Pondering

This is the look she has on Sunday's at church when she first gets there.  She is much more serious looking than when she arrives at our house during the week.  I think all the crowds just overwhelm her at first. But I love this picture, its in Audrey's newly remodeled bathroom. Somebody is our family has been sick for the last month.  I am finally shaking this respiratory thing after a month of hacking. Poor Harper has it now, has well as her mom getting it.  Her poor dad on the other hand has had a mess the last 2 weeks.  Josh and I don't get sick often but when we do it takes us weeks to get back to normal. After being on antibiotics for the last week for this sinus infection and bronchitis he now has had a allergic reaction to the medicine, and is cover from head to toe in hives.  His lips and ears are swollen, he looks like a burn patient from his neck to the the top of his head, and the rest of his body looks like chicken pox. Attacks come from different areas in our lives, we never know when or where or what they will be but we know who is in charge.  So to this we say be gone, leave and quit distracting us. We all have work to do, and need a rested body and mind to get it done. 

In Christ Alone - Philips, Craig & Dean

He is Risen!!!!!

All is quiet

Today all is quiet but tomorrow comes......

Good Friday

I was watching TV this morning while I was getting ready and it occurred to me how they where talking about Easter and never mentioned Good Friday, or Jesus.  I heard a lady say that when they were young they always went to church on Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas and came home with the family to have a holiday feast.  Never once did anyone mentioned the reason that we as Christians celebrate this holiday. Good Friday is the crucifixion of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Easter is the day of his resurrection from the grave to be the ONLY GOD who is alive. As a mother, and now grandmother, I stop to think how Mary felt,  her heart, body, mind and soul must have ached. She knew Jesus was a kind and loving man who truly loved everyone he came in contact. You know your children you know their weakness and strengths.  She knew her son and knew what they were doing to him was so wrong and her hands were tied. The pain and agony she felt had to make her physically ill. Good Friday was a day of great grief for all that knew this man Jesus.  Then Sunday came around and the only one true living God rolled back the stone and walked again here on earth among the people for a short time. Letting them know his body wasn't stolen or hidden at a different spot but alive and heading to the heavens to return as a great ruling KING. He also let them know that they had a job to do, and that he would return soon to gather all who believed and believes he is Lord, the I Am, the only true and living God and take us to be with him forever and ever.

Since I can't sleep

Monday, I went back to the doctor and this time I received a $200 inhaler as a treatment for my cough that I can't seem to get rid of.  Josh called Sunday night and said while you make your appointment get me one to.He has a sinus infection and bronchitis. Tuesday night slept great but tonight it is now 12:30 and here I sit at the computer.  I have alot going through my mind right now and my sinuses are all messed up, so I got up to do some searching on the computer. You see, Josh and Abby went to see the pediatrician tonight, he is a good friend of Abby's parents and wanted to do some checking into this place on Harper's temple.  After searching and reading for hours he told them that they need to have the surgery and not to wait.  They need to make sure exactly what this "cyst" is.  They are telling them it could one of two things but until the get in there and get it out they don't know.  One is not so bad, the other could be a little problem.  I have looked up both  and tried to do my usual google doctoring not liking all that I read, so I have decided to stop and trust the Lord and know in my heart that God has great things planned for Harper now and in the long future. Satan likes when we worry, he likes when we don't trust the creator of Harper to know what is going on in her body. My human mind goes places it should not and I start dwelling on the negative and not the positive.  Joey and I know that we need to be as positive as we can for Josh and Abby, we know that they are scared and unsure and this is a real test for them. It is for all of us but the Bible tells us God knows every little bitty hair (even the ones that stick straight up ) on her head, he knows now today what is going on in her body and wants what is best for her and we have to make ourselves trust that and not what we think....