Flying Purple People Eater

We have been singing this song a lot in our house.

I hope you enjoy it...now get up and dance!!!

Happy Anniversary To Me!!!

Who Hoo!!!

Happy Anniversary to me.

I have been blogging for a year.

So much has happened in a year...

Precious friends have graduated and gotten married

Wonderful friendships with my girls have continued to flourish

God brought the boys daddy to College Station and brought him to salvation.

My baby started kindergarten

My bigger baby started third grade

It went by so fast...how does that happen?

So many times I will find myself saying "I will do that tomorrow" or "I will get to it soon" and then before I know it the time has gone.

That is because a lot of time I am trying to do it in my own power.

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." James 4:14-15

Something I have learned is that there is time enough in each day to do what God wants you to do. I believe that is why He wants our first fruits.

Honor the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine. Proverbs 3:9-10

God doesn't just mean your money or food, all of those belong to Him anyway...He wants your time and devotion.

He wants you to put Him first and then everything else will fall into place.

Every day I will praise you and extol your name for ever and ever. Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom. Psalm 145:2-3

I look forward to a year from now, God willing, looking back at all that God has done and the wonderful people He has chosen to put in my life to run this race with.

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God's grace. Acts 20:24

I Took A Ride With A Lizard Today

I left work today and got in my car.

I started driving and I am singing away and I look down and on the hood of my car I see a lizzard, much like the lizzard that is pictured above.

She is staring at me...I felt like a Geico advertisement!

I am freaking out, there is a lizzard on the hood of my car, I am driving 40 mph and it is hanging on for dear life.

Lizzards are super natural creatures, if I was on the hood of a car going 40 mph, I would be in a ditch in no time.

This sucker held on tight, I would swerve a little...go a little faster it didn't budge...when I had to stop, it would get a little closer to my windshield...I did not like that.

I stopped at Wal Mart, certain that if I opened the door it would jump on my face. Fortunately it did not and I moved fast.

I came out of Wal Mart...Lizzy's still there.

I pick up the boys and they get in the car, I start for home and think "I am taking this lizzard home with me, am I crazy?"

We pull into the driveway, I tell the boys to have fun, just don't bring it in the house. They chased Lizzy all over the hood of the car squealing and laughing.

Finally Lizzy retreats to the inside of the hood...I don't blame her, Michael and Alex can be scary.

I wonder where she will be in the morning?

So Very Blessed

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ. Romans 10:17

I look at the faces of these two beautiful boys and praise Jesus for how truly blessed we are. This past weekend has been the most heartbreaking, convicting and joyful time of my life.

I am still trying to process everything that I heard and saw as K.P. Yohannan shared his heart for missions. When in fact he was really sharing His heart for missions and the Gospel. You can see the video on Heathers blog...really go watch it.

If you want more, his book Revolution in World Missions is absolutely wonderful.

I wept as I listened to him speak of the millions of people who live in the slums of Bombay and literally eat one cup of rice a day and live and sleep amongst the sewage.

But what got me the most was when K.P. shared about the missionaries who came to live in that village. He told of how they started a church in the middle of the village and how people were getting saved and crammed into a room praising Jesus.

They are praising Jesus for who He is and that they will spend eternity with Him. They were not praising Him for what He would do for them or what they will get out of it.

The Gospel is not about us...it is about Jesus.

They know that their circumstances here on earth will not really change. They will continue to live where they do, eat one cup of rice a day and live in filth. Only now they will do it with Jesus...with joy...with hope.

He tells about these churches who only have two Bibles for hundreds of people. They tear the pages out, copy them and share with each other...I have five Bibles in my house alone.

We live in such abundance...in our homes...our food...our clothes...our attitudes.

These past two days have been such a wonderful time to share with the boys how blessed they are and about the children they saw during childrens chat who have nothing.

It really hit Michael at dinner tonight. He is eight now and eats adult size portions and then five minutes later is hungry.

When he had his food on his plate, I told him what he had there would probably feed one of those children for about a month. I could see the visual that he got from that by the look on his face.

We need to live with that visual in our minds all of the time. We need to live in the reality that millions of people die and go to hell every day because they have never heard of Jesus.

We need to be living desperate lives for Jesus...we need to stop living with the attitude of "they will know who He is by the way we live our lives" because if the Gospel isn't coming out of our mouths every day...they will not know.

But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,"that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. Romans 10:8-10