HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Hoping everyone has a great Thanksgiving Day with family, friends, and all of thier wonderful blessings to remember! I have so many things to be thankful for - I don't even know where to start!! God is good!

Here's a fun little Thanksgiving questionairre:

1) What are your plans for Thanksgiving Day

• Fun cooking with Mom (We always save some things to do together for old times sake)
• Enjoy time with family (My grandpa moved here from North Carolina in Sept, this will be our first Thanksgiving with him EVER! God is good!)
• Yummy Thanksgiving Food!
• Look through all of the fun sale ads and dream! :)

2) Does your family have any Thanksgiving traditions?

• Um, not anything substantial! We do always find some reason to go to Kmart that day, though! LOL! It's the only store open that day, and we always find a reason to go... I think after all of the eating, we get stir crazy! :) So I'm sure we'll end up there. But no sentimental traditions to speak of!

3) Of all the things that you are most thankful for in your life, what are the most important?

• God's hand in our lives, every minute of every day. I am finding myself more and more aware of it - and I'm so thankful for that! (Jeremiah 29:11)
• I am so thankful for my husband. I always worried how my independent life would "mesh" with someone elses, but man, I can't imagine my life without this man! So God knew the exact match for me! I'm so thankful for that!
• I'm thankful for my son, Nathan! I love him so much! I can't believe how much he's growing up, and I'm enjoying every stage and watching him loving life! :) Oh what fun it is to be a kid!! :)
• I'm so thankful for my parents and my grandpa! We're so blessed to have them!! I'm so glad to have my Grandpa here in California, too!
• I'm so grateful for our Pastor and Pastor's wife, we are truly blessed to have them in our lives. I've never learned so much and been empowered to go so deep in God before and WOW!! - We are blessed!
• I'm thankful for great friends! We are truly BLESSED! We thank God for you!
• I'm so thankful for our home...when I see what's happening with the market and all of the people losing thier homes, it just makes me so much more grateful for our home! I love my home and I never want to take it for granted!
• I'm so very thankful for the peace of God that passes all understanding. I haven't always had that and boy what a change it has made in my life to CLAIM that peace in all circumstances!
• Lastly, but not leastly, I thank God for my precious little dog! Those of you that spend any time with me know how much this baby girl means to me.. but she sure deserved to be mentioned on my "Thankful list"!

I could clearly go on and on.. but I'll stop here!

Love to all!

What economy problems??

With all of the recent focus on our economy, before and after the recent election, it's been easy to get a little anxious about what the future holds financially. I couldn't help but share this scripture passage, because it's had me so excited today! :) It's so exciting to know that if we are living for God, we don't have to worry about any of that!!! I love how we can stand on God's promises, because the things of this world don't have to affect us negatively!!

Deut 28:1-14

28:1 If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.

2 All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God:

3 You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

4 The fruit of your womb will be blessed, and the crops of your land and the young of your livestock--the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks.

5 Your basket and your kneading trough will be blessed.

6 You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

7 The LORD will grant that the enemies who rise up against you will be defeated before you. They will come at you from one direction but flee from you in seven.

8 The LORD will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The LORD your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

9 The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commands of the LORD your God and walk in his ways.

10 Then all the peoples on earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will fear you.

11 The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity--in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground--in the land he swore to your forefathers to give you.

12 The LORD will open the heavens, the storehouse of his bounty, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations but will borrow from none.

13 The LORD will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the LORD your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom.

14 Do not turn aside from any of the commands I give you today, to the right or to the left, following other gods and serving them. NIV

Man, I sure do love the WORD! :)

A fun weekend!!

Last Friday Night our church youth group had the opportunity to go and minister at Boomers. For those of you that aren't from here, it's a little fun park (bumper cars, miniature golf, laser tag, arcades, etc). Wow what a fun time we had in worship, right out there in a public venue! It was so empowering to see what God can do, anywhere & anyplace. I've attached some pictures... because I just had to share!

Here's the group on stage!

That's my man on guitar!! & My dear friend Heather on keyboard! :)

Amazing Worship!

Youth Pastor, Dave!!

The kiddos had a blast! :)

Be careful what you ask for....

WOW... I really didn't expect the election to go the way it did tonight. I guess I was naive. I fear the CHANGES coming to our country.

Though there are alot of changes politically, it's not those that I worry about. It's the spiritual implication of what's coming. Tonight the only way I can find peace is to remember what it says in Romans 13 about "all governments being placed in power by God". I know in the rest of my life, I completely trust that God has a plan, that even I may not understand... so why not now.

I know that we shouldn't be afraid.. Luke 21:28 "When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."NIV I believe God want's us to have peace in HIM as we see the end drawing near. We can delight in his protection!

So since it's late, and I need my sleep.. my current plan of action is, increase my prayer time, take a deep breath and say, Greater is HE......

Just checking in...

God is GOOD! I haven't had time to write, because life has been busy this week, but I had to take a quick moment and give GOD the praise for what he is doing in our lives this week!