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Yesterday after another visit to the Urgent Care for Asher, we went to the store to get his prescriptions filled. While there the boys asked for balloons and received one each. Normally Caleb and Ben would release theirs upon walking out of the store, “sending it to Heaven for Joshua” Caleb would tell me. That’s what he did again yesterday, except this time his balloon had a hole in it. It didn’t go very far maybe three or four cars down.
How can you be a beacon of light showing God’s love, compassion, mercy and forgiveness towards those that you know are in need. (excerpt from Sojourner in the AZ)
Wow did my plans sure get changed. I thought having two babies running around was gonna be easy. It hasn’t been easy in any way. But it sure has been fun and a blessing to this family. 
My normal rowdy rough housing boys have had to take it down quite a few notches with having a delicate little girl here. Our normal blue filled home is seeing splashes of pink. Little baby blue jeans are sitting next to soft pink dresses for the next day get ready. Boyish socks are being washed with little tights. Such a difference but it feels so normal for us, as if this is how it is supposed to be.
This sweet little girl in a home of boys has been a blessing. She has brought forth tenderness in us that we had pushed aside for roughness. Its gonna be rough on all of us when she goes back. But it will be a moment that will be in our hearts forever. I believe God has been using this time to soften our hearts, to always be soft to everyone no matter the gender, or age.
I ask how soft are you towards others?
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I am gonna be blogging daily here for a few days so keep checking back in. These next few blog post will be titled “What God is showing….” It’ll be about the lessons we are learning through the next week or so. My Husband and I have agreed to take temporary custody of a little girl not much older then our youngest boy. Yes a little girl in a house full of boys all I can say is very interesting. This little girl just melts our hearts. 
So yesterday was my first day with her. It was stressful but so rewarding to see her open up to be loved by the end of the night. Now for myself yesterday God opened up a desire to reach out to the ones who don’t have a voice, to love and the little one that need it so much. To treat little princesses and princes like the deserve to be treated. So What did God show me?? He showed me that even though they are small the are still as important to Him as we are.
Have you shown a litte princess or prince Gods unconditional love lately? I mean one that isnt your own??
I was off doing some running one day and left our older two at home with Daddy. Our middle boy was sick and just laying on the floor when I came home. Our oldest decided he wanted to wear his dress shirt even though he was told not to. And was sitting in the chair watching TV. He was informed by me to remove the shirt and went to Daddy to help undo the cuffs because he couldn’t himself.
Reminds me of our sin lives and God. We wrap ourselves up in what we are told not to do. Get into it and get comfy. We are then shown how wrong it is but cant get out of it ourselves, so we run to our Daddy, out Heavenly Father begging for help. Crying ‘Daddy!, Please Please remove this I cant do it on my own!!’ And he does. He uncuffed us so we can find freedom from sin. But it takes the removal of the shirt to find total freedom. Not just the knowledge of how to remove it but the complete removal.
Are you just uncuffed or completely stripped before God?
Have you ever meet someone you admire, someone you hold in high esteem? Maybe a movie/tv star, a musician? I have once, in my teen years. Angela Lansbury, the main actress in ‘Murder She Wrote.” I knew who she was, it was a nice ohhh ahhhh experience. But nothing compared to what I experienced a few weeks ago.
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or weeks? or months even? I have!!! I so felt like screaming so many times!! 
But I kept looking on and moving forward. My end result… feeling drained, physically tired, spiritually weak, wondering why life was sucking so badly. I was so bad that I didn’t even want to celebrate Christmas, I just wanted to hide away in hopes that when I came out from hiding everything would be better. I knew it wouldn’t work that way so I didn’t even try it, I just looked on and moved forward yet again. Now here it is 2009, a few days from my 30th birthday and I am doing better, still wanna hide from it all but instead of just looking on, I am looking UP, instead of just moving forward, I am moving towards God. I am finding my spirits are up and my moods are better. Life still sucks, but with living for God I know there will be a brightness at the end of all the gloom. Jesus returns, we win what better news to hold on to for this new year and every year from here on out. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! I do send a challenge to you, lets reach out to those we never have before, lets bring more people to the Lord this year then last. Lets make 2009 a year that would make God smile. I’m up for it are you??
Share your stories…..
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What is a true friend? How would you describe one? I decided to ask around and here are the top ten reasons someone is considered a true friend.
A true friend to me is…
1. One who will lay his life down for a friend.
2. One who is more a giver then a taker.
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of all I asked those are the only 2 responses I recieved. Is it really that simple? Is this all there is to a true friend? What is a true friend? I ask again.
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“It’s not a puzzle, we can’t put it back together.”
Those were the word I said to Ben as we were looking at the damage done to our car. Some guy backed into the front passenger side of the car, and then he ran, well drove, off. Leaving us with a mess to handle.
Ben wanted to put the car back together but thats not possible for us to do, its gonna take someone skilled to fix it.
Now I bet you are wondering where I am going with this. I don’t really know. So I will let God blog this one through me.
I am sitting here wondering why. Why did our car have to get hit? Why did I have to park there? Why, Why, Why? What comes to mind is I was to comfortable in what I had. I wasnt being challenged enough to be uncomfortable. So now we are faced with the uncomfortable challenge of getting it fixed, waiting on the insurance, waiting on a hit and run detective, waiting for….
What does God have in an uncomfortable wait for??
