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Monday, November 12, 2007
Sunday, November 11, 2007
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!
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, November 5, 2007
MONDAY MEANDERINGS
To see my Monday Meanderings post, please go to my homeschooling blog at www.homeschoolblogger.com/thomasjaz1999 .
Saturday, November 3, 2007
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/
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!!! :-)
Thursday, November 1, 2007
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!
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!
Thursday, October 25, 2007
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.
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.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
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. :-)
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. :-)
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