The date for the divorce hearing for my father and stepmother is Wednesday June 24, 2008. The time is 9a.m.
Thank you for your prayers.
May the Lord prevail and be glorified through this trial of my father's.
I have laid it all at His feet.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Please Pray!
Dear family and friends and readers,
June 24th, 2008. This date is when my father has to go to court. His wife, my stepmother, has filed for divorce. Both have made mistakes in their marriage. My father has acknowledged that he has made a big mistake, has sinned, has apologized, and asked for forgiveness. Sadly, my stepmother has not forgiven him. She is very bitter, angry, and spiteful right now. She proclaims that she has forgiven him. But does not show forth the fruit of forgiveness. My father has changed and is changing. He has accepted Jesus Christ as his personal savior and acknowledges that God's word is truth.
Please pray!
My stepmother's attorney is pushing hard that the 24th date for divorce to be final. Pray that the Lord will do a great work in Melanie's whole being (my stepmother). Pray that she will change and want to reconcile her marriage with my father (Bob). There are also children at stake here. These poor little ones. Only through the power and grace of God will they overcome this.
I know that it is only God that can make this marriage reconcile. Only God, who can heal Melanie's heart and break the stone that surrounds her. Only God can make this a miracle.
Their marriage needs prayer warriors.
Dear Lord, please, for your name's sake, for your power, honor, and great glory, mend this marriage between my father (Bob) and stepmother (Melanie). They need you so, more than any time than this, do a great and mighty power in both of their lives. Bring up support for their marriage, change other people's hearts who may have been against this marriage. Protect them and the children from evil and harm. Lord keep my father strong, patient, kind, loving, and just. Only you can do this. I lay all at your feet. Let your will be done. If it is your will Lord, make them as one again as you did my husband and I. I love you and thank you for all you do and for your protection and grace, for I am so undeserving but know I am yours. In Jesus Christ precious name I pray, Amen.
June 24th, 2008. This date is when my father has to go to court. His wife, my stepmother, has filed for divorce. Both have made mistakes in their marriage. My father has acknowledged that he has made a big mistake, has sinned, has apologized, and asked for forgiveness. Sadly, my stepmother has not forgiven him. She is very bitter, angry, and spiteful right now. She proclaims that she has forgiven him. But does not show forth the fruit of forgiveness. My father has changed and is changing. He has accepted Jesus Christ as his personal savior and acknowledges that God's word is truth.
Please pray!
My stepmother's attorney is pushing hard that the 24th date for divorce to be final. Pray that the Lord will do a great work in Melanie's whole being (my stepmother). Pray that she will change and want to reconcile her marriage with my father (Bob). There are also children at stake here. These poor little ones. Only through the power and grace of God will they overcome this.
I know that it is only God that can make this marriage reconcile. Only God, who can heal Melanie's heart and break the stone that surrounds her. Only God can make this a miracle.
Their marriage needs prayer warriors.
Dear Lord, please, for your name's sake, for your power, honor, and great glory, mend this marriage between my father (Bob) and stepmother (Melanie). They need you so, more than any time than this, do a great and mighty power in both of their lives. Bring up support for their marriage, change other people's hearts who may have been against this marriage. Protect them and the children from evil and harm. Lord keep my father strong, patient, kind, loving, and just. Only you can do this. I lay all at your feet. Let your will be done. If it is your will Lord, make them as one again as you did my husband and I. I love you and thank you for all you do and for your protection and grace, for I am so undeserving but know I am yours. In Jesus Christ precious name I pray, Amen.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Days.
Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Thus far this week, accomplishments have been made. Great thanks to my brother-in-law, Charlie, and my friend Linette, for helping me with painting. Linette helped me with the the primer and Charlie helped me with the color. (More like I helped him, Charlie pained the hard part.) Everything, in our trailer, is unpacked and decorations are up. The only thing left to do is installing the gas line for our clothes drier. All in due timing.
Knowing how I am, I would have liked to have had everything done before we moved in. But the world does not turn for me, it turns for God. I know this sounds very petty and these things are small things. But a many of people allow the small things to rule them. If we allow small things to rule us, it will cause grief on our souls and emotions, which can in turn cause relationships to be hindered. We have to allow the Lord to rule the small things, all things.
There will always be small things that need done. But, what does the Lord want us to do? He gives us our days, it is up to us to make a choice in how we use our days. I tend to get caught up in what I think needs taken care of in our home, things. I can keep myself very busy with just things in our home, it seems there are always things to be done. But it can get to a point when those things can take over our time, take our time away from moments from our family and loved ones. Things will always need to be done, but we can not count on our family and loved ones to always be here. We do not know when the Lord will decide when a person's time here on earth is done. It could be today, we are not guaranteed tomorrow.
Now, I am not saying to allow things to get unruly. We have to rule our domain. So there is peace in our homes. Ladies, we do not have to have a perfect magazine picture home. Remember, magazine pictures are staged, their not lived in. (98.9% of the time) If they are, I feel sorrow for the people that are missing out on the blessings they could have with time with their families and loved ones. As long as our homes are sanitized and we know where things are, and our husbands are comfy, great job. Don't worry about organizing the junk drawer. Cause it will get messy again. I would recommend asking our family who live in our homes what they like about our home and what they can't and can live with being organized or unorganized. Maybe plan a family organize day, and work together to keep it the way everyone likes it. Then everyone can be at peace. It takes much less time to organize or clean when everyone is working together. I enjoy the conversations my hubby and I have when we sort laundry together, or when we both do dishes together (one washes the other drys and puts away). We have so much more time together that we, (men, you will get more rest time cuddling with your wives when you both get the things done together). My husband greatly enjoys our relaxing time together. Me too!
Back to our days. Isn't it amazing how easy it is for me to go on and on about a subject. Wowsers! I know my sister-in-law, Shelley, is nodding her head yes right now. Hee Hee.
What I have learned, time with our family and loved ones are more precious then time with things. But spending time on things with our family and loved ones is time worth spent. It is much nicer to get things done with our families than alone! We should be grateful for every moment given to us by our Lord, for we may not have another one on this earth.
I am so thankful for every day our great God gives us, and for our family and loved ones.
Thus far this week, accomplishments have been made. Great thanks to my brother-in-law, Charlie, and my friend Linette, for helping me with painting. Linette helped me with the the primer and Charlie helped me with the color. (More like I helped him, Charlie pained the hard part.) Everything, in our trailer, is unpacked and decorations are up. The only thing left to do is installing the gas line for our clothes drier. All in due timing.
Knowing how I am, I would have liked to have had everything done before we moved in. But the world does not turn for me, it turns for God. I know this sounds very petty and these things are small things. But a many of people allow the small things to rule them. If we allow small things to rule us, it will cause grief on our souls and emotions, which can in turn cause relationships to be hindered. We have to allow the Lord to rule the small things, all things.
There will always be small things that need done. But, what does the Lord want us to do? He gives us our days, it is up to us to make a choice in how we use our days. I tend to get caught up in what I think needs taken care of in our home, things. I can keep myself very busy with just things in our home, it seems there are always things to be done. But it can get to a point when those things can take over our time, take our time away from moments from our family and loved ones. Things will always need to be done, but we can not count on our family and loved ones to always be here. We do not know when the Lord will decide when a person's time here on earth is done. It could be today, we are not guaranteed tomorrow.
Now, I am not saying to allow things to get unruly. We have to rule our domain. So there is peace in our homes. Ladies, we do not have to have a perfect magazine picture home. Remember, magazine pictures are staged, their not lived in. (98.9% of the time) If they are, I feel sorrow for the people that are missing out on the blessings they could have with time with their families and loved ones. As long as our homes are sanitized and we know where things are, and our husbands are comfy, great job. Don't worry about organizing the junk drawer. Cause it will get messy again. I would recommend asking our family who live in our homes what they like about our home and what they can't and can live with being organized or unorganized. Maybe plan a family organize day, and work together to keep it the way everyone likes it. Then everyone can be at peace. It takes much less time to organize or clean when everyone is working together. I enjoy the conversations my hubby and I have when we sort laundry together, or when we both do dishes together (one washes the other drys and puts away). We have so much more time together that we, (men, you will get more rest time cuddling with your wives when you both get the things done together). My husband greatly enjoys our relaxing time together. Me too!
Back to our days. Isn't it amazing how easy it is for me to go on and on about a subject. Wowsers! I know my sister-in-law, Shelley, is nodding her head yes right now. Hee Hee.
What I have learned, time with our family and loved ones are more precious then time with things. But spending time on things with our family and loved ones is time worth spent. It is much nicer to get things done with our families than alone! We should be grateful for every moment given to us by our Lord, for we may not have another one on this earth.
I am so thankful for every day our great God gives us, and for our family and loved ones.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Comfort.
I just read Matthew 6. Before I read this I had watched a movie with my husband. Called Beyond Borders. After watching this movie I toiled in my mind of what I have read in God's truth in the far past. I had to get out Strong's Strongest, not knowing what word I was searching for. Then I said to myself, hm mm. How bout I look it up the faster way on blueletterbible.org. So I did, by then I knew what I was looking for, the word treasures. Treasures have been on my mind a lot the past several months. With moving and downsizing. So I typed in treasures here on earth. No exact matches, but 3 verse matches for the words treasures and earth. So I looked. The verse that stuck out in my mind that I saw was Matthew 6:19. I opened my Bible to Matthew Chapter 6. Read the whole chapter, it is not long. How the Lord is stirring in me right now, I can not explain.
Matthew 6:19-21 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
How spoiled are we? So spoiled it makes us want more than we need, when we have so much. I can not tell you enough how good we have it, where we live, in our wicked nation. It takes little to desensitize us, but much more to open our eyes to truth. Our children complain about wants or boredom, while children in other nations are thankful for another day, while they watch their families and friends die from starvation or the civil wars that run through their cities.
We are such a selfish nation, so selfish it is going to send us to economic blowup, even worse, national condemnation from God. It blows me away how the wicked control politics with their money, while the good get beaten down because they are poor. We live in a monopoly. Our soldiers die for a freedom that is dying itself. Our country is so selfish they have to ban God out of our schools, and public places just so they don't get offended. Whose more offended, them or us. If this is a free country, God's truth should be allowed in every corner of our schools and public places just as much as sex, drugs, and moral corruption are. Everywhere we look, we see billboards, magazines, newspapers, t-shirts, media, movies, vehicles, hospitals, and even churches advertising for something that is sex, drug, or immoral driven.
Are we so blind? We are. While I am picking out paint colors for making our little trailer a home for my family. I am being hardened to how good we have it in our little trailer. I am not saying that making a house into a home is bad. I am saying that we have so much to be thankful for. It is so easy to lose track of the bigger picture of life itself, and what it is meant for. Our primary purpose. What can we do to take advantage of the freedoms we do still have now? We have to fight for what is right. How do we fight? Well, it will look different for every person. For every person it will be at a different level of magnitude. For me, I have to help my husband raise little warriors into big warriors for our Lord. For someone else, it may be taking a bullet to the head for standing up for what is right in the sight of the Lord.
I have been in sin, for allowing emotion and things to get in the way of my primary purpose. My primary purpose is to give glory and honor to God and to serve Him forever and to take joy in Him.
This post has been very radically driven from different points and examples. But they all come together to fit a bigger puzzle. The bigger puzzle? Only God knows what that is right now.
What I have learned through all these puzzle pieces, that my heart needs to stay in heaven and that I am a selfish person who needs to become much more selfless.
Matthew 6:31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Everything that I need. The Lord has already provided. He has given me the tools that I need to survive this wretched world. All I have to do is to be selfless and to use them. I don't have to have a degree by the worlds standards to do what needs to be done. But, I do have to use the brain that the Lord has given me to accomplish His tasks. They are basic. I know what I am. I am a woman, created for man, a wife to Patrick, I complete him, (his helper,lover, encourager, and friend) I am mother to Kelsie, Lillian, and Colin, I am to love them and to train them up in the Lord, I am a daughter, sister and friend, I am to shine Christ likeness to others. What a huge role to fulfill. But the greatest news of all is ---- I can do all things through Jesus Christ who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.)
Side note: I do believe that the creation in our world is beautiful, the earth itself. So when I referred to the wretched or wicked, I refer to the sin that has poisoned our air.
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