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Once upon a time there was a lady (we'll go with a young lady) who used to go out with friends and have coffee. This lady (YOUNG) would even sometimes have days where there was NOTHING to do and she would sit, and get bored. If you find this lady (she's young... quite young...) please tell her that she's missed BUT... please remind her of this......

How blessed she is to have a job she loves. How blessed she is to have family who love her and help her. How blessed she is to have boys who pitch in and do everything they can to help and love her with a BIG love. How blessed she is to have a husband who works hard, loves hard, prays hard and sacrifices even harder because he loves her with all his heart. She needs to be reminded of these things ever so often because when she stops and thinks of all her friends who she misses well... she gets a little sad. I bet deep down she knows that God is at work and that He has some awesome things in store and she knows that now is NOT the time to give up. So, maybe just tell her to keep going... keep getting up and going to work, keep homeschooling, keep singing, keep cooking, keep being taxi driver because one day....... she'll miss it. I think she might need to be told that getting old is ok too.

And they lived happily ever after (every once upon a time deserves a good happily ever after)

Wrapped in Love

No, I'm not at the beach but this picture represents a bit of how I feel right now :) This morning, I got up a little groggy and COLD! I'm LOVING this fall weather! Thankful for coffee pot timers, I go put my white robe on and stumble to the kitchen and get my coffee. As I'm having my quiet time, it hits me that I've had this robe for 13 yrs now. In 2000 our family was preparing to go to the mission field, to live in Carlisle, England. I spoke at a ladies meeting and gave them our whole "schpeel". I don't remember mentioning it but I guess somewhere in my "schpeel" I mentioned something about getting a thick robe. We lived in Houston at the time and didn't have much need for thick robes but in England I knew it would be needed. The next Sunday a precious elderly lady came up to me and handed me $50. She said "go buy you the robe you want" she had the sweetest hug and told me to know that she was praying for me.

There has been a lot of healing that has happened since we didn't go to England. 9.11 changed all of that for us. We've lived in Florida and in Houston again and I've almost given this robe away. Now, I'm so thankful I didn't. I sit here not only wrapped in warmth but in a reminder that God will take care of me. He has a plan. He cares. His love is wrapped ALL around me!!!! My coffee is a extra good this morning!

Luke 12:27,28 "Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?"