Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Friends!




The Lord has been helping me realize how blessed I am in the area of my friends! I have been blessed with several special friends over the years but there are two that have had a wonderful impact on my life and have become so dear to me, Mrs. Emily Baugh and Miss Tracey House. I've blogged about Emily before and how close we are, as we have been best friends for years and years, knowing each other since we were little. However, more recently the Lord thought I needed another very special best friend and has brought Tracey into my life. Tracey and I pretty much collided into each other.. with neither of us really expecting to become close friends. Me and Tracey started working at UPS at the same time and went through training together and have been working pretty much side by side since August 2007. However it wasn't untill the past six months - year that we have really gotten close. Someone recently actually commented that they didn't see me and Tracey as friends, but more as sisters...this is oh so true, but the funny thing was it took this comment to open both of our eyes to the reality of how close we really are. I'm so thankful for her! This girl is truly a wonderful woman of God, always encouraging me in my walk with Christ and always a listening ear when I need to vent or to think out loud. And of course... she's NEVER scared to be silly/crazy with me! (FYI: We are known for being silly and, as you may have already seen, taking silly-face pictures!) Enjoy SOME of our MANY pictures!

I'm so thankful for this wonderul friend the Lord has blessed me with!

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

What a day!

So this afternoon I went and had my wisdom teeth cut out... Not FUN! I was a little nervous, but overall I sruprised myself with how calm I was. I was put under, which was a great plus and relief and woke up not able to close my mouth due to all the gauz. I was still a little woozy from the drugs, so I had to have mom help me out to the car... but other than that I'm pretty sure I was pretty sober after everything and didn't do anything too silly. However, something from the surgery, either the anestethia, the pain meds, or the bleeding, made me sick...very sick. At one point we thought we were going to have to go the ER when after getting sick and putting gauz in my mouth again, my pain on one side spiked to the point I was violently shacking. We think a corner of the gauz got caught and was going into one of my holes, because shortly after we took it out and rearranged a new piece of gauz, the pain was a little better to handle and I was able to stop shaking.

So with all of this going on, shortly after we got home, we got a call from my grandfather. He has been undergoing chemo lately and had a scan today to check the progress after everything. He is to get the ressults of this scan next Monday, but the doctors were able to catch something else. The doctors called my Grampa and told him that they found that he has a blood clot that was heading to the lungs. They told him to go to the hospital ER, and that the hospital would be expecting them.

So as I head to bed tonight, I would like to ask everyone to pray for my grampa and for our family. My mom especially has had a lot to deal with today, from sick kid to sick dad...it's been a tad overwhelming but the Lord got us all through it and it turns out that my grampa will possibly be coming home in a couple days.

How grateful I am to the Lord for His amazing grace and presence in my life and for giving me such a great family. My mother and even my brother took great care of me today, even in the midst of this physical pain, I feel so blessed and grateful!

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Everyday Sunday ~ Hanging On
God, I'm in this place again,
Trying so hard not to fall,
but everything keeps coming down with the rain,
and I try so hard I forget to call
Everybody's looking around
And wants to be found
And I'm just hanging on
I give You all that I am
Everybody's looking around
And wants to be found
And I'm just hanging on
I give you all that I am
I come to You with all that I am
I bring to You all that I have
And all I have is nothing
And I keep on trying
And all I want is You
Everybody's looking around
And wants to be found
And I'm just hanging on
I give You all that I am
Everybody's looking around
And wants to be found
And I'm just hanging on
I give You all that I am
And as I sit here in the midst of You
I come to you
I come with all that I am
And as I sit here in the midst of you
I come to you
I come with all that I am
Everybody's looking around
And wants to be found
And I'm just hanging on
I give you all that I am
Everybody's looking around
And wants to be found
And I'm just hanging on
I give you all that I am
All that I am
And I'm just hanging on
I give you all that I am
You're everything I am
And I'm just hanging on
And I'm just hanging on
I give You all that I am

Going through the fire and the valleys



Wow... this week has been a roller coaster ride! The Lord has been giving me such a deeper meaning to the phrase, 'relying on Christ and trusting in His plan and that He is in control.' The Lord is also teaching me the speechless unjustifiable peace that He brings in the midst of roller coaster rides. In the past, when I've faced hard times, and when I feel out of control of my life as I have this week I emotionally shut down, trying to avoid feeling the hurt and pain. I shut down, close up, and turn inside to myself. I look to my own comforting/security techniques to get me through. My 'way of dealing' with things means getting furiously mad and shutting down. However, I realize that I wasn't dealing with anything and I especially wasn't glorifying God when doing that.


So this week has been the first time I can remember when I've felt totally out of control of my life, and have been trying to go about dealing with this in a God-honoring way. I felt/feel that I have no clue where God is taking me. However, I realize that I can't turn to me anymore... I now must turn to Christ; to trust Him to take care of me and to get me through; to ask Him for peace as I endure and go through these hard times and not run from them; to realize that I'm not in control, but that He is; to Glorify and Worship Christ even when I'm scared.


This new way of dealing with things is so nerve-wrecking for me (being that it's all-new... which adds more stress), but I must move forward with Christ and continue to worship Him. And as this week comes to close, I'm so grateful for the peace, comfort and courage that the Lord has oh so graciously lavished upon me, giving me the strength and boldness to push ahead! Glory be to our Great Glorious GOD!!!

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Dog Show!!!

So some of those who really know me, know that I love to watch dog shows! ( You can catch one/ a rerun of one every Saturday morning at 8 on Animal Planet) I could be very happy to sit and watch a dog show all day...and that's one of the things I've wanted to do for a while now... go and spend a weekend at a dog show. Well, someone told me that there are probably some around Louisville, (for some reason that had never occured to me) but I went and searched and sure enough there are. There is actually one March 11-14! Needless to say I'm super super super excited!!! I can't wait to go and to post pictures of it on here!!!