Heaven

I just finished reading Heaven....Know what I am going to do now??? Start over immediately!! I do not know what I think of all the things he says in the book and have had several interesting discussions over it with Tim, but it has been so totally helpful and encouraging to me! I highly recommend it, even if you don't agree with it all, it just set me to dreaming of Heaven/being with Jesus and everything else that waits for me!

What have I been doing?

I looked at my last post, and was shocked at how long since I posted. My one loyal fan must be MAD at me! :)

Here's part of life lately --Jake's bday and constant snow...that about sums it all up!!! (o, and continued construction, but there's only so many construction pics I thought you could stand :)

Story for the day

I am  so glad to have Tim home...He just got home
a couple hours ago from the
Desiring God conference in Minneapolis, MN.
They left about 1pm on Wed.
He called me a couple times in the night to tell me
that it was going to take a
while to get home.  He called for the last time at 11pm.
I woke up at 6:30am thinking
they would be almost home, but went back to sleep.
He called again at 9:30 to say they
were almost home!  That's what, 20 hours of travel
instead of 8!
.....he got stranded 2 times in Wisconsin...once for
5 hours and once for 1 1/2 hours!!!  Because of the
icy, snowy weather
so he got home at 10am, instead of midnite last nite!!!
I guess there were semis that
jacknifed, etc, etc... There were stories
(he's not sure if it's true or not) of
travelers that had been stranded for 12 hours!
Evidently the the West-bound lane
had a lot more issues and they were headed East-bound --PTL!!!!
poor guy.... exhausted...

He said that the 2 counties that they were in at the
time of being stranded
declared a state of emergency and they had the
national guard(?) out and
helicopters were going over and they had some shelters
or something set up....quite a story,
I said, that is funny, and he said it didn't seem funny
at the time... cuz you
just don't know when you are going to get to go again!  :)
So i am glad he is
home... Poor Ben (Mich state trooper ) was in his van and
he was trying
to get them to stop! He knows all about that stuff and
why they call it a
state of emergency, I'm sure
but the I guess they decided to keep pressing on and
get home!  ;)   He said the ice on the roads was like
going on a gravel road
with potholes, only worse... Sounds like quite the trip!!!!
smiles  (glad i didn't know all that last nite!)

We searched for a news story on it, but found
nothing...guess the news people think
there's more important things, but that sounds
newsworthy to me.
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*after checking the comments*


...a better way to put it than search was
that we watched tv for a while thinking it would jump out.
...thanks mwh for the story
now it jumped out..thanks   :)

Found it!

I still have this song floating around in my mind and found it here
to listen to, so I thought I would share it with you.

Also...love this song and have been searching around for it... here is a youtube version of it.

God has used these 2 songs in my life at significant times, so they mean a lot to me. The 1st song came at a time when that I needed to be remembering who I really am in view of God's mercy. The second one came when I was very homesick a couple of years ago and just helping me to feel God's presence! What a HUGE blessing! God's presence! It is always there, but so nice when He communicates it to us!


Sorry I hate pushing Youtube, but only place I could find it--well, maybe I COULD have found it somewhere else, but I got sick of searching and hey, I have a life you know ;) :) heeheee....

Quotes to feed my Obsession

John Newton said, "When I get to Heaven I shall see three wonders. The first wonder will be to see many there whom I did not expect to see, the second wonder will be to miss many people who I did expect to see; the third and greatest of all will be to find myself there."

C.S. Lewis said "I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it my main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others do the same."

Blogging for Tim

I have a bunch more time in general than Tim to blog. I told him he needs to blog this quote he likes...but he said, you do it for me. He has a blog, but it has one entry from like a year and a half a ago. So we may share this blog...but I will let you know if it's from Tim.

He saved his quote, but I can't bring it up, so I searched for it... and I believe this is it. I will ask him when he gets back :)

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

btw...MLK Jr has a bunch of good quotes