A Little More

Miranda has added a link on your right to her  GoFundMe page.  You may donate whatever the Lord lays on your heart. She is really excited about going. She will several weeks of lectures and then she will even more weeks out in the field which will most likely in the Philippines.  I'm nervous sending her to a foreign country but she will be safe. The Lord will be protecting her every inch of the way.

For Whatever Reason

I guess I actually forgot to submit my latest post or something so for whatever reason it's lost.  So anyway, lots of goings on in our lives. The big thing is if the Lord wills, our daughter Miranda will be going on a DTS (Discipleship Training School) through YWAM (Youth with a Mission) in the UK. She is still short the money and her session starts April 2nd.
I know if it's God's will He will make a way but currently I must admit it seems hopeless. If she can't make this session there is another one in six months but that would have her gone at Christmas  and all the other holidays that would occur while she is gone. I can handle her being away during Mother's Day though I would be sad but the holidays that's a different story. So whatever God wants as the old hymns goes " My Heart Says Amen to Your Will"


I'm thinking of crocheting items to sell but I'm not sure what to sell.  I plan to look around online to see what people are making and selling and for how much. I've been challenging myself to try more advanced stitches and patterns  and I've been loving it.
More later...

Sunday Church and MLK Day

Sunday at church we had combined services with our English speaking congregation and the Spanish speaking congregation that meet after our service. We enjoyed a wonderful bilingual service. Our pastor was out because he and his wife had just been blessed with a another baby so the pastor of the Spanish speaking congregation gave a sermon on love. He also read portions of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream " speech.  What a wonderful speech that was!




It's so sad that in 2014 people still hate people because of skin color. I watched a snippet of an interview with certain actress and was just horrified of the treatment that she received when she married a white man.


This actress and her sister who is also an actress are half black and half white and quite honestly I don't understand why people made such an issue out of something that is really none of their business. I mean how dare they!






I don't even notice (or care!) anymore if people give Tim and I weird looks. My family loves him because everyone in my most of my nieces and nephews are of mixed race. Of various races I might add and we don't care about the color of someone's skin.


 Martin Luther King Day was celebrated over all the nation but many people fail to realize that Dr. King was also a godly man who believed the Bible. Which means he would have never approved of some of all these unbiblical rights people seem to think he would have fought for.



What our nation needs to do is turn to Jesus. He is our one and only hope!

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year!
 I'm going to list some of my goals for 2014. Lord willing these are my goals for 2014.

• Walk more closely with the Lord.
• Read through the Bible in a year
• Get my house more organized
• Get my old sewing machine moved out and given away
•  Crochet at least one project that has stitches that I haven't tried before
• Sew at least one small project like a quilt or baby dress  

I really need to draw nearer to the Lord and not compromise my convictions or conform to the world's ideas. This is really hard to do because I don't want to be considered a fuddy duddy. So I'm relying on the God to help me.
I got a simple Bible reading plan that I hope I can stay faithful to which will help me read through the Bible in a year. I don't just want to read the Word but I want to meditate on what I read. It's so easy to just follow a reading schedule and call it a day. I don't want to do that.

My house is a complete wreck! I think I really need to get into Flylady again. I have her book Sink Reflections. It's an older copy and I'm sure it's been updated but I can definitely use what's in the book.


I have an old sewing machine with a cabinet that was giving to me free so "freely I received and freely I give away". I was blessed a few years ago with a brand new Singer for free from sewing who couldn't use it anymore so I don't need two sewing machines.

As far as crocheting and sewing are concerned I'm excited to learn more skills. I'm in the middle of crocheting Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes. This pattern has decreasing and increasing which I had never tried before. I watched a YouTube video on decreasing and was surprised how easy it is to do.
Sewing might be a little hard for me because it is frustrating changing the needle and trying to figure out the correct tension.

Merry Christmas

I hope you all had a great Christmas. It was quiet over at our house. Tim and I have been fighting colds so we missed Christmas Eve service last night. Today we feel somewhat better so we were able to enjoy the day.

My daughters got me a new mp3 player that I can do videos so I plan to figure out how to work since I'm tech challenged! Anyway, I  will just go ahead and use YouTube to do my videos.
 More later...

Another Long Delay Between Posts

I'm sorry for long delay. First thing I want to address is the YouTube video. Right now I'm a little dismayed with them because of their refusal to take down sexually explicit videos. Perhaps their idea of offensive videos is different from mine. Case in point is there is a video on the home page of a completely naked man with a metal tape measure and I need say more. Though nothing is seen because you just see his full profile but it's extremely obvious what message he is trying to get across.

I have told my girls not to sign on to the YouTube homepage but to sign on from like their Gmail that way they will be at their own page and the video won't be there.
I wonder what this world is coming to!
Then there is the new thing  I now call  Greedy Thursday in which stores open on Thanksgiving Day, some as early as 6:00AM in order to outsell the competition. Never mind the employees want to be with their families for the holiday. It just so sad the way society has become.  Greedy and godless!

Technical Difficulties

Well I'm hammering having some troubles trying to make a video. First I kept stumbling over my words then I would forget what I want to say. I finally got it all together and discovered my voice didn't come through on playback. I don't know what's up with my web cam. I'll keep on trying until I can get it right.