Sweet are God's Promises

This morning in the wee hours I couldn't sleep so I decided to take advantage of my "quiet, wake time." I came downstairs and while I was reading my Bible, God gave me this promise. It was a real encouragement to me so I thought I would share it with you:

Isaiah 43:1-3 "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned. Nor shall the flame scorch you. For I am the Lord you God, the Holy One of Israel, Your Saviour; Verse 4 says also "Since you were precious in My sight, You have been honored, And I have loved you;"

My little boy is growing up.....

Benjamin now 21 months is making so many changes and is talking a lot. He got on his sister's scooter Sunday morning and started riding it...ever so careful and slowly...but actually riding it. It was so cute. I could hardly believe it...already.

Vanilla....

Last night our associate pastor preached on Andrew who was an "ordinary" man who brought people to Jesus. He likened him to vanilla ice cream....just plain icecream....ordinary. When he announced his message being on "Ordinary Vanilla Andrew" a little friend of Abigail's who was sitting next to me looked up at me and said "I like Milky Way". I got so tickled at her. But it wasn't only her that was hungry for Ice Cream after church. :) You'll have to ask Mike about it. :)

Just thinking.....

The last couple of days I have had Philippians 4:8 on my mind. "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue and if there be any praise; think on these things." This is one of my favorite verses because it really helps in my battles of the mind. Usually the things that bother me the most are things that I really don't KNOW to be true....things just seem true. Therefore, when I am bothered about something I try to ask myself..."Do I KNOW this is the case? Is it something lovely to think about? Is it of good report? Is it praiseworthy? I am amazed of the things I can clear out of my day just from this filter. WOW!! God knew what He was doing when He gave us this verse.

I Wish I Could Go up in the Real Heaven.....

These are the words of our 4 year old at bedtime tonight, while thinking about Heaven. I really don't know what brought it on, but she knows that heaven is "very Beautiful". We won't need any light. We won't even need to sleep. We can go anywhere we want to go. "We can see Jesus and give him a kiss and a hug". I know Jesus must smile to think of a child's anticipation to see Him. Oh that we would all have this kind of anticipation!! I really believe we will see Him very soon.

God Answers Prayer...

Mike's work has been very unsteady the last 2 or 3 weeks. We have been wondering how we were going to make it. Presently there are some jobs out there in the future, but not much right now. Mike said to me yesterday morning, "Let's pray together that God will send me three jobs today." We did. We prayed together and asked God for three jobs to come in yesterday. At the end of the day, God had sent in three new jobs. WOW!! We are so blessed to know a God who cares about our lives and He even tells us to come BOLDLY before His throne. I just want to Thank God and give Him the glory for what He does for us.

Belated Valentines

Mike's mom had sent the kids a box for Valentine's Day with lots of goodies. Valentine's day was really busy for us so we decided to wait for our dinner. We had our Valentine's dinner tonight. It was so much fun. The girls loved the "party". They were so excited when they saw the decorations. Here are a couple the pictures of our "I Love You" dinner.