Friday, June 30, 2006

UPDATE!!

OK...So on my side bar is the link to the Hodges. These are the missionaries that we stayed with while we were in Guatemala (when we were not it the village) It is a new blog, and I am very excited about it and wanted to share it with you so...Check it out.
Update on the home front: summer is here and we hit the ground running when the kids got out of school. Their last day was June 9. We had a great pool party at a friends house to celebrate the end of the school year ice cream sundaes and all (it rained too) but that didn't bother the kids!
We gathered up our things and headed to VA for a few days that was fun! We went before all the rain started. We left Abby there for a couple weeks. She is coming home in a little over a week, boy do I miss her! When we got home it was go go go...Kids over kids going to other houses. Wow, isn't that what it is all about when you are a kid? No worries just mom taxing you all around for the fun of it!
I took Meg strawberry picking today! I can't wait to make the jam!! :) But, unfortunately the strawberries were a little tired of the rain too, so the picking wasn't the best. But we had fun still...
OK... I know but for the handful of you that read this I figured that I would just give a little of what we have been doing and just wanted to let you know that I didn't fall off the face of the earth as I think some other bloggers have!!
Off to the big Wal-mart!



Good Day!!

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

My devotions brought me to this today!

Col 3:1 If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.
3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4 When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory.
5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
6 for which things' sake cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience:
7 wherein ye also once walked, when ye lived in these things;
8 but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:
9 lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,
10 and have put on the new man, that is being renewed unto knowledge after the image of him that created him:
11 where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
12 Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;
13 forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:
14 and above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful.
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.
17 And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. 18 Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. 19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
21 Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.
22 Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:
23 whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;
24 knowing that from the Lord ye shall receive the recompense of the inheritance: ye serve the Lord Christ.
25 For he that doeth wrong shall receive again for the wrong that he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.



I just love this chapter (and book) I think thas vs. 17 should be one that ALL Moms memorize~so that while we are doing the mundane things of the day we should remember ALL THINGS!! even if it is the 13th load of laundry!