Where does the Time Go?

Time flies whether your having fun or not. Shane will be home on Sunday and I am very glad of that. Even though we have been able to communicate through Skype, email and facebook, I very much miss him and can't wait for him to be home. Shane will be able to share about his time in Brazil soon.

During Shane's time away, I have had meetings, and doctor's appts. and work parties. Our church finished up AWANAS for the year. I have accepted the position of director for the 5th & 6th grade girls for next year. I am continueing to meet with the 456 club through the summer, and we are trying to plan some short term mission trips in the mission committee. So I am trying to stay involved.

Austen had an eye appointment last week and we pick up his first pair of glasses tomorrow. He is very excited. He says it will comfirm his nerd status at school ...and he is happy about this.:) We have not been able to get him to swim lessons this month but he was able to show me his techniques he is learning at our office pool party. What a fun time! We made it a luau, so I dressed in a grass skirt and handed out lei's and had the pool fill with beach balls. Everyone had a good time with the hoola hoop and cannonball contests.

With all this it has been difficult to keep up the house work. The grass has grown so high that the lawn mower boggs down and over heats- its new too! I've worked on it for two days now and hopefully I can finish tomorrow. A friend from work gave me some elephant ears to plant under our oak tree in the front yard as well as some voilets. If they live, they will look really nice I think.

A blessing and a praise. Even though the economy doesn't seem to look great, I had my quarterly review and got a raise. This is helpful in many ways. I continue to pray for open opportunities for ministry at work and definitely need prayer for strength to be Christ in my workplace. It hasn't been easy working with other people(especially other women) when I'm used to working with one person(my husband) for the last 13 years. God is teaching how to be something I'm not. Patience, understanding, and when to speak and how to speak(that I think is the hardest). It is in these hard times that I want to quit because it's really not where I want to be, but I know from the past that God puts me in these situation to make me grow. Like 2 Peter 1 -making one's calling. My favorite scripture, a reminder of what God wants from me.

Angels watching over me!

I have to share as often as I can when God protects! We often forget when an instant happens when you know that God protected you and we don't testify about it. So I want to praise God for protecting me yesterday! I was sitting at a traffic light waiting for the light, dabbling in my purse, when I felt the urge to look in my rear view mirror. I thought I heard something. I saw a HUGE Dr Pepper truck stopped right at my bumper crooked and partly on the curb! If the angels hadn't stop it I would have been squashed like a bug! As I kept looking the passenger guy in the truck opened the door to look to see if they had actually hit me, but I knew he didn't. The light turned green and I was on my merry way praising and thanking God!