If someone makes a difference in your life, tell them....perhaps if you don't, they will never know!!!

   

Good evening, it is hard to believe that it is already Friday, the days seem to be flying by. It was a difficult day for me so all of the nice things that were said on my facebook page were in such good time. Try as I may I have not been able to get rid of this headache I have, one thing after another has been thrown at me and it seems I need to be an octopus to catch them all! Thank God I have Wayde, not only the love of my life, my forever partner but also a massage therapist and today I relented and let him give me a massage...what a way to "leave your worries at the office" he has the most wonderfully electric hands and can take any stress you are holding and turn it in to jelly. I am so blessed to have him in my world.:)
     Today I have been humbled down to nothing, setting the negative aside..( I refuse to hold it in my hands and let it ruin the day the Lord has made for me) I received some of the most heart touching posts on facebook, when my day is overrun and I have to literally stop mid stream to keep this blog going...and I receive little to no feedback I begin to get discouraged....not from the lack of action on it but that maybe I am not receiving God's promptings the way he needs me to and that I am letting him down by not writing what someone is in need of. This week has been a week when I have felt like I really was missing the mark and I began to think about letting the blog fall to the wayside when boom this morning so many of you came to me and let me know that it does make a difference...thank you Father for allowing this perfect timing!
     As I do off and on, I would like to spotlight a few people who are inspirations to me on a daily basis, I know that they are in my life for purpose and reason and the example they give of being true Christians is such a comfort to me and makes me want to walk a bit straighter! My daughter is one of my biggest inspirations, she is so filled with the spirit, so in tune with the love of God and so open to the Holy Ghost. She has been that way since she was a little girl, she has always possessed a love for people, mainly the elderly and special needs angels. She has a heart that is bursting with love for them, she is patient and kind, she is nurturing and gentle. Megan never meets a stranger and is always eager to give one of her beautiful smiles to everyone, her spirit radiates and is contagious to say the least. I am so very blessed to have had the opportunity to be her mother, and to be her friend. She is a grown woman now and I am so very pleased with some of the routines and practices she has instituted into her life. She is a wonderful person and I pray that each of you will have opportunity to know someone like her in your lifetime. I love you "daughter of mine" and praise the Lord each day for giving me the gift of "YOU"
   Another person that I look at with wonder and amazement is a person I have only had the opportunity to meet but once, she is such an inspiration to me with her never ending spirit and her zeal for life. You know the saying, "when life gives you lemons...make lemonade" Well life has certainly given her a bushel of lemons and no matter how tart they are she seems to make the sweetest lemonade there is. She has been dealt an ugly hand, but has taken it in stride and continues to praise the Lord and keeps her eyes on the prize! Darla, you are amazing to me, you are a great mom, such a wonderful friend to Megan, a wonderful sister and a beautiful daughter to our Father in Heaven. I know that he has an amazing plan in the works for you and that you will receive an abundance of blessings for holding fast to the rod and allowing God to carry you when you cannot seem to find your feet. Thank you for allowing me to see that life is not about the hard knocks, it is not about the bad stuff, it is about overcoming and being stronger after the storm.
     May this evening be filled with only good things for you and yours, may it be filled with reasons to "belly laugh" may it be an evening that makes the long, tedious week worthwhile. May this weekend be filled with rest and relaxation, with love and joy and peace and comfort. God bless you all, each and everyone, with his love:) In Christ, amen.

As always please go to the comment section and feel free to let us know of any specific prayer requests you have, we stand ready to lift those in need in prayer many times this day! God is love, he is merciful and if we go through our savior Jesus Christ all of our prayers will be answered. 

Calling all Prayer Warriors, please pray with me:)

Mark 10:27
"Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God."



Father I bow my head this evening to thank you for this beautiful day, for allowing us to get out in the warmth of the sunshine and enjoy family. Father thank you for allowing us the freedoms to pray without apprehension and for allowing us the freedoms to worship you in meetinghouses with no fear. I would like to ask father that you continue to bless those affected by the tornados as they rebuild, father continue to hold them in the  comfort of your arms  and allow rebuilding of all lost, allow peace of heart for those who lost loved ones and allow each one of them to continue banding together as a union in the beautiful Christian way that they have. Father be with those in Arizona suffering the fires, protect them from harm, be with the ones in flood zones, lay a shield of protection around them deterring damage to their homes. God I ask that you give special mercies to those suffering health problem, lay your hand upon them and heal the areas in need, we love you so much, we turn to you in all things and we ask that you continue to guide us, we promise to be more aware of your spirit, to hear your still quiet voice and forge forward in spreading your word and showing people through our deeds what your love is all about. God please be with our military, always keep them safe and bring them home to the ones who sit each day in fear and heartache of this war. I ask that you be with each and every one of us, that you will continue to show us the way, that you continue to allow us to repent of our sins and that your gentle mercy always be within us. I love you  and I know that with prayer and reverence you will help us in all things. I say these things from my heart, seal them up and lift them to the loving ears of Jesus Christ our savior, amen. 

What is prayer to me??

My definition of prayer

the most precious gift one has been given

the ability to talk with our Father in heaven, the ability to express our deepest fears, to put into words our thoughts, our secrets, our hopes, our mis deeds, our weaknesses, our stresses, our dramas, etc...

the rite to talk without fear of judgement, the rite to voice ourselves without chastisement, without ridicule, without reproach, without, etc...

the promise that if we ask with true intent in our hearts, with unconditional love in our hearts that it will be answered.

the one constant I have had in my life is prayer, many people come and go in your life but God is always there, he is constant, he will not turn away from you as long as you are following in his footsteps!

In my life, growing up, we were never denied  prayer, it just was not ever initiated or done in our home, church really was not either, sometimes we would go to vacation bible school in the summer and every once in a while our dad would take us and drop us at church on Sunday but to say we were a religious family would be way off mark. I remember always feeling so clean when we would go to vacation bible school and to church and I loved that feeling, I think this is the time that I began to pray, I did not do it out loud, I did not even let my family know that I did it for fear they would make fun of me. I learned that I could talk to God any time I was scared, any time there was hell going on in my household, anytime that I was anxious...so I will say that prayer got me through many hard times in my childhood, it was so nice to know that I had a friend, that I had someone to talk to and that when I did talk to him, I felt an eerie sense of calm, that everything would be okay. 

As my life has gone on and I have aged, I continue to pray, prayer has become such a huge part of my life, for many years I did not pray out loud, I did not say, "I am praying for you" let me pray for you, I did not let people know that everything I do is based on prayer because I did not want to be thought a religious nut. Now don't get a mental image of me walking around toting my bible and forcing myself on people, don't imagine me on bended knees all day long, don't think that I am overboard with my spirituality, I don't push, I don't force and I don't pester. God allows me to feel the needs of others, he allows all of us to, I just think that sometimes we don't rest our minds enough to hear his still quiet voice and to feel his gentle nudges in the direction he wants us to follow. In beginning this blog my main goal was to be able to let people know that prayer is a mighty tool, that the power of prayer is amazing, that when we ask with true intent and with love in our hearts, that when we lift prayers in the name of Jesus Christ that they are answered. As Garth Brooks sings, "some of life's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers" they are "not answered" all prayers are answered, just not in the way we would design them to be in our minds! I cannot tell you how many times I have not had prayers answered "my way" only to realize later that if they had been answered "my way" I would not be the person I am today. He has it written in his book the way the story goes, and boy am I enjoying the book:) 

In retrospect....I PRAY....I allow God to lead me in my ventures, I ask him advice and know that he will guide me in everything I do, I have an abundance of love in my heart for people, if I say I love you, I really mean it, if I say I would like to pray for you or pray with you, I am sincere. If you ask me to pray for you and yours, trust that it will be done. May you be blessed this day with time to sit in quiet wonder, have a good conversation with God and know that he above anyone is listening to your every word, he is not preoccupied with anything other than what is on your heart and what he can do to help you. May you feel his love each and every day and may he comfort you in the knowledge that you "never walk alone" Love in Christ.

Monday...Monday

Hello and happy Monday, our nice weekend with warmth and sunshine is now oer and yet another cold front has come to visit...42 and very gloomy out this morning, add in to the mix a slight breeze and once again I am in need of my "Betty blankie" to sit in the yard and enjoy the world waking! I am beginning to wonder if we will ever have warmth and sunshine on a daily basis???? Over the weekend, I talked to several people who are really struggling with problems, I spent a major part of my weekend in intense prayer that God will show them he is there, that he will allow them to feel his mercy and his compassion, I know he is always there, but sometimes I think we get so caught up in the negative that we neglect to hear the still quiet voice and we refuse to allow him to shine within us. Today I ask that you join me in prayer, not only for miracles but also for "awareness" I know that at times I will pray, pray, pray, and when the prayer is answered I thank him as if it were really not a big deal. I hope that I am the only one that does this, but feel that it happens more times than not, it is like we find religion when we are really in need and it becomes an afterthought when the prayer is answered. I think I need to work on the always part of prayer. The big picture here is "everlasting" do I want to just live in the minute or do I want to live in the here after? I look at this and of course the answer is the here after, I hear so many speaking of May 21 being the last of days and many are stressing over it...why??? We have no control over when the world will end, we have no way of changing the date, all we Do have control over is how we are when the last day arrives, are you ready? I am not, I have to work on me and get me ready!! Today my prayer is that we all, each of us, take a good long look in the mirror and see what we need to change within, I know I will be standing there for a while and will have to do a lot to get ready, I pray that when looking I can see all of the imperfections and with the assistance of my Father in Heaven move forth in changing the negative and running to the positive......God bless each of you with the ability to know what is needed in your lives, God bless you with the power of discernment, to know what is good for you and to realize what you need to change. May he be your guiding light, may he be your driver, may he be your director...may you open yourself up for him and allow him to work within you! Blessings to all for a wonderful eye opening day:) Love in Christ.