Beautiful Jesus, how may I bless Your heart?
Knees to the earth I bow down to everything You are.
Knees to the earth
Beautiful Jesus
How may I bless Your heart?
Knees to the earth I bow down to everything You are.
Beautiful Jesus
You are my only worth.
So let me embrace You always as I walk this earth.
- Watermark
I'd like to draw attention once again to the section on the left hand side of my blog with the special prayer request buttons. I will be adding another button to that list tonight. This button is for Heather. I've never met Heather, but I read her blog and have prayed frequently for her little girl. Her little girl is Emma Grace and a prayer button for little Emma Grace has been on the left hand side of my blog for nearly as long as I've had a blog. It's somewhat funny how this blog has made this world a little bit smaller and a lot more personal as I am drawn to the lives and prayer needs of others and their children. I know not everyone is who they claim to be online and I am careful who I read and choose to keep tabs on. It is somewhat odd how people I've never met, have made my laugh and made me cry, encouraged me in my biblical responsibilities to my family and to God, and some have recently prompted me to bow my head in prayer for them. Here is why I am requesting prayers on Heather's behalf and adding her prayer button underneath her daughter's in my side bar.
Heather recently had a MRI come back showing what doctors have called an inoperable brain tumor. Following Heather as she opens her heart through this has been nothing short of encouraging and inspiring. In situations where faith is tested she is standing strong. I know she may not feel strong, but I also know in our weakness He is strong.
This news of Heather's ordeal has struck me a little more personally than just reading about some stranger with a brain tumor. Not only because I've followed Heather and Emma Grace's stories for so long they hardly feel like strangers, but it is even more personal than that. For the past few months I have had some health issues and recently had my own brain scan done - Thankfully my scan came back clear of any tumors and blockages, and we are pursuing other possibilities for my concerns.
I often wonder if I would have withstood an unfavorable diagnosis such as she has. One thing is for certain, if you want to see faith in action all you have to do is read any of Heather's post and know where she stands. She truly has a testimony. I hope that anyone left reading my blog will offer up prayers on Heather's behalf and send her an encouraging word or two.
There are other ladies organizing a love offering/web-a-thon of sorts for Heather tomorrow. They would like to help as she is headed to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota on April 25th- if anyone is interested in participating with that 'BooMama' has the details here on her site.
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Psalm 68:19
Well, I apologize for the lack of new posts here since November, and if it's just Mom and Dad left as my faithful readers I can completely understand. There is no real way to put into writing all the details to fill in the blanks for the months I've been on a blogging break. So, I've decided to do it in pictures.
Her favorite place with all her animals:
If sissy wants to fit on the couch :
'K' helped sissy prepare our scaled down Christmas tree
Every year we have a big Christmas party at our home on Christmas Eve. My sisters and their children, my dad and stepmother, and my stepbrother came. Here are 2 of my younger sisters with 'K'
My stepbrother
My sister Natalie and my stepmother
All the kids get to open the presents from their grandparents at the party. They love it! Here is sissy and cousin "care bear" showing baby 'K' how to open presents.
The tree Christmas morning - before the chaos
Big brother 'J' finally gets a haircut - BEFORE
AFTER!
January was filled with sissy's basketball games
'K' loves basketballs! Good thing there were extras around the court just for little ones to play with.
Snack time - Look how healthy!
Why is she looking so excited?
Hmm - forget healthy! Let's have cookies
Randy and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary Feb.1st! Here are my anniversary gifts. Who would have ever thought I'd be so excited to get a washing machine as a present.
Here is what she does when she is dressed for church. She watches Barney with Barney while the rest of us finish getting ready. See the "Barney trance"
Valentines Day they all got chocolate apples (with a gummy worm) from me. Here they are enjoying their apples. That is 'K's new face when you tell her to say "cheese"....she does this every time you get out the camera. I think it is cute - :)
Sleeping on the couch in Barney P.J.s
Ok - that catches up through the end of February. Next post will have March and April pictures
