CUPCAKES FOR LIFE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9TH!

I am a firm believer for LIFE!! Life begins at conception and there is no ifs, ands, or buts about it! OUR FATHER CREATED US IN HIS IMAGE!! It says in the BIBLE:

Psalm 139
For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.
1 O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.

2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.

3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.

4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.

5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?

8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, [a] you are there.

9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,

10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.

11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"

12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

17 How precious to [b] me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!

18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.

19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

20 They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.

21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,
and abhor those who rise up against you?

22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.

24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

As Christians, we need to help stand our ground on WHAT WE BELIEVE!! Please join me in CUPCAKES FOR LIFE!!!


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PRAYERS NEEDED FOR STELLAN AND ABBY!

PLEASE LIFT THESE FAMILIES UP IN PRAYER! Both of their little ones are not doing well! We need to get everyone praying for them!!! THANKS!!


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I AM FEELING JIPPED!

I know that I don't really blog unless something is really on my heart. I am feeling jipped! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE MY GIRLS! I am so blessed to have such wonderful girls who show me that a child's love is unconditional just like our love should be. I feel jipped that I didn't get to have a boy! I know, I shouldn't be feeling this way but I don't know why I am! A lot has been going on in my life that I am feeling very overwhelmed and I guess my emotions are getting the best of me. I know there are people who aren't able to have children, so I should feel great, huh? I know there are people who were only able to have 1 child, I should feel great, huh? Seriously, don't get me wrong I LOVE MY GIRLS!! I LOVE THEM BEYOND ALL MEASURE! I wouldn't trade them in for a million dollars but I feel jipped. Those of you who have had a boy and a girl, won't understand where I am coming from. Those of you who have had only children of the same sex, I don't know if you have felt the way I am feeling right now. I feel like I shouldn't be feeling this way but I am. THAT IS THE TRUTH! WHY do I feel this way? Why do I feel like God overlooked me? Why do I feel that IT ISN'T FAIR? Why do I feel like Mike's namesake is finished here? There is no boy to carry on the name for HIS family! Why oh why? It is getting harder and harder for me to rejoice with those who tell me, "Oh I am having a girl and they already have a boy"? I just want to say SO! I don't want to hear about it! I don't want to be happy for them! I know that isn't the best attitude to have but it is how I am feeling! I just want to tell them, IT ISN'T FAIR! It isn't fair that God chose you to have one of each when you need help taking care of your kids! It isn't fair that God gives you the desires of your heard and He doesn't give me the desires of MY HEART! It isn't fair that I try to do my best and follow HIM and He doesn't HEAR ME! I am just being completely open and honest right now! I know I am not the best mom or housewife or even the best Child of God. I know that I feel like God doesn't hear me! Why do I feel like there are so many more important things in life than what I AM FEELING? Some days, I just want to say forget it all and RUN AWAY as fast as I can and never look back! I wish I could explain my feelings. Only God knows the answers and He may feel that I don't need to know. He wants me to just hold on to HIS promises and not worry about tomorrow or yesterday. He wants me to just focus on the PRESENT! It is so hard sometimes to walk this life! It is so hard sometimes to take persecution from people who you thought LOVED YOU! It is a rough road to walk for the LORD! I know He didn't have an easy, happy go lucky life! HE was ridiculed! He was persecuted! He was abandoned! He walked on this earth to save us! I know all of this but I FEEL LIKE HE OVERLOOKS ME!! Why can't I just feel like things are going my way? I know that I have jumped around with my thoughts but this is a blog, a journal, a diary! I can jump around all I want to! Thanks for letting me speak my mind and not judging how I am feeling! I PRAISE GOD for giving me TWO WONDERFUL GIRLS WHO LOVE ME UNCONDITIONALLY, even when I am having a bad day! I praise GOD for a wonderful husband who will buy me a little present for NO REASON AT ALL, not that I DON'T love him if he doesn't get me things! I praise GOD for getting me through these days that I FEEL JIPPED and unheard! I praise GOD when things are rough and when things are smooth! I PRAISE HIM!!!

Here is a song to listen to just because HE IS HOLY!!

PRAY FOR STELLAN ON TUESDAY!!

So Stellan is having his surgery tomorrow that has never been performed on a baby this young! PLEASE KEEP HIM IN YOUR PRAYERS!! Also, some people have decided to wear orange in supporting them through prayer tomorrow. If you feel that you want to, wear ORANGE TOMORROW!!! This baby needs as many prayers as he can get! GOD IS IN CONTROL!! Read the blog to get more details!! THANKS FOR YOUR TIME!!

LORD YOU ARE HOLY!!

This video touches hearts!! Watch how these kids GLORIFY OUR MIGHTY KING OF KINGS!! Our Jesus came to this earth knowing that He was going to be sacrificed to SAVE US!! He didn't deserve one bit of what He went through but HE DID IT FOR US so that we may have ETERNAL LIFE with HIM!! THANK YOU JESUS FOR YOUR SACRIFICE! You were without blame but took the beating for US!! That is the true meaning of sacrifice! Can you say that you could really truly sacrifice like that?? I am so glad that we have a LORD and SAVIOUR that was willing to lay down HIS PERFECT life for us!! WOW! This time of year makes you think about this!! Do you know Him? It isn't hard to KNOW HIM! All you have to do is ask HIM to forgive you of your sins and live in you!! It is that easy! JESUS IS LORD OF ALL! He is HOLY!!!!!!!

Praying for Stellan, Jonah and Collyn!!

Collyn is having his eye surgery as I type this. Please keep him in your prayers for quick recovery and for him to see the world the way God intended for us to see it!! PRAYING FOR YOU COLLYN!!! Below are two blogs of babies who need prayers!!

These two precious ones need lots of prayers!! Click on these buttons and it will take you to the blog so you can read their stories!! PLEASE PRAY FOR THEM!!!

LOVE

So Beth did this thing at the end of her blog to see what word represents you best! She got LOVE! Well, I decided to do it also and guess what my word is LOVE! Love according to googling is as follows:


Definitions of love on the Web:

* a strong positive emotion of regard and affection;
* any object of warm affection or devotion;
* have a great affection or liking for;
* beloved: a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
* get pleasure from; "I love cooking"
* a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction; "their love left them indifferent to their surroundings"; "she was his first love"
* be enamored or in love with; "She loves her husband deeply"

LOVE is such a SMALL word but has such a BIG meaning!! I don't see how anyone can go through life without love. Love does not just pertain to people. You can have a love for many things. I know Beth has a love for photography, Kimmy has a love for reading, Stefanie has a love for taking care of children, Michael Kidd has a love for singing and song writing, Tammy has a love for teens, Teri has a love for cooking and baking, and I have a love for teaching. These are just an example of what you can have a love for. I know that everyone I listed above has more things they love than what I stated above. I was just trying to show you that love doesn't have limits. I know that there is ONE LOVE that we all have in common, JESUS!! Jesus is the true meaning of love. HE is the only ONE who will ever be able to demonstrate true love. He came to the world to SAVE US from eternal death. He laid down HIS life so that we could know what it is to LOVE!! How many times have we ever thought about what it is to truly love someone or something? LOVE COMES FROM ABOVE! If we all live to be as close to being like CHRIST, we all have love. I sometimes ponder on, could I ever give my life up so someone else could live. That is a hard thing to grasp. Could I really do that? I say I could but since having a family and small children, I don't think that I could do that because I want to be here for my children and my husband. If GOD would ask me to give up my life so someone else could live, I would probably come up with every excuse imaginable. I mean, I would love to be sitting at the foot of JESUS, listening to His every word but what about my children. I know that HE would be sure to take care of them and to help Mike to do his best raising them and if GOD asked me to give up my life for someone else, I would probably after a long list of excuses do just that. No matter if I know the person or not. GOD knows what He is doing and HE wouldn't ask us to do something if HE didn't see we were fit to do it. No I wouldn't want to give my life up but it isn't about what we want, it is about what GOD wants!! I don't know if any of you have ever thought about this or not. LOVE! I do LOVE enough to lay down my life. Besides the example of CHRIST, here is a scripture that shows LOVE!

Genesis 22 (New International Version)

Genesis 22
Abraham Tested
1 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!"
"Here I am," he replied.

2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."

3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 He said to his servants, "Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you."

6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?"
"Yes, my son?" Abraham replied.
"The fire and wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"

8 Abraham answered, "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went on together.

9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!"
"Here I am," he replied.

12 "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."

13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram [a] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."

15 The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, "I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring [b] all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me."

19 Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.


Now there is a great example of LOVE! Abraham was willing to sacrifice his only son Isaac to show GOD that he truly loved him. Abraham loved his son Isaac and I am sure did not want to do this but he loved GOD even more. I am not really sure if all of this really ties together. These are just my thoughts when I got the results of LOVE being the word that describes me. I do believe that if GOD asked me to give up myself or anyone that I LOVE, I would do it after a long battle. After all, GOD gave us HIS ONLY SON so that we may live. Why couldn't I give up myself or someone else so that there may be others who could live to know HIM!

Hope this all makes sense. I am from this day forward going to do my BEST to show and be the example of LOVE that GOD has shown us! GOD IS LOVE!!!

Have a great day and be BLESSED!!

Your Word is "Love"

You see life as possibility to form deep connections with a few people. Relationships are the center of your world, and you always take time to bond with those you love. You are caring and giving. You enjoy helping those you love. And when it comes to romantic love, you feel passionately ... even in a very long term relationship.

What's Your Word?