See you soon!!!!

I am almost packed up. Leaving in the morning. I will be seeing most of you readers in a few days!! I can hardly wait!!!

Church

This comes from my journal. I wrote it last week. I have felt compelled to share it on the blog. Some people might not like it or even get mad, but it is how I feel. I hope it helps someone.


June 15, 2008

This morning I enjoyed church so much! I had such a presence of God come over me during praise and worship that I could hardly stand it. It felt so good. I am so thankful to have a good church to attend.

I know I always have God’s presence with me. And I can worship Him or praise Him any time I want to. I speak to Him all day long and I could not make it though one day without that. But it is different when I go to church.

Sometimes it is so easy to feel God at church—or there is a bigger presence there. Because it is supposed to be His house, because there are so many other people gathered together to worship Him. I am so thankful to have a church where I can feel that. I am thankful to feel God the way I do—at church or home or anywhere. Today I felt so much. I felt God’s presence, peace, comfort, optimism, hope, strength, joy, and such a love for others.

Maybe going to church IS like filling your spiritual gas tank. I hate that it starts to drain right out pretty quickly and it is so long until I can get back to the station! All of my own personal worship and bible reading and praying at home help get me to the next service—but it can’t always fill me up the same way.

I truly don’t know how some people only show up on Sunday mornings and that’s all. I would be so dead that I wouldn’t care if I came back the next week or not. Truthfully, that is the way I use to be. I am glad God showed me how not to be that way anymore. I am glad I learned how much I need Him and how much better life can be when He is so much more than just a Sunday morning God, when He is the center of your life.

I have heard people say “seeking the face of God”. And I have had my bible for a LONG time, but until a week or so ago I had never read this note in my bible about the face of God. It says that in Psalms they mention seeing His face and they say “it is a goal that is valuable only to someone who deeply loves God. To see God’s face is see and know Him personally, deeply, and without the clouds of mystery that often make faith difficult.” I am so glad I finally learned what it meant to know God personally. When I learned that, I changed. I always wondered what made people different—more religious is what I thought. But that is the difference—knowing Him personally. It is something more than just being saved.

I wonder if those who only show up on Sunday mornings really do know Him. I hope so. If not, I hope they figure it out. And the people who don’t go to church at all, I really don’t understand. How can you believe and not want everything else? How can you not want all God has for you? Most want salvation, but they still quit church. I know that if they felt the rest of it—like I did this morning, they couldn’t stay away. God’s surrounding presence is too good to stay away from. No, He is not JUST at church. But, personally, I have felt Him there unlike any place else.

I am blessed. So very blessed.

When a mommy takes a nap...

K's surgery was yesterday and everything went just fine. Now all the kids have their tubes in and that is all over with--I am very glad!

I had to get up at 4am for the surgeries--but yesterday we had a thunderstorm that woke me up at 3 and I never got back to sleep. I was very tired when we got home. I tried to get K to nap with me but she was not tired. B was busy listening to her new CD. I could not help it, I napped. This is what my living room looked like when I got up.



At least they played quietly for me. :)

Bubble party!

E had his ear tubes put in today. He is just fine. Everything went very well. Someone told us that they cannot bath for 2 weeks. So last night he wanted to take a bath before he would not be able to for so long--he almost always prefers to shower instead. Then he talked me into letting both him and K use my tub. I almost never let them use my tub. But I gave in this time. I let them use bubbles. Then they decided to try the jets. This is why I never let them use my tub.






Do you see the wet all the way up the curtains?? Bubbles were that high.

Here was the bubble monster.

There were still bubbles in my tub this morning at 4am.

My Art

I love it when pictures of the kids turn out good.

Here she thinks it is funny for me to take her picture.



Here is K talking to Daddy on Father's Day.

That wind is pretty bad.

Like I said...art...



Yes, art.
They are the most beautiful things I have ever seen.

An animal!

The kids saw an animal in the yard earlier. They scared it away before I could see it. It was out by the deer target. They said it was either--a wolf, a fox, an armadillo, or a raccoon. Definitely one of those--for sure. They look so alike--don't you think? Whatever it was, it likes old cat food cuz that is what was out by the deer target.

Kids are funny. Hope it wasn't a wolf....LOL!

**oh--the kids were INSIDE when they saw the animal so no need for any grandmas to worry :)

Nothing much...

Can you guess what I did last night??


And look at what a good job I did. Notice the weeds are still there...but the job I did on that downspout....

I believe this will be my last time doing that job! I hated it. Made my arms hurt (I am weak!). Nasty job. I am going out to find an old fashioned-no motor weed cutter. And I will only use it when I really have to!

And this was breakfast this morning. Can you believe this was the first watermelon I ever cut up??

I really miss my husband!

Pics on B's camera

B's camera is not good at all. Some of these pictures that she took when Mom and my sister were here are funny. Some are funny because the camera is so bad.

This is what E did every time she walked into the kitchen. Of course if we would keep the pantry door CLOSED she could not have gotten in there, but no one knows how to close doors here...


And this one is hilarious because that little girl is FAST!! She won't hold still long enough to take a picture!

OK, she held still for just a minute. He is trying to teach her how to make cars do stunts--every little girl needs to know.

See, she won't hold still! B said "I started to take the picture and she was gone!!"

We miss that little girl! And her baby brother too! Their mommy and grandma are missed pretty bad too! We can't wait to come visit and see you all!!! Don't know when that will be....