And the GREATEST of these is LOVE
Happy Valentines Day! Rememeber Gods love is the GREATEST LOVE of ALL! Thank you Lord!
US
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
Nothing like a girl chat! AND LAUGH! =)
A few of us..Hangin around after talkin!
The sisters chattin! here to the right! =)
My Nicholas WAY out in the dark field with the little ones, playing!
Well today has been one of those long days... Nick and I had our softball
game tonight... WE DID GREAT!!!! We didn't win...but it was close and now I think all of us are feeling very excited that maybe our team CAN WIN!!! It was a great night of ball! The other team was unkind especially to one of our team. It was cool though, she really gave it to God and kept on through it all. They were out of line... My first instinct was to go over to them and give them a piece of my mind and tell them that they had no right to talk to this person or about this person that way! Who did they think they WERE any way?!!! It was hard but good...My thoughts changed after I thought of it a bit... i thought what i would want if the roles were switched with my friend and I...well, I thought, the best I could do was be kind back and ...then I thought well, I just won't go over there and kick there butt like I want to right now...then I thought... well that won't matter I am not around them and they are not being this way to me... then I THOUGHT...wow...my friend is the person tonight! It is ALL her! She is the one who must SHINE for Christ and be persecuted tonight for His NAMES SAKE...Our Team is a Church team in a league that is not...HOW ARE WE SET APART?... I will tell you how...When people like my friend decide to humble themselves and in Gods Strength show people who are pretty much being jerks (to not beat around the bush) Grace! Tonight I didn't have the chance to turn the other cheek...but my friend did... I went from wanting to talk her up and put them down right back to make her feel better, to encouraging her and I would want her to encourage me, and I know she would, to I guess turn the other cheek...She did, I was sooo proud of her. I was so grateful that God would let me be a part of watching things and learning something for my own heart tonight that was not even directly me. It was not easy to think this way, to think like we are called to, especially when it WAS NOT ME and was someone I love...But God is faithful...Thank you Lord for tonight and for a friend who gave you glory tonight and I pray was a light on our league! Keep giving us the chance to shine and not forget who we are in you first and for most! I am excited for this outlook, please continue to show us this way of thinking...ESPECIALLY...IN THE MOMENT! =)
After the game, I got to talk to my dear friend, Diane and it was sooo good! I didn't realize how long it feels like it has been since I got to have a GIRL TO GIRL talk. My husband is amazing, but there is just something about a girl talk that at times is JUST what one may need...After talking with my D, I realized just how much I needed a true Girl pal to talk to! I NEEDED THAT! Many of my friends have so very much going on in there lives and when we do see each other, there is so much else to talk about! Diane! I LOVE YOU, thank you so much for making me feel like ME AGAIN, and for listening to ME! I am so grateful. I don't always want to talk about what my heart is going through, and sometimes it just feels to confusing and hard to explain. I love how easy it is for us to share things...You were
my gift from the Lord 
tonight. Thank you Lord and thank you for letting our God who is so GREAT use you tonight....IN MANY TIMES/WAYS love! I was soo proud of you today! I know you were and have been going through a lot and you played such a good game too!!! YOU GO GIRL!!! Love you!
MOST OF ALL....Thank you for some WONDERFUL laughs w
ith you tonight!!! We really were silly and it was well....SO MUCH FUN!!! 
Here are a couple of our goofy shots... Since I had such a good time that I couldn't go to bed without posting a blog and a couple of these great 
shots! wow...It is after midnight too! Hope y'all enjoy since I am awake any way...lol By the way!.. It was a late game and dark, so the camera did not like us and these are the silly pics that we ended up with! We had a good laugh at least! lol But the game lights made wierd dashes across our faces and the settings that we tried, just made us have two or three faces in one pic...and blerrrrred! lol Oh I LOVE YOU D! That was fun! Just what I needed! =)
I like this pic of YOU to the left!
Gosh now that I am done...it's past
1 am! I should try for some sleep!
Yikes! lol We look sooo scary in some of these!!! lol Eeeek!
The sisters chattin! here to the right! =)
My Nicholas WAY out in the dark field with the little ones, playing!Well today has been one of those long days... Nick and I had our softball
game tonight... WE DID GREAT!!!! We didn't win...but it was close and now I think all of us are feeling very excited that maybe our team CAN WIN!!! It was a great night of ball! The other team was unkind especially to one of our team. It was cool though, she really gave it to God and kept on through it all. They were out of line... My first instinct was to go over to them and give them a piece of my mind and tell them that they had no right to talk to this person or about this person that way! Who did they think they WERE any way?!!! It was hard but good...My thoughts changed after I thought of it a bit... i thought what i would want if the roles were switched with my friend and I...well, I thought, the best I could do was be kind back and ...then I thought well, I just won't go over there and kick there butt like I want to right now...then I thought... well that won't matter I am not around them and they are not being this way to me... then I THOUGHT...wow...my friend is the person tonight! It is ALL her! She is the one who must SHINE for Christ and be persecuted tonight for His NAMES SAKE...Our Team is a Church team in a league that is not...HOW ARE WE SET APART?... I will tell you how...When people like my friend decide to humble themselves and in Gods Strength show people who are pretty much being jerks (to not beat around the bush) Grace! Tonight I didn't have the chance to turn the other cheek...but my friend did... I went from wanting to talk her up and put them down right back to make her feel better, to encouraging her and I would want her to encourage me, and I know she would, to I guess turn the other cheek...She did, I was sooo proud of her. I was so grateful that God would let me be a part of watching things and learning something for my own heart tonight that was not even directly me. It was not easy to think this way, to think like we are called to, especially when it WAS NOT ME and was someone I love...But God is faithful...Thank you Lord for tonight and for a friend who gave you glory tonight and I pray was a light on our league! Keep giving us the chance to shine and not forget who we are in you first and for most! I am excited for this outlook, please continue to show us this way of thinking...ESPECIALLY...IN THE MOMENT! =)After the game, I got to talk to my dear friend, Diane and it was sooo good! I didn't realize how long it feels like it has been since I got to have a GIRL TO GIRL talk. My husband is amazing, but there is just something about a girl talk that at times is JUST what one may need...After talking with my D, I realized just how much I needed a true Girl pal to talk to! I NEEDED THAT! Many of my friends have so very much going on in there lives and when we do see each other, there is so much else to talk about! Diane! I LOVE YOU, thank you so much for making me feel like ME AGAIN, and for listening to ME! I am so grateful. I don't always want to talk about what my heart is going through, and sometimes it just feels to confusing and hard to explain. I love how easy it is for us to share things...You were
my gift from the Lord 
tonight. Thank you Lord and thank you for letting our God who is so GREAT use you tonight....IN MANY TIMES/WAYS love! I was soo proud of you today! I know you were and have been going through a lot and you played such a good game too!!! YOU GO GIRL!!! Love you!MOST OF ALL....Thank you for some WONDERFUL laughs w
ith you tonight!!! We really were silly and it was well....SO MUCH FUN!!! 
Here are a couple of our goofy shots... Since I had such a good time that I couldn't go to bed without posting a blog and a couple of these great 
shots! wow...It is after midnight too! Hope y'all enjoy since I am awake any way...lol By the way!.. It was a late game and dark, so the camera did not like us and these are the silly pics that we ended up with! We had a good laugh at least! lol But the game lights made wierd dashes across our faces and the settings that we tried, just made us have two or three faces in one pic...and blerrrrred! lol Oh I LOVE YOU D! That was fun! Just what I needed! =)
I like this pic of YOU to the left!
Gosh now that I am done...it's past
1 am! I should try for some sleep!
Yikes! lol We look sooo scary in some of these!!! lol Eeeek!
Thursday, May 8, 2008
We got to see the Palms!!!
Yesterday Nick worked all day in Sac..he got home as soon as he could manage and we rushed back out the door to Forrest ranch. My friend Eli
se just Graduated from Shasta Bible college, and he parents and sisters were able to come from Brazil (where they have been serving as missionaries as long as I can remember) for this special occasion, as well as her brother graduating in another state. Something came up and Nick and I were not able to go to her graduation as planned. So as it was there last night here last night...We went up the hill to see them (I have not seen them more then very brief in such a long time! Nick has never even had a chance to meet them!!! That was very important to me!
se just Graduated from Shasta Bible college, and he parents and sisters were able to come from Brazil (where they have been serving as missionaries as long as I can remember) for this special occasion, as well as her brother graduating in another state. Something came up and Nick and I were not able to go to her graduation as planned. So as it was there last night here last night...We went up the hill to see them (I have not seen them more then very brief in such a long time! Nick has never even had a chance to meet them!!! That was very important to me!Elise is a friend that goes back a long ways with me and as little girls we would always dream up what the next time would be like that we would get to see each other and how "OLD" we would then be! lol Se
e, the Palm family would come to the state
s for a year and then leave for four years and come back for a year and leave again for four.
e, the Palm family would come to the state
s for a year and then leave for four years and come back for a year and leave again for four.Any way. Nick enjoyed them immensely to say the least. In fact we were talking about how we would love to go and work with them for a couple months if ever God wanted us to and we could find a way. We LOVED seeing them, even though our time was brief. I am so proud to share the amazing husband that I
have with people that I love and respect so much...and MISS dearly too. Please keep the Palm Family in your prayers! Also, Elise is leaving for Israel to whiteness there for a couple months. She is thrilled and would love your prayers to go with her! She is one of the most incredible women I have ever known. She is so rare and pure of heart in my eyes....I am so very excited to see what God calls Elise to. She is one who has never changed in her contentment and joy to serve Jesus, her humility and strength. The Palm family (all of them) are such a beautiful family! Please Pray for God to bless and continue to guide them! Here are a couple shots we grabbed before we left last night. =) Thank you Lord!
have with people that I love and respect so much...and MISS dearly too. Please keep the Palm Family in your prayers! Also, Elise is leaving for Israel to whiteness there for a couple months. She is thrilled and would love your prayers to go with her! She is one of the most incredible women I have ever known. She is so rare and pure of heart in my eyes....I am so very excited to see what God calls Elise to. She is one who has never changed in her contentment and joy to serve Jesus, her humility and strength. The Palm family (all of them) are such a beautiful family! Please Pray for God to bless and continue to guide them! Here are a couple shots we grabbed before we left last night. =) Thank you Lord!Monday, May 5, 2008
When un important things keep me awake! What is up with THAT?!
Just some more resent photo's randomly picked because I didn't know what pics would go with what I wrote and a blog without pics...sorry, it is almost impossible for me...how boring right?! =) Any way...here are just a couple random pics. I think I will post at least a couple current ones each time, no matter what I write about...lol K! =) Love you guys!
so this happens a lot...See, I have a bad memory...I am actually not kidding when I say that I have a bad memory... Most of my friends/people I know remember details about things, that I can not even imagine remembering! I remember strange things and often with many holes... For example, last night I lay in bed picturing a place I had been...I could remember the porch, that there was an event of some kind (maybe a wedding?) that I was probably a teen, that there were children there running about. It was beautiful and old fashion in a way...but I was out of place. I do not think I knew the people who's occasion it was very well, if at all. I think I was with someone, maybe even my older sister? I can not see one face!!! I remember punch and I think it may have been a wedding, a small one, ...I can picture this place but not figure out who I was with or where I was at. I can remember how I felt better then what it was for or when it was.. It drove me crazy last night, as I tried to forget about it, or remember enough to put my wondering at ease... WHAT IS UP WITH THAT!!! I very often feel that I have as many memory problems as any older person I have heard complain! It makes me wonder HOW I will cope if I also get older!? It really just rubbed me the wrong way last night to be bugged by this.. I believe that I started forgetting things when I was younger. I remember very little of some of my growing years if anything at all. I have to think and think... It has been a good thing in some ways in my life I am sure, but it also feels like a curse, that I must deal with. Any way...I guess since this morning I STILL can not figure this one out and feel no closer, I just HAD to vent a bit.
On another note. Church was as it always is. God moves there, He speaks to hearts and opens eyes and is always present to me there. He is always present to me in daily life, but sometimes at church although it is made for coming near to our Lord, I have felt distracted or too tired to remember things. I have not seen a day that is like that at Harvest. I have been nothing but blessed from my Savior, inspired, AND challenged! Nick and I both. Please pray for our church and that God would continue this great thing and that our hearts would remain open and ready to seek, to serve and to know His beauty! Pastor Joe said something simple that I really liked yesterday..."Let's not leave the same as when we got here. I am sure we all came in "good" people, maybe doing great, but let us not leave today unchanged. Let us not go out of this room the same people." He had been speaking on what God WILL do in us through the holy spirit and not doubting "the mind controlled by the spirit." in Romans 8:6... I don't know it is hard this week to really explain some of just what Joe did, but it was very eye opening... We read from Matthew 22:34-40 and John 14:25-28 Acts 2:38 and 39 and all of Romans 8 and how a couple verses in Romans 8 are happily used and left behind is sooo much more in the before parts of Romans 8. It is important to read the whole thing and not pick out parts we like and not look at the whole truth. This is just some of what "I" heard out of church yesterday, only SOME, and I am sure I am not even touching on the best parts, but one thing I also got out of it was this... In our own strength and through the mind of a sinful man, there is nothing but death. However God gave us His holy Spirit to be with us EVERYWHERE WE GO...He even says in John 16:5? I think it is, that "it is good for HIM to go. He will send the spirit of truth..." the holy spirit and instead of him being here on earth always and us going to him for healing and things, He said it was GOOD for HIM to GO!!! That He would give us the holy spirit! Gods ways are BEST...so any way...wow. I think I may have done the WORST job trying to explain this Sunday, but oh well. The point is there for you to read in His word and if you want to know what I am talking about, ask Him to show you and I know He will. Sorry I am not that clear. I just listened this Sunday, soaking it all up, as I had been having a hard start to my day and attitude ect... and usually I take notes, so maybe that is why I am having a hard time being more direct about what we learned. I am afraid of saying something wrong and twisting a beautiful truth, so I will pray that anyone who reads this will read what is only edifying and truth.
So yup, that hard start to my day sis...by the way...well since most of anyone that "I" know that would read this..are all girls.... let me explain for a laugh...
Nick and I have not been able to spend very much time together without all sorts of other things going on... it is really hard especially when his school or my work takes up our weekend and only real time to do things together not to mention all the people/family that you want to spend time with...something we are working on to be sure. ANY WAY.. I was not really that interested in what Nick was having to do for school yet again on our Saturday... but I DID know that I wanted to be with him! SO, I went out in upper park , out in the Field all day with him just giving he and our friend Griff water and watching them do a lot of things that I struggle to actually find interesting (I guess it was though if you wanted to know...lol) any way... It was a VERY LONG DAY, in the direct sun in a dry field...doing (for me) nothing, and not being able to have a clue or WANT to know what the boys and their classmates (although a small group) were doing.. I guess had Nick not shown up with some of the experience that he has then the whole project would have been stuck. He is really such a great teacher and so kind and patient with people, I love watching that, and watching him explain things to others, he just never seems prideful either, another thing I love about him! well...We thought we would only be out there all morning, but we were actually out there all day!!! I put sunscreen on and still got BURNED! go figure! lol
or should I say...good thing I DID, because I STILL am sooo burned (Nick won't stop teasing me about wearing my white tank top everywhere...Do you know what that means? MY WHITE SKIN THAT LOOKS LIKE A PERMANENT TANK TOP!!! well...any way...SO this was Sat. then on Sunday morning, I woke up very sore and hot around the neck...Started "THAT TIME OF THE MONTH!!" AND we had begun our fast!!! not to mention that my back has been bad for a while now and not feeling any better with this time of the month...It will usually just flair up worse for a few days...SOooo, being on the fast, I couldn't take pain killers!!! It was really more then I could handle, Nick knows how hard it can be for me when I DO have pain killers...so we finally decided (Nick decided for us) that it would not be worth it with me photographing later, to be in pain where I could not walk and hungry and sunburned without any pain killers. so he took us to eat so I could take some pain pills. Today we are back on our fast for good. I do not have any big things to photograph until next week and that I can think of right now, so I should be able to handle this pain without way more drama then it is worth today.
On another note. Church was as it always is. God moves there, He speaks to hearts and opens eyes and is always present to me there. He is always present to me in daily life, but sometimes at church although it is made for coming near to our Lord, I have felt distracted or too tired to remember things. I have not seen a day that is like that at Harvest. I have been nothing but blessed from my Savior, inspired, AND challenged! Nick and I both. Please pray for our church and that God would continue this great thing and that our hearts would remain open and ready to seek, to serve and to know His beauty! Pastor Joe said something simple that I really liked yesterday..."Let's not leave the same as when we got here. I am sure we all came in "good" people, maybe doing great, but let us not leave today unchanged. Let us not go out of this room the same people." He had been speaking on what God WILL do in us through the holy spirit and not doubting "the mind controlled by the spirit." in Romans 8:6... I don't know it is hard this week to really explain some of just what Joe did, but it was very eye opening... We read from Matthew 22:34-40 and John 14:25-28 Acts 2:38 and 39 and all of Romans 8 and how a couple verses in Romans 8 are happily used and left behind is sooo much more in the before parts of Romans 8. It is important to read the whole thing and not pick out parts we like and not look at the whole truth. This is just some of what "I" heard out of church yesterday, only SOME, and I am sure I am not even touching on the best parts, but one thing I also got out of it was this... In our own strength and through the mind of a sinful man, there is nothing but death. However God gave us His holy Spirit to be with us EVERYWHERE WE GO...He even says in John 16:5? I think it is, that "it is good for HIM to go. He will send the spirit of truth..." the holy spirit and instead of him being here on earth always and us going to him for healing and things, He said it was GOOD for HIM to GO!!! That He would give us the holy spirit! Gods ways are BEST...so any way...wow. I think I may have done the WORST job trying to explain this Sunday, but oh well. The point is there for you to read in His word and if you want to know what I am talking about, ask Him to show you and I know He will. Sorry I am not that clear. I just listened this Sunday, soaking it all up, as I had been having a hard start to my day and attitude ect... and usually I take notes, so maybe that is why I am having a hard time being more direct about what we learned. I am afraid of saying something wrong and twisting a beautiful truth, so I will pray that anyone who reads this will read what is only edifying and truth.
So yup, that hard start to my day sis...by the way...well since most of anyone that "I" know that would read this..are all girls.... let me explain for a laugh...
Nick and I have not been able to spend very much time together without all sorts of other things going on... it is really hard especially when his school or my work takes up our weekend and only real time to do things together not to mention all the people/family that you want to spend time with...something we are working on to be sure. ANY WAY.. I was not really that interested in what Nick was having to do for school yet again on our Saturday... but I DID know that I wanted to be with him! SO, I went out in upper park , out in the Field all day with him just giving he and our friend Griff water and watching them do a lot of things that I struggle to actually find interesting (I guess it was though if you wanted to know...lol) any way... It was a VERY LONG DAY, in the direct sun in a dry field...doing (for me) nothing, and not being able to have a clue or WANT to know what the boys and their classmates (although a small group) were doing.. I guess had Nick not shown up with some of the experience that he has then the whole project would have been stuck. He is really such a great teacher and so kind and patient with people, I love watching that, and watching him explain things to others, he just never seems prideful either, another thing I love about him! well...We thought we would only be out there all morning, but we were actually out there all day!!! I put sunscreen on and still got BURNED! go figure! lol
or should I say...good thing I DID, because I STILL am sooo burned (Nick won't stop teasing me about wearing my white tank top everywhere...Do you know what that means? MY WHITE SKIN THAT LOOKS LIKE A PERMANENT TANK TOP!!! well...any way...SO this was Sat. then on Sunday morning, I woke up very sore and hot around the neck...Started "THAT TIME OF THE MONTH!!" AND we had begun our fast!!! not to mention that my back has been bad for a while now and not feeling any better with this time of the month...It will usually just flair up worse for a few days...SOooo, being on the fast, I couldn't take pain killers!!! It was really more then I could handle, Nick knows how hard it can be for me when I DO have pain killers...so we finally decided (Nick decided for us) that it would not be worth it with me photographing later, to be in pain where I could not walk and hungry and sunburned without any pain killers. so he took us to eat so I could take some pain pills. Today we are back on our fast for good. I do not have any big things to photograph until next week and that I can think of right now, so I should be able to handle this pain without way more drama then it is worth today.
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