ANGELS

I'm thinking I've written before about my imaginary friends when I was younger.  Poppy was my invisible friend I created when I was around 3-4 years old.  I had many friends I created, and from my mom's accounts spent many hours with them.  What an active imagination I had, guess I still do.  The church we go to is a small church, it has grown in number since we first started, but is still quite small in number but I feel we do radiate joy as we sing.  And our pastor Linda tells her sermons with enthusiasm.  When I first started going I felt really good about the church, but couldn't quite shake the feeling of sympathy for the amount of people that was there.  But each week I see new faces and hear diffrent testimonies and find out how wrong my first thought was.  Then I heard these words from the hymnal. "Therefore with angels and archangels and all the company of heaven, we worship and adore Thy glorius name."   Doesn't that just change everything.  Here I was in this small church with angels and archangels and the company of heaven.  A lot more than I originally thought.  What wonderful company I was with and didn't even realize.  Makes me think about when I first came to Christ in faith, I think we join an invisible host of companions, many angels.  Maybe those imaginary friends were angels I was really playing with, who knows.  Don't you love thinking of angels in our presence.  I do.

Good spirits

I have awoken in good spirits today, no back pain at all.  Which is a blessing in itself to me.  I'd write more but got to head to work.  I may write at work some today if I have time.

wednesday thoughts

Seems I havn't written as much lately.  Not sure why, just resting up I guess.  We had such a wonderful weekend with my family.  I was on the phone with my mom while I was home, the day of her birthday, she had the music blarring and it was very upbeat. She said she had the television turned off  because she was tired of all the sadness of everything on the news.  Not a day seems to pass without a reminder that our earthly lives can end at any moment.  All we have to do is read the obituary column.  One message comes through loud and clear.  We're here today, but we may be gone tomorrow!  What is my life?  Is it even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away?  Is our only certainty, then, the sobering prospect that at any moment we may be thrust into eternty.  I don't think so.  I have a diffrent anchor in my soul.  I've said it before that nothing seems for certain. But there is one thing for certain.  My faith is for certain.  I have another photoshoot on Saturday.  I also got a promotion at work.  Well I'm beat folks, hope you have a great week.

I was cleaning house

I got tagged.

Hmmmm.....are ya'll picking on me or what? I got tagged a dozen times for this one so here it is!

 

  Rules:

1.) Go into your archive.

2.) Find the 23rd post.

3.) Find the 5th sentence of that post.

4.) Post text of sentence with these instructions.

5.) Tag 5 other people to do the same.

 

I was cleaning house!  Here was my 5th sentence of my 23rd post.

" There's one thing that's been constant about all my journals if I take a look at them, I'm always cleaning up to make myself feel good, nothing like a clean house. "

http://journals.aol.com/deveil/CelebrationofMyExhistance/entries/933

Mom's surprise 60th birthday party

Well, we are back home.  Mom's birthday was yesterday.  I was busy working on her powerpoint presentation last week, so didn't really post much, or have time to read any journals, hope to catch up some this week.  The weekend was fun, Mike and I drove down Friday night, I worked on finishing it up most that night and Saturday morning, and we did a lot of running around.  We had a nice turnout.  Lots of wonderful food, and a few surprises.   We got two of mom's friends to come, that she had no idea of.     The presentation went well, and I know she really enjoyed it.   Dena wrote a song for her, and the four of us sang it to her.  If anyone has powerpoint, I'll be happy to email it to them.  Well just glad to be home. 

Caught

Yesterday after work, I felt somthing hard in my pocket, I thought what have I put in here, when I pulled it out all I could do is laugh, it was Autumn's sunglasses, so I had to put them on and act silly, only Mike grabbed the camera and got me.  Little Autumn broke her wrist this past weekend, so I'll bring her pink sunglasses so she will have them to match her hotpink cast on her arm.  We're heading home this weekend for ma's birthday.  She's going to be the big 6-0.  :) 

Oh and yep you guessed right I'm the pirate on the bottom first row, second from right.

John's Monday Photo assignment: Pirate

Yes folk, I was once a pirate, way back in my younger years, I was 8 years old can you pick me out,  Notice we have kidnapped TigerLilly, and were on board the Jolly Roger.  "Never smile at a Crocidille!"

This was my second grade play "Peter Pan"  I was a pirate.  We did three shows in a week.  My nana made me my pirate shirt.  One night I got so nervous that I had a terrible nose bleed.  But I survived, oh no I didn't I think I got thrown overboard.