CHRISTmas

(Remember to scroll down to the bottom of my blog to pause my blog music before listening to this GoFish Song and the GAP commercial)

Please check this website out for retailers who are CHRISTmas friendly:

American Family Association's

Naughty or Nice Christmas List 2009

http://action.afa.net/Detail.aspx?id=2147486887


On this list I was very saddened because my 2 favorite stores are on the "Naughty List" and then there was even a commercial that accompanied the GAP that they are asking us to respond to. I was appalled. Please check out the list and check out the commercial.



To learn more about the commercial check out the Naughty or Nice Christmas List 2009 link is posted above the GAP commercial for you to click on.

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry CHRISTmas to all!!

Needing Some Encouragement Today? I am!!

"You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold. " — Max Lucado (Cure for the Common Life)

"God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus. " — Max Lucado

"Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be." — Max Lucado

"You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman." — Max Lucado (The Christmas Candle)

"He loves each one of us like there is only one of us to love (when God whisper your name)" — Max Lucado

Some Treasures I have Found Today

"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties".
- Oswald Chambers

"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time".
- Oswald Chambers

"Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God".
- Oswald Chambers

"When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality".
- Oswald Chambers

"There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are".
- Oswald Chambers

"Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer; getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things, He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him".
- Oswald Chambers

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad

My parents have been married for 32 years today. Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!! Thank you for showing us how to love. Thank you for being an example to us growing up and now as we are all married. I appreciate your dedication to each other and your love for each other. Marriage is not easy, but you make it look easy. Thank you for showing us that a good marriage takes work. Thank you for teaching me about God, because with out Him in our lives nothing would make sense. Thank you for being great parents and grandparents. I love you. Happy Anniversary!!!

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails". (1 Corinthians 13:4-8)

Twas the Month before Christmas

*Twas the month before Christmas*

*When all through our land,*

*Not a Christian was praying*

*Nor taking a stand.*

*See the PC Police had taken away,*

*The reason for Christmas - no one could say.*

*The children were told by their schools not to sing,*

*About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.*

*It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say*

* December 25th is just a ' Holiday '.*

*Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*

*Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!*

*CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod*

*Something was changing, something quite odd! *

*Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa*

*In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.*

*As Targets were hanging their trees upside down*

* At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.*

*At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears*

*You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.*

*Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty*

*Are words that were used to intimidate me.*

*Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen*

*On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton !*

*At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter*

*To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.*

*And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith*

* Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace*

*The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded*

*The reason for the season, stopped before it started.*

*So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'*

*Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.*

*Choose your words carefully, choose what you say*

*Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS , not Happy Holiday !*

Please, all Christians join together and wish everyone you meet MERRY CHRISTMAS

Christ is “The Reason” for the Christ-mas Season!

I got this poem from my mom in my inbox and I just had to put it on my blog. . . Let's keep CHRIST in CHRISTmas!!!

Tender Moments

Allison, Sophia, Ross, Faith and VernaAnn

Ross with his three daughters:
Sophia, VernaAnn and Faith

A Daddy's Love!

A Mommy's Kiss!

Celebrating VernaAnn's Life

"I Praise you because I am Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. . . . Psalm 139:14"

Faith, Sophia and VernaAnn

Faith loving her sister up and saying Good-bye!!

Isaac with Grandma saying goodbye to VernaAnn.

All of the cousins together!

Faith, Olivia, Kain, Isaac, Haylee, Sophia (in the back) and VernaAnn.

I admire my brother and my dad's courage for being the Casket bearers. We were all at the burial site. VernaAnn was laid to rest next to my grandmother, her namesake.

A Bittersweet moment.

No words to describe this.

After the burial we went back to the church to celebrate VernaAnn's life and have a Birthday party for her.

VernaAnn's Oldest Sister Faith gave her a My Little Pony Cake for her Birthday!!

VernaAnn got a SpongeBob Birthday Cake from her Older Sister Sophia!!

After the funeral and the burial we attended a "Birthday Party" for VernaAnn. On each table there was a present that had her name on it and a saying on each package as well. Ross and Allison wanted the whole funeral to be a celebration of her life. The funeral service was a Praise and Worship service with a Salvation Message.

VernaAnn is truly our gift from Heaven and is now watching us from Heaven!!

VernaAnn will be missed greatly by many. We love you Precious Angel. Auntie Loves You and will always love you.