God Moments

I was reading a really great article today on "faithbooking". This is what I've been doing for several years that I call "scrapbooking my soul". Anyway, they suggested these topics, and I like them.. so I'm hoping to take a look at these and perhaps write something kthat speaks to the "God Moments" in my life. All it will take is going back through my journals, God does so much it will be fun to highlight the Best of the Best God Moments ! Here are the topics, just in case you want to do the same (okay, so probably no one is reading this, but hey, who knows?):

Amazing Rescue—a moment when God guarded you, healed you, rescued you, or made a way out for you.

Holy Attraction—a moment when God led you toward a healthier path, enabled you to resist a temptation, or inspired you to take the high road.

Unearned Blessing—a moment when God gave you an unexpected blessing or an underserved gift.

Revealed Truth—a moment when God spoke to you through the Bible, inner peace, wise counsel, or a God-inspired message.

Valuable Adversity—a moment in which God sustained you in a difficult time or made you stronger through the test of adversity.

(God Moments, Alan D. Wright,Multnomah Publishers, 1999.)

I love my husband..

I haven't mentioned it yet on this blog, but I do love my husband Ben Copeland. He encourages me every day, and as we get older, I thank God that he brought Ben into my life. Although with seven kids we have been through a lot in just 6 short years, it feels like a lifetime. It seems that the earlier years of my life are such a blur and that my time with Ben has been twice as long. I don't know if that is because we've been through so much.. with four teenagers in the house at the same time, and now raising our precious grandbaby Darious, we seem to move through seasons in our relationship much faster than I moved through them in the past. Does that make any sense? Well, it does to me anyway. Ben sent me this picture yesterday, as he is and always has been a big weather buff, and I rely on him to tell me what the temp is going to be, and help me determine what season I should dress for ~ here in Texas, it can snow in February and be 90 in December, so having a reliable weatherman for a husband is a big plus! They are not easy to come by you know. Or great men, and even better husbands. Once more, I am truly blessed!!

Meeting him was DEFINATELY one of my God Moments !!

The Heart Thang

This is a Guardian Angel that Debbie sent me before my heart cath before tomorrow. She also got me a willowtree Prayer Angel. We had such a wonderful day yesterday !! Ben and I and the boys went over to Hector and Debbie's, had lunch, then Debbie and I went out in her convertible ... man oh man the weather was B-U-TiFULL ! We went to Stonebriar to Kirklands (one of my FAV Places!!) so that I could pick up an inspirational print to match the other two I got Saturday.. now I have ... Hope, Love & Faith .. well, I've always had those, I just now have them in a gorgeous print on my wall :)

I'm a little apprehensive about the double heart cath tomorrow, hopefully it won't be toooo painful. I am trusting God, he knows what he is doing, and believing that he will be glorified through all this. He has me in his hands, I am his daughter, and he loves me !

Names in the Wall

A few weeks ago, we held a special service where we went out to our new building at Bent Tree and wrote the names of those we wanted to hold up in prayer, or most importantly, that we hoped would come to know Christ. Ben and I put all of our children's names on the wall as we pray for them continually, and we have a few that have not come to know God. I also added scripture to the wall ... I also added my life verse from Isaiah 61:1 - The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners. I first came to know this verse during Beth Moore's study Believing God. That study grew me leaps and bounds in my faith, and deepened my trust in him.

Friday the 13th, What a GREAT DAY to Start!

Well, here's the first day in starting my blog. I have been really putting some thought to this, as I want to be able to keep the things I journal all in one spot, and I really feel that this may be the place where I can land, and keep up with all the thoughts, prayers, interesting information, jokes & such that I receive each day. I also have a terrible memory, so I'm hoping that by starting this blog I'll be able to remember all the things I want to remember. I'm excited about being able to get all this out there and lose all the paper trail. Here we go :)