I Love This Man

I Love this Man

Today I just finished my first week back to work and I am in pain.

Not from the surgery but the lack of muscle use while I was off.

I stand all day

My Neck back legs and even my arms are sore.

My husband works much harder than I. He delivers freight in Picton all day long.

He lifts and loads and unloads freight from 7:30- sometimes 6:30 at night Mon-Fri

The man has arthritis and gout in his knees and is constantly in pain.

AND YET

when I arrived home tonight, he met me in the driveway and came and hugged me when I got out of the car.

It was quite the sight as we were both limping and laughing towards eah other at our not so graceful aging process.

He was also BBQ-ing potatoes and porkchops and the garlic bread was ready to go.

He offered to pour me a drink and when I walked into the house it was immaculate.

He even borrowed pledge from the neighbour.

And even with all he did today plus mow the lawn and walk the dog.

He took the time tonight and rubbed my back shoulders and feet while watching the hockey game because he knew I had a long first week.

Sometimes we look for blessings in our lives and we can often tend to think they will be

Big and Bold and Obvious

but

it's the simplest acts of selflessness that are truly the Blessings.

God has given me an amazing Blessing

and his name is Steve

and I want for nothing more

There are Candles and There are Stars

Every church has Candles and Stars.

Candles can be our ushers,maintenance people,kitchen help. They are there in the background,unassumingly glowing gently as they serve the Lord

Stars can be our Pastors,our Elders, they are in the forefront doing what they do best shine the light of God upon us as they too serve.

Now

We have all heard the saying Children should be seen not heard.

What an injustice this is to them.

Children have plenty to say and are so filled with wisdom.

The problem sometimes is that children do not articulate as well as we would like them to.

We become frustrated and try to hurry them along in their thoughts and it is then we miss what they are really trying to say,we miss the profound wisdom that is within them.

At the other end of the spectrum children tend to think adults know all.

Yes we may be wiser sometimes due to experience but don't discount their experiences.

Some things we have been through and can understand but now aday there are things we can only try and relate to.

The world has changed since we were young and I pray that more will come to Christ and see that there is goodness in this world.

Tonight was an amazing night at Junior High and Youth.

I have helped lead for almost 2 years now and I have heard alot out of the mouths of these beautiful babes but most importantly I have been taught many things from the children of our church.

Tonight I was blessed to hear not only with my ears but with my heart Mackenzie Martins testimony of her personal moment with God.

She taught us all about LOVE

The breaking down of walls we may have that prevent us from loving fully.

The fact that God can love us no matter what so why can't we love each other the same way.

Just when you think you have it down pat a child speaks in a crowd and the doors of enlightenment and hope open up within you.

Praise God for Mackenzies courage,boldness and obedience for not only trusting Gods love in her and of her but to show us how much she loves us with a trusting heart.

Bless you Mackenzie and thank you for speaking a message to not only my heart but to all that God placed in your path tonight.

We all had the privelage of witnessing a beautiful star tonight and she shone so brightly many wept as the Holy Spirit filled us with words of love from this child.

Our children are the Stars of this world listen to what they have to say.

I promise you,you will be filled with wisdom age cannot give
but
God can through our most treasured gift.
Our Children

Bless you Mackenzie and thank you for a night I will cherish in my heart always.

Love you lots

Grandmo

Ladies night out PT2

No this is not a confused Chevron

but

a strike

The strike belongs to this lovely lady
Bradonna

Strikes a pose

the best strike of the night

At the end of the night we all celebrated with good food and great company.

Looking forward to spending more time with friends

Thanks ladies I had a great time.

DSM Ladies Rock and Bowl

Oh No!

Here comes some wild ones

Excuse me Ladies

but

Nudity is not permitted in the Bowling Alley

The DSM Alley Cats


These Gals are in a League of their own

I Scored!
Five Hole

right through Mona's legs

I once was Lost and now am Found

Was blind and now

I still am get that camera out of my face

Speaking The Truth

I am having a moment here and yes I am actually in tears.

I feel angry hurt and very dissapointed.

Perhaps I should not write.

Perhaps I should just go into prayer longer than I have

Perhaps I should just ignore this moment

but...........................

I won't

Because I have something to say about open forums and what people have to say on them.

It's a free world and we have free speech and most importantly Free will.

I am choosing Free will right now because I believe this is important.

Take this as you please forgive me if you must but I implore you to think about what I have to say.

I received a message from a very close friend today. When I saw it I cried ,became angry and then dissapointed.

My heart is aching right now.

It was a post that someone allowed on their facebook with disreguard for others.

Private messages are for a reason.

Use them.

Do you think your facebook is safe from the outside world?

Well it's not!

I got rid of my facebook because of crap like this.

Was it appropriate for my friend to send this to me? You can be the judge of that.

but before you decide know this,it was sent because we are in agreement always that we need to be in prayer for our friends every day.Even when we don't want to be.

Amy wrote a post on Grace and it was brilliant and from the heart and I read it often.

What erks me is that we don't always realize there is a difference between Grace and Grace with enablement.

Choosing sides when friends have issues.

The He said /She said BS

For example:
When a marriage breaks down there are two sides of the story. Yes it's difficult when they are your friends and want to vent. So what does one do?

Lets face it we tend to want to choose sides.

Depending on which story at the moment makes one more of a victim than the other.

Come on we know it's true we have all done it!

Does this mean we were never really a friend to the other partner?

Does it not say in the bible when a brother/sister sins we are to go to them and if they don't listen we are to go with another?

What does one do when you abide by the laws of God and they still don't listen.

You work very hard to extend grace from within yourself.

That's really difficult at times.

But you don't enable either party to walk around and hurt others be it willingly or not.

Their issues can effect you wether one sees it or not.

You can become different and if you don't think people notice You are mistaken because they do.

Do you realize allowing cruel posts can effect your integrity?

The issue then flows over to others.

What does this show our children, because they are watching our every move.

What does this show our friends.

Have you now put them in a position of choosing your friendship over the conviction they perhaps may feel in their hearts?

I am feeling conviction right now.

How I am going to handle this. I am not sure and would love your advice.

Seriously now, Is this really my issue to handle or yours or better yet theirs

Well because of the indescretion on public forums it has now become mine.

Why?

Because I love and care for all parties involved and I see how it is effecting others around them including myself.

I am hurt by the lack of compassion for others and it angers me that it is now flowing over and hurting my friends around me.

The saddest part of all of this is we claim to be Christians and we spread the word and we love and extend Grace Blah Blah Blah.

Well we can talk the talk but can we always walk the walk?

or do we choose our moments of Christianity?

I don't know about you but I am so going to try even harder because

You/I/We are not the Judge

but we are being watched daily from the Highest judge of all

God.



Forgive me for my bluntless
My intention of this post is not to inflict pain or hurt on anyone it was to make us all think about what we allow to be posted on any public forum.
and
To make us think, God extends Grace to us all and we need to follow in His suit regardless of our own personal feelings.

I speak this because I have lived it and I tell you the truth when I say I chose accountability over enablement. I chose God over sin.

Praise God for His Grace and Mercy and Forgiveness

and I Praise Him in the Highest for giving me true friends who extended me Grace without enablement. For placing friends in my path that take accountability to the highest level.
If they hadn't I would probably be posting crap like that too.
Free Will Choose Wisely