Backroad Beauty

Thank you Jesus for the beauty seen on the back roads.

Enough

I so enjoyed the short story, "I wish you enough".  On Wednesdays, there is a group of us who pray for our lost loved ones, so, when I sent out the weekly reminder, I included my own enough list.  Hopefully, the prayer team will send some I can add to it.


For our loved ones, I wish them enough.

    Enough sorrow to cry out for the Comforter
    Enough pain to seek out to the Great Physician
    Enough lonliness to desire a personal relationship with Jesus
    Enough time in the desert to crave the Living Water
    Enough hunger to want the Bread of Life
    Enough hell on earth to desire heaven for eternity
    Enough......

For way toooooooo long....

For way tooooo long, I have been angry, hurting, filled with hate. For way toooooo long, I have fought God on how my healing should happen.  For way toooooo long, I have sought my own revenge.  For way tooooooo long, I have been a prisoner of my own making.  For way toooooo long!

A bursting heart!

Have you ever been so filled with Jesus in your heart you thought it would burst??? 

Lion of Judah and satan

First of all, I must confess.  I did not ask permission to use these pics.  On facebook and his Africa blog, I follow D David Morin, who was an actor in Hollywood.  He now lives in Africa and here are 2 of his many fantastic pictures.

When I first saw this, my thoughts ran to the Lion of Judah, so majestic.

He then posted this lion pic.  I was so captivated by the eye looking at me, drawing me in.  I felt God whisper to me, satan.  satan, so beautiful, so captivating, so deadly.

I apologize Mr. Morin that I did not ask your permission to post these but I am giving you the credit, does that count?

Stormy weather

Stormy weather hit Central Texas and this time, it did not skirt where I live.  At 4 am, I had 4.5" in my rain gauge.  The low water crossing was at the 2' mark.  No internet at the office, again.  Finally came home when they quit taking tech support calls.  Hope we have it tomorrow.

Thank you Jesus for the abundance of rain.  I pray it helped bring Lake Buchanan enough for at least one boat ramp to open.  It is spawning season for the cats and they will be biting.  Sure don't want to miss it.

Finally, some horse pics

I have been trying to catch the horses in the field of flowers but they are either not there when traffic is light or I see them and there is no way to stop with all the cars behind me.  Today, I did a slow down, snap and drive pics.

Thank you Jesus for the small window :) of opportunity to slow, snap and drive.

It's me again

I stayed away from blogging so my written words did not get me into trouble.  Can't understand why it is that the courts say dads need to be more involved with their kids but then, as the child ages, the fathers time gets less. 

Waylon should have had Devon over spring break but because he is not in school, it is up to the discretion of the custodial parent on whether or not the non-custodial parent can have the child during that time.  Guess which direction Waylon's ex went.??   After not letting Waylon have Devon, she asks Waylon, again, if they can't get back together.  Waylon did not answer so her wedding with this guy she is living with, is still on.  Yet, in Texas, they believe the mother is the better parent and therefore should have more say so in the child's life.  Of course, if I had had $10,000 available at the time of the divorce, Waylon probably could have gotten full custody.  However, even though she attempted suicide in front of a 1 1/2 yr old, she is still determined to be a better parent because she did call for someone to come get Devon after she slit her wrists. 

Hey, that came out pretty good.  No written curse words.  No *&@^#40 . 

Needless to say, God and I have had some silence between us, some chosen words on my part and some crying etc.  Glad He is God and can handle my haywire emotions, my anger, my upteen jillion whys!!

God's lessons for Mo Mo, as taught by Roo

I know I have already posted part of this but God showed me something through Roo this weekend.  On Tuesdays, I send out an email reminder to our group who pray or pray & fast for our loved ones who are lost.  This is what God gave me this morning to share with the group.

We had Roo this past weekend!  I love that he is so creative in his play.  For quite sometime, if something does not move etc likes he thinks it should, he says it is "stuck-ed".  His new game?  He will put his feet someplace, like under the ottoman or bed or his big Scobey Doo and then holler, "Mo Mo, I stuck-ed".  My job of course, is to rescue him.  I run to where he is, ask him if he is stuck-ed and then he lifts his arms to me to get him unstuck-ed. We give each other a big hug and he is off to another adventure, only later, to be stuck-ed again.  

Our loves ones and even maybe some of us, are "stuck-ed".  We just need to call on our Father to come and rescue us, to lift our arms so that He can pull us out of our "stuck-edness", give us a hug and send us on another adventure.

I do have to share a true piece of joy.  Saturday, they called Waylon into work so I had the nighttime Roo watch.  He had a rough night, a lot of night terrors, which means, this Mo Mo only got about an hour of sleep on Saturday night.  Sunday, I was in that drowsy stage all morning so instead of coming in from work and sleeping, Waylon stayed up with Devon and let me try to catch a few zzzzz's.  By 8pm, Waylon could no longer keep his eyes open, after all, he had been up for over 24 hours.  He told me to wake him and he would do his nighttime ritual with Devon.  But God gave me a blessing, a true bit of joy.  Devon was watching Toy Story in my room so I decided to read a book in bed.  Waylon and mom were asleep, the house was dark.  Next thing I know, Roo is climbing on my bed.  He will usually bring a book and sit next to me.  Not this time.  This time he came and propped his head on my chest to watch his movie, which lasted all of about 5 minutes before he was at peace.  I did not have to wake an exhausted Waylon and I got the blessing of loving on him as he drifted off to sleep, which Waylon usually does before he goes to work.  Another blessing, a night of peace for my Roo and a night of sleep for me.

Do you think that is what God wants from us?  To lay our head on His chest, to hear His heart beat as He loves us on while we drift off to sleep?   Sounds like a good thing to me.

Another Roo weekend

It was another rough weekend with Roo.  Poor little guy has such night terrors.  He wakes me screaming and shouting NO NO NO!! , not just once but many times.  I missed church on Sunday as Saturday night I only got about an hour of sleep.  They had called Waylon into work and he took the opportunity to earn some money while Roo slept. 

Last night, everyone was asleep but Roo and me.  Waylon, having worked Saturday night was exhausted as he spent up all day Sunday with Roo.  About 8pm, Waylon, having been up over 24 hours, finally fell into bed.  I figured I would wake him up around 10pm to put Roo to bed.  We try to keep Roo on a schedule and 10pm is about an hour later than his regular bedtime, but I figured he might sleep in, giving Waylon some sleep in time as well.

About 9pm, I decided to read while Roo watched Toy Story.  About 9:15 pm, Roo came and got on the bed.  I figured he would watch Toy Story from there but instead, he laid his head on my chest and drifted off to sleep. 

Thank you Jesus that I did not have to wake up Waylon, thank you that Roo did not have night terrors and thank you that I got some much needed sleep.

Balmy Friday morning

Nothing like headin out to work at 5:30 am and it is already a balmy 70 outside.  Just another sign of spring in the air.

Thank you Jesus for spring and that I got to snuggle with Roo last night while he fell asleep.