The busyness of Life.

We have been here 115 days today. We have had company approximately 53 of those days. We have company again today. That leaves 62 days without company. 16 of those days were Sundays, which means church all day. 13 of these days were hospitality days, either people here or us at someone's home. There are 9 days that we either served someone, had a travel play date or had all day piano lessons. So as far as I can figure. We have had 24 quiet days. Today will be one of those days for which I am grateful.

Happy Fathers Day

For most of us Fathers Day is a day of conflicting emotions. Some may have strained relations with their father and some have the kind of relationship where every one just exists together. Some may have no real relation at all. Some may have the most wonderful dad in the world. However, sin taints all those relationships, both the sins of the father and the sins of the child. For our relationship with our Heavenly Father, it is not so. If we belong to Christ, then we know that He has paid it all. Our Heavenly Father has no sin and all our sins are paid for by the blood of Christ. How amazing that despite our skewed view of what a father is, Our Heavenly Father has shown us His perfectness by showing us His Son. And His Son has paid it all so that we have the Father. So if you are in Christ. Let the love of Christ be your guide this Fathers Day, and celebrate the forgiveness that is ours and ours to give.

Poem for my husband on our anniversary.

There is a pattern between you and me,

The week before our anniversary.

We seem to have the toughest time,

But grace is the focus of our life.

If it weren’t for His love,

That comes from above,

Our love would be shallow

And wouldn’t last the morrow.

But through it all our love stands firm.

It is by grace and mercy, to confirm.

And so it is that even now,

We are still in love, and oh how.

So this year, I say to you,

Look up to Him to carry us through.

And while you look, say a prayer

Because it is for you, that I will always care.

I know that I would miss you terribly,

If ever we were carelessly,

Forgetting the promises we have made,

Just to get by and know no pain.

And so I say Happy Anniversary,

To you and to me.

Because this year is eighteen,

And the best is yet to be seen.

Thoughts

As I sit and ponder, and know my heart would wander,

Because of the pain and seemingly no gain.

Must is always be this way, can't we grow past this day?

It seems a repeat, of past hurts and defeat.

All I want is to have joy, but I understand it as "enjoy"

And look to the world to employ, what I think of as joy.

But joy is not this, for joy must be found only in Him.

Joy, true joy, is not of this world,

It comes from knowing the One who conquered the ploys.

The enemy set a snare, for us all.

But joy rushes in , when on our knees we fall.

And seek out the One, who answered the call.

For the joy set before Him, He endured death, even death unto the cross.

It is for joy, the joy set before us that we rest in that cross.

Psalm 45:4-5

Then I go to the alter of God, to God my exceeding joy,

And I will praise you with the lyre, O God my God.

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?

Hope in God for I shall praise Him,

my salvation and my God.

10 things I love about my husband

1. He loves Christ.

2. He loves his children.

3. He has a heart for widows.

4. He is a hard worker.

5. He does not deny the children and I the things we need.

6. He does whatever it takes to provide them.

7. He works great with his hands and can fix most things and will try to fix many more things.

8. He has a great smile.

9. No one can make me laugh or cry the way he does.

10. He would give glory to God for all these things.