Pictures 2010

This is the great Rocky Mountain, at Estes Park Colorado, Josh & Abby's first stop

I loved the colors in this picture with the green, blue and brown.. Can you tell Josh loves the cold....

They are at Snake River in Yellowstone

Josh thinks it's great be in 2 foot of snow in June ....

The Tetons are strong, bold and beautiful...

These are antlers that boy scouts pick up and they place them at the entrance to the park at Jackson Hole, WY

Yellowstone and all God's creation, in town and everywhere....

Cousin Michael and his wife Katie, they took Josh and Abby hiking to a large waterfall in Bozeman, MT, and then they went to see Ted Turners big ranch

I am still yearning to see the west again, and after seeing all of their pictures I want it more than ever.......

Joseph & Joshua, Men after Gods Heart

I once again have been thinking and wondering. Why did God say that David was a man after his own heart? Did he have to tell us that because of all of David's poor choices, so that we would believe that anyone can find redemption. I have never really thought of David as one of my favorite people of the Bible, I know alot like him, they can see themselves in his life. I thought that Joshua or Joseph, were men of character, they tried to make the right choices in their lives. I always thought that is why God didn't have to tell us in his word that they were men after God's heart because you could see it in their day to day walk. What is funny though, I get mad that people use David as this person to look up to, when I see a man of many failures and think why not look up to Joshua or Joseph, strive to make good choices so that you don't have to learn from failure. For sure these men did not have a gravy of a life, like King David, Joseph stayed in prison for something that he didn't even do, but he still made wise choices when the time came. Joshua was always looking at the positive side of life, when him and Caleb were scouting out their enemies Joshua knew that God would provide. But neither of them wrote songs to God like David did. Even though he is not one of my favorites in the Bible I do have a tendency to go to his songs and meditate on them and make them my own in hard times. I paraphrased this for me the other week:
Psalm 31 -
In you O God, I will be safe. Be my Rock
Be my strong wall surrounding me
Lead and Guide Me
Keep me out of traps that are before me
I will trust in you
I know you love me even when I am
sick, tired, worried, and anxious
You are protecting me from Satan
I'm tired O God, I am becoming weak and weary
Friends, Neighbors, Enemies, even family are sometimes against me
But you are my God
Let your face smile on me
Protect me from Shame, keep me from pride, show me your goodness
Place me in you shelter
When I have felt captive you have shown me your love
When I feel cut off from you, lonely needing mercy
I can be strong because I know you preserve the faithful
and I can have hope in you O Lord.
Thanks...David

Home safely

Josh and Abby arrived home safely last night from their big adventure. These are more of the mountains that we saw, their experience was different mainly because we went in July when the temperatures were in the 80's & 90's. They saw 2 feet of snow in many places Abby called last night and she thought that Yellowstone was alot of flat lands and as you can see there are big mountain ranges

Large drop offs

And beautiful rivers, I had to put this one in because Joey is smiling, mainly because I had made fun of him and heights, he was glad to be close to the ground on this picture. I can't wait to see all of Josh and Abby's pictures, so we can see the difference from the seasons and time of year. God has beautiful creations everywhere, we just need to take the time to look......

My Grandma Davis-Essie Pauline

As a child I loved to go to my grandma's house. My memories of her include, helping her pin-curl her hair on Saturday nights, fruit cocktail jello, eggs fried ever so perfectly (not a crisping edge anywhere), and the best green beans ever. Also she was a sweet lady with droopy jaws. The reason I write this is because as Leigh Anne (My sister) and I were exercising yesterday I told her that I had resign myself to probably being overweight the rest of my life, since I am not losing weight and will look like my grandma Davis droopy jaws and all. I had hoped that maybe I will turn out sweet like her also.

Stress

Are you stressed????? Everyone I talk to says they are under alot of stress......I thought some of these pictures I found looked like peaceful non stressful places. Sunrise in the valley, what could be less stressful Sitting beside a stream listening to the relaxing flow

Personally this picture just says no stress to me, I just love the colors and the calm lake
Do you know what the medical definition of stress is: Forces from the outside world impinging( to collide or interfere) on the individual. Webster definition is: difficulties that causes worry or emotion tension. I spoke with one of my Insurance ladies yesterday, she called to apologize for not getting back to me on some info that I had requested about a month ago. She realized last night that it was now June and it was too late for her to get me everything I needed. She was feeling very overwhelmed so instead of sending me an e-mail she called me from her family vacation. I fussed at her and gave her the same advise I gave Audrey last night. Sometimes you have to put things down and let it go, do what you can and then stop and relax, because you can't do anymore and things won't change until morning anyway so just relax. Sometimes easier told than done....HA!!!!!