's Dec. 2010
Keeps me too busy to blog... so pictures of my 5 will be it for today.
Grace is 15, Isaiah 13 1/2 and Ezekiel is 9 October 2010
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Patrick Coffie - age 9 lives in the
coastal community of Anyaa,GHANA - home to approximately 15,700 residents. Common health problems in this area include malaria, skin rashes, malnutrition and HIV/AIDS. Half of the adults in Anyaa are unemployed but some work as market traders and earn the equivalent of $20 per month. Patrick's father is a "petty trader."
A letter came yesterday telling us that our Patrick's mother died yesterday. "Our project staff has not indicated the cause of death."
A REAL feeling came into my heart. So many times sponsorship seems surreal... as though it is just a normal part of our blessed life. Something we "should" do. A routine - like a payment. Upon receiving this news that I think is 2 months old - something changed.
We've been priveledged to sponsor him and Kisuze (age 14 from Uganda) for almost 5 years. Ezekiel is the most faithful to pray for our 3 children. We have Magie Sincere now 15, was our 1st, when she was 6.5 from Uganda. Each time I write I think how trivial our words are to these precious children who know nothing of material wealth. We don't know what to write as it seems like any thing is as if we are boasting. We have so much - what could we say that would be of a fresh encouragement?
I've just begun reading "The Hole in Our Gospel" by Richard Stearns, president of World Vision and know that the timing of my heart changing and being challenged is all a part of God's perfect timing to once again MOVE ME! We, in the American Church as Stearns says, "is the wealthiest community of Christians in the history of Christendom." What is "living a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God?"
Heavenly Father, I ask that you would soften this old aging soul - set in it's comfortable ways... Oh that I will daily see the photos of our 3 sponsored children and not make it so trivial a prayer - a payment - an act. BUT that You oh Lord, would let Your great love that does not consume, increase my compassions so that they would begin to never fail. Because Your's are NEW every morning and so very great is Your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3) Let it be to these children today... and especially to Patrick Coffie right now - In Jesus Hope-filled Name, Amen.
Link to Ghana via Compassion Int.
Prayer Requests
A letter came yesterday telling us that our Patrick's mother died yesterday. "Our project staff has not indicated the cause of death."
A REAL feeling came into my heart. So many times sponsorship seems surreal... as though it is just a normal part of our blessed life. Something we "should" do. A routine - like a payment. Upon receiving this news that I think is 2 months old - something changed.
We've been priveledged to sponsor him and Kisuze (age 14 from Uganda) for almost 5 years. Ezekiel is the most faithful to pray for our 3 children. We have Magie Sincere now 15, was our 1st, when she was 6.5 from Uganda. Each time I write I think how trivial our words are to these precious children who know nothing of material wealth. We don't know what to write as it seems like any thing is as if we are boasting. We have so much - what could we say that would be of a fresh encouragement?
I've just begun reading "The Hole in Our Gospel" by Richard Stearns, president of World Vision and know that the timing of my heart changing and being challenged is all a part of God's perfect timing to once again MOVE ME! We, in the American Church as Stearns says, "is the wealthiest community of Christians in the history of Christendom." What is "living a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God?"
Heavenly Father, I ask that you would soften this old aging soul - set in it's comfortable ways... Oh that I will daily see the photos of our 3 sponsored children and not make it so trivial a prayer - a payment - an act. BUT that You oh Lord, would let Your great love that does not consume, increase my compassions so that they would begin to never fail. Because Your's are NEW every morning and so very great is Your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3) Let it be to these children today... and especially to Patrick Coffie right now - In Jesus Hope-filled Name, Amen.
Link to Ghana via Compassion Int.
Prayer Requests
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