Ooooo Lala LOVE!!

For our 12th Wedding Anniversary we went to Sand Hallow Lake 

and went camping in style in my Dad's 5th wheel. So nice! 

All weekend long we just relaxed and really did nothing!! 

What a blessed weekend!! Woot Woo!!!

                                                      Petals and Kisses show the way!

                                                       Kisses always points the way ;)

                                                               What matters most?!!

                                                                    Oooooo Lala!!!!

                                                        The sunsets were breath taking!!

                                                                       Lake view.

                                                                  Red Hot Sunset!!

                                                                 My Red relaxin'!!!
Sources:
I will always love you no matter what.

 picture: http://www.makeadare.com/dare/it-okay-still-love-you

MOVE!!!

               What is your favorite verse? What gives you peace when you hear it? What changes your direction when you hear it? God gives us His Word so we are not just touched but moved - moved to follow Him. This has been on my heart for awhile now. I am not here on earth to feel good all the time; I am here to move towards God and follow Him no matter what is my path.

"Then Jesus said, "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest." -Matthew 11:28

                I do not know about you but, I love to work hard though I love to play hard. My rest maybe reading a book, talking with a friend, listening to music. I have been convicted that resting does not mean do not move and just sit on my butt. Rest means move towards God, place all your burdens on Him, rest in knowing He has my back, and continue to follow Him. When we rest in Him, we have peace no matter the battle ahead or around us.

               Knowing that God is in control at all times gives me peace and I am able to rest and trust in Him no matter what is going on. He is amazing! Rest in God - by Moving towards Him.








Source: Get a move on picture: 
http://www.ymcadallas.org/Index.cfm?FuseAction=Page&PageID=1001995

Have you ever had one of those moments where you wrestle with God back and forth?

One of my friends a couple of weeks ago called and asked me to  take over her Bible study at the Juvenile Detention Center in our county. I told them I would pray about it but as I begin to pray I already start to doubt even before I ask. Here is pretty much how my conversations went over the week...

Me: "I was like I have never lead a Bible study, I am not a leader."
And God said, "But I am."
Me: "I don't know anyone there."
And God said, "I know everyone; remember I created them".
Me: "What if the kids do not like me?"
And God said, "I didn't call you to be liked, I called for you to preach the gospel".
Me: "I am not qualified."
And God said, "How many times I do I have to say, "I don't call the qualified; I qualify the called" ."
"Ok, Yes Lord, I trust in You and what You are doing."
God, says "don't worry. I know the people better than you, I know the situations and circumstances better than you, and I know you better than you. And yet I still called you to be used by Me."

Each time we wrestle I look back and ask myself why do I do that. God is always gonna win! And Thank You God that you do!! Thank you LORD!! Much appreciated that you would use me anyways!! God is so good!!

Source:
Wrestling with God picture:
http://www.holyboastnetwork.com/profiles/blogs/wrestling-with-god

God's timing is perfect!

My sister Malissa asked me to download her pictures off her old computer that crashed that she was able to turn on last night. While watching a movie with a woman who faced infertility, I bawled and bawled. I couldn't stop crying. It was so amazing how God knows exactly what we need when we need it. He had it all planned before I even started the movie. I didn't know that one of the characters lost 3 babies and faced infertility, but God did. God's timing is perfect! Then I found a picture of my memorial flowers, so excited since my pictures were lost when last computer crashed. It's amazing how one small picture could come at the time when I needed it so much. God's timing was so perfect. Thank you Lord for sending that picture to me. Thank you for reminding that my babies
are happily with you. You always know the perfect times to remind me.
YOU are AMAZING!!!!

http://180movie.com/

Watched this short documentary and was even more changed. If you have thought you valued life before, it really makes you think all your thoughts through, not just by making one step comments. Would love to hear what you think.

Know that GOD has plans!

         Lately I have been struggling with plans for my future, school, house, work, family... Then I hear "you ain't going anywhere", "you cannot do anything", "look at this mess"... Negative Negative... Beat up Beat up... It is so hard sometimes to tell Satan to get up and get out. You get stuck in a rut and second guess yourself and most of all second guess God. My week did a 180 this week when I was struggling with a lot of things, I went to our women's meeting at church and asked for prayer. I felt weights being lifted off my shoulders. That night felt peace beyond understanding. 


         The next morning I woke up at 3 am excited for my new day, I made my self go back to sleep and woke again at 4am. I finally decided to get up and get ready to go to Vegas with a very good friend of mine Tracie. Once in a while I go to Vegas with her to volunteer at the women's shelter in the soup kitchen for lunch, then at off to First Choices, crisis pregnancy center in down town Vegas. I worked in the office, going paperwork and putting adoption packets together. As I sat in the back putting the adoption packets together, God pressed it on my heart that I was there to do just that pray and praise.  I sang praise songs and prayed for the full-overflowing waiting room.  Amazing things happened that day! Not just in the lives of the ladies there but also in my own life and heart. 


God sometimes has to remind us over and over the truths of His Word. 


"¹¹ For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. ¹² Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. ¹³ You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. ¹⁴ I will be found by you,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you,’ declares the LORD, ‘and I will bring you back to the place from where I sent you into exile.’" -Jeremiah 29:11-15

On our way home listening to Christian radio station we heard a pastor share, "When satan throws your past in your face remind him of his future"! 


I knew God was reminding me who has my future in His hands. Thank you Lord for being faithful to me always. 

New Creation

Before we all come to Christ we are all wretches - worms with no hope. Jesus is the one who brings hope that changes our hearts and takes a worm that can never change and makes a new creation. Because of His change, His guidance, His mercy, grace and love that worm turns into a beautiful butterfly. God will never leave you nor forsake you just like the butterfly can never return to be a worm. Thank you God for saving me from my self, giving me a new heart, and making me a new creation. Thank that you will never give up on me and never leaving me. 

                                             God never calls you by your shame; He always calls by your name.