AND THEY BECAME ONE...

BLESSINGS TO MY PRECIOUS NEPHEW (TAYLOR) & HIS NEW WIFE (CANDACE) AS THEY ARE JOINED AS HUSBAND AND WIFE....

IT WAS A SHORT HONEYMOON AS HE HAD TO FLY BACK TO THE AIR FORCE TO SERVE OUR COUNTRY...

So, do you think we have any good people left in this world??

SOMEONE SLIPPED A BEAUTIFUL CARD UNDER THEIR DOOR DURING THEIR HONEYMOON.

When they opened their card, it read "THANK YOU FOR FIGHTING FOR OUR COUNTRY, AND MAY GOD-BLESS YOUR MARRIAGE. ALSO, IN THE CARD CONTAINED ENOUGH MONEY FOR AN EXTRA NIGHT AT THE HOTEL.

(TWO HEARTS, NOW ONE, GENTLY SMILED AND THE AMAZEMENT OF GOD'S LOVE.)

TAYLOR'S GREAT GRANDDAD, GRANDDAD(OUR DAD) AND HIS DAD ALL SERVED IN THE AIR FORCE. HEARING OF WAR, FIGHTING AND TRAGEDY.

I AM SO PROUD OF YOU---MY SWEET NEPHEW....AND CANDACE... NOW IN OUR LIFE'S---YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND WILL MAKE A WONDERFUL WIFE...

MY PRAYERS ARE WITH YOU BOTH AS YOU FOLLOW OUR LORDS PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE. <><

The After Life

Interesting stastics that I came across today.

92% Americans believe in God...

74% believe in the after life...

sooooooo for that 18% that believe in God but not the after life???? what do you think they believe in?

I'm baffled...

Prayer Request

I have TwO prayer request...

Sadly, two dear friends are in need.

The first is a nurse that I work with, her grandson has just been put on Hospice. He is 9 months old. Something we are all too familiar with in our line of work so when it knocks on our own door, we act as if we should have been immune to the situation.

His little brain is shrinking... He is dying. This couple has tried so hard for a baby, only to turn him back over to God very soon....

Unfair?


My second request is for a dear friend. I, all too often, speak of self-loathing. Am I unforgivable? What about those that cannot forgive themselves? My friend could not... to the point of trying to take his own life. He is now on life support with a not very promising prognosis.

Please pray for him and his family.

Despair?

The dictionary describes this as: Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency

"The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble." (Ezekiel 7:27)

"Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God." (Psalm 42:11)

Over and over again, Psalms reveals the word "Hope" which over powers our despair and gives us a promise of Tomorrow....

"Hope" is a thing with feathers
that perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
and never stops---at all." Emily Dickinson

Thank you Papa for today and for our tomorrow...

My Fathers Eye's...the story it will tell

She whispered in a very weak voice, "Come here" and her arms opened up to me.

I slowly walked over to her wondering what she might want or say. She was declining so quickly, it was breaking my heart.

"I met Him," as she embraced me with her arms. There was a long pause of silence. I was afraid to break the moment of tranquility. I had already sensed Who she meant but I wanted her to tell me. So I waited for her to speak.

Several minutes passed before she said, "I felt warm and totally at peace. While He, you know--God-- was here, I didn't hurt for the first time in a long time. I'm not afraid to go now." And the tears came--from her and from me.

The moment was precious and holy, so I was not about to disturb it with questions.

She then said, "I'm leaving soon." And so I nodded with a gesture of affirmation. She talked some more. I asked her what I could do for her and her family. And she just looked at me for the longest time with her eyes. I then saw her story.

It's in the eyes...

My dad did the same thing. Before he died, he talked to my sister and I. I will never forget his sweet eyes. How he told a complete story of love with his eyes. Tears trickled from his eyes as he tried to speak. He didn't have to. We knew. God spoke through our daddy's precious eyes.

I remember another story of a friend that took me in and taught me about grace. He told me of love, like diamonds in the sun the love sparkled, it was in his eyes. I sawJesus, there in his eyes. I was so humbled that He would meet me where I was.

I still am searching for my Papa. Somedays are sure enough easier than others and well, vice versa.

God reveals Himself through the eyes of others everyday if we look....

But what a day it will be when I finally stand before Him and look into my Father's eyes.

The story it will tell...

"He will wipe every tear from their eyes." (Rev 21:4)

Silent Suffering

Silent Sufferers.....

Are we not all there at times? Our secrets tend to take us to a place of despair and loneliness. For no one else has ever been there?!

It is ours to carry.

In that, we self-loathe. How could God love us? We hide our face from Him.

"To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me." (2 Corinthians 12:7)

I will tell you that the days become weeks and the weeks became months. I could not come out of my depression. Yes, I knew that I was His. I knew that it was time to rise out of this place of despair. But I couldn't. All the talking would not move me.

My writing dried up for a season. I went through the motions of what had to be done.

I grieved.

I asked God, WHY?

And then, not too long ago, I read this:

it's by Charles Slagle , From The Father's Heart

Recovering Restorer,

Be at Peace. Know you are protected. Yes; you are right. I have allowed a lonely path for you- a path others have assessed from their surface view as an easy one. Never mind. It is Our view that counts, not theirs.

Rejoice! You are specially chosen and hand-picked. I have called you to demonstrated My heart to the hurting generation. The world is weary of words and so am I. Therefore, I AM raising up an army of saviors, and as a leader in that army you have been chosen to demonstrate My saving character to many silent sufferers. For so long I have yearned, through my family, to love into wholeness the broken and wounded. You will exemplify how it is done.

Be at peace about your lack of knowledge. I have purposely foiled your attempts to become a theologian. I need redeemers, not religionists. And why have I allowed you to work in weakness? To carry a burden which has forced you to fall continually upon My grace? I seek deliverers, not destroyers. Restorers, not rejecters. Your own need of mercy has made you a vessel of mercy--a compassionate counselor and life-giver. You know it is true. I have kept you, formed you, withstood you at times, but always upheld you. And I have counted it pure joy!

So you thought you would never be free, did you? Now do you see the purpose of those years of searching? Your seeming lack of solutions? These laid the foundation for your freedom today. Keep giving grace and keeping loving sinners. And stay committed to the good news of My power.

I AM
Father

For our own need of Mercy has made us a vessel of Mercy... to those in Silent Sufferings..


I am where God wants me right now.. I rest in this... Thank you Papa

On This Father's Day

Thank you for your prayer's on this Father's day... the first without my dad... but Jesus has him. Wow....

I'm coming back soon... My puter was hit by lightening!! yup....so we have one on order and it should be finally here and set up this week or next, yes I lost everything... Silly me-- I didn't zip file back up any of my stuff.

I am going to catch up with you all..when we are up and running again. (My little niece is harassing me even)

I love you guys.