Tulip Girl

What a new mom and a super model have in common is frequent wardrobe changes accept I suspect a super model gets better clothes but for me, as a mom, its more fulfilling. I once wanted so badly to be a model. That was about as likely as me becoming a worship leader, oh, wait I do that...can't sing, but still do it from time to time. Life is funny that way. My migraine from last Sunday landed me in bed and unable to lead the worship music. Bummer. I also missed a duet by a friend and her sister. Total bummer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The prayer cottage went awesome last night. As we get closer to a Revival discussing spiritual warfare, there is definitely spiritual warfare. Our youth pastor has H1N1. Please pray as he has a baby daughter. Our pastor is feeling particularly vulnerable. I know of a few other people participating that also are dealing with some junk. I have a few choice words for Satan but I will refrain from writing them on this public forum.... though I ...

Tonight our house will be a prayer cottage. I am so excited! I've been saying that a lot lately. I am. I am preparing homemade white bread, pumpkin bread with chocolate chips, tea, coffee and candy corns for tonight. I've already got my pumpkin candles out and ready to light. All the windows are open and fans going to make sure the house smells good (you laugh at me, but I'm paranoid about smells from a stinky house to bad breath, its a complex). Dan and I have been praying everyday for the last few days for each of those men who will be speaking at our Revival next week, Matthew, Matt, Joe, Todd and Dan. Considering that we are focusing on spiritual warfare, well, I'm sure there will be spiritual warfare over this. I don't always know what to pray though so when ever I can I write down scripture prayers. This prayer I want to share with you is one I have posted about before. This is a prayer that I've prayed for our speakers and their families. No d...

As I have traveled about the blogosphere finding exciting new blogs and making new blog friends, one friend in particular I am thankful to have is Minister Warren Baldwin at his blog Family Fountain . His blog posts about family and Bible studies have been a real joy for me. I am thankful to have this Minister Baldwin guest blogging here today. I pray his words will be as much a blessing to you as they have been to me. LEAVING, CLEAVING, WEAVING "The man said, ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, for she was taken out of man.’ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh." Genesis 2:23-24 No human relationship is as exclusive as that of marriage. We share parents with other siblings; we share friends with other friends; we even share our children with another parent, but we share our spouses with no one else. We share an intimate connection with our spouse that ...

October 6, Dan will be a guest preacher for our annual church revival. I love that here in the south churches have revivals. He will be talking about a couple different pieces of the armor of God. I'm so excited for him. He is so great. This next Tuesday in preparation for the revival, our home will be a prayer cottage to pray for this event. I'm so so so excited about this. I've already started getting my home ready to welcome all my wonderful brothers and sisters in Christ. I'm so excited to bring them in and go to God with them. I've already bought some different teas (already have coffee) and will be making chocolate chip pumpkin bread (maybe a loaf with some nuts). The pumpkin candles are out as are my cozy quilts, autumn wreaths and garlands, throw blankets and pillows...autumn is God's most precious season to me...until February... then it's spring. ;) God has been drawing Dan and I out and doing an overhaul on our perception of what this l...

Today is a big day! My baby girl is 7 months old today! What an amazing little blessing she is! I don't know how we got so blessed but we did. I am so amazed to have been watching her growing and developing. Her babbling is so cute. She loves her baby food. Sarah thinks her daddy is the funnest person on earth and she stares at me with such trusting eyes. I love those big beautiful cheeks and how her eyes scrunch up when she smiles. Too cute. What a big responsibility. My heart overflows. I know I am going to make so many mistakes. I am so glad God is bigger than me and my sin. I pray God's light shines clear through everything else and Sarah chooses Him over all else. We are looking forward to going to Arizona to see family. I don't doubt she will be crawling by then, almost 8 months old by then.

Thank you first of all to you who have prayed for my migraine. It has been a doozie but the pain has finally subsided. My brain is still fuzzy but better. Thank you Tiffany, Kristen and April. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So about texting while driving. When I taught preschool years ago, there came the clothing trend of low rise jeans a thong under wear, also known as g-strings. I was watching my students one sunny afternoon (it's Arizona, what afternoon isn't sunny?) and as I passed the window of another class room there sat a college student washing out paint trays at the child level sink in a child size chair. Thats normal of course, everything in the room is child level. My eyes bugged out of my head because the woman sitting there had, you guessed it, low rise jeans and a g-string on. I immediately poked my head in and brought her attention to what I thought would be a major embarrassing situation. She simply giggled, made a lame attempt to pull her pants up, sat back down, ...

Hope all is well with ya'll. I've got a migraine no amount of Excedrin can even dent. Pray for me. Thanks.