Pray...

It's not often that all my blogs focus on one thing. I keep them separate for a reason. If you follow more then one of them forgive me the multiple posts. But tonight I'm begging you...believer to believer, mama to mama, friend to friend. please pray for Stellan and his family.


If you've never heard of him pop on over by clicking the button. His story is an amazing testament to what a mighty God we serve. Tonight, just like the last few nights I will be on my knees begging God to grant his mother strength to accept His will for her child, and pleading that he will be healed. Please join me and countless others....let our voices be one unified voice bringing this child to the Great Physician.

Seeing His hand.

My life has been chaotic. It has been exhausting. I have failed to do many things l've planned the last month. I've had sick kids, been a single-ish mom, and had many days where I've wept for the crosses people I love are baring. Now that may sound bad, but I will tell this...I have been seeing Gods hands at work.

I have cried out as He grab me close and calmed me down.

Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand -Isaiah 41:10

...It's just a moment, my love. You can do this for a moment.

I have seen Him mold hardships into His glory.

For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when
we first believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ
-Hebrews 3:14

....my friends your faith and trust in His Will inspires me, and many others. Your acts of trust are bringing Him glory.

I have felt His call.

I will teach all your children, and they will enjoy great peace -Isaiah 54:13

Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.- Romans 12:2

...we will be using Charlotte Mason next year for home schooling. I am intimidated by the curriculum but He is my masters so I will follow.

I have watched Him touch my husbands heart.

And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due
season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.-Galatians 6:9

....Church is now a priority. He invited his best friend to attend with us (GASP!). He likes my christian music, and said he would go to a concert with me when I told him a few friends of ours just went. He is growing and his heart is turning to our King.

So in the chaos He is there, working. His hands are busier then a mother of 3 trying to conquer the world or just The leaning tower of dishes.....He is here, and I am grateful for His hands.

Just a moment....

I wanted to share this excerpt from Max Lucado "It's not about ME" . I keep flagging sections to go back and read again. This particular section spoke so deeply to me:

The brevity of life grants power to abide, not an excuse to bail. Fleeting days don't justify fleeing problems. Fleeting days strengthen us to endure problems. Will your problems pass? No guarantee they will. Will your pain cease? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But heaven gives us this promise: "our light affliction, which is for but a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" (2 Corinthians 4:17 nkjv)
The words "weight of glory" conjure up images of the ancient pan scale. Remember the blindfolded lady of justice? She holds a pan scale-two pans, one on either side of the needle. The weight of a purchase would be determined by placing weights on one side and the purchase on the other.
God does the same with your struggles, On one side He stacks all your burdens. Famines. Firings. Parents who forgot you. Bosses who ignore you.Bad breaks, bad health, bad days. Stack them up and watch one side of the pan scale plummet.
Now witness Gods response. Does He remove them? Eliminate the burdens? No, rather then take them, He offsets them. He places an eternal weight of glory on the other side. Endless joy. Measureless peace. An eternity of Him. Watch what happens when He sets eternity on your scale.
Everything changes! the burdens lift. The heavy becomes light when weighed against eternity. If life is "just a moment" can't we endure any challenge for a moment?
We can be sick for just a moment.
We can be lonely for just a moment.
We can be persecuted for just a moment.
We can struggle for just a moment.
Can't we?
Can't we wait for our peace? It's not about us anyway. And it's certainly not about now.

-It's not about Me
By Max Lucado
chapter 5 pg54-56

......reading that was like a light bulb moment for me. It's not easy to think of our HUGE issues as being just a moment within a moment, but it is....

All of it is only a moment. This earth, these bodies, they are not our home. He paid the price to assure that with His blood, the least I can do is accept His gift and humbly surrender every moment on this fleeting earth to Him, and His will.