Monday, July 20, 2015

Monday Musings - Powerful Promises for Every Woman

12 Life- Changing truths for Every Woman
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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Push the Rock Volleyball Camp

Abigail, Jillian, Anna, and I went to Push the Rock volleyball camp at Bethel church, we had a lot of fun learning and playing together... Can't wait to go back next year!!

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Toronto Outreach

There's some "quote" from Pastor Harper:
We live in a Gentile world, and they made a Gentile decision...
God saw the people in Toronto, and the best He could give was YOU!
We had a lot of fun handing out tracks, three of the people even came out to church on Sunday!

Monday, July 13, 2015

Monday Musings - The Board of Absentees

"We are the Board of Absentees;
We attend our church about as we please;
We judge it will run of itself, you know,
And, Sundays, we're just too tired to go!

We are the Board of Absentees;
At business meetings our chance we seize
to tell exactly how things should be run, but we fit not a finger to get them one.

We are the Board of Absentees;
we like our drive in the morning breeze;
Of course the budget should all be paid,
"But privately now, I'm in the red."

We are the Board of Absentees;
Men and women of all degrees;
"Shall we give up the church, O never, never!"
"Shall we go today?" Well, scarcely ever!

We look for a world far better than this,
A world of peace and of moderate bliss,
A day of right through the Seven Seas-
Just now we're the Board of Absentees!"

~The Christian Register


Saturday, July 11, 2015

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Home-Sweet-Home

Today, I finished cross-stitching the "HOME Sweet HOME" skit that I got for my birthday...
Along the way, I had taken some pictures of it to show the steps to the end, I am very glad I did that!!!
P.S. This is my second cross-stitching, but the first one I had finished completely!!!

Monday, July 6, 2015

Tea Leaves - Calling In


God,
Your daughter calling again,
ringing in on II Timothy 1:7,
Take away the spirit fear,
fear of our unknown future-
where? when? what from here?
fear of people not liking me,
fear of rejection,
of disappointments,
of smashed dreams.

And replace it with Your power;
power to keep the victory.
power to be a Proverbs 31 woman,
a pleasing wife,
and a patient mother-today.
power to maintain a cheerful spirit
to all door callers
(as of it were Jesus at my door).
power to show kindness to children
who call or come to play.

-and Your love:
love for Your Word
and You.
love for Your precious gift to me-my husband.
love for Your blessings to us-our children.
love for myself-(instead of condemnation)
for I was Your idea.
love for the unlovely.
love for my brothers and sisters in Christ.
love for the souls of all men.

-and a sound mind:
a sound mind wen I feel frazzled
and worn every whit;
a sound mind when my emotions are screaming
at the seams for release;
a sound mind when I’ve had “too much”-
too much of exposure,
too much of people,
too much of demand,
too much of pressure.

God, I need You today:
with all of my weary being,
I lift my tired hands
and reach out to accept,

not fear,
but power
and love
and a sound mind.


Compiled by Nancy Stutzman

Saturday, July 4, 2015

Friday Funnies


Welcome! Liberty!

Oh, say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
~Francis Scott Key


Happy 4th of July!!!

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Celebrating...

... Titus' 22nd birthday & Selena's 24th birthday!!! So glad to have them as my siblings!!!
Decorating for the party... maybe u are wondering... - the balloons says "Happy B-day Titus & Selena" 
A BIG thank u to those who contributed in making all the snacks!!! 
Playing at the playground while the Sinlges are playing volleyball...