Creative Homemaker

I see a glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel. There may be a job for Bear as a Chaplain. Things are still pretty undecided and up in the air, but for now there is hope. I'm convinced that God never gives us more than we can handle. Yet, it is never an easy road, for what good would an easy path do for you, there would be no growth, no stretching, and no muscle toning. This past year has been very hard, with unemployment, deaths, reposseessed vehicles, utilities disconnected. But it has also been sprinkled with grace. He has been there in the midst of the storm, gifts from friends, assistance with bills, gifts of food, and much much heartfelt prayers for our situation. Bear was ordained in February, he graduated from seminary in June and was commissioned as a Chaplain in the Individual Ready Reserve last month. I'll keep you updated as soon as we know the situation for sure, in the meantime, we would covet yur prayers on our behalf.

Beth Moore you have once again chipped away at what's eating me. Deep down in my heart of hearts, in the deep dark places of my soul, I am afraid that God is a taker and not a giver. Beth, why is it that whatever I am feeling, comes out in your study. For instance; you say, "Sometimes when you want to go on the ride of your life with Jesus, you have to let go of where you are right now." (or somehing like that, ok, I'm not the fastest note-taker ever...) and this: "what is keeping us from the ride of our lives with God? Ok, so, yes. I maybe having a hard time letting go of somethings. Well, like, income for instance, a house, schools for my kids...etc. And another thing: Abraham didn't know beforehand that he wasn't going through with Isaac on the alter. But we do. Hindsight is always 20/20. That's hard for me to put into perspective...how would I have handled the situation? Probably not without much screaming and falling on my face before God, and wh...

I had this post written earlier in my head and now it doesn't come easily for me. I had gone to a Beth Moore Bible study last night at my church and was feeling very lost and alone. The topic was inheritance. How in God's word it says that I am an heir with Christ. We discussed afterwards how sometimes you just don't feel this way or that and that is when you have to just believe the Words of God, even if you don't feel that way. Well, what if you can't even just believe that anymore. What if, you don't trust those words any longer. So what if God says he will never leave us of forsake us, if I feel left or forgotten, that makes it awfully hard to trust and believe then doesn't' it. What if God says He will give us the desires of our hearts, but the waiting period has been too long and you have lost the joy. What if it just takes too long and in the process you just can't take another step in any direction because you don't even know which way to...

I feel like I am the rag hanging in the middle of the rope in a giant game of tug of war. (Great picture, huh?) Back and forth, tugged here, yanked there, drug through the mud a little, squished by the teeming masses, ripped backwards only to start the whole process all over again. In order to save what is left of my little brain power, I'm just copying my facebook post, I'm too tired and discouraged to do anything more than this. "Due to a Department of the Army administrative glitch, Bear's packet did NOT make it before the board!! The next board meets June 23rd. We are slowly sinking...into despair, into debt, into the muck and mire of self pity. The DA is transitioning to a paperless board system, Bear's packet was there and complete, but for some reason did not get transmitted, (along with many other packets as well.) Big DA SNAFU!! I am so jealous of everyone else who has gone through this process. Why did it seem so easy!? Why is it so hard for us? Bear keep...

My sweet little great-nephew, Michael, has had serious brain issues. He had a tumor which was partially removed through an operation last year. He has been having chemo radiation therapy once a month to shrink the remaining portion of the tumor. It was surrounding his optical nerve and couldn't be completely removed. On Thursday, April 30th, he will be having another MRI to see if the tumor is shrinking and then later that afternoon he will have another chemo treatment.(Two weeks after that his Momma will be having a C-Cection to deliver a baby brother for Michael, please pray for her too.) Please pray that God will cause the tumor to shrink and no damage to the optical nerve has occurred. He is such a sweet little babe. I know that God can work miracles. I've seen Him do it.

I hung my clothes lines today. In honor of this springtime rite of passage, I'm reposting the rules, for those of you who don't know them already... 1. Wash the clothes line before hanging any clothes. Walk the length of each line with a damp cloth around the line. 2. Hang the clothes in a certain order and always hang whites with whites and hang them first. 3. Never hang a shirt by the shoulders, always by the tail. What would the neighbors think? 4. Wash day on a Monday...........never hang clothes on the weekend or Sunday for heaven's sake! 5. Hang the sheets and towels on the outside lines so you can hide your 'unmentionables' in the middle. 6. It doesn't matter if it is sub zero weather.............clothes would 'freeze dry.' (Too wet in my part of the world!) 7. Always gather the clothes pins when taking down dry clothes. Pins left on the line are 'tacky'. 8. Hang the clothes up so that each item does not need two clothes pins, but share o...

Bear's Chaplain packet will go before the board on the 13th of May; our anniversary and also two years to the day from when Bear got out of the military to pursue becoming a Chaplain. We are very excited that the packet has been pulled out of the recruiter's bottom drawer and will be submitted. It is with much prayerfulness that we have gotten to this point, and we are asking for prayer during the selection process. God is indeed sovereign and we are trusting Him for the outcome.