March 11, 2002

• Good morning.  Well all the snow is gone...and it is downpouring rain as I type.  

  
  

  My daffodils seem to be none the worse for the snow...and hopefully will be blooming in a week or two.  I can't wait!  The advantage of a 100 year old house is their are daffodils in the most unimaginable places.  I love being suprised as to where the next ones are gonna pop up. 

  
  

  My snow bells are blooming they are also planted by a previous generation.  And are beautiful decorating the back outhouse.  hehehe.  I need to take a picture as it is very pretty....even if a bit different.  Someday I should probably move them to where all can see them...but they kinda give that old outhouse a "romantic" look.     For the those of you new to my blog or fairly new.  My house is a 100 year old schoolhouse complete with a girls & guys working outhouses.  hehehe.  They have a better foundation (concrete) then my house (post & block).  Go figure   I've been told they were prefab outhouses ordered from a company in town...which EVERYBODY thought was a major extravagance.    The things you learn when your restoring a building. 

  
  

  Church was really enjoyable last night.  Unfortunately the computer with the words to the music quit....and as 98% of the songs are new that made for a lot of people listening rather then singing.  But it was still fun.  And they've started bringing refreshments for after church so everybody just hung around and visited which was ever so enjoyable instead of the MAJOR rush to get home.

  
  

  Kaylin spent the service taking all the hymn books out of one side of the pew and putting them into the other holder on the pew.  Then removing them and putting them back where they came from.  Rob and I are CONVINCED if church was still going on she'd still be doing it...she just NEVER got tired of it.  LOL

  
  

  Jamari cuddled with daddy.  Samuel with mommy,  and Zeria snuck up to the pew in front of us and sat with our Christmas grandma.  I think that made both of their days.  And this was a never before done thing so that made it even more fun

  
  

  This was one of the songs we sang last night which I'd heard before..but didn't quite know ALL the words to.  I want to type them out...and then share how much it touched me.

  
  

  Above all powers, above all kings.

  
  

  Above all nature, and all created things.

  
  

  Above all wisdom and all the ways of man

  
  

  You were here before the world began

  
  

  Above all kingdoms above all thrones

  
  

  Above all wonders the world has ever known

  
  

  Above all wealth and treasures of the earth

  
  

  There's no way to measure what you're worth

  
  

  (Chorus)

  
  

  Crucified and laid behind a stone

  
  

  You lived to die rejected and alone

  
  

  Like a rose trampleed on the ground

  
  

  You took the fall and thought of me above all else.

  
  

  How many times have we (and I mean we) blogged about loneliness, depression, is it worth it?  Nobody loves me...etc, etc, etc.  If ONLY my hubby understood me, or my mom, or whoever.   And why is THIS happening to me. 

  
  

  But then the God of the universe who was above ALL, all power, kings, nature, wisdom etc.  The CREATOR and SUSTAINER of the universe.  And he was.....

  
  

  REJECTED

  
  

  ALONE
  

  
  

  TOOK the FALL

  
  

  For who???????

  
  

  ME!!!

  
  

  Brings my life back into perspective somehow.  He did it for me.  I should NEVER feel alone.  He's there waiting, hoping to help...wanting to help...begging to help.  And loved us FIRST...not because of something we did or will do...just because.

  
  

  Pretty amazing huh?  And  then I saw these verses in my devotions this morning.   

  
  

  Deut 30:20 Choose to love the LORD your God and to obey him and commit yourself to him, for he is your life. Then you will live long in the land the LORD swore to give your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

  
  

   

  
  

  Deut31:8 Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD is the one who goes before you. He will be with you; he will neither fail you nor forsake you."

  
  

   

  
  

  So the thought for the day is

  
  

   

  
  

  I AM NOT ALONE!

  
  

   

  
  

  Okay done preaching   I hope that it comforts somebody as much as it did me.   

  
  

   

  
  

  Today the theory is we're going grocery shopping.  Rob is NOT happy about it.  Trying to tell myself I can/could do it by myself and leave him home.  Haven't quite one that battle.  He has tons that he wanted to do....and now I'm taking him away from it.  *sigh*   1 and a half more weeks and I don't have to be careful any more this baby can come if she/he needs to.  BUT  I'd like to make it that week and a half.  Decisions, decisions.

  
  

   

  
  

  Father God, I ask for peace in my life this day.  I ask that I would trust you for the wisdom in even the things like grocery shopping.  I thank you for the reminder that I am not alone...and you are here.  Let me not forget that today.  In your sons name, Amen

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