5 year anniversary

We have officially been a family 5 years the husband and I.How exciting it is to think in 5 years how we have grown and how different things are now.Kids really change things dont they? I love my kids but Its funny how my perspective and priorities have changed just in a few years.How much I have grown up and really taken more responsibility on from the 21 years old I was when I got married.My husband on the other hand has always benn more mature I think it came from his living on his own for quite a few years before he meet me.I can almost not believe it has been that long since we got married it seems like just the other day!Happy anniversary to my husband and I hope for many more.Thanks to God for allowing me these years to really get to know a wonderful man!

If I die young

The Band Perry If I die Young
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If I die young bury me in satin
Lay me down on a bed of roses
Sink me in the river at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song
oh oh oh oh

Lord make me a rainbow, I’ll shine down on my mother
She'll know I’m safe with you when she stands under my colors, oh and
Life ain't always what you think it ought to be, no
ain't even grey, but she buries her baby

The sharp knife of a short life, well
I’ve had just enough time

If I die young bury me in satin
Lay me down on a bed of roses
Sink me in the river at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song

The sharp knife of a short life, well
I’ve had just enough time

And I’ll be wearing white when I come into your kingdom
I’m as green as the ring on my little cold finger
I’ve never known the lovin' of a man
But it sure felt nice when he was holding my hand
There’s a boy here in town says he’ll love me forever
Who would have thought forever could be severed by

The sharp knife of a short life, well
I’ve had just enough time

So put on your best boys and I’ll wear my pearls
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What I never did is done

A penny for my thoughts, oh no I’ll sell them for a dollar
They're worth so much more after I’m a gone
And maybe then you’ll hear the words I been singin’
Funny when you're dead how people start listenin’

If I die young bury me in satin
Lay me down on a bed of roses
Sink me in the river at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song
oh oh


The ballad of a dove
Go with peace and love
Gather up your tears, keep ‘em in your pocket
Save them for a time when your really gonna need 'em oh

The sharp knife of a short life, well
I’ve had just enough time

So put on your best boys and I’ll wear my pearls

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NJqUN9TClM&ob=av2e)



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I was listening to this song and I kept thinking what a possibility,dying young that is.Young lives cut short by selfishness,greed,inpatience and so many other things including others selfishness and greed and inpatience.How sad.I also read a blog this morning called Bowensheart.com a story of a family who really is struggling to save their very short life of their beautiful baby son.I pray God gives this family strenth and heals this child quickly and brings him safely through these surgerys he needs to have.
Back to short lives.
If your life was suddenly cut short what would be said of you?Where would you go?questions that always try and erge my brain to crazy with thoughts,thoughts for myself and also for others people I care very deeply about.I dont want to see people I love lost for eternity no matter if they died young or old I want them to know the comfort of our Lord Jesus I want them to have the eagerness to save others and share a glorious eternity with a saviour who wants nothing more than for us than to join him in heaven one day.
So if my life gets cut short what will my son, my husband say.What legacy do I leave to this earth?What will people remember of me?I want to be remembered as someone who gave her all for "the cause of his cross" I want to be seen more for him than me I long to be successful in that:)God Make me more than you in my life no matter it's length,I need to be you with skin to a world who may or may not know who you are.I pray at the end of each day I can truley see where you have used me and worked through me each day.

"Love your neighbor as yourself" Mark 12:31
“be conformed to the likeness of his Son” (Romans 8:29).

I cant take credit for what is written below but I found it encouraging and wanted to pass it along




To become more like Jesus, we must be willing to give up ourselves

I don't know about you, but I want to become more like Jesus.
As a single person, I've developed a lot of habits that aren't very positive. I can indulge my selfishness at home, but sometimes I wrongly let it influence my relationships with others.

I can eat whatever I like, even if it isn't good for me. Sometimes I watch TV programs that are a complete waste of time.

Those don't seem like major problems, but on reflection, they also don't seem like things Jesus would do. The Bible tells us that he enjoyed a good meal and conversation with all kinds of friends. He told people not to sin, but I don't get the impression that he was a killjoy when it came to innocent funOver the years, I've discovered an important truth:

never forgotten

911 NEVERFORGOTTEN


Hard to believe nine full years ago 9-11 terror attacks happened.I can remember waking up to my father and mother watching the tv as the first tower billowed smoke and the news reporter saying "its thought to be a small torrist plane that wanted to get a upclose and personal look at the trade centers" and I remember the gasps as that second plane came into veiw and it was known that something far more evil was in the works than a small plane that just accidently hit the tower.
How that one day has altered the events of our country the way we see things and the procedures we all must abide by to fly the friendly or sometimes not so friendly skies.Today is the anniversary and a day our country will remember for a long long time to come.Our prayers are with our country and also the familys that lost loved ones i n such a horrible was.Or honorable for the plane that crashed in Pa that day.
---------------------<---------------@ God is a god of healing and I believe he is still healing hearts so deeply affected that day.


We Will Never Forget 09/11/2001. Let us never forget those who perished on 9/11/2001. Thanks to each branch of the military for fighting for our FREEDOM and sacrificing their own lives for ours.

Today is my sisters birthday!but thats not what I remember about 1 year ago today well not the only thing.I remember taking a pregnancy test and finding out we were expecting baby number two.(baby 2 ended up in a miscarrige on Oct 19)I was thinking about it today and almost as soon as I started to I felt a small jab from number 3 almost as if God was reminding me This baby wouldnt be here today had that pregnancy not ended so horribly.I am sure it is all in Gods plan it was just a little surreal to think that one yr ago when I took that test I would have assumed I could fast foward to now and have a 3 month old baby now,instead of being 19 weeks pregnant again.I know God planned my life perfectly but it does make me a little sad because I am a mother of three and I have never meet one of them.however I dont dwell on this because I would have it no other way but his.

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.

I was talking of things I knew nothing about,things far too wonderful for me Job 42:3

losing friends

How sad it is to grow close to someone and then abruptly sometimes without much notice the friendship ends and sometimes with no real answer as to why.I recently lost a friend who I considered a good friend.It hurt.Her words in the ending text messages ring in my ears some days was she justified in saying them?I have asked God to reveal to me if I am in fact a lousy friend who dosent care,I guess the jury is still out on that one havent recieved a clear answer on that one yet.Maybe thats a selfish prayer to pray but it really is a question I would love to know the answer to.Maybe one day I will know.How frusterating to share so much of your thoughts and dreams with a person of like interests and dreams only to be wrote off.I have many other friends but this however is still upsetting to me.I feel God is telling me spiritually it is for my own good that he has other things for me,but maybe I am not hearing him say this at all?
I pray God that you heal the wounds that still remain from all broken friendships and that you will reveal to me in future realations with others how I can truley put others before myself.Help me love,care and pray for these people who have hurt me so deeply.Help me to be Jesus with skin to a lost world and even to those who know you as I do,teach me to learn from my mistakes and to really be a servant of yours.


A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 18:24