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Discouragement

I have been going through a bout of discouragement for the past couple of weeks, but God has put some very special people in my life to help me. Sunday night someone told me just the right thing that REALLY helped me, and then I read some very encouraging posts both yesterday and today. I just wanted to get on here and tell everyone how good God is!! Isn't He just wonderful?!

Our Pastor preached a message Sunday night on "Sticking With God". As most of you know, we are going through something with my sister right now, and that has put a huge toll on our family. Because of what we have been going through I have gotten discouraged and behind in my relationship with the Lord. I had been very hurt because of what my sister is going to be doing in the next couple of weeks. But I realized Sunday night that I had to give what we were going through over to God and let Him work...not me! I was trying to tell my sister what she needed to do, and I was not letting God have the situation.

I just want to thank everyone who blogs. I get so much encouragement from reading your sites, and I know that a lot of others get the same encouragement!! So thank you to all of you!

Our First Sunday At Our New Church.

Yesterday was awesome! I absolutely love my Sunday school class, the teaching, I love the preaching that we received and the singing! Yesterday was just wonderful! We got to join yesterday morning, so now we are official members of Harvest Baptist Tabernacle. I have never shook so many hands in all my life...there were about 300 to 400 people there...that's a whole lot of hand shaking!! :o)

I am so glad that God put us in such a wonderful church! The people are so sweet and as I have already said the preaching is awesome.

Daddy was not able to be at the service last night, he decided to let Michelle and I stay so that we could be at our new home church while he went to a meeting at another church. We are a little over 10% of our support! We are so excited!! We can see that God is working, and we are so thankful.

I do have a very, very special unspoken, it is something that has been heavy on my heart and I know that y'all will help me pray. I can't go into it right now, I just need y'all to help me pray for someone.

When We Were Kids

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.


We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.


As infants &children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.


Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.


We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.


We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.


We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because,

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!


We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.


No one was able to reach us all day. And we were OK.


We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.


We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms.......

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!


We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.


We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.


We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.


We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!


Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!


The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!


These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!


The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!


If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!


You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good .

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

No Longer at Eagles View Baptist Church.

Yesterday was our last day at Eagles View, where my dad has been pastoring for the last seven and a half years. It was a very, very emotional day for all involved, that is for sure. I don't think I have ever cried so much in all my life! :o(

The Sunday school class that I have been helping in had a little "Going Away" party for me, so my tears started in Sunday school rather than after the evening service, when we would say our good-byes. After the morning service a lot of the members of the church got together and went out to lunch and had a good O' time! Afterwards the church had a "Going Away" get together for us.

In the evening service is where my dad took the time to tell the church how much of a blessing they had been to our family for the past seven years. He told them about how he knew he could depend on them for whatever he needed. He also thanked them for all they had done for our family. There were times that my parents did not have the money for groceries, and the church got together and bought our groceries for us. Or the time that my parents had no money to buy Christmas for us kids, they all came together and bought Christmas for the family. They always knew what we needed! By this time...my dad is crying (which is a rare site by the way)!!! Of course when Dad started crying...there I went, I look over at my sister...she is crying, then to my mom...of course, Momma is crying as well! I don't think there was a dry eye in the church. Our church was more than a church, it was a family.

I had realized something after the service that I had not thought of, that was the last time that my Dad preached in that pulpit as pastor, the last time we sang in the church as the pastor's kids. I know it seems weird, I knew we were leaving, but I just never had thought about those things...and of course that started a whole new string of bawling!! LOL

But there was such a peace in leaving, even though it was tough for us to do, we had the peace and reassurance that we were doing what God had told us to do, and that was a great comfort!

I just wanted to ask y'all to pray for us as we officially start out on deputation. We truly covet your prayers!

A prayer request.

I wanted to ask everyone on here to pray for Bro. Gene Harmon and his family. They are missionary's to China, and that is a very dangerous mission field. He has been arrested before for distributing King James Bibles and for witnessing to people. In his work there are 20 underground churches and 2 Bible colleges. We just found out that two men that were helping him smuggle Bibles into the mainland of China were followed from a train station, arrested, and interrogated. The Chinese officials have confiscated a computer that tells about the 20 underground churches. Bro. Harmon is not even allowed to go to his own home because they have it under 24 hr. surveillance. So he will keep moving around hopefully undetected. The biggest fear right now are all of the Chinese Christians that will be arrested or worse.

Bro. Harmon does have a wife and two daughters, their names are Nelly, Hope, and Faith. They greatly need your prayers right now.

A GREAT day!

Yesterday we got the privilege of going to Messiah Baptist Church for their evening service. This church was our 4th church visit I believe. While we were there to share our burden for the prison ministry, we also got to fellowship with some friends that we know from Campmeeting. We had a blast!!! There was good food, laughter, and good friends....and a good church service, you can't make a day better than that! :0)

While we were there Thomas (one of our friends from campmeeting) and I got to talking about a book "What God hath wrought". I knew my dad had the book, but I thought he had let someone borrow it and they had not returned it...so I went to hunt it out this morning...I FOUND IT! I have heard from several people that this book is a very, very good book. So I have started reading it and "wow". I did not expect this book to hold so much.

How many of y'all have read this book and what were your thoughts on it?

What a day!

Today has been an extremely busy day for my sister and I...well, make that for the majority of our family. The reason being..........my Uncle got married today! It was a somewhat confusing day, but we managed to get through it alright. I was put in charge of the video camera...I never knew that would mean a lot of walking!!! If I had known that I would have worn flats instead of hills. Ha ha ha! It came together nicely though.

Other than the wedding we went out to eat with Ronnie and Jessica, and boy...we had a blast!!! I can't remember a time when I had laughed so hard. I needed some good laughs, we had a great time. While we were at the restaurant we saw a wedding party there...the bride, the groom, everyone! They had JUST come from their wedding and decided to have their reception at the restaurant. I thought that was a pretty interesting idea! They looked like they had a good day.

Well, I am not to sure as to what the rest of this week holds, but if something happens...I will letcha know! :o)

April Fools Day.

It seems like all the people in our house today is in the "April fools" mood. I have gotten a phone call from a friend of mine (she was really believable by the way) and gently lead me into an april fools joke...which I totally bought!! Oh well!

Michelle (my sister) has had her fun with this day as well. I am not to sure what the rest of today will hold. I should probably watch my step huh? IT SHOULD BE FUN!!! :D

HAPPY APRIL FOOLS!

We are officially moved in!

The move on Saturday went very, very well...I think it did anyway! We are now moved in...we are not settled, but we are moved in. :) We are still working very hard to get everything unpacked, but we know that it will take some time to get that done. We should have plenty of time to get it all done this week, because we are not going to be watching my cousin anymore. She will be going to a daycare starting tomorrow. We are really going to miss her!!!

I will post pictures of the house once everything gets unpacked and put into it's proper place. It may be a while before I can get them posted...but they will eventually make it on here I am sure.

I'm sorry this is so short, but there are TONS of things that I SHOULD and NEED to be doing!! LOL

Oops, I skipped out on blogging again!!!

I have neglected the blogging world once again...and for that I am sorry, but I have been busy. We are going to be moving this Saturday, so I have been packing up my stuff and getting ready for the move. Other than that though, I have neglected y'all. Now, I am not sure on how much more I will be posting this week because of the move, but if time permits, I will post again.

Resurrection Sunday (Easter Sunday) was good. We did have something happen on that day that our whole family will probably never forget. Ronnie and Jessica (my brother and sister-in-law) told us Wednesday night that they were expecting their first child. We were all very, very excited! But God had other plans for that precious baby. On Sunday afternoon, Jessica miscarried their precious baby. We were all heart broken...but we knew that at that moment that baby was with Jesus having the best time of it's life!!! What a comfort!!! Ronnie and Jessica seem to be doing well. I have prayed for them so much, and I wanted to ask if you all would do the same, and that God would bless them abundantly with children if it be His will.

Everyone have a wonderful Wednesday!

Aggrivation...and more aggrivation!

It all started with the storms that rolled through Georgia on Friday. They were some REALLY bad storms. On Saturday our house got struck by lightning, and our computer went ka-put! So, we are using my Dad's computer that is so old...it has no was to hook DSL up to it, so...we are using DIAL-UP!!! Can you believe that?? After you have had DSL for over 4 years, you never want to go back to dial-up. It is so hard to be patient and wait, and wait, and wait some more for the page to load. Lord willing when me move, not this week, but next week...we will be back to DSL.

So, I will try to keep up with posting and commenting...just PRAY for me!! :o)