Camera happy...

I just wanted to show everybody how much Ava

is starting to look like her mom. :)

P.S. The only reason she looked at the camera was because

she wanted it and I had to hold her down - hence the arm across

my neck trying to push herself to it and my hand holding her chest

in another! Haha.. one of these days

she will just sit there. Maybe....

here ya go AUNT STEPH!!! <3!

This post is dedicated...

I am posting this for an old friend of mine.
He needs encouragement and I'm trying to share with him the wonderful things our God can do for him.

Please pray for him and his salvation.


"Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you"
1 Peter 5:7

something old, something new.

old.

new.

old.

new.

needless to say, ava is adorable...

and i am growing my hair out because i LOVE long hair again!

:)

"Fellowship in the Gospel"

Today was the perfect day for this reading. I read today's reading but at times, some things don't seem to stick as well. It's like God wanted today's reading to stick out more to others while November 10th's sticks more with me today. Perhaps September 2nd's reading will reach my heart on November 10th! :)

I really needed this!


"November 10, 2008
Fellowship in the Gospel
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. . . fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ . . . —1 Thessalonians 3:2

After sanctification, it is difficult to state what your purpose in life is, because God has moved you into His purpose through the Holy Spirit. He is using you now for His purposes throughout the world as He used His Son for the purpose of our salvation. If you seek great things for yourself, thinking, "God has called me for this and for that," you barricade God from using you. As long as you maintain your own personal interests and ambitions, you cannot be completely aligned or identified with God’s interests. This can only be accomplished by giving up all of your personal plans once and for all, and by allowing God to take you directly into His purpose for the world. Your understanding of your ways must also be surrendered, because they are now the ways of the Lord.
I must learn that the purpose of my life belongs to God, not me. God is using me from His great personal perspective, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him. I should never say, "Lord, this causes me such heartache." To talk that way makes me a stumbling block. When I stop telling God what I want, He can freely work His will in me without any hindrance. He can crush me, exalt me, or do anything else He chooses. He simply asks me to have absolute faith in Him and His goodness. Self-pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it I cannot be used by God for His purpose in the world. Doing this creates for me my own cozy "world within the world," and God will not be allowed to move me from it because of my fear of being "frost-bitten.""


+ <- Ava typed that plus sign. I couldn't bring myself to delete it.