Thankfulness

Today is Thanksgiving. Please take time to thank the Lord for the blessings you have. Many are not as fortunate so we need to make sure we all pray for those who are suffering. God bless you all and have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Finally Home

My dear friend Krista English passed on to her reward on November 3rd. She leaves behind a husband and two teen boys. My heart is sad for her family but her suffering is over and she is sitting at the feet of Jesus.

Her Celebration of Life service was wonderful. She didn't want it to be sad and depressing. She wanted uplifting joyful worship songs and that is what she got. And most importantly she wanted those in attendance to know her Savior. She loved the Lord with all her heart and she taught her boys to love the Lord too.
I will miss you dear Krista!

Why??

My tablet died and so I'm stuck using a dinosaur of a laptop so I apologize for not posting sooner.
So my post is called "Why?" I don't understand why God allows mothers to die before their children grow up, get married and have children.
Right now there is a precious mom of two teen boys awaiting  for the Lord to call her home/ It's so hard to understand why God is allowing this to happen.
I wish I could be by her bedside to sing her into heaven. OH HOW I HATE CANCER!!!!!!!!!!!

Quick Post

I'm still here! I'm not going to write an actual post until tomorrow because it's getting late. So tomorrow I will write on some things that have been on my mind lately.

I Hate Cancer!

I hate it especially when children have it. My daughter Kaitlyn was at her yearly visit with the pediatric oncologist and there were so many children there. I hate the idea that children have to visit an oncologist. We met a mom whose daughter who is about age 10 had lymphoma. She had chemo and lost her hair but was cute as a button! Her daughter is so far doing well. My daughter is fine too. There is no sign the cancer has returned which we are ever so grateful!

A Calm Vent

Well I will try to be calm. I have brought the subject of leaving children in hot cars before. I just read an article about an irresponsible mom who left her two year old baby in the car while she shopped at Costco. Thankfully some shoppers saw the crying child and called 911. The mother shows up with one child in tow and was apologetic but the police were not having it. She was told her child could have died and was arrested for child endangerment.

Unfortunately not all children  are rescued in time. Each year it never fails that a child dies from being left in a hot car. There is absolutely no excuse for leaving a child in a car. If the child is asleep when you arrive at the store either turn around and go home or wake the child up. It is better to put up with a cranky child than planning a funeral for a dead one! Not to mention the prison time you're going to face.

That's my rant. I apologize for calling the mom I mentioned irresponsible but it just makes me so upset to hear about these types of stories.
This statement I'm going to make is often used to criticize those of us who chose to have more than one child. God gave you a brain. Use it! DO NOT LEAVE YOUR BABY IN A HOT CAR EVER!!!
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Music

Sometime ago I listened to a sermon about discerning Godly music. It talked about avoiding music that is dishonoring to the Lord, more specifically contemporary Christian music aka  CCM. I'm really not a huge fan of it anymore. I don't like the rock beat of it and alot of it is too "me" focused.
 I prefer hymns both old and new original ones. I like it even better with no instruments with just the voices. And I definitely do not like singing old hymns that have been modernized to have that CCM beat as though the original tune is broken.

The speaker played a portion of a CCM song the title I don't remember but the female singer voice was, well "breathy". I've heard this same "breathiness" in may secular love songs. It's really inappropriate if you're singing to the Lord.
  I know that women singers are usually targeted for singing this way, but I've heard some men CCM singers doing the same thing. My family listens to CCM in the car and some of the male singers are singing so breathy you'd think they were trying to seduce the listener.

Not all CCM is this way of course. I often wonder if it really should be sung in church though. Even the black gospel that we grew up with has changed with many of it being rap and hip hop style.

 I don't like leaving church feeling like I've been to a rock concert. Unfortunately many churches are like that now. That's why finding a church is going to be hard for me. My husband and teens CCM but I don't.

Well that is my "rant" for the day. This is something that has been on my mind for a long time.Perhaps I'm just old now.