Pre-Christmas

Contrary to popular Belief; I am not a "bah-humbug". And to prove it, Here are the pictures of our Christmas tree this year. Thank you Mom for the tree. Next year we will get a plastic one so I can disfigure it with matches! :) Just kidding!

This is our Christmas Bear, who sits on top of the tree and watches to see if the boys actual deserve presents this year. HONESTLY! If his eyes are blue, they were good. If they are black, they get coal. Hehehe..

I am the chef of the house. I rarely cook (mostly because I'm so multi-talented I rarely focus on more than 1 thing at a time :) These are my Peanut Butter Cup Ball Thingies.. Im' not quite sure why there are so many different names for these treats, but I must admit. I did a good job!

ps: As of this posting, half of these are already gone. Rebecca and Jamie went to bed with tummy ache's, Justin is in a sugar coma, and I just can't stop typing.

There is a God

"I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists, and therefore I know there is a God." - Romeo Dallaire, a senator in the Canadian parliament.

It doesn't surprise me how sheltered (or uninformed) we are as Americans about what is REALLY going on outside our beloved borders. But I am amazed at how much we either don't care, or don't WANT to care sometimes. I make it a habit to check out non-us websites for news concerning the US or UN, and on more than one occasion I am ashamed to that I actually live in the United States.

Read the article. I'm considering buying the book ("Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda") and reading that as well. This was 15 years ago, and I wonder just how much more is happening around us that we don't know or care to know about?

I thank God for the blessings he's poured out on me and my family; and I thank Him also for the trials he has withheld because I live in the US. I've heard it said that if God doesn't judge the United States for its wickedness, then he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology. I believe that judgment is coming, and possibly in my lifetime. I pray for my children that they will know and understand God's will for their lives before it is too late.

Atheist vs. God

I find it ironic that people who claim there is no God would be so adamant that they cannot live in a world where others DO believe in God.

FRANKFORT, Kentucky - A group of atheists filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to remove part of a state anti-terrorism law that requires Kentucky's Office of Homeland Security to acknowledge it can't keep the state safe without God's help. - MSNBC

So, which is it? They don't believe in God, or they DO believe in God but they don't want His help?

I say: If the shoe fits.. check the bottom for dog doo.

Holiday News Bingo

I saw this one a website and thought it was be an AWESOME pastime to blog about from now to Christmas.

Here are the rules:

1. Print this Bingo Card
2. When you are watching the news, Mark off any blocks that you see that match the Bingo Card
3. When you get Bingo! Post a comment to this blog post, and list your Bingo! News articles.

Personally: since we do not watch tv, I will be watching my favorite news websites for the articles.

Enjoy, and Happy Bingo!'ing .. is that a word?

Mountains of Thanks

I've never actually done this here, but I wanted to publicly thank the Lord for what he's brought me though over the last 2½ years.

My testimony is quite drab, but I do want to put it down for the record. I was saved at the age of 5, in our trailer in Dundee, New York. After coming home from church one Sunday evening 1976, I asked my father about the meaning behind the message we had heard earlier about Hell, and sin. He opened his bible to Romans and walked me though the roman's road. We knelt down beside the burlap-like covered armchair in our living room, and I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior.

I never really cultivated my relationship with The Lord, and found myself running as far away from God as a good Christian can go (or at least that's where I wanted to go.)

August 18th, 2006 was my last day running from God. I sat in a revival with Joe Arthur at Faith Baptist Church, listening to the invitation, when as if Jesus himself was standing in the isle beside me saying that if I would only take the first step, every one after that would be on His shoulders.

I can honestly tell you that once I took that first step, my life has never been the same. Most people would call this the point of Salvation, yet I remember the day I was saved. I believe this is God's way of solidifying in my heart that we will never be apart again.

God said that he will never leave us nor forsake us, and I rely on that promise many time a day. I know when I have sin keeping me from fellowship with Him, and if I'm not quick to confess it, I find my day only gets longer and tougher. But when I seek his face, and struggle to do His will for my life each day, there is a peace that comes from knowing that after we have done all that we can do, God will do the rest. I rest on His promises, that He will carry me though each trial. He never said my road would always be easy, but I know that with Him by my side, I don't have anything to be afraid of.

God has blessed me and my family far beyond what I deserve. And while I don't have much in the eyes of the world, I'm an heir to the throne by my Father's side. And I just want to Thank Him for it.

F.Y.I

WFTD: MonoBlogging

I thought it appropriate to put my 2cents into a debate on the upcoming right to an election debacle which will most certainly change the face of our country; either in glorious triumph or darkest feudalism. And as I was meandering over my past perfectionism of verbage and grammar, I realized that I had been monologuing, but when one does this in a blog forum...

My word for the day is: Monoblogging

mon·o·blogue also mon·o·blog
v. mon·o·blogued also mon·o·blogged, mon·o·blogu·ing also mon·o·blog·ging, mon·o·blogues also mon·o·blogs

1.	a form of dramatic online entertainment, comically typed solo, or the like by a single blogger: a comedian's monoblogue.

2.	a prolonged post or discourse by a single blogger, esp. one dominating or monopolizing an online conversation.