Easy To Please

This past week my Grand daughter came to visit, she  is a well mannered little girl, "thanks to her God loving parents" and she's so easy to please.  When she was here we got some old plastic plates out of the kitchen, some pretend apples and grapes and an old basket I had sitting around.  I was putting the items in the basket and she suddenly took off, she came running back a sec later and said, "look Mimi I have a blanket and we can have a picnic".   It was so sweet and we had a wonderful time having our pretend picnic, it lasted for an hour and she was very content with the old things we had gathered for play.

It reminds me of the up and coming holidays.  We should be so easy to please.  Its the small things in life we should enjoy and not take for granted, like the love, laughter and joy in my Granddaughters heart.  You can look into those big brown eyes and know that there is indeed a God.  He,our Lord gives to us in many ways and I thank him most of all for children and family.  They are priceless!

The holidays are about joy, love and laughter, and most of all thanking God for the best times of our lives, and just being together with those you love!

Stay or Move - A place called home

This is a question I had to ask myself after Hurricane IKE!!! Our house is well built and I had not realized what I had till there was a threat of losing it. The last few months I have wanted to move into a new house we are thinking to have built. After the storm Ive really had to ask myself do I stay or move. I am so blessed for what I have at present, its very hard to think of moving away from a house that I love. I have also come to accept its flaws and boo boos. At this time a new house seems so unimportant after seeing so many lose most or all they had. I believe God showed me this for a reason, before I complained about this and that. It seemed as if nothing was right about our home. Now I look at a house thats our home its a bit weathered, lots of character, and its paid for. Thats a blessing in itself, and flaws can be fixed. I just thank God in heaven for the peace love and appreciation that now feels the place in my heart that so selfishly wanted more. I have very much to be thankful for and you can bet I am! I'm not saying we wont move but in the meantime I am (alongside my husband) satisfied and grateful. I know one thing that is important to a place called home and that is the Lords presence, the word of God, and the love that lives in the hearts of those in the house, add a little laughter, some prayer and praise, now, thats a mansion in my world!!!

Thank you Lord Jesus for all the blessings you have given us. May you bless others as you have us. Lord help the survivors of the storm recover and may all have a place to call home. Amen

The Angel

This is about an incredible time in me life. I was 18 yrs old , and pregnant. I was very grateful to God for the baby that was growing inside me, he was a miracle. The doctors had already told me I could not have a child and if I ever got pregnant I would not carry him full term. Now, five months pregnant I was a very happy person to say the least. Jesus had answered my hearts desire to be a mother. Things were smooth sailing the 1st few months, my faith was soaring, little did I know just how far that my faith would have to take me.

One evening I was taking my evening bath and I noticed the water was turning very red. As I stood up and realized it was blood. I said No! No this is not happening. My husband started calling Doctor, Hospital, & parents, I quickly thought "JESUS"! For some reason at first I did not really pray much, I just began to sing to the Lord, I was unusually calm for some one severely hemorrhaging. As my family franticly got me to the hospital and the doctors arrived and started the usual IVs and blood transfusions. A bit later I heard the doctors telling my husband and parents I would probably lose the baby.

I held my Bible close to my heart and quietly prayed to my Jesus and this is what I said; I love you dear Jesus. Thank you for giving me this child. Thank you that in your word it says if you have the faith of a tiny mustard seed, I do have faith and I know you will not let my baby die. Thank you, I love you.

I was now put on bed rest. These episodes occurred quite frequently each time my God and bible went with me, [to the hospital] and faithfully I prayed my little prayer as the doctor gave my parents his usual grim view of me and my baby boys fate.

Now having made it into my 7th month I continued to grow weaker. The doctors now informed my family that my child now had a chance of surviving but me, not so good. Now my baby had better odds at survival than me. I heard them in the hall and suddenly just screamed NO!!! I told them all to stop saying that. I raised my bible off my chest and said GOD says I will live and I did not try for all these yrs to have this baby for one of us to just up and die. I serve a big God and there are lots of people praying for me. I know he wont let me down. I think I scared them when I did this because it was kinda like Lazareth rising from the dead. After that they stopped telling my family we were at deaths door.

I recovered some what from this episode and in very poor condition. That night as I lay in my bed asking for God to keep me and my baby safe as he always did an angel appeared...
It was a brilliant site. I was so amazed at the white haze that surrounded him he was no small angel he must have been 8 feet tall and he spoke to me in a soft voice . He said everything will be OK , God is taking care of you. The peace that had been within my heart became even greater. How sweet that God would send me an angel right before I was to give birth to the greatest gift in a womans life - her child.

My son was born 1 or 2 months early and we lived. Just like God promised. We made it. After my son God blessed me with 2 girls. Now I have 3 lovely children and 5 healthy grandchildren. I am so, so, blessed. See what our Father in heaven can do. He is amazing, Hes awesome, any thing is possible with God! Have a little faith, yes even the size of a mustard seed we can move mountains. To this day I will never forget the angel Jesus sent especially for me.

On a personal note;
Thank you Jesus for all my children, I have to say again - I am truly blessed and I have the best family on earth. And a special thanks to Wayne and Carolyn who sat at my bedside and prayed and for staying at my sons side till he was safely transfered to Texas Children's Hospital. My son carries the name Gary Wayne because of all the prayers and a very,very special family member, his sweet Uncle Wayne. May God Bless you both for all you have given. Thank you