What a beautiful Day....

  Life is beautiful. I woke up at 3:30 this morning to get myself ready for work. As I get up i am so groggy and lazy that all I want to do is just lay back down... It's a bit chilly and here I have to get myself together for work... (Still have not hit the Powerball or Mega Million...lol) I have about 30-40 minutes to get myself together and out of the door... I'm finally up and about , time ticking away. I'm rushing because if I do not get on the highway on time then , I'm late. I have a 2 hour commute. As I am ready for my day and say goodbye to my husband , I open the door and just admire the beautiful moon staring dead at me. Just as bright as can be. It lit up the whole sky. I just took a deep breath and look up at it and said THANK YOU LORD FOR ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY..... I immediately felt so uplifted and my day went so smooth from them on..
  We sometimes get so involve with the hectic things in our lives , that we forget the beautiful things that are around that do not cause a thing and bring so much joy and tranquility.... Peace... Like the day Jesus was born...I couldn't help but say that.... It just felt like it....
   Work was work but today it seemed to go well. I got a lot accomplished ..Holiday time (Yeahhh)...I love Christmas holiday. It's not about the presents for me, I always taught my kids that Christmas was a celebration of when we were all born again... Jesus birth signify our rebirth.... And this was the biggest and best gift we can ever receive from anyone...
   I hope the start of your holiday is filled with joy to help others and those who need it the most. This year , I am going to collect all the coats and clothes from people that I know, and I am taking it to a church that I attend. On Sunday's after service, we have community dinners and the people that come are mostly seniors that are alone and have family far away. They needed coats. Some were cold and only had sweaters because they had nothing else... So I decided to lend a hand. I do not have any extra money, but I can ask around for articles of clothing, coats shoes etc..... Anything to help with what I can...
                                  Have a blessed day and smile... Jesus loves you..

Ohh My Godddd!!!!!! What a day!!!

    Have you ever had a day, that never ends and you just want to scream because no matter what you did, it just seem like you did not accomplish anything ????   That was me today.. should not complain
    Hello all. Hope your day was better than mine. I should not complain because at least I have a job to complain about . There are so many people still unemployed and I know wish that they could be in my shoes. But I tell you, that the holiday season has officially began for us ... I work in NYC. Extremely busy around the holidays. My company today had to transfer over 2000 units to other stores.... They have sold out of units. Our store is the biggest store so we had to transfers units there. It felt like it took us all day... Moving on to another subject...
      The hold discussion today was about the Dr.Conrad Murray case. Opinion so don't kill me for having one. I am so tired of these Dr.s and celebrities thinking that because they have money, they can do whatever they want.Michael Jackson, I loved his music, think he was one of the best artist I will see in my lifetime and felt sorry for him... All the charities that he participated in, all the money he gave to all causes did not mean a thing... The only thing people saw was an accused child molestor... A pedifile..After his death, the man whose parents accused Michael of molesting their child back in 90's, has come out and told the truth. Although his parents had put him up to it, u can tell he was haunted with living that lie... At the time he was 13 years old..   I as an individual can not stand when someone lies on me. It really makes me mad. A lot of people saw it as him admitting  guilt, when he paid them 20 million dollars. Everyone was very upset because we expected him to go to court and prove his innocence... The truth was that he wanted to go to court. He was on tour when the allegations came out and his promoters had told him to just give them 20 million than they loosing 200 million which was the paycheck for that tour he was doing...I had taken my time to research, because you tend to wonder how a man that was so loved by the world with everything going for him could have had so many issues... After listening to all the evidence that was shown, I could not believe that a man so talented suffer so much...
      This Dr. was a greedy man. A lot of people had commented that Michael Jackson was a drug addicted.. That to me he was. He was addicted to prescribed medicine... Knowing this how can a Dr. who is license to do the best for his patience , treat this man with a drug that is only use in the hospital under supervision and monitors. He was definitely abusing his authority to practice medicine. At the end of the  day, he chose money over his code of ethics as a Dr.....Too Sad

Holiday season..... It's on it's way

   Hello everyone. I hope you had a great day. God is so good to us. Beautiful day here in the Pocono Mountains. Just last Saturday, it was snowing and we were cover in 10 inches of snow. Some people I know still have no electric from that storm. Today it was 63 degrees... What the heck is going on here? Who are we to question, I learn to just enjoy. Got some extra sleep yesterday . Daylight saving time is great when the time goes back. Now I feel like the night comes earlier...and you sleep a little longer..

    I know you are probably thinking I'm crazy for sharing this pic with you but the truth of the matter is that I work in retail. I never see no holidays other than back to school and Christmas... So I am going to repeat Happy Thanksgiving in the hopes to celebrate a Holiday other than Christmas.. I hope all your plans for a Thanksgiving dinner work out well. This is the first year, I am celebrating Thanksgiving at my house with my husbands family.. My mother-in-law and my nephews are coming up. I am really excited. I am also going to have them on Christmas.... I ask what they wanted for Christmas. What a mistake. Never ask a kid what they want for Christmas. On my quest to start Christmas shopping early, I found this list of gifts to give all year long...

     101 Gifts to Give All Year Long

1. smile

2. Provide a shoulder to lean on.

3. Pat someone on the back.

4. Say "Thank you."

5. Give an unexpected kiss...

6...or a warm hug.

7. Say, "You look wonderful! and mean it.

8. Rub a tired back.

9. Whistle when you're feeling down.

10.Send a thank you

Here is the first ten on that list... I'll give another 10 tommorow..

  Bitterness is its own prison.... Food for thought.

   See you tommorow God willing

  Hello to all. It has been quite a long time since I wrote in my blog. I have been very busy and just have had no time for myself . All in my family is blessed. My little grandbaby is getting bigger .She was a pirate for Halloween..Too cute. Well, I hope that all of you are in good health and spirit..

   A Joke............

DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE TWO BLONDES WHO FROZE TO DEATH IN A DRIVE-IN MOVIE?
THEY HAD GONE TO SEE '" CLOSED FOR THE WINTER".

    Oh My God...... Thank you Jesus for taking the longest walk anybody has ever taken and sacrifice himself for us future sinners so that we may be able to one day recognize the wrong in our lives and try to make it right. Thank you for the opportunity because without him we are nothing......

    I am so sorry I have not blog in quite sometime but, I have had a lot of events take place and just have been to distracted and honestly had no time. Life has been great, even though we have had some curveballs but that is expected. I do not know one single person that has not experience trials in their lives. In fact the harder you try to live life right , the harder things become. More obsticles come your way and you feel like you are in a no win situation.  The goodness of it all is that with the grace of God you see things differently and react different therefore your outcome becomes different. It is a beautiful thing when you can feel the love of Jesus in your life... You see it and others see it too.
  On another subject as You all remember I have a 2 year old grandaughter. She has grown so much in just a few months that it is hilarious for me to even tell you some of the events that take place here. There is this show that she so adores. It is called Yo Gabba Gabba. I found out that they are touring this year so I check their website to see when they will be coming this way.
  For those of you who know what I am talking about, I have enclosed a link that you can go see for yourselves..  http://www.yogabbagabbalive.com/

       I hope that all of you are in good health and in good spirits and keep praying for all your needs and not your wants....

A day of Praise

   Praising the Lord is how we wanted to start our day. I want to take this time to pray and thank my heavenly father for all that I am and all that he gives me and my family... I have prayed for understanding for so long and all I ever wanted was to be able to give a word to another person that needed to hear what the Lord has us here for. You know I felt that I would never get to a place where I would be able to understand the bible or it's contents in it...Better yet, put it to use and be able to try to live by it.. We are a generation that really are a repeaing from our ancestors.. We feel entitled to everything that we want. Instead of being grateful for the things we already have. Our families before us suffer to give us the things that were important and needed in our lives but today we teach our children to seek for materialistic things and not the things that are needed like Christ in their lives... The significance of loving......

  On that note I want to share what I learn in church today. I have not gone to church in a couple of sundays but, I do keep up with the sermons online. One of the beauties of today's technologies... The pastor spoke about the wounded warrior. This whole months series has been about warriors in the bible...Today was dedicated to the men ..
   He has made a statement that really hit home in many families today.. There is so many children growing up in a single family home and what we are not realizing is that we are training our kids to be single parents as well. Men are often not present in their childrens lives. Because of this the mother has no choice but to raise her child the best way she can... A man child needs to be raise by a man.. As strong as we are we are still not men. We can not teach a boy about the things that they go through simply because we have not gone through it.. Example a father can not teach his daugther about her monthly visitor and the need for pads or even how to use a tampon because he has not gone through this. He has no experience in it. He has no idea how any of this works with the exception of what he may hear. Men are important in a young man's life. Our hurts is spill over to our children... Their was a quote my pastor said that stuck to me. He said and I quote " Hurt people tend to hurt people".. It took me a while to understand it but I did. If you are carrying a hurt from someone in your past specially from your father you tend to past that hurt to your child. You have to learn to forgive that person for whatever reason they were not there and hope that your time with your child is well spent and remebered. Your teachings will be remembered by your child and will be used in the future generations to come.. Tell your kids you loved them, tell them that you are proud and tell them that you believe in them....

Nothing to say except I love you....

   Hello everyone. I hope this brief message finds you all in good health and spirit. It has been a long wek and een though I have nothing interesting to say.... There is much to be grateful for. I have my health, my family and a job . I have strength to live another day and still have stength to continue our spiritual fight....
    This week we had the privilidge to visit a good friends of our.His wife was put in a home a while ago and she had surgery a fw days ago with her kidneys... Her percentage at the time was 70 and now it is 7. So they are preparing for her homecoming to the Lord... He had asked my husband if he can visit and sit with them and sing some spiritual songs to comfort the family.... We went over and had a wonderful time. We were just sadden for what is to come, but it was wonderful to see how this family has loved each other for so long and how they are trying to be strong for one another... I can only ask for prayers for them and hope that God sends them the comforter when their time come to depart from their loved one... In closing I am going to include an incerpt from the bible.. It is Isaiah 40:26-31 and it reads...

26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Just another Day.............

   Hello my fellow brothers and sisters. I hope my brief message finds you in good spirit and great health.
My life the last few weeks have been too much to handle. But God on my side I was able to survive. As I had told you before my grandmother had been sick, shortly after she passed on and we had the funeral. We have been trying to adjust with that. To change matters a fellow friend's mother past as well. I have seen to much death. Although we should not be afraid of death but welcome it as another chapter of our lives, we can not help but feel a little compelled about it. I just have had to much of it at one time.
  I was listening to a series of sermons that were posted on my church's website, and they were all about marriages. The good ones and the bad ones. One ting that I found out is that statistically in today's world we are setup to fail in our marriages than to succeed. The divorce rate is higher than it has ever been and the lengths of a marriage is shorter and shorter by the decade. There are so many children left with two homes instead of one and what we do not realize is that we are passing all the negatives to our children. We are basically saying its ok to not try to work things out in a marriage. I use to think that once you are married you were basically stuck and happiness did not matter.  As a married person my individual emotions and dreams did not have meaning anymore but in fact, its the total opposite. I am not going to lie to you and tell you that it is easy. It is about the hardest thing that you will do in life. But it is a beautiful thing. It is what God wanted for us. It's the reason he made Eve for Adam.

Our final goodbyes....

  Hello to all and good health and strength in the name of the lord...
   As many of you may already know, my grandmother has been at her death bed since last week . This past friday her life support was removed at around 12 pm. A true fighter all the way ,as we had expected  she did not leave us until Saturday evening... Her funeral will be held this friday at 11. in Virginia...
   A word from the bible... in 2Tim:4 6-8 it states " For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing."

   I feel such great comfort in knowing that the beautiful woman that fought a good fight will receive her crown by our all and mighty judge as it should be. Such tears of joy and sorrow I feel from all this. It was a strong woman that has return back to the king and although she  will be missed dearly, she has left so many memories that will heal the sorrow in time. My grandma was 88 years of age . A good life she lived. A great person a kind woman loved by all who knew her and admired by those who only knew about her.... We will truly miss you but thank you Lord for giving us such a gift.....

  It's a poem

        I was Dying......
First I was dying to finish high school and start college.
And then I was dying to finish college and start working.
And then I was dying tomarry and have children.
And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school so I can return to work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying......and suddenly I realized I forgot to live.


 Cherish your love ones ... for one day we will missed them and it will be to late to tell them you love them...

How we mourn....

    Hello everyone. God is good no matter what. I have strong faith that the grandmother we know is either in that body that lies in the hospital brain dead or has risen to her new home next to our king and is looking down on us trying to send comfort for those who can not let her go....

   For all of you who do not know yet, my grandmother has had a massive heart attack and is in the hospital since thursday of last week. The Drs. say she is brain dead and that she has pass, but some of the family memebers refuse to take her out of life support and therefore her soul if indeed has lifted up can not rest until the body has been laid to rest...

                     I was trying to locate a picture of her to show her beautiful face but could not find one in my computer at this time... I will later post one as I feel fit. In any regards although she lies in a hospital bed dead, I have began to accept the fact that maybe it was her time and God did not want her to suffer any longer. She was 88 years old. A strong woman. Never judge anyone and loved everyone.Her door was never shut. The big momma of our family ,she kept us all together and strong. No matter what we did wrong, she was there with open arms to just love us.... To her last breath she whispered words of love and compassion to those who knew her . I was reading a lot of different stories of how people dealt with sorrow and I found a poem that was a little different than most. This poem is told in the eyes of the Lord to all parents... But in this case is to my grandma from the Lord to us.....

   THE POEM.......

        I'll lend you for a little time a child of mine, He said,
For you to love the while she lives and mourn, for when she's dead
It may be six or seven years. or 80 or 83,
But will you, till I call her back, take care of her for me?
She'll bring her charms to gladden you, and shall her stay be brief,
You'll have her lovely memories as solace for your grief,
I cannot promise she will stay, since all from Earth return,
But there are lessons, taught down there, I want this child to learn.
I've looked the wide world over in my search for teachers true,
And from the throngs that crowd life's lanes,
 I have selected you
 Now will you give her all your love nor think the labor vain,
Nor hate me when I come to call to take her back again??
I fancied that I heard them say Dear Lord, Thy will be done!
For all the joy Thy child shall bring,
The risk of grief we'll run.
We'll shelter her with tenderness, we'll love her while we may,
And for the happiness we've known forever grateful stay;
But shall the angels call for her much sooner than we've planned,
We'll brave the bittergrief that comes and try to understand..

Another day with God's blessing....

 Good morning everyone. Today I am doing a little better than I was yesterday. I was in the hospital with my grandmother. She has been ill and not doing good at all. But let me tell you how good God is. If you did not know about Jesus you need to go look for him now while you can.
  My grandmother yesterday was was showing positive signs. Now today was going to be a critical day and so far so good. I came this morning with a positive attitude because yesterday she was moving . Although it was small gestures, they were huge to us. She is so tired and we are so selfish that we want her here with us instead of allowing God to do his will. She is such a fighter. I never really had someone accept me for who I am without being judge before. She has never pointed fingers and has never disrespected me like a lot of my husband family do. This lady is the closest to me having a grandmother.....
   Pray for my family please... For strength at our time of need.. And we really need.......I will keep you posted...

A not so healthy trip......

 Hello everyone. Today is a beautiful day. God be the glory. I hope we are able to enjoy more days like this.
I was called the other day and was told not some healthy news. I have family in Virginia. My grandmother is ill and things do not look so good. Anyhow, I had to pray very hard.
  You see , we have to learn to ask god to guide us while we become selfish and ask to keep us in his hands wil we grieve. Although she has not passed, she is of age and is not breathing by herslf right now...
  I can not really talk about this situation right now, jst needed to ask for prayers for my family to keep us strong and allow God to do his will..

A Good Joke..... The Lawyer Vs. the Cop.....

       Good Day everyone...
         I ran accross this joke at our bi-weekly publication. Always a free paper to inform our community of what is happening around town. We are all so greatful for that.

    The Lawyer Vs. the Cop
            
                   A lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by a Jersey cop. He thinks that he is smarter than the cop because he is a lawyer from New York and is certain that he has better education than any cop from Jersey. He decides to prove this to himself and have some fun at the cops' expense.
     The cop says, " License and registration , please."
    " What for?" says the lawyer.
 The cop says " You didn't come to a complete stop at the stop sign."
The lawyer says, " I slowed down. and no one was coming."
" You still didn't come to a complete stop," says the cop.
" Licence and registration, please."
The lawyer says, "What's the difference?"
"The difference is you have to come to a complete stop, that's the law. License and registration, please! " the cop says.
Lawyer says, " If you can show me the legal difference betwen slow down and stop, i'll give you my license and registration.; and you give me the ticket."
 " That sounds fair. Please exit your vehicle, sir," the cop says.
At this point, the cop takes out his billy club and starts beating the ever-loving crap out of the lawyer and says, "Do you want me to stop, or just slown down?"


          This was submitted by a reader of "Our Town" publication...

I'm back, gone long but not forgotten ......

                                                                        Hello everyone. I hope all of you have been well in health and prosperity and all that maters to you. God has truly bless me in these troubled weeks that I have been expriencing. I have been sick and all the troubles at work . A little over stress but nonetheless ok. The fourth of July came and went and now we are finally came getting hot weather. Happy Independent day. Better late than never is what they say....

This is a pic. of Jenelle and Wilson.My grandaughter and nephew. I just can not believe how grown they both are. I remember Wilson when he was ten days old and I kept him here in my home while my sister recooperate  from being ill. And now  he is five years old. My grandaughter is a little firecracker herself and now she is two. Will only take pictures with wilson, her favorite cousin in the world.......

Of the fourth of July I had a small gathering . My sister who has come to my house maybe 2 times sice I have move from the city to the mountains , had came up. I had some friends and we just had a lot of food and listen to music and had a good time. My kids took my sister to the lake while we got the food prepared and the little ones just played.

My beautiful sister, (the shorter one) and one of my many blessings my oldest ddaughter and little Jenelle sneaking in the picture....

Strike, Strike , Strike

  Good evening to everyone,

                 I have a lot to be thankful for this day. For starters my life and second my family and third my job. You see as of yesterday my company was going on strike. We had until 11:59 pm to get a tentative agreement that both our union and our company will agree to. As of this morning there was no agreement reached. I was very nervous, although our right to exercise a strike would have protected our jobs we would have no salary coming in. Not a good time to be on strike. That was in the minds of a lot of people that are sole providers of their homes. It took us to be told how much one ceo of our company received as a bonus this fiscal year. It was stated that this particular person made in bonus alone 12.8 million dollars. Now a company that is in dire straits and can not afford to give a decent contract to their employees  does not have the money to pay out this kinds of bonuses to anyone. Keep in mind that this was the bonus of only one ceo. There sits about twelve. I was not as upset as I guess other people were. The ceo works just as hard as I do and got what he deserve but, in that same perspective I had prayed that he can see that we as well work as hard as he does and deserve our compensation too. But God is wonderful I tell people all the time. He put the right people in place last minute and our negotiating team was up all night and half through the morning to get us a contract that we can live with. We need help with health coverage. I have to pay almost 60 dollars a week in health coverage for myself alone. Not including a 20 dollar co pay and 150 dollars each time I see the emergency room. Our hourly wages will increase this year and our pensions will remain as is. So that is good for us. I am still fairly young and far from my retirement age but I know that by the time it is time for me to retire, there will be no social secuirity for me to collect. That is why our pensions through our jobs are so important.. All I know tommorow I have a job to go to and I want to thank my company for negotiating and cinsidering us after all.

This is a joke " Double Blonde Joke"

   Praise the Lord today people... How is everyone? I hope you are all well in health and fortune...
I read a joke in one of our town free papers and want to share with you... Here it goes.

   " Double Blonde Joke"

   A blonde female police officer pulls over a blonde gal, in a convertible sports car, for speeding. She walks up to the car and asks the blonde for her driver's license.
  The blonde convertible driver searches through her purse in vain. Finally she asks, " What does it look like?"
  The blonde police officer tells her, "Its that thing with your picture on it." The blonde driver searches for a few more seconds, pulls out her compact, opens it. and sure enough sees herself. She hands the compact to the blonde cop.
  After a few seconds looking at the compact, the blonde cop rolls her eyes, hands the compact back to the blonde convertible driver and says' " If you would have told me you were a police officer when I first pulled you over we could have avoided this whole thing. "


                         Don't mean to pick on the blondes. I just read it and thought it was funny.
I also read a trick to do and it kills me to try to prove it wrong, but I can't. See if you can..
  All you do is while you are sitting at your desk , lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. Now while doing this, draw the number 6 in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction and there is nothing you can do about it..Let me know if you were able to do the opposite...

long commute....

God be the glory...... Is all i want to say after a long commute. I never realized how horrible commuting really is. I have a at least 2 hour drive in front of me everyday.:(
So I loose 2 hours of sleep in the morning and 2 in the afternoon. I love what I do and have been in my job a long time... but I wish I can find something closer to home. I feel like I ne er enjoy anything that I have worked hard for... Then I stop to think nothing is mine. God gave me a gift through Jesus so that through him I can stand here today and
complain to you and rant a out the small sacrife I make for my family and the blessing of my home but, like most people I do not choose to remember the big sacrifice Jesus made for me..
So as I sit on this bus that's hot and stinky going home in traffic and I absorb the
beautiful world we live in, I will just say thank you Jesus and enjoy while I can.....

Babysitter for the Grandchild

  Omg, today was a big mark in our lives. Our grandaughter had her first babysitter outting. Let me explain. We have always been around to watch our grandaughter while my eldest daughter goes to work. Someone always has been here or we all take turns in watching  her. She is use to family only. As we try to look at our schedules we realize that no one is going to be able to watch Jenelle in the morning. We are all busy in the morning and no one left to watch her. Time to look for a babysitter. My good friend Nancy happen to be available to watch her. So thank God for that, but we did not know how our grandaughter was going to react. She has never really been socialable without us being around. She knows Nancy but has never really been left alone with no one. She only needed to be watch for two hours but for a child that is not uise to being without her immediate family that is a long time. Needless to say she is only two..
 Time to drop her off. Can I tell you that we cried more than she. It turns out my grandbaby made us look like fools. She remember Nancy and was happy to go with her... But you have to understand we were like parents dropping of a child at school for the first time. I cried for all my kids. And it seems worst for my grandkids.... How crazy????

Forgotten Virtues...

   Hello to all. I hope today you are having a blesed day and all in your lives is well. As for me I can not ask for more than I can chew.
   I do not know where to begin so excuse me if I babble a little. Letme start by saying Happy late memorial day. Long weekend for me. I had 2 barbeques . I managed to be off on Friday. Said a little white lie that now I am suffering the consequences. This is why I do not like to lie. I told me boss that I had a personal matter and would like to take a personal day on Friday. He said ok. I had no real reason to be off with the exception that I just wanted some time away from work. I should have just said that but, instead I said I might have to go to court. Why did I lie??? I do not know but here is my punishment. I go to check on my hours of pay to ensure that all my hours are there for my pay period. This is my paycheck we are talking about and guess what....... NO PERSONAL DAY PUT IN..... So now I am not only short one day but two because if you do not work the day before the holiday you do not get pay for the holiday.... See why I do not like to lie.
     But I had fun on my days off. I usually commute to the city which is about two hours everyday going and two coming and was very happy not getting up so early. Back to my days off. Saturday did nothing but clean. Sunday went to two church services and a barbeque. and Monday another barbeque.. Thought I would have had more rest but, busy me always on the go did not know when to quit and just stay still.
   There have been some storms and tornado watches around our area these past two weeks, nothing compare to that in Missouri... I still pray for them and I am petrify of the thought of something like that coming this way. See there are some states that are more use to certain natural storms and our state is not.. We are use to snowstorms. Give us 20 inches of snow in one day and we will survive. You will see all of us continue our day like itwas nothing going on outside and it was just another day in the neighborhood. Give us lots of rain , fog that we can not even see the trees ,lights or anything else outside and we can get around like nothing but, tornados and hurricanes no can do. We are not equipped for something like this.  I am afraid of all the danger it could cause. All the lost lives it will leave behind.
  On another note remember these forgotten virtues. HONOR, PURITY, LOYALTY, INTEGRITY AND GRATITUDE......... These things are forgotten in today's world. It is something that we should try to live by and most of us do not even know the meaning of half of these.  God bless you all and pray for me as I will pray for you. Till next time...

Walking in faith and not by sight...

   Hello my family in Christ. I hope that all of you are in strong and good health. I want to thank you for taking the time to read my post and tell you that I pray for you and love you because you chose to love me first. This is straight out of the bible where it states that we love God because he loves us first.....

   I had a good day at church on sunday. I have been attending this new church and it has been very uplifting. My kids actually like it and they have daycare services for the little ones. My grandaughter loves it by the way.... It has been hard to take her home because she does not want to leave. I guess she is playing with kids her age and they have a sorts of things for them to do.
  The segment that I have been attending this month at this church was called Masquerade. It had a different message that was given by this pastor every week.
                 Part 1 was Hiding from God. It shows how we all try to hide from God but do not realize he sees all. In the bible in the book of Genesis, it was known that Adam and Eve hid from God after they ate from the apple. When God called Adam he was hiding behind the bushes because he was ashamed. I believe he was regretful of what he had done and not so much the fact that now he has realized that he was naked.
                Part. 2 Self Deception:  I am number one for this. In life when someone asks us how are we doing we tend to pretend everything is ok. Even to ourselves.I have a bad habit of not admitting to anyone when things are going wrong.  There was a saying and it reads " Th longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth"....
 Easy way out of self deception read Psalm 139 :23-24... It reads per the KJV bible "Search me o' God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." Second Listen to others and listen to God as he speaks to you through the Holy spirit. And three change your way. Confess to yourself that everything really is not alright. Ask others to pray for you. You do not have to tell anyone your personal business but you can ask someone to just pray for you for strength.
              Part 3: Hiding your sins..... This was one of my favorite part of the 5 part series. We all believe that just because we did not get caught doing something , we can hide that sin. When we sin we only have to choices. One is to conceal our sin and the second is to confess our sin. Remember in Proverbs 28:13 it reads that He that coverth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.  We also read in Psalm 51 where King David was discover for commiting adultery with Bathsheba and had her husband killed so that they can hide that sin that they had committed. He wrote this Psalm to God asking for mercy and forgiveness, and it reads " Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy loving kindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. " It does not matter when you sin as long as you confess to God and ask for strengthening.

 I will continue with the rest on my next blog. But it is meaningful to me and I just wanted to share this with you. Hope to write to you soon. God bless everyone.. Have a great day ...