am NOT

Yes! I mean NO! Josh Turner, my favorite singer in the world, is going to be in concert an hour from me tonight. But I'm not going. :D Nope, nada. NOT going. In the weakness of the moment I don't want to change my mind, so I'm blogging it for proof, I am not going. ok? hehehe

Just as we also long to see you...

"For this reason, when I could endure it no longer, I also sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter might have tempted you, and our labor would be in vain.

But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always think kindly of us, longing to see us just as we also long to see you, for this reason, brethren, in all our distress and affliction we were comforted about you through your faith; for now we really live, if you stand firm in the Lord. For what thanks can we render to God for you in return for all the joy with which we rejoice before our God on your account, as we night and day keep praying most earnestly that we may see your face, and may complete what is lacking in your faith?

Now may our God and Father Himself and Jesus our Lord direct our way to you; and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you; so that He may establish your hearts without blame in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. " 1 Thessalonians 3:5-13

WOW!!! I know EXACTLY how he feels!!! There are people I do that with too, and it's an unexpressable joy and peace when I hear they are walking in the truth. It's funny how things from the Bible come alive to me all the sudden, when I've been reading that same passage for years and it's never hit me that way before...lol.

Where The Green Grass Grows

Six lanes, taillights
Red ants marchin' into the night
They disappear to the left and right again
Another supper from a sack
A ninety-nine cent heart attack
I got a poundin' head and an achin' back
And the camel's buried in a big straw stack

I'm gonna live where the green grass grows
Watchin' my corn pop up in rows
Every night be tucked in close to you
Raise our kids where the good Lord's best
Point our rocking chairs towards the west
Plant our dreams where the peaceful river flows
Where the green grass grows

Well I'm from a map dot
A stop sign on a black top
I caught the first bus I could hop from there
But all of this glitter is gettin' dark
There's concrete growin' in the city park
I don't know who my neighbors are
But there's bars on the corners and bars on my heart

I'm gonna live where the green grass grows
Watchin' my corn pop up in rows
Every night be tucked in close to you
Raise our kids where the good Lord's best
Point our rocking chairs towards the west
Plant our dreams where the peaceful river flows
Where the green grass grows

--Tim McGraw

Release Me

Why is my heart deeply troubled
With feelings of sadness and grief?
Though my life seems to be without
Real turmoil and pressing needs

Yet I feel so grieved inside
With feelings of giving up
A sense of real hopelessness
Has crowded out God’s love

Release me Lord I ask of thee
I don’t want to stay this way
Fill me again with your Holy Spirit
And deliver me I pray

May I again be filled with joy
And know your loving grace
May the spirit of heaviness over me
Be replaced with the garment of praise

I shall arise and sing your praises
And lift my hands to you
And declare aloud your faithfulness
In the wondrous works you do

Be gone you father of iniquities
You no longer have a hold
For greater is He that is in me
The redeemer of my soul

I will not give in to Satan’s attacks
Nor allow him the chance to bind
For Christ has already set me free
And released my troubled mind

My hope shall always be in God
In Him alone will I trust
His joy again will flood my soul
And my heart will be filled with love.

© By M.S.Lowndes.

"Lord Jesus, here I am before you again. I come dirty, stained, bruised, and cut up. You ask me, 'What happened, my Child?' With a bowed head, I admit that last night the enemy came. I wasn’t prepared for them, and so. . . here I am. They were able to get in and claim territory in my mind, but I don’t want then there! I want to claim the land back. I want to pick my guard back up, but I’m weary of the fight. I need rest and strength to prepare me for the battle. Come to my deliverance, Lord! I’m in desperate need of your strength and you! Here, take my bag of trash that the enemy gave me. I don’t want to walk around with its weight and smell on me anymore. I’m ready to be set free; I’m ready to pick my sword back up and get back in the fight.

My Lord arose slowly, and looking straight into my eyes said, 'Do not grow weary in well doing, for in due season you shall reap, if you do not lose heart.' He picked up my trash bag and flung it behind his back. Then in exchange for me filthy, torn clothes, he clothed me in a gown of pure and spotless white. He washed away the dirt on my hands and face, and healed the scratches and wounds I had received the night before. He himself put on new shining armor on me and placed in my hands a two edged sword, and said, 'Now you are ready to get back in the fight. Go now, and my strength will be with you. Remember to come back this afternoon for a time of refreshing.'

Away I marched, back out to the battle field with the name of Jesus lifted high. I was ready to reclaim that captured territory as my own.”

--Undisclosed

Like a Rock

It crowds over me

Like a rock on my heart…

I’m not strong enough

Suddenly powerless

I just left this place,

Why am I here again?

I just cannot do it alone

So why do I even try?

No you cannot,

Comes the reply.

I recall being here before…

Surrender it to Me!

My strength is unlimited

And My yoke light.

Look at Me, Jessica

Trust Me…

Finally ready to lay it down

I look into Your eyes

And see what I’ve missed

I wonder why, my Love,

You put up with me at all?

And as the tears hit my pillow

I open my clinched fists

And let it go once again

Love's Colliding Joy

This blog is specifically for Allison. SOMEBODY needs to figure out what's the matter with our attachments. hehehe

So to my sweet girl: here's your pictures my dear hope you enjoy them. Monday night or die, hope we get off from work early, I'm missing you so bad. :D Love you. May the Lord bless you with wisdom and faith and provide for every need and form you into His image. May doubts be overwhelmed in the reality of His love and ability to make you happy and content, and may you truely understand the height and depth of His great love for you!!! May He keep you encouraged and show you how beautiful you are... May He be your everything and may you find even more peace in Him than you ever expected, even through hard circumstances. May He shower your family with every spiritual blessing and make y'all close to each other and knit you together in love, in one accord focused on Christ completely! So be it in Jesus name!!!

Entering Mississippi!!! See the river out the window?

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

before graduation

Graduation!

Group shot the next day at AFR...hahaha

ummm we were having fun if you cannot tell. I don't even remember what was so funny anymore.

Wow how did he get to be way up there? -- at Elvis' memorial fountain

We three girls *bursts into song*

Me and Elvis at 13:

Random sweet kids:

Coolie, Chupelo has a starbucks!!!

Just Another Day in Paradise

Just Another Day in Paradise

The kids screaming, phone ringing
Dog barking at the mailman bringing
That stack of bills - overdue
Good morning baby, how are you?
Got a half hour, quick shower
Take a drink of milk but the milk's gone sour
My funny face makes you laugh
Twist the top on and I put it back
There goes the washing machine
Baby, don't kick it.
I promise I'll fix it
Long about a million other things

Well, it's ok. It's so nice
It's just another day in paradise
Well, there's no place that
I'd rather be
Well, it's two hearts
And one dream
I wouldn't trade it for anything
And I ask the Lord every night
For just another day in paradise

Friday, you're late
Guess we'll never make our dinner date
At the restaurant you start to cry
Baby, we'll just improvise
Well, plan B looks like
Dominoes' pizza in the candle light
Then we'll tippy toe to our room to
Make a little love that's overdue
But somebody had a bad dream
Mama and daddy
Can me and my teddy
Come in to sleep in between?

Yeah it's ok. It's so nice.
It's just another day in paradise.
Well, there's no place that
I'd rather be
Well, it's two hearts
And one dream
I wouldn't trade it for anything
And I ask the Lord every night
For just another day in paradise

Well, it's ok. It's so nice.
It's just another day in paradise.
Well, there's no place that
I'd rather be
Two hearts
And one dream
I wouldn't trade it for anything
And I ask the Lord every night
For just another day in paradise

For just another day in paradise
Well, it's the kids screaming. The phone ringing
Just another day
Well, it's Friday. You're late
Oh yeah, it's just another day in paradise

--Phil Vassar