PRAYER REQUEST SUNDAY

My sister, Alicia ---To have a baby. No luck for the last 4 yrs.

My aunt, Thomassene --- has herniated disc and may need surgery.

Nancy - may have lyme disease

Rodney Cain -- is a diabetic, part of his foot has already been amputated. May need to have whole foot amputated. Also is having kidney problems

Harriet - depression esp this time of year from deaths in the family.

Rita Moore - her husband fell and broke hip in 4 places

Betty Whitlow -- has appt. with Heart Doctor on Dec 27

Loretta--Dad in hospital and husband had to have emergency appendectomy early Sat morning.

Our Church - building a new church building, praying God's continued favor over this project.

Me - As I try to lose weight this week! That I will not grow weary, but continue to rely on God during this process.

Also, a friend of mine, Tanya, was killed in a car accident on Friday. Please remember her family, esp the three children she left behind!

For more requests, please see:
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/socalval/424753/

Please take a moment and pray for all of these requests. (I will post updates as soon as I get them.)

If you have a prayer request, please leave a comment or email me at thomasjaz3@bellsouth.net with your request. And please be sure to email or leave another comment with any praise reports as well!!!

Thanks!!! :-)

MONDAY MEANDERINGS

To see my Monday Meanderings post, please go to my homeschooling blog at www.homeschoolblogger.com/thomasjaz1999 .

Prayer Request Sunday

Ally Keown--teacher--gave birth to a baby boy which was in birth canal 45 mins. without oxygen. He is in ICU and breathing on his own. Things seem to look good. Please keep this family lifted. Little Rylan could have brain damage or seizures from lack of oxygen for so long.

For more requests, please see:
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/socalval/420648/

Please take a moment and pray for all of these requests. (I will post updates as soon as I get them.)

If you have a prayer request, please leave a comment or email me at thomasjaz3@bellsouth.net with your request. And please be sure to email or leave another comment with any praise reports as well!!!

Thanks!!! :-)

Trusting Even When I Don't Believe

We are definitely having a better week! We were even able to take a day trip earlier in the week!!!

It was so good to get away even if it was only for a day. The weather was perfect and traffic wasn't bad at all. If I could sum up our trip in one word, it would be peaceful!

Autumn is such a great time to travel. All the trees were changing colors and everything looked so beautiful! I enjoyed every minute of it!

Besides the scenery, I noticed there were also changes in me.
We were in the Air Force for 10 years and I don't remember ever feeling so peaceful while traveling.

Over the years I have learned to trust God a little at a time. I go through things and don't understand why. It's always later on when I realize the changes that God has allowed to take place in me.

It's weird to see that written down because only a few weeks ago I broke down because I felt like I honestly didn't trust God. It's not that I didn't want to, but I felt like I could not even trust Him with my own son. It broke my heart to realize that I still didn't wholeheartedly trust Him as I know I should.

Then the other day as we were driving along, I noticed that I was totally at peace. I realized that I did trust God after all. I trusted Him with the car, the trip itself and, ultimately, I trusted Him with our lives.

It was then that it hit me - I do trust God, just not always and not with everything. But I do know that the more I grow in Him and the more I learn to rely on Him, the more I will learn to trust Him completely!

We're Still Here!

We are still getting over this bug, but are feeling a lot better than we were!

DS's cough got worse, then better and then worse again. It seems to have cleared up a good bit this morning. He's still stuffy and sneezy, but he's feeling pretty good.

I am beginning to clear up as well. I'm still a bit congested and my ears are stuffy. I am also having some major sinus headaches that have been keeping me up most of the night. DS actually slept in a bit this morning so I was able to get a few hours of rest before starting the day. Prayerfully today will be a better day for all of us!

As for DH, he is feeling a lot better this week. His eye healed on its own and his hair, eyebrows and eyelashes are starting to grow back already. I covered him in prayer all day Tuesday since the last two were pretty hectic. :-) Thankfully he made it through and everything seems to be getting back to normal again.

It has been so hard not to be discouraged over these last few weeks! With everything that has been going on, it has been so easy to lose my focus at times. There have been several times when I've felt helpless and completely overwhelmed. I began looking at the situation rather than being secure in who God is and knowing that everything we've been going through is part of His plan.

I'm not sure why everything happens the way it does sometimes, but He does. He can see the big picture when I can only see what's going on right now.

It really is all about attitude! Even when I'm feeling my worst and all hell is breaking loose around me, if I can just remember that God is still in control no matter what else may be going on. There are so many things that I can't control no matter how hard I try, but He can. I am called to simply put my faith in Him and know that even though He may not take it all away at that moment, He promises to get me through it and that I'll be ok when it's all said and done.

What A Week!!!

Actually the last couple of weeks haven't been the greatest! I was definitely not prepared for any of this, but I am thankful that God has given me a peace about everything and I know that eventually this will all pass.

It started last week... Tuesday to be exact. DH had to travel to out of town for a few days for some training for his job. He decided to take our car on Tuesday morning, return home that night and then leave again the next morning and travel with a few of the guys from work. They would stay over Wed night and return home Thursday night. And it all went according to plan except for on the way Tuesday morning (or sometime soon after) it was discovered that the passenger side rear tire was completely flat. Thankfully the instructor had some fix a flat or something similar and it worked well enough to get DH home.

Needless to say, I was left without a car over the next two days. We figured it would be ok to drive around town, but there was something deep down that told me not to. Wonder what it was??? :-) It was a good thing I was listening because after DH arrived back home and I picked him up after work, the tire was almost flat again. Luckily we made it to Walmart right before the auto center closed and got a new tire.

After all this, we wake up the next morning and DS is complaining of a sore throat. Then later that afternoon, DH gets sick as well. So to make a long story short, both were really sick over the weekend. DH was feeling a little bit better by Monday, but sadly DS developed a cough and has been coughing ever since.

And Tuesday... DH goes to work. Around 10:30 am he calls to check on us. Then he proceeds to tell me that a propane burner had just blew up in his face and he was headed to the emergency room. Luckily he wasn't hurt bad (it could have been so much worse!) and his lungs, nose, ears and throat were fine. His left eye did get burned, but according to the doctor, it should've healed itself over the following eight hours. I was a little bit nervous about seeing him, but it didn't look as bad as I thought. His hairline was singed a good bit on the left side as well as his eyebrows and his left eyelashes were burned off almost completely. But we are praising God because as I said earlier, it could've been a lot worse.

And on Wed morning, after DS had coughed most of the night, I wake up with a sore throat, stuffy ears and really congested. I decided not to give into it and carried on through the day as I normally do. Prayerfully I will be feeling a lot better tomorrow... or later today... and hopefully DS will, too. :-)

Just an update... :-)

I hope everyone is doing well. We are doing ok!

We've been staying busy with homeschooling and still trying to get the house in order. We are loving the new house and especially love living closer to family. DS and I have been able to get out a lot more since we moved than before. It is so much easier to keep the car these days. Of course, I am still praying that it won't be too much longer before we are a 2-car family again! :-)

As for homeschooling, DS is doing very good and I am still having a lot of fun, too. It's amazing that I had forgotten so much over the years, but thankfully it all comes back to me very easily. We are going to start a homeschooling blog soon so if anyone's interested, I'll be posting the link on this blog as soon as we get get it going.

I have started another blog for my Weight Watchers so if you are interested, you can find the link by clicking on my profile link. I decided to start it as another way of keeping myself motivated and so those who are trying to lose along with me can keep up with my progress and prayerfully be motivated by it as well.

As for other things, church has been awesome! Our Pastor hosted Nite Line last Wednesday and some people from our church were also there. Sadly, we weren't able to go, but we did get to watch it from home. The program was great and we can honestly say that the presence of God was heavy in our home!

It was during this time that DS told us that he felt God calling him to preach when he was grown. If you know DS, then you know that he likes to be go into detail when he tells you something and it usually turns out to be very entertaining. This time was no different!

After he said he was going to be a preacher, he said that God was calling him all over the world except for Antarctica. When we asked why, he said that it was really cold there and that there were hardly any people there anyway because everyone was afraid of the polar bears!!!

He then told us that the only way to get rid of the polar bears was to use a bow and arrow. With that being said, he requested to take archery lessons just in case he ever needs them. :-)