Beginnings

Well, this will be my first post and honestly I don't know where to begin. I have been blessed beyond measure. I have the BEST husband that God created! I have 2 great daughters and son-in-laws. I have 3.5 grandchildren and THEY are the best thing since ice cream!!!

We had Bro. Ed White speak at our church last week on financial freedom and it was though he was preaching how Al and I had chosen to live our life. It was neat. We were living scripturally (is that a word) without even knowing it. It is good to live in His hands. Bro. White speaks about getting out of debt and living more in a cash based world and by doing this you will be financially blessed by God and therefore able to give Offerings not just Tithes. He gives scriptural basis for these standards and he told about how he and his family came from almost bankruptcy to the point of where they give 25-35% of their income (above their Tithe) to God's Ministries. It was a very good testimony and service.

As you know my Mom is battling throat cancer and I covet your prayers for her. She has been treated at MD Anderson and is now home recovering for a few weeks. She will go back to Houston at the end of May to get evaluated on her chemo and radiation. We pray that it was successful.

Our good friend Hoppa began receiving radiation this week to shrink a benign brain tumor and I covet your prayers for him and his family also.

Next weekend (on Mother's Day) we will be dedicating our precious Puddin' to the Lord. Please pray for her and her parents at this special time. As she grows it is important that she sees Jesus in all of us.

Alanna is still not feeling well with her pregnancy so please pray for her also. She thinks that it is the prenatal vitamins.

This is beginning to look like a prayer list!

I think I will include some of my favorite quotes at this point:

'You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company." Diane Von Furstenburg

It took me a long time to learn to like much less love myself. If Christ is in me, and He is, then I am worthy and lovely and loveable.

"In public, as in private life, I am persuaded that honesty will forever be found to be the best policy."George Washington

Truth is a BIG Deal! Sometimes it may not feel good to hear it but it is the only way to go. You will not trip up if you only tell the truth. We need to raise our children realizing that only truth is honorable. This is a moral issue and probably a place where my generation has failed. There are no small lies or white lies, they are just lies, untruths.

I don't know what I am going to do with this blog.......so far it just looks like a journal but we'll see where it leads.