Flue!!!!

Achy, hot, cold, shivery, stuffed. Now I wish I had more compassion on my kids when they got this last week.
Bleck.
You may wish to wash your eyes with disinfectent after reading this blog. I hear it's contageous.
I'M KIDDING! PLEASE DON'T DO THAT!
Being sick always messes with my sense of humor. Things I think are funny aren't, and then I say things that make people laugh, and I can't figure out what they're laughing at.
I will post this before I get into too much trouble.

A Season of Thanksgiving

I could never thank my Saviour enough for all the blessings He has poured out on me. But one of the things I love particularly about this season is the focus I can take on giving thanks for the first and most important Gift He ever gave.

I was lost. Before the foundations of the world, God looked ahead to see me. He saw that I was not only lost, but that nothing in me would seek after God. I was drawn aside in my own ways and without hope of redemption.

So God made a plan way back then to save my lost soul. The only way for me to escape the penalty of my sins was for God to come in the flesh and substitute Himself for me.

2Co 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

This He did, and He gave Himself freely. One special night a baby was born in a barn like a lamb. This Child grew in knowledge and wisdom, and was the only person to ever live His life completely free and pure of all sin. He was born with the intent to be a sacrifice that would remove my sin from me, freeing me from it.

1Jo 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Thank the Lord for His mercy to me! When God casts away sin and death into the lake of fire, I will not belong to it! I know this because of what the Bible says, "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:13 I called on that name to save me, and repented of my sin. Now I owe Him a debt of thanks.

Now as I thank God for my family, our health, our comfort, my country, our freedom, and all the other things, I know that nothing compares to the Gift of Christ. Without Him, all of the others are only temporary balm to a hopeless life--I would be bound with my sins to the place they are going, and so would my husband, my children, everyone!

It humbles me deeply when I consider how desparate my need for Christ is, and fills me with joy when I consider the price that God put on my soul. To know just how much I am loved by the One Who knows me the best!

God is good!

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and take some time to pay on your own debt of thanksgiving if you have been saved. If not, let me say that there is nothing in this life that is worth hanging on to if it will lose you the salvation God offers!

Mat 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Brand New Baby!!

Here he is! Presenting the long awaited, much anticipated David! We think he is the cutest little boy on the planet, bar none, but we might just be slightly delerious over the loss of sleep! He came at a long and lank 9 pounds, 22 inches, and he's doing fabulously. We are enjoying him throughly, and thank the Lord for this precious soul added to our family!

Psa 127:3-5 "Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate."