Kindred Spirits!

We've all had people in our lives come and go. We have all felt connections with people through school, church, or another area of community. Sometimes those friendships fade away. Either through moving away from the area, lack of interests, or conflicting interests. But then you have friendships that stick with you through time. And no matter how much time passes, you can always pick up where you left off. I met a girl name Jessica Stone when I was fifteen years old. I visited her hometown(Baxley,Ga.), worked on her daddy's tabaco farm (I don't like getting my hands dirty and she reminds me of that :),and visited her church and heard her pastor preach, who would become my father-in-law seven years later. She had become such an encouragement to me. She always spoke God's Word to me no matter what situation I faced. Oh how I longed for that! I needed God's truth and wanted it more than anything in my life! I didn't want to wallow in my self pity, pride, or selfishness. And she would let me know when I was focusing on my self and not on Christ. And that is why I valued my friendship with her and still do!
She is also married now and I had the privilege of seeing her this past Friday as her and her husband came to visit St. Simons. We had them over at our house Friday night and talked about all the things that God was doing in our lives. We encouraged one another with the Word of God and prayed over one another. Our conversation ended at one in the morning! It was SO refreshing!!! Jessica is a kindred spirit! I too desire to speak God's Word into EVERY area of my life as well as others! I do not want to live my life dwelling on my own selfish feelings and emotions! God's Word is the only thing that penetrates through all of it, the very core of our beings! I don't want people just to listen to me, cry with me, and tell me that they will be praying for me. I want people to speak God's truth to me, even when the Truth hurts!!!
Hebrews 4:12 For the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two- edged sword piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Hello Squirrel and Goodbye Pie!

Today was the day that Myah decided to give her "pie"(pacifier) to the squirrel. This is what Noah did with his, and so he has been encouraging her to do it for quite sometime. Today was the day she decided to take the next step in becoming a "big girl." We gave her a bowl full of peanuts and told her to put her pies in it. As you can see, she decided she would eat some of those peanuts.
Daddy and Noah are up in the front leading Myah up to the "Pie Altar", I mean to the fort of the swing set. As I am standing behind her, so many questions race through my mind," I wonder if she really knows what she is doing? I don't know if I am ready for her to give it up yet? I don't know if I am ready for my baby girl to take another step towards growing up? Why is this so hard for me? " Despite of the tug of war that I felt inside, I knew that this was a good thing. And that it was important for her to take this step in growing up. And the fact that she made this decision, upon her own free will, felt even better!
Noah and Myah made a little trail with the peanuts, to lead the squirrel to the bowl with the pies. Noah was excited and Myah was a little hesitant. But she left excited, as we set off to the house to get ready to celebrate her "big step" at Chick-Fil-A and some time at the park. This is what we did with Noah, so we had to keep the tradition going :)
After our celebration, we went back to the fort and found a empty bowl and some peanut crumbs. We rejoiced that the daddy squirrel had come and taken the "pies" and peanuts to his baby squirrel. Myah was convinced that the baby squirrel needed it more than her until it was nap time.
I have loved watching Myah over the past two years take steps of independence. But as her mommy, I also love her dependence upon me for things. But my greatest desire is that she will be a godly woman, who knows who she is in Christ, and will live her life fully dependent upon Him!

Oh to see through the eyes of my boy!

So yesterday I went to the grocery store with my three kiddos. Thankfully, it was a lot more enjoyable than last week. So we are standing in the check out of Walmart and my boy looks over at a People magazine and says," Momma, there's you and daddy right there." When I looked to see what he was talking about, I couldn't help but laugh and take in the moment of this amazing compliment that my boy was giving his father and I. My recollection of the names of many actors, actresses, or any kind of famous people is small to say the least. And I should have picked up the magazine to know the names of the people that my boy was comparing us to. But I do remember that small photo on the left side of the front cover of the issue, because Adam and I don't look anything like it! The picture was taken of a couple at the beach.The woman was in a dark purple bikini, which I don't have, and she had a body that, well, is the full curvy model type body that I don't have either. And the man, had on black swimming trunks, which Adam does have, and abs so well defined, well, I won't comment about Adam's abs :)
The only thing that resembled us was that the lady had long dark hair and the man was wearing black swimming trunks! Oh to see through the eyes of my boy!