Ladies shopping trip

What a nice day of fellowship we had.
19 ladies left our church at 8am and traveled to a neat store in Elk hart (on old us 20)
Called Your Hearts Desire. It was a store of antiques, crafts and lots of goodies.
We only spent 45 minutes there, which was not enough time, but it was a store that none of the ladies had been in before, so they can now go back!
It also has a neat little area to eat lunch. So there you go ladies.. Nice lunch out and great shopping. We than traveled on to Michigan City to the outlet stores.
We played lots of games and learned to know the ladies in our church better!
We arrived back at 8pm. We had lots of packages and lots of good memories.
The verse for the day was "Come to me all you that are weary and carry heavy burdens and I will give you rest: Matthew 11:28 Shopping can be relaxing in Him!
And our prayers for the day were:
1) As I go shopping with my sisters, Lord help me to leave my family and job in your hands
2) As I go shopping today help me to love my sisters and care for them with love
3) As I go shoipping today help me to see others as you would see them
4) As I go shopping toay help me see the clerks and other people that need you and give them a smile from you
5) As I go shopping today help me to see those wonderful sales

Thank you Jesus

We all came back rested and content. Only real shoppers would understand that statement!!
Have a wonderful day!

Loosing those awful pounds

Side note to all
I am continuing to work on those unwanted pounds.
I will have a new picture on shortly of me being a few pounds lighter
I give God the glory, cause I can not do this on my own.
Yesterday I took a gift certified given to me, by some wonderful ladies at the church to be pampered.
4 1/2 hours later, I was done. It was wonderful thank you ladies!!
As I was having a massage of oils and lotions, I told the lady that this is what Esther must of had for 12 months.
Esther had 12 months of beauty treatments before she could go into see the king.
What do I need to do inside to be ready to meet my King each day??
I was able to share the story of Esther to her, She could not go anywhere. she had to listen.
God was so good, what awesome time we had sharing about our Lord and how she to wanted to know Him more.
God is good all the time!!

Jeremiah 1:6-9
This is an awsome passage for this time in our life
you know it is soon time to vote and sometimes we do not know how to speak up, but this is
one way, one big way that you can speak up.
Voting for the man who still has values, and still follows Gods ways
Verse one says " Ah Sovereign Lord, I said I do not know how to speak; I am only a child.
But the Lord said, do not say you are only a child. You MUST GO to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. DO NOT be afraid of them for I am with you and will rescue you declares the Lord. Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me "now I have out my words in your mouth.

What an awsome God we have. Each day my communion with him grows sweeter and sweeter.
I do not know what I would do without my truest friend and Father, Jesus Christ.

I have an awsome family and church family who really loves and cared for us. They truly show love and caring by doing life together. We pray for each other daily and meet weekly to share together. The ladies group is studing He speaks to me. This week we are studing what it means to give up, empty myself of things that keep me from doing Gods will.
Jesus gave up the right of being fully God and he became fully Man.
These were rights that he had but choose to give them up.
What rights do we have that we need to choose to give up for our Lord?
What is it that we need to empty to accomplish Gods mission in our life.
If we do not surrender ,these issues really contain poision that if kept, will kill the wonderful future God has for me and you.
Paul gave up his rights and ended up in jail
Shad, meshach and abednego thrown into the fire
Joseph went to jail for refusing Potiphars wife
Hosea took on an adulterous wife.
BUT look at the rewards of obedience each one of these had because they were obedient
By obeying we are getting ready to hear Gods voice
By sacrificing our own will and desires we are putting ourselves in his will
By doing these we will be blessed!!

Our God is awsome. If you do not know Him I would love to show you who he is!!

If you do know Him tell me what he is doing in your life right now?
What do you feel God is asking you to do to become more obedient to Him?

The love of God is greater than my tongue can express!

I have been poundering the verses in John 15 where it says
"I am the true VINE and my Father is the Gardner. He lops off every branch that doesn't produce. and he prunes those branches that bear fruit for even larger crops."
(Hum.... even though something is good and producing, he may say no not good enough I will prune it so it will by greater; sort of like Lowell puned my flowers, I thought they looked great, but he cut them all back I said no but, guess what, they came out looking more beautiful!!!!)
And than it goes on to say: "Take care to live in me and LET me live in you" For a branch (us) can not produce fruit when severed from the vine. Nor can you be fruitful apart from me."

Have you ever wondered why you sometimes run out of LOVE for your family, children, friends, church family, loved ones even those who you work with. Could it be that we are not connected each day with the vine?
Could it be that we are running on LOW fumes? He says to take care to live in me and to let Him live in me. If I am not connected with the vine I will run out of love, cause GOD IS LOVE!!
"1John 2:5 says who ever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him."
and is 1 John 4:16 says "FOR GOD IS LOVE and anyone who LIVES IN LOVE is LIVING IN HIM..." Wow God says let me live in you and you will have love cause God is love.
AND In this time of life when things are so uncertain, he goes on to tell us that we have no fear of someone who loves us perfectly Vs.18 and if we are afraid it shows that we are not fully convinced that he really loves us. So you see our love for Him comes as a result of his loving us first...... What an awsome God we serve.
Now I am ready for the day. Connected to the vine! love you all

well it has been a long time since I have posted anything.
We were gone for 2 weeks to covered bridge festival and am happy to be
home again.
I am not caught up on all the work but will get there.
we are getting TJ max and Mashall stores potpourri out first and than on to
decorating the stores for Christmas.
While we were gone God gave me a verse to ponder on
Psalms 10o:1 shout with JOY, before the Lord O earth.
As my tired bones rolled out of bed each morning I shouted for Joy in my head
and pushed my self to get going. One day was really hard. We had 2 ladies come in and
I noticed them with there hands full of items and I got busy ringing people up and lost track of them. I then saw them in another booth and called Lowell to hurry back from lunch. I followed the ladies and found them putting some items in there bag from that booth and all my items were in the bag to. Shout to the Lord with JOY ran through my mind. How do I do that in a time like this? Praise is the opposite of gripping and grumbling, so I simply said pay for the items you took and leave, you are not sorry for getting caught quite saying that you are sorry You are just sorry that you got caught but I want you to know Jesus loves you!
Oh that hit home, how many times am I that way also. Just sorry I got caught for doing wrong!
So I shouted for JOY that the Lord was showing me again how much I am really rotten to the core but with God I am perfect in HIM! Praise God
Shout with Joy before the Lord O earth! Obey him gladly; come before Him singing with JOY!!
In these hard time we need to focus on our Lord!

Stinky or beautiful feet

I am teaching a class at church on evanglism. as always I am learning more than anyone else!

This past week I had all my yearly stuff done at the Drs. office and I was a little upset when 7 other ladies went ahead of me. I was praying for a lot of the ladies that looked like there were really troubled. Some of them were back in to have a second mamogram. But I got upset and let the lady at the desk know I did not like setting there besides does she not know I have things to do.

On the way home the Lord told me I really had stinky feet that day cause I was there to pray for those ladies that were coming in. I looked up the verse he was talking about and it says in Romans 10:15 how beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!

I had stinky feet that day and called back to the drs office and told the lady at the desk I was sorry for being grochey. I want to have beautiful feet for my Lord!

You know the closer you get to the Father the more he askes you to do right! I am glad he does

Troyer family in texas a/ok

So glad that Glens family is ok in texas.

What a storm that must of been.

Soooooo glad your lemon tree is ok

And of course Mark road out the storm. How was it Mark?

Sidney I have all my grandkids praying for you as you go to the Doctor on the 18th

Love you much!