Pray the Hardest, when it is the hardest to pray

         Last week, during my "Called to be a Keeper" Bible study, we were talking about setting an example. Not just any example but an example for the children. It just made me think about how I was raised and how I want to raise my own children. I noticed that I was raised in a lot of ways that the chapter talked about and it got me thinking about my own ways to raise children.           I could name and explain 4 of the things that my parents did with me that I want to do to my future children not only to pass on the traditions but because it is really meaningful for life too. Here is the first 4 things that I was raised with: Books with great messages, Putting them to bed with the Word and prayer, church was never optional, and making wise use of care time. Some other ideas that would use for me were: Responsibility and Money, purity, and Teach kindness to one another. I might explain all of them or just some of them, we'll see how...

        This is more for me to memorize so I'm not going to explain anything but I don't mind sharing it while I remember it. She said this quote to me during one night, on the east coast trip, while we were in the hotel room. We were talking about sewing and quilting and even needlework. We were even talking about how talented my mom was because of all the card-making and crafts she does. The quote is:         "You are creative and really smart but you need to shine like you know that. You have things that are holding you back."-Sharon Kerr

  "When I feel like giving up, I don’t have to comprehend the entire journey. I only need enough strength to take one more step. "- Rachel Wojo             This quote was in one of my devos. this past week from Proverbs 31 ministries and I loved it because it is how I feel sometimes. There are times where I think I have to know and/or plan out the whole Journey but really I don't have to. God has that all taken care of. I just have to trust Him to lead me where He wants me to go. I only need the strength to take one step at a time and I'm happy about that because I can't do more then that. I am human and I will mess up if I try and I have done just that.              That is why we ask for our "daily bread". It is daily for a reason, not yearly, weekly, or lifetime, but daily. I also like to talk about this topic because I felt like this is what the sermon was on last night at chu...

          "Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it." -  Proverbs 22:6             "Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward."- Psalm 127:3            I know the title sounds strange but when you have worked with both, you can really tell the difference. I use to work with just "normal" preschools so I didn't know there was a difference but after working at a children's shelter things are never the same, when you go back to a "normal" preschool. The children at both places have or will touch your life in different ways. Of course, it is more relaxing at a "normal" preschool compared to a children's shelter and the preschools are more my type of relaxation.             One big thing that I can tell at a "normal" and happy preschool is that the children are more happier and if they a...

         It is really funny and strange because I felt like God was teaching a lot to me about Love and Trust. He could, also, be teaching me to be happy with who and where I am right now and will be in the future. I had so many talks with people and so many verses pointed out to me yesterday that it was, honestly feeling like God was talking to me throughout the day. I will write the verses and quotes out and see what you all think. It also helps me think right so I can make sense of it because I know God is trying to tell me something.          Here are the verses: Luke 16:10-    “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much,  and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. 1 Sam. 16:7-  "But the  Lord  said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The  Lord  does not look at the things people lo...

       "Some dreams are worth dropping other dreams for sometimes."- Tiffney Wilson         It is amazing what I come up with while talking to friends whether it is face to face or over the computer to them. I say things to them, sometimes, that I need to take into consideration myself. Those words of wisdom or great ideas don't come out until I can tell or write them out. One of my friends had to give up one of their dreams to do another dream that they want to accomplish. I know that we have all our life to live and that we, hopefully, have time to make all our dreams to come true but we never are for sure about that.        This dream my friend had was a dream that they have been doing for awhile but decided to do something for one day in a different way.  My friend had to give something up to accomplish another dream and it was a personal dream. A dream that needed to be done for my friend, not for everyone else. So...

        Go back to the past 3 years starting in Oct of the year 2012 in my life and you will get why I titled this entry what I did. To me, since then, things I have felt like I'm in the doubting stages of things and have been for awhile now. Things haven't been so great for me in the past 3 years. Yes, things have changed, good and bad, and I have changed a long with those things. I've changed only to become stronger and trusting in God more but it is still strange how God does it because these past three years have been nothing like I have planned.         Go back the Oct. 2012, when my Grandad passed away. This month marked the 3rd anniversary of his passing. and when you think about it that is when everything starting going downhill for me. That is when I lost my first job here in AR that Dec. but I started a new one in Jan. 2013, which I thought would last longer then it did. I think I lost my first job because I was so stress and hurt by th...

        I learned a lot of lessons on my trip to the east coast. I went with a bunch of older people and they would be like grandmas and grandpas to me. It was a whole bus full of those people so I got a lot of wisdom on the trip but most of the lessons came from my old babysitters. I don't know how much more simple you can get when you are on a trip with a simple country women as a "grandma". I just saw my whole life flash before for eyes on that trip with her.           When I say my life, I mean my childhood again and my future. I really saw that what researchers say about children learning things and their personalities before 5 age of years is so true. Someone that I really cared about, which was my babysitter's husband, we talked a lot about him on that trip. There was something that my babysitter said about him and that was: "He was sweet and outgoing just like his mother." That brought me back to all the times I would go out and do f...

         I know that I am going out of order for a little bit but this is just something that I need to write about and get it off my mind. Something that I feel like God is teaching me but not in the way that I wanted Him to but it could only be better because it is His Way and not mine. It all as to do with my financial situation. I'm not going into detail because that isn't right but it is strange in some ways. It is strange when you see your whole life was dependent on money when you had but when you don't or not that same amount, it really worries you.          You are freaked out all the time and really have to be careful on how you spend it because you don't have that money to waste. For me, it is more time alone in my apartment because I can't go eat out or have coffee with friends. Sometimes I wonder if that wasn't my problem before everything happened that recently has happened to me. I wonder if I got so caught up in money th...

        I said that I was going to tell you about my thoughts on this trip because it was the first one that I had in a long time where I actually felt calm but I still have some things to tell you about the places we saw. I will tell you about the cruise first and then tell you about the famous peoples' houses we also saw. Some of the pictures are up on computer if you want to read and compare them. Maybe about half of them are up now and the other half will be up by the end of the week. I promise.          The cruise I was was on was on a small port boat on a lake in Maine. I said on a lake because I can't say or spell the name of the lake to where you could understand it. It was a luncheon cruise so that means we had lunch on the boat. It wasn't a fancy cruise at all. It was a cruise where we just had lunch and heard the captain talk about what we went passed and other things but you couldn't hear the captain very much. I will agree, thou...

         I am back from my week and a half Fall trip on the east coast. I got back a day ago but I have been busy catching up with family. It was a blast and I got to see some pretty neat and dreaming things. I wish I could tell you all about it in one entry but it will take more then one. It might be all I talk about this month or these next two weeks. I went with an old friend that could be my grandma, in fact that is what I called her because I didn't want to explain the whole story to strange people. She was actually my old babysitter and I went because her husband passed away last year.          It was a strange feeling since I just lost my last grandma a couple of months ago but then again it was a good feeling I still had a person that age that could be my grandma if need be. Anyways, I have learned some life lessons from the trip and from her that I want to write about but now I am just going to write some about what we did on t...