BUT I WILL SLEEP BETTER...

I really have nothing for you today.

Which means I probably have stuff I am sorting through,

deciding if I want to share it.

Probably.....

In the mean time,

I will sleep better tonight know that these offenders are behind bars.

Because those lawn mower racers are a dangerous breed,

or so I reckon.

Seems my biting sarcasm is in rare form today.

MAMAS....

to babies we saw go back to Jesus before we ever were to hold them...

yet still hold them in our hearts.

to our own men children and women children we love on each day...

and to droves of high school kids we loved for a season.

to neighborhood kids and friends' kids and kids whose mamas needed help.

If you ask any one of us girls what our deepest desire is right now....

it is to just be mamas.

Good mamas.

Mamas who love Jesus.

Mamas who kids know that by our actions as well as our words.

Mamas who honor the daddys we share our children with.

Mamas who pass on to the generations to come

the faith, knowledge, and love of Christ Jesus.

Like the one we have.

May it be said of us and our children one day....

"...when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also."

2 Timothy 1:5 (NKJV)

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

BECAUSE IN TEXAS...

Even Batman wears boots:)

FAITH REMEDIATION 101

So I have been wrestling with an issue.

You've gotta be tired of reading that...cause I am tired of saying it....but I think there may always be something we are working out because He knows I have got enough for Him to work with.....

My hang up was I could not see what things were going to look like.

I had no clear vision of the end result.

I kept saying, "Yes Lord I want to obey but I don't know what it looks like,"

which basically meant I wasn't moving until He showed me.

In case you are new to this Christian walk, or to God period, He does not cower to demands.

E...V...E...R....

The sermon I heard on Sunday was the equivalent of a knock on the knuckles with a ruler.

The sting hung around for a bit giving me plenty to ponder on.

Monday, it hit.

You are not required to.

Now let me say here there are times when I have to be reminded of lessons I already know. Times when head knowledge needs to be reignited into heart knowledge.

Remediation if you will.

This was one of those times.

I don't have to know what things are going to look like.

All I have to know is what Christ has said to do and obey.

I am not responsible for making things look pretty or nice.

He is.

I am not responsible for how it all works out.

He is.

My job...

seek Him...

hear Him...

obey Him...

trust Him...

I have no idea how this will pan out.

I really don't. What I do have an idea of is what He requires of me when the situation presents itself.

And it will.

Probably soon.

For you newbies, He likes to do that as well.

I don't like remediation.

But I choose to be grateful for it.

"Being confident of this very thing, that He who begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ."

Philippians 4:6 (NKJV)

Because even though I can't see the end result, He can.

And it is for and to His glory:)

SOMETHING...

Mc 2, where is the bag this game goes in?

I don't know. I'll go get a new one.

No...I don't have anymore. Find the bag it goes in.

Minutes pass by.....

I found one!

What was in that bag before?

Something....

What was it?

Something....

Where is that something now?

Out....

Thank you for clearing that up, son.

FRUSTRATED...

Ya'll know what happened to my camera, right?
The other day I remembered that my video camera, archaic thing it is in the world of iPhones, actually takes pictures. I was super excited! Because in the last few weeks I have been attempting to take pictures of the puppies to make a poster with. You know, to get rid of them.... I mean... find them a loving home. Anyway, I had taken some with HH's work camera and put them on my computer. I, of course, deleted them from his camera's memory card as soon as I moved them over. Then MC 1 deleted them from my computer as soon as I turned my back. He is having separation issues. I tried taking some with my phone and emailing them to myself. Fail. So when I recalled that neat little tidbit about my video camera, I was amped. I was taking pictures of all the things I wanted to show you guys. I had pictures of how to make chicken fried venison steak for AMH. I had pictures of the boys after they had used their blue and purple Crayola Color Wonder bubbles for body paint. I took pictures yesterday of my mom and I killing locusts trees, AGAIN. Not as impressive as the first day. She toned it down after the public backlash from the first time. The really was no backlash, just me telling my dad at lunch that I was just trying to stay alive when he asked how it was going.
So I have all this stuff to show you. I am up early, NOT watching the royal wedding so I can get all these pictures over. And this is where frustration hits because my cordy thingy that connects my camera to my computer, it doesn't fit, and I can't seem to find where it needs to fit or what attachment I need or whatever.
Ugh...........
But hey, now you know that I think of you.
I am willing to sacrifice sleep and rest for you.
A plus, no?

PRAYING...

for Alabama....

for MC 1.....

for so many.

The answer to them all.....

Jesus.