Blissful Chaos

Well, today is the first time in a long time I have felt the need to blog or taken the time.  But God spoke to me this morning about his compassion and I wanted to share it with anyone that might need to hear it.  I will keep to the point and leave out all the details of how it came about.  Just know I am a mom and sometimes have very little if no quiet time. I am just like the rest of you. Just felt like saying that because sometimes I think that when we share a God moment the person we are telling is saying wow, good for you!  Glad you have a connection...I am doing good to make it thru the day with a five minute devotion if that and they feel inferior...and I want you to know I am right there with you.  We are moms and that's how we roll! ;) So I read Psalms 116 and really read it this morning and thought why is this not underlined it is great stuff!!!!!  So as I am rereading it I start writing down parts that I want to know more about. 1)  God'...

Repost from 10/29/2008 Okay so you might be thinking that I am slow by the title of this blog but I am amazed at how in the past weeks and months I can see how God has been moving all around me and I have had such little faith. God has blessed me with a promotion. He has answered numerous prayers and he has shown us how devotion time together as a couple will change not only our relationship with each other but will stregthen our relationship with him, The King of all Kings. I am just sitting back during this holiday season in wonder at all the marvoulous things God is doing in our lives. He just keeps on giving and we are so blessed. Don't get me wrong our life is not easy or perfect and every prayer has not been answered immediately or in our time frame but what he has done has shown us that if we are faithful to him he will be more than faithful to us. He is working in our lives and we just need to sit back and trust him whatever the circumstances. You may be reading t...

Original Post 8/30/2008 It is just now 8:11 AM and my morning has already been chaotic! I woke up to Coleman crying ready to eat at 5:30....This is 30 minutes after I should have been up getting ready. I was just too tired I guess because I never heard the alarm clock. So out of bed I jump and run downstairs and get a bottle for Coleman and realize that Jackson is now crying too. Where is Trey in all this?!?!?! Still asleep! How is it that a mom hears every cry and a dad has selective hearing? At this point I run back upstairs and get Trey awake and tell him he has to feed Coleman and then I go to check on Jackson and he is hungry so back downstairs we go with sheep, his stuffed animal that is his best friend to cozy up to at night. We get downstairs and he wants a banana and some milk. I get all this together and then we start back upstairs and I see a bunny outside the house through one of the sidelights next to the door and I stop everything because I know Jackson would love to se...

Okay so I got the mobile app thinking that I might find time to post more stories and thoughts and some how I made two old post into drafts!  Since this blog is basically a family journal for me and I want to keep each post I am reposting them.  So when you see stories about babies don't think we have had a time warp!  It is just me reposting old post so I don't lose them!

I recently finished the Kay Arthur bible study on Covenant. It was a life changer! I don't say that lightly. It was the second bible study that I walked away from with a big life change. First, was "Breaking Free" by Beth Moore. It was the bible study that God used to draw me back to him and turn my hurt and anger into a passion to draw closer to God and to find my way here on earth through him. Now 9 years later I have completed the Covenant study and I am learning what freedom in Christ is and not worrying about the do's and don'ts. I get so wrapped up in what I think should be done and whether I have measured up to the standard of family and friends that I stay bogged down in what I perceive as failure. When all along I should have been praying on a daily basis to submit to what God wants me to do and how he wants me to walk through the day. I will be honest at first I thought this was going to be an easier way to live.....not so much! The first few da...

Wow! I got some perspective today. I was looking in my bible for some notes and I ran across the first page in the bible where the person giving you the bible signs it. Well, obviously I knew who signed it and at one point I had looked up the verse they had written down. However, many years and two children later I had forgotten. So today I see it look it up and I am blown away. Not only by the words of the verse but the depth to which they reach in my heart! The verse was Psalm 37:4 "Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart." Fifteen words that gave me hope then and bring tears of joy and so much more than I can say almost 8 years later. What a savior we have! He can take someone like me who was so angry and rebellious toward him and show me his mercy, grace and compassion. He can take me with all my scars and a broken heart and bless me with a man that loves me for who I really am...the true me that few know. That he can make m...