Archive for November, 2009
Eight Glorious Years
Life keeps getting better and better
These past 7 years have flown by, in a whirlwind of babies and work, and fun, I sense a change coming, don’t know what, all i do know is our 8th year will top the past 7. Rudy and I have truly become one this year. Our vision is the same, We are evenly yoked.
I love him so very much.
Smartest Boy in the World
Lennon: I know everything in the whole world
Adia: No you don’t
Lennon: Uh huh
Adia: well what is the state of Texas! Wait, i mean
Adia: What does Texas Start with?
Lennon: ‘T’
Adia: Darn it..(under Breath)
From this conversation we can conclude, Lennon just might be
the smartest boy in the world, by Adia’s standards.
Tent Conversation
While Sleeping in the tent with daddy
Lennon: boy i sure hope I’m alive in the morning!
coyotes might eat me.
Adia: (look of Terror in her eyes) she’s deathly afraid of them.
Ian: Ya know why I can pee outside and Adia can’t?
(No one answers)
Ian: I have a wiener! (excited voice)
Out of the Mouths of babes
I am starting a new section of my blog,
Titled ‘ Out of the Mouths of Babes’ It will consist of all the
hilarious things my children say.
Over the last couple of weeks they have come up
with some duzies.
Should prove to be quite the knee slapping time for all.
I just LOVE you God
This song has been rolling through me all day, I cant get it out of my mind, can’t get it out of my heart. How I love my Lord.
Thanking God!
Today our hearts could so easily have been broken,
Our Sweet Penny Lane escaped from her dog pen outside,
with her accomplice Rusty
they made their way across McCulloch..I ran pel mel after them,
had Penny, and was looking for Rusty.
He came out of some bushes and ran back across, before i could grab her,
Penny took off
after him,
A car came going about 35-40 miles an hour and hit what i thought was her head and
flipped her 3 or 4 times, and kept going.
(to this person, i Forgive you, wasnt your fault, BUT you should
have turned around and made sure the dog was ok…thats just common courtesy)
After Penny recovered she kept running back home.
I must tell you i have never witnessed anything like this,
was possibly the worse thing
i have ever seen in my life, The yell of anguish and shock that came out of me when it happen
almost haunts me…
(close to the sounds my Papa made when he broke his collarbone from falling
off a horse)
We didnt touch her, till we got inside and could sit down with her
and make sure everything was ok
She does have a deep cut on her back leg, right under her “elbow”
We put some homemade herbal Salve on it and bandaged her up.
Then did what anyone of our friends would
have done, Called our Friend ‘Dolly’ she’s the gal you call when ever you have animal issues.
We thought She might end up needing stitches, but turns out its already looking better.
In midst of tears from Adia and Lennon Rudy and i prayed over her,
for complete healing.
That may sound silly to some people to pray over your dog, but it works.
God loves All his creations.
Last week penny was limping from a fight that broke out between her and the other 2 dogs
after 2 days of that, while at church during one of the prayer circles,
i thought to myself ‘ why dont i just pray for her’
that i did, as soon as i returned home,
immediately she stopped limping.
God is Good!
This incident has made me realize how much i really
love my dogs, if any of them
would die or be hurt bad
it would crush me.
yes i have become the animal lady.
Our dear sweet Penny Lane,
we love you more than words can say
“Decisions That Define Us” by David Crone
We have decided that teaching the Gospel with out demonstrating the Gospel is not enough. Good preaching, good doctrine, and being good people are not enough.
We have decided that having a good church club is not enough, good fellowship is not enough, and just being a member of that club is not enough.
We have decided that having good bible studies is good, but not good enough, that just making Heaven is not our goal, and that knowing about God without truly knowing and experiencing God is meaningless.
We have decided that having good programs is not enough, that change without transformation is intolerable, and that staying where we are is not a option.
We have decided that gifting without character is futile.
We have decided that singing songs without worshiping is empty, and having meetings without God showing up is pointless.
We have decided that having faith without works is not enough and having works without love is not acceptable – that our function comes out of our relationships first with the Father and second with each other.
We have decided that reading about the book of Acts without living the book of Acts is unthinkable.
We have decided that confident faith is good and bold faith is better.
We have decided that hearing about the Holy Spirit without experiencing Him is silly, that believing in His presence without seeing it manifested in signs and wonders is hypocracy, that believing in healing without seeing people healed is absurd, and that believing in deliverance without people being delivered is absolutely ridiculous.
We have decided to be Holy Spirit filled, Holy Spirit led, and Holy Spirit empowered – anything less doesn’t work for us.
We have decided to be the ones telling the stories of God’s power – not the ones hearing about them.
We have decided that living saved but not supernatural is living below our privilege and short of what Christ died for.
Wee have decided that we are a battleship not a cruise ship, an army not an audience, Special Forces not spectators, missionaries not club members.
We have decided to value both pioneers and settlers: pioneers to expand our territory and settlers build on those territories, But we are not squatters, people who take up space others have fought for without improving it.
We have decided to be infectious not innocuous, contagious not quarantined.
We have decided to be radical lovers and outrageous givers.
We have decided that we are a missions station and not a museum.
We have decided that it is better to fail while reaching for the impossible that God has planned for us than succeed settling for less.
We have decided that nothing short of His Kingdom coming and Him will being done in our world as it is in heaven will satisfy.
We have decided that we will not be satisfied until our world cries out, “Those who have turned the world upside down have come here too.” Acts 17:6
We honor the past, live in the present, and keep our eyes on the future.
We focus on what could be, not on what is or has been.
We see past events – successes and failures – as stepping stones not stop signs.
We pursue learning in order to be transformed, not learning in order to know.
We are not limited to the four walls of our church building. Our influence is not restricted by location – not even the nations are out of bounds.
We raise up world changers – not tour guides. We train commandos, not committees.
We are people of engagement, not observation.
We are people of our destiny, not of our history.
Expresses how i feel
My tale draws to its close: one word respecting my experience of married life, and one brief glance at the fortunes of those whose names have been frequently recurred in this narrative, and i have done.
I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what i love best on earth.
I hold myself supremely blest-blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husbands life fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than i am:
ever more absolutely bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh. I know no weariness of my Edwards society: he knows none of mine, any more than we each do of the pulsation of the heart that beats in our separate bosoms; consequently, we are ever together. 
To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.
We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but a more animated and audible thinking. All my confidence is bestowed in him, all his confidence is devoted to me: we are precisely suited in character – perfect concord is the result
Jane Eyre – talking about her love Mr Rochester
Cash
I see and my Love like this