Urgent prayer request!

My family needs prayer. My great niece, Sophia is 22 months old. She was injured today. She has 2nd and 3rd degree burns on her lower legs and feet. She was life flighted to the only burn center in WV. She is in critical condition and no one has been allowed to see her from the family. Her sisters have been removed from their parents and her mother is being questioned and given a lie detector test. My sister, her grandmother, is working hard to gain entrance to see her. My other sister is filing for custody of the two sisters. She is the only one in WV cleared by a criminal back ground check right now. It will take time for the others in the family to have the necessary back ground check run. The hospital is attempting to life flight her to a Boston Shriners hospital. However, no information is being given to the family because of the suspected abuse. The state does not have to have permission to move her, nor do they have to tell us she has been moved for up to 14 hours following her move.

I can think of several prayer needs. Strength, peace, angles to surround Sophia as she can not be surrounded by her family. Pray for TRUTH to be known and for Sophia to be in the palm of God's hand. Pray for God's perfect will. Pray for healing. Statistics are not on our side. Statistics are bleak for Sophia's survival.

My heart is broken. My sister is fragile. We are barely 4 months from my fathers death. The thought of the possibility of the death of precious Sophia is unbearable.

I know God is faithful. I know God knows best. I know God has good plans for my family. I KNOW HE IS THE GREAT I AM!!!

Thank you in advance for your prayers!

Have we forgotten?

September 11, 2001 was a day I hope our nation doesn't forget. I think some of us have forgotten. I liked this picture. Freedom is definitely not free! It was bought with blood. Kind of like the blood our savior paid for our freedom from eternity in Hell!

Offers everywhere!

We got an offer on our house! I am so excited! I have not been stressed about having two houses. I just told God the bills were his anyway, so he could provide the money to pay for two houses or he could sell one. We are in the early process of the sell.

I know the title of this post is Offers everywhere so let me explain. I know you are reading this and wondering if we have more than one offer. We do. But not on the house. One offer on the house and one offer for some change at work. I will post more later about that. I am praying for God to close the door if it is not what I am supposed to do. I am excited, but reserved.

I am still basking in the warm SON! God has been blessing me. I have joy in my heart. I actually used the term "loving life" the other day and Joel said he hasn't heard me say that for so long.

Don't get me wrong I still have my moments of Grief. I miss my dad. I haven't written about him in awhile. Mostly because I am choosing to write about the good things in life.

Tonight during worship I was reminded of something. Let me share it with you. We were singing a song about the Lord wrapping his arms around us and telling us he loves us. Well, it reminded me of a time when Elisabeth was small. I was standing in church and she looked up at me and said "HOLD YOU". God spoke to my heart that day. I love my children. But God loves us so much more than we can possibly love our own children. When Elisabeth said, " HOLD YOU". It made me feel so loved and content. So needed. Well, God wants us to ask him to "HOLD YOU". He wants to feel loved and needed. God reminded me of that tonight. I do need him! I do want him. I need him to "HOLD ME". To erase my grief. To be my redeemer.

I recently posted about my small group and I referred to them as "Daughters of the King". I call them that because until we grasp that we are daughters of the most high God we don't live in VICTORY! I want those girls to know WHO they belong to and live victoriously. I think of a princess. She lives a certain way. Wears certain clothes. Eats wonderful food. WELL, we need to think of ourselves the same way. We need to live a certain way. HOLY! NOT perfect, but forgiven. We need to wear certain clothes. I think of a couple things. In our flesh we need to dress modestly. In our spirit we need to put on the full armor of God. And we need to eat wonderful food from the Lords table! We need to feast on his word. I am so humbled to be working with the "daughters of the King". I want them to understand in their spirits what that term means! I want them to live PURE and HOLY lives for our father the KING!

Exercise

We went for a 3-4 mile walk today. We saw all shapes and sizes as we walked. I saw some legs I would trade my legs for. Of course, as Malakhi put it, they would never look right with the rest of my body all jiggly! Aren't kids honest? LOVE THEM! I know I will never look like Barbie.


She is a FREAK of NATURE anyway! Who wants to look like that? ME! But I have long given up on that idea. My goal is to not look like this......





I'm okay for now and I will keep working to be healthy. My elliptical is broken so now I have to find other ways to get my exercise! :o)

AHHHH it's raining!

All we are getting from Hanna is some rain and wind earlier. We really need the rain. We have been so dry for the last few years. I like rain. Especially when I can just RELAX!

Hanna is on the way!

We have a hurricane on the way. I am not worried. It might be nice to have a day off work! LOL!

I am basking in the warm spring sun!

The first picture is the small group I help lead! I love this group of girls. They are so much fun.

The second picture is the leaders. If you can't tell I am oldest. PA paid me the highest compliment! He said in front of all the small group leaders that he couldn't ask for a better "middle school girls leader" than me (it has to be my age-LOL). That I truly knew how to work with that age and that I would be working with one of our brand new leaders to train her. Wow, do I really have that gift? and can I really train anyone? I don't see the things the Lord or others sees. Kind of like the old couple at the counter not recognizing themselves in the mirror (previous post). When I look in the mirror I see things that are not true. Our (my) eyes deceive us(me), ( I tell my dental hygiene students this all the time). But my heart (spirit) will not lead me astray. I don't share this last paragraph to puff myself up, but to express my inability to see it. I want to remain humble to minister and if I don't remain humble I will not be successful!

I have worked with Children and Youth ministry for 12-14 years in some role. After the last year (no need to rehash the rough winter) I was no longer excited to serve. Somehow that has all changed. Spring hit! I am basking in the warm sun. I am enjoying serving these beautiful "Daughters of the King" with honor and feel very privileged to learn from them. We have picked a great book written by Point of Grace. It is in the Girls of Grace series and it is called "Make It Real". The girls all looked at it last night and liked it. It covers topics like.... managing your mouth to include gossip, I think some modesty and picking a life coach.

Something new I learned this week...What is a Life Coach? They are different than a counselor. Life Coaches look to the future and help you to meet your goals. Counselors look to the past. I might want a Coach. They just sound so much more positive. I can not change my past.....I can only allow it to mold me for the future.

Anyway, I LOVE MY SMALL GROUP!