Psalm 103:1-22

Bless the LORD, O my soul; 

And all that is within me, 

bless His holy name! 

Bless the LORD, O my soul,

 And forget not all His benefits: 

Who forgives all your iniquities, 

Who heals all your diseases,

 Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness 

and tender mercies,

 Who satisfies your mouth 

with good things,

 So that your youth is renewed 

like the eagle’s. 

The LORD executes righteousness 

And justice for all who are oppressed. 

He made known His ways to Moses, 

His acts to the children of Israel. 

The LORD is merciful and gracious, 

Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. He will not always strive with us, 

Nor will He keep His anger forever. 

He has not dealt with us 

according to our sins, 

Nor punished us 

according to our iniquities. 

For as the heavens 

are high above the earth, 

So great is His mercy 

toward those who fear Him; 

As far as the east is from the west, 

So far has He removed our transgressions from us. 

As a father pities his children, 

So the LORD pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame;

 He remembers that we are dust. 

As for man, his days are like grass;

 As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, 

and it is gone,

 And its place remembers it no more.

 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting 

On those who fear Him, 

And His righteousness 

to children’s children,

 To such as keep His covenant, 

And to those who remember His commandments to do them.

 The LORD has established 

His throne in heaven,

 And His kingdom rules over all. 

Bless the LORD, you His angels, 

Who excel in strength, who do His word, Heeding the voice of His word. 

Bless the LORD, all you His hosts, 

You ministers of His, 

who do His pleasure. 

Bless the LORD, all His works,

 In all places of His dominion. 

Bless the LORD, O my soul! 

The King Is Coming!!!

Do you not know? 

Have you not heard? 

The everlasting God, neither faints not grows weary. He gives power to the weak and to those who have no strength. 

There is healing in His wings, 

no more death, 

No more parting, 

No more pain, 

No more crying, 

No more sickness, 

No more misunderstandings, 

No more chains, 

No more fear! 

The King of Kings, yes 

The Lord of Lords, 

Will land one foot on Mt.Olives 

and the other on the sea. 

No more Heaven and Earth as we know it, 

a New Heaven and New Earth, 

The New Jerusalem!!! 

Don't ya want to be among the saints standing behind our Commander and Cheif on that great day? 

Yes every knee will bow and confess that He is who He has ALWAYS said He is! 

God, Creator of all things will receive us unto Himself because of His Son Jesus Christ, the perfect sacrifice. 

I can only imagine what that day will be like, when before Him I will lay at His feet washing them with my hair and the most expensive perfume there is in that Heavenly place. 

I just like to think Jesus will let me shed tears of joy unspeakable and glory. 

And empty my alabaster box to the one that placed peace where strife once lived. 

Love where hate once reigned. 

Mercy where anger once controlled. 

I'll have a new body, and will RUN down those streets of gold towards The Throne where MY KING JESUS will be rightly seated by THE FATHER and given the crowns HE deserves!! 

Please excuse my imagination mingled with many different scriptures in my own words of putting them together. 

I'm choosing to just Praise HIM this morning, not asking for anything. 

Just praising Him!! 

He is worthy to be praised!!!! 

Sad News but not Hopeless News!!!

(Before she went blind with MaMa)

Our precious  lil diva has been diagnosed completely blind. ={ 

It breaks our hearts to look into her big beautiful brown eyes and she no longer is showing her emotions and personality. 

However.. 

She has kind-of started showing her personality again through reacting to our voices and how she's use to me talking to her for the past almost five years. 

They ran a complete blood panel on her and the vet called last evening to give us those results, and thank The Lord they are all NORMAL!!!! 

It will be a few more days to find out on the valley fever results. 

Okay, can I just say I will be totally happy when we can go a week without seeing some sort of DR in this family... 

Good grief. 

Not only did Charlie's medical cost equal mine from last month, but also looking at needing to see a specialist for her eyes and that so happens to cost the same as one of our specialist. lol.. 

She totally has to do everything we do, just no more health scares is all I'm asking!! 

We are trying to help her adjust to being blind and we have had some very humorous moments..

 Like... 

Her sitting "pretty" for the pantry because that's where she thought her best chance of getting good was 

(One of the girls was near by & she just got confused) 

Or, sitting pretty at the refrigerator.. 

Barking at the Church walls.. 

Hey, she could of been praying.. 

Don't judge!  😁😔

Running into the furniture, falling off of beds, or sitting nose to chair communicating with the cloth!! 

ROFL!!!!!!!! 

We love her so much so we are not being mean by laughing at these moments. 

We are no different with her than we've been in our own stuff, humor is cheap medicine with minimal side affects(wetting oneself from lsughing, ect..) no names will be revealed in this post!!!! 😬😜😄

(Before she went blind-with daddy)

Please pray for our little princess,

 I firmly believe Jesus cares for her too! 

He sent her to us right before He allowed the storms to start that have continued for the past 41/2 years.

 I rode to CA with a friend to pick her up in Sept of 2009, 3 months before we lost Steve's dad,

 4 months before a major devastation from another life circumstance for our family,

 5 months before I would awake@3am with a heart attack that changed our life, 3 years before Steve would be disabled on the job, 

and almost 4 years before we almost lost Steve to a massive heart attack. 

Not to mention many other things along the way to include Kelsey's journey of 10months spent in a recliner from 4 fractures to one knee and a knee surgery. 

Charlie has saved my life more times then I can count... She has gotten help to me as I would go unconscious from SVT's and at times be thrown into Cardiac arrest from that, I could go on and on. 

Jesus has used her to comfort the five of us greatly and those close to us as well. 

So if anyone knows of any resources we could take her to be trained with this Dissability , please pass it on. 

Trusting Jesus for this answer to prayer! 

Pressing Forward

2 Cor 1:8-9 KJV - 

For we would not, brethren, 

have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, 

that we were pressed out of measure, above strength,

 insomuch that we despaired even of life: 

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, 

that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

“Pressed out of measure and pressed to all length; 
Pressed so intensely it seems, beyond strength; 
Pressed in the body and pressed in the soul, 
Pressed in the mind till the dark surges roll. 
Pressure by foes, and a pressure from friends. 
Pressure on pressure, till life nearly ends.

“Pressed into knowing no helper but God; 
Pressed into loving the staff and the rod. 
Pressed into liberty where nothing clings; 
Pressed into faith for impossible things. 
Pressed into living a life in the Lord, 
Pressed into living a Christ-life outpoured.”

The pressure of hard places makes us value life. Every time our life is given back to us from such a trial, it is like a new beginning, and we learn better how much it is worth, and make more of it for God and man. The pressure helps us to understand the trials of others, and fits us to help and sympathize with them.

There is a shallow, superficial nature, that gets hold of a theory or a promise lightly, and talks very glibly about the distrust of those who shrink from every trial; but the man or woman who has suffered much never does this, but is very tender and gentle, and knows what suffering really means. This is what Paul meant when he said, “Death worketh in you.”

Trials and hard places are needed to press us forward, even as the furnace fires in the hold of that mighty ship give force that moves the piston, drives the engine, and propels that great vessel across the sea in the face of the winds and waves. —A. B. Simpson

“Out of the presses of pain,
Cometh the soul’s best wine;
And the eyes that have shed no rain,
Can shed but little shine.”

Source: Daily Streams

Mothers Day in Pictures

More to come =)  

Update on Hubby

We went to the Pulmonary DR today

(well guess yesterday technically) 

And he did a PFT test, there's still some unanswered questions and more appointments made and still need to be made. 

However we had a MAJOR answer to prayer and when Steve is ready for me to explain it all I will. It's a cautious answer, yet it's a major THANK YOU JESUS thing!!! 

They are really pushing us back to Cardiology. 

This is hard for us as we don't know that we feel The Lord would want that as He healed Steve's heart. 

So would you pray with us about this? 

We know God IS working in these circumstances to accomplish His plan in our lives, I KNOW God is going to bring us through and we will be better because of it. Not easy going through the fire. yet at the same time....

 It's a sweet communion with our Lord and each other. 

Family alter means more, the little things mean more, we are reminded daily that giving up or in isn't an option, we are being prepared to meet our Lord soon! 

And if our lives could point just one person to Jesus... It's worth it all. 

This isn't about us, it's ALL about HIM!

As some may have figured out, we no longer have an active FaceBook account. I had given ya heads up several weeks ago about that so I trust YOUR reading this and if you desire to follow our journey, this will be the place it will all unfold for ya.

 Well at least partially I should say😜

God Bless and thank you for each and every one if your prayers. 

They mean so much!! 

We don't get out much😄

This was on our way into my Dentists office on Tuesday. Had oral surgery =( 

Still hurting but thankful it's over. 

Wow, what an ordeal it was. Sat in the chair for two hours, he had to end up cutting the tooth in half and using every tool he had (for real) monitored my blood pressure and heart rate, almost called 911 to come load me up&shoot me to the ER. 

See I had just testified about my healing of my heart and no meds since March 6th and what happened to hubby(they know him also) and was just praising God when my heart kicked up, 

Into HIGH gear!!! 

I was praying, Shania was sitting by my side(so thankful for our Girld) she was praying(and also making sure they kept monitoring me while she charted everything (she is already well on her way to becoming a VERY GOOD nurse) 

My dear Mother and Kelsey and Kaitlyn were drinking coffee and praying out in the lobby. My hygentist said they kept an eagles eye on her and the DR every time one would come in view. Apparently the girls witnessed a serious conversation in regards to call the urgent care DR up from downstairs. 

Dentist came in and said he was going in and getting it out!! 

He used the max amount of meds and it was barely keeping me numb. 

He also had to scrape my bone and I will need a bone graph when I go for the implant. 

This one kicked me for sure, still running fevers and just completely wiped out. 

So I take pics of EVERYTHING as if y'all didn't notice... Girls are following in my footsteps =) 

Shania started taking pics of me as we were waiting for "the meds" to kick in. 

No after pictures, even I draw the line somewhere!! Ha =) 

So enjoy our little "Girls a Day Out"!!!

   First up is my Mother and the Girls. 

    Then the 4 Muskateers!!! 

Check out how swollen the left side of my face was (would be your right looking at it like this😜😁😰. 

   And below would be the awesome shades they want ya to use while they work on ya, they think it helps the 

ice pick, and screw drivers, and saws from looking tortures or something! 

I will tell ya this much... 

This was NOT on my to-do list for this week. But am so thankful for a great Dentist and his staff is amazing. 

Oh yea, I'm still healed regardless of what happened at the office, was nothing but the enemy trying to mock my testimony and torment me. But my Jesus raised up a standard for me and I'm so thankful to serve a great big God. 

Now you know the rest of the story.... 

For now that is! =)