Sitting at Jesus' Feet

Do you sit there often? I mean, really. Do you sit at Jesus' feet often? I know I have struggled with this more than ever before since my second little one was born. She is 18 months old now and I am still not adjusted. Sound familiar? I am letting circumstances get in my way of having time with my Jesus. I have been passionate about my devotion to the Lord since my conversion. Quiet times were just natural for me by God's grace. I loved this time with Him and had it very consistently. That is until Piper came along, and alot of health issues. But that isn't good enough for me. I don't want to let my circumstances get in the way any longer. I want to have my passion back. The past few weeks have been much better by God's grace! I love meeting with the Lord, especially in the morning. Want to hear something precious? Gracie has been getting up a little earlier than usual and she has been doing her "QT" with me. She gets her bible and journal and sits right with me quietly. It is my most favorite time of the day. When I put her to bed at night she says, "Mommy, you'll be up in the morning?" Talk about accountability!! But I also find that I need to sit at Jesus' feet throughout the day. The days are tough at home with two little ones and I really struggle with anger. So I must be at Jesus' feet confessing and praying all day long.
I read this today- Jesus is talking to Mary and Martha and Martha is upset Mary isn't helping her. "He addressed her: "Martha, Martha, ...you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken from her" "Jesus reminded Martha that Mary had made a choice to cultivate her realtionship with the Master." Good stuff, huh? I only need one thing. Why do I think sleep or my to do list are more important that sittin at Jesus' feet. Lord, help me to choose You.
May we all be encouraged to sit with Mary, at Jesus' feet.

Our Home

This is the front door, floor needed replacing


More on the land and God's gift...


After we sold our house and purchased the land, we moved in with my parents for four months. During this time we had to completely redo the inside of the house that is on the land. It is where we were going to call home for a few years so it needed to be livable. We knew it needed work but boy were we in for it once we got in there and started looking. All the floors were molded and rotten. We replaced all the subflooring on the first floor and all the sheetrock on the bottom half of the walls. The house was completely gutted. We had to rewire the HVAC and alot of the electrical. So we have a new home basically! Thanks to Jeremy and his dad, Papa Ron. We still have alot to do, another lesson in patience for me! The pics don't do it justice, but here is our humble abode:)
I can't find my really good pics so these will have to do for now.

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Hooray!! We have approval for our land finally! It has taken us two years from the desire to purchase the land to now having approval to build on it. So it has been a loooooong process. Can you tell that God has been teaching me much about patience the past few years? Really this land is a gift from the Lord. We desired to purchase it two years ago. We went back and forth with realtors and the family and couldn't come to an agreement. Then one day Jeremy drove by and noticed the for sale sign was not in the yard.We didn't know what happened so he stopped by and talked to the owner. He ended up having a nice long conversation with him and finding out he was a believer. They prayed together and Jeremy came home. A few weeks later he called Mr Lienghot to see how he was doing. Mr Lienghot asked if we were still interested in the land. And we said yes. A few weeks later we met with him and his wife and came to an agreement. We purchased it last August, after selling our house. God was soooo good. Then we moved in, in November. Since then we have been working on having the land rezoned and getting approval from the town for all kinds of things. It has taken way longer than we expected, but it is God's time we are on, right? So today, we got our last stamp of approval! We still have some work to do before the houses go up but we are much closer! Jeremy has a vision for a community where we all love and serve God while raising our families for His glory. We are really looking forward to seeing this become a reality. Please pray for us if you think about it. Jeremy is doing an incredible amount of work on top of his fulltime job to see this come to fruition. I am so grateful for Him and the heart God has given him for others:) So here is our beautiful land. It will be more beautiful when it is filled with families who are working together with us for the Lord!

There will be more posts on the land...

Do you see it?

Do you see it? Look closely. It's laminate!!!!! I know, you are asking, what is so exciting about laminate? Well let me just explain. We have been waiting on this for 10 months! When we first moved in we didn't even have a kitchen. No cabinets, sink, stove, nothing. It was quite interesting for about a month. Then we got appliances, and eventually cabinets. But we couldn't get our bar done. There were a series of complications that let to the wait but it's all over now! I learned alot about myelf through all this. How I like nice things, like order, and have an idol of material things. God has been faithful to help me be patient and it was worth the wait. It's so weird not to be looking at plain ole wood anymore! I am grateful:) Here are the girls playing play-doh on their new laminate. The cute red head is Molly, my mother's helper. Marge, I even rotated the pics for you, aren't you proud!

The Bradford Store

Okay here they are. Read previous post for explanation:)

Piper and Mortimar

The Bradford Store

We had quite a fun morning! We finally made the trip out to the Bradford Store! Grier and Kim, the owners are dear friends of our family and they have sent food for me through my dad, but I never made it out there myself, until today that is. I have one word-Adorable!!! I love it! It is just the neatest little slice of heaven. You have to go if you've never been. And they love kids too. There's even a little area where they can color and build with blocks. They have all kinds of produce, all locally grown and some organic. They also have things like butter and goat cheese. So here are some pics. Enjoy! Okay it won't let me post the pics so I will try again in a minute to add pics.

Happy Labor Day

Happy Labor Day everyone!! I hope you had a fun filled day with family and friends. We sure did! Well, I wish I had pics to show you but...yep batteries were dead on the camera. Hate it when that happens! So anyway, we went to the corn maize this morning and then cooked out with friends.
On another note, I would like to ask for prayer when you think of it. I have been battling migraine headaches since I was 10 years old. In the past few months they have gotten really bad, I am having up to three a week. As many of you know I have tried lots of different docs to try to get rid of them-the natural to the traditional. But there hasn't been much progress yet. And I have taken so much migraine medicine that the neurologist thinks I am having rebound migraines. I am only supposed to take 8 Imitrex pills a month and I am taking well over that, which causes even more migrianes. Yeah, I am stuck between a rock and a hard place. So I am faced with some choices. My neurologist wants to put me on a preventative med called Topamax. It's an antiseizure med but they have seen really good results with migraines. The flip side, it has really bad side effects. Or I can keep going as I am and continue to give the natural doc more time. But something has to change! The past two weeks I have been having symptoms for a few days after the migraines which have kept me pretty useless as far as my family goes! Pray for Jeremy as well.
Now with all that being said. I do realize that God may choose not to heal me. And I want to be at peace with that. For I know that He uses all things for my good! I love this quote "God has planned, has a purpose for, and is in complete control of every aspect of His creation, both good and bad, including our individual lives. He does this in such a way that He never authors or approves of sin or relieves man of his responsibility by violating His will. He does all for His glory and all He does in relation to those whom He chooses and loves is for their good."
Doesn't it make you long for heaven?