It was like having the Best Dream Ever!

I thought about my old xanga site today, and visited it.

Oh, the sweet, sweet memories! My 'old' life, that I loved and didn't want to leave is documented. Reading these posts transports me to our office in the blue house. It is precious, and reminds me that blogging IS beneficial - a digital scrapbook of sorts.

I decided to bring some of my old posts into this blog. Hopefully I can eventually figure out how to move them to a different date so they are in chronological order, because it will bug me to see 2005 mixed in with 2009 : )

February 26, 2006

Walking in the Wilderness

"Abraham was a very wealthy man who had many servants. He himself, knowing well what makes a good servant, was a faithful and obedient servant of God.

Nowadays most of us have never had servants and therefore have almost no notion of what it means to be one. It means first of all to have a master--that is, to belong to someone else. He can do what he wants with you; you are there to do for him. You are at his disposal. It is not for you to reason why he asks something of you; it is yours only to do it. So long as you are in his service, you are not your own (1 Cor 6:20). Abraham was a man full of faith, obedient to his Lord, readily at his command.

Master, help me to live today according to your desires, and when I reach home may You be able to say, "Well done, good and faithful servant."

But the important thing in life is not to be vindicated, nor to see miracles, but to walk by faith--that is, to take God at his word. So shall we live.

So shall we follow Christ, content to do without the startling, the dramatic evidences that God is God, believing instead--in the face of all the enemy's taunts--the spoken Word of Him who calls Himself the I AM. Even in the wilderness, even in our isolation and hunger, we need not ask for more than the Bread of Heaven.

Give us this day, Lord, Not the miracles our human hearts long for, Not the proud but brief satisfaction of saying to doubters, "I told you so!" But give us daily bread--only that which You see will truly nourish us in our pilgrimage towards home."

These words from Elisabeth Elliot have spoke volumes to me in the last week. I am a 'doer', and I wonder 'What is God doing with me?" And my measley little heart and mind can't comprehend that somehow, someway, He alone is enough.

February 1, 2006

The gorgeous mom and daughter at Jenni's sweet 16 party! It was the most enchanting party I've ever attended. Ken and Joy were the grateful parents who exuded love, Ben was the younger brother who 'tolerated' all of this tea-party/princess nonsense with a grin, and Jenni was gracious and appreciative. All her friends were not only sweet and fun, they were also gorgeous!

December 22, 2005

Jenni came over today to help me memorize my vowels. She is such a sweetie, I don't know what I'd do without her!! hee hee (This was a joke that came from a miscommunication between us that day, but now I don't remember what we were really trying to say!) And in between all our hard work, we made gingerbread houses. I put as much candy on mine as possible as I'm giving it to our neighbor boys; Jenni's was a work of artistic beauty; and Olivia's was, well... let's just say it was 'one of a kind'. LOL Give a 4-year-old a bag of icing, some candy, and it's AMAZING what they can do!

Jenn still working on her house - all the snow on the botton was covered in sparkly icing sugar - very niiiiice ; )

Olivia's Cabana-style gingerbread house. Yes, that is a Reese cup all those umbrellas are stuck in!

November 29, 2005

10 years ago I was:
married for 1 year
doing the Jr. High youth group at church
living in cute duplex with my honey in Lynden, Washington
just learning how to do email - ooooooh - ahhhhhhh!

5 years ago I was:
working full time at Capitol Copy
7 months pregnant (with Olivia)
wondering if Warren would be full time at Borden and get health insurance before the baby was born and I started to work only part time

1 year ago I was:
just getting back from a stress-filled 11 days in Washington
trying to decide if we should do the 'Santa' thing with Olivia

Yesterday I:
Wrapped presents with my Mom for 6 hours
Watched a great movie on TNT - the Engagement Ring
Didn't take a shower
had lunch at Panera with my honey without O

5 snacks I enjoy:
popcorn
ice cream
Apples with peanut butter
any dips with bread

5 songs I know all the words to:
When I survery the Wondrous Cross
The Love of God
Any Wham! song- how sad, I know
Most any Christmas song
The Sound of Music soundtrack

5 things I would do with 100 million dollars:
Buy a farm for my honey
Pay for schooling for all of my family and set up scholarship funds for others
Give a LOT of it away
buy a bus for kids club
travel, travel, travel, travel, travel

5 places I would run away to:
Well, I'd tell ya, but then I'd have to kill ya!

5 favorite TV shows:
Everybody loves Raymond
Matlock ( I know!)
Monk
Numbers
Little Einsteins
5 bad habits:
Eating when not hungry
worrying
forgetting what I'm supposed to do
Not taking my problems to the Lord first
turning on the t.v. automatically

5 biggest joys
the hope of heaven
Warren and Olivia
my family
Good old friends and good new ones
hugs

That is it for the old posts today. The next ones are picking out our Christmas tree at the Old Log Cabin Plantation. I start to miss our old life tooooooooooooo much.