A Brand New Day

Hi all! Sorry that once again the blog has suffered. I love you all very much and thank you for all the prayers that have been said for Jesse and I and our special object. Please continue to pray the saga continues. I have been kinda sad and down these past few days. I think that the impact of everything that has been going on has finally hit me. I think that life for Jesse has been very lets say interesting with me these past few days.
Anyway, on my way to work this morning I started thinking about things and the rain made me think about a new beginning. Like how God uses the rain to make everything new and green again in the spring time. Maybe this whole experience is a way to give my sister a new beginning in a way. I pray that God will use this as a way to make her realize what is important in her life and save her. My heart breaks everyday for her and the children, I try to tell myself that she brought it on herself and that I should only feel bad for the children, but God will not let me do that.
As it rains today, even though it is gloomy and dreary I will be thinking about the grand new beginnings that will come with the rain, the new flowers, new baby animals, and a time to celebrate a Risen Saviour. I pray that I will a have brighter and more upbeat attitude today and try harder not to stress and worry. As you watch the rain today try to think of all the blessings that God has given you in unexpected ways and the new beginnings that He has given you starting with your Salvation.

"ARISE"
DOWN THE STREETS OF JERUSALEM, CAME A FUNERAL PROCESSION DOWN THE SAME LONELY STREET, CAME THE RESURRECTION THEY MOURNED THE LOSS OF A LOVED ONE, BUT WHEN JESUS SAW THEIR GRIEF, HE LAID HIS HAND UPON HIM AND DEATH HAD TO FLEE
CHORUS: ARISE, ARISE, MY LITTLE ONE ARISE ARISE, ARISE, WIPE THE SLEEP FROM YOUR EYES, I AM THE RESURRECTION AND I GIVE UNTO YOU LIFE ARISE, ARISE, MY LITTLE ONE ARISE
BREAK: DOWN THE STREETS OF GLORY, SOME DAY I'M GONNA STROLL IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY, WHERE THE SAINTS WILL NEVER GROW OLD, WHEN JESUS COMES BACK FOR US, ON THAT RESURRECTION DAY, IN MY HEART I'M SO EXCITED, I CAN ALMOST HEAR HIM SAY.
REPEAT CHORUS: TAG: I AM THE RESURRECTION, AND I GIVE UNTO YOU LIFE ARISE, ARISE, MY LITTLE ONE ARISE

I love this song and I thought about it today and how all life comes from Him.

Life is full of unexpected Blessings!

Hi all! Sorry I have been slack in the blogging department, I have no excuse just lazy I guess. I have had alot on my mind this past few days, things that I have shared only with the Lord. I have this point of view that I should not burden others with my burden even if it is my husband or the ones that love me the most in this world. I have a heavy heart for my sister and her children, it hurts me to see them go through this time. No child should face the things that Wesley, Krista and Alana may be getting ready to face. Even though I try to tell myself that my sister has brought all this on herself it still hurts my heart to think that she may spend time away from her children in such an awful place. It is such a confusing time.
I just pray that if it is God's Will for the kids to come and stay with Jesse and I for a time that he would use this as a positive experince for all that are involved. Please pray for us that Jesse and I will be strong Christian influences in these little lives. Oh how much it scares me to think that I will have such an influence on another person. It Blesses my heart to think that I would be trusted to care for such important little people. Just pray that God's Will be done in this situation. If it were up to me, my sister would first get Saved, second fly right, and put God first and then her children ( and spend no time away). But as we all know it is not my will it is His. I would also like to take time to thank God for a loving husband who is not negative or resentful about the situation, instead ready to face it head on. Thank you God for the sin that You have Saved me from. Wesley and Krista are such a blessing to my heart and I thank God for them. Please just pray for our special object. We need God's touch.

True Biblical Love for my Husband

God has been leading me for a while to read the Book of Song of Solomon. So my Bible study this week has been from this Book. I have read it before but I do not think that I truly understood it until this time when I read it. I think that it is because I have a true love, a husband, God's man for me. I can now understand why this Book was so controversial there are parts when you truly understand them that are so private and personal about a husband and a wife. My favorite verses in the book were from Chapter 8:

6: Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. 7: Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

These verses show what true Biblical love and passion for your spouse should be. It touches my heart and makes me want to be a more loving and compassionate wife to my husband. He is the man that completes me, makes me happy, loves me without end, and most importantly leads me in the ways of God. I want to strive to be a Godly wife and a more Christ like woman everyday. I love you Jesse and I never thought that I could love you more than I did on our wedding day, but I love you more and more each day. I love each day with you and growing in Christ with you.

Jesus is my only Glory!

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died,My richest gain I count but loss,And pour contempt on all my pride.
Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,Save in the death of Christ my God!
All the vain things that charm me most,I sacrifice them to His blood.
See from His head, His hands, His feet,Sorrow and love flow mingled down!
Did e’er such love and sorrow meet,Or thorns compose so rich a crown?
His dying crimson, like a robe,Spreads o’er His body on the tree;Then I am dead to all the globe,And all the globe is dead to me.
Were the whole realm of nature mine,That were a present far too small;Love so amazing, so divine,Demands my soul, my life, my all.
[Added by the compilers of Hymns An­cient and Mo­dern]
To Christ, who won for sinners grace By bitter grief and anguish sore,Be praise from all the ransomed race Forever and forevermore.

Galatians 6:14 (King James Version)
14But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

I read this verse this morning and it made me think of this song. This verse makes me think of all the pride that I have and how I try to take credit for things in my life, when I know that it has nothing to do with me but it is all God. I have been thinking alot about how I complain about the most trivial things but God did not complain when he sent Jesus to die on the Cross for my sins. Please pray that I will live Jesus in all that I do and that I will be dead to the things of the world. There are many times that I let the world in and it hinders my walk with Him. I love you all! Happy Birthday Ms. Joan, Ms. Natalie, and Ms. Crump!