Me and Anna...our true selves??????

Well....here I am with our "last-born"! To be honest, we don't really look like this ...anymore!
We shaved, had a nose job and trimmed the brows!

One thing I can say...I ALWAYS loved being with our kids! Oh, we had some tough times like
everyone else but I was never ready for vacations to be over and the kids to be back in school!

They were precious blessings!

They still are!

Sorry...

The web address I posted isn't working.
I copied it as it was.

Go to Onenewsnow.com

The article is "Taxpayers fund abortions but not school vouchers" by Dr. Paul Kengor

"I noted that the Obama administration and Democratic Congress 'rejected funding for school vouchers for poor children in Washington, DC, but supported funding for abortions for the mothers of those children.' "

It's a good article.

INCREDIBLE!!!!!!

Sending out the link to read this article.

Perspective: Death of a Nation's Conscience
http://onenewsnow.com/Perspective/Default.aspx?id=883588

"Want to send your child to a better school? Sorry.

Need money to abort your child? No problem.

It's obvious we're losing our mind as a nation!"

This is almost too hard to believe.

We can't help poorer children get a better education but we will give their mothers money for abortions!

HOW SICK IS THIS???????

One More Time for now...

Tonight is book club night and we will be discussing The Scent of Water.
Could be a really good discussion!

Now for one last quote...at least for the time being.

"Appleshaw even more than most country places has the scent of water in its air."
"The scent of water?" asked Mary.
"I don't mean that literally. 'For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout
again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.' There's one thing blindness did for me, gave me a braille Bible.
...If I'd kept my sight I'd never read the Bible as I have,..."
"What is the scent of water?"
"Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew."

This quote about the tree comes from the book of Job.

I have an example of this very quote right outside our window. We had a Bradford pear tree cut down because it got damaged in a storm. The stump is there and also..."boughs like a plant".

Life coming out of death...
Jesus dying on the cross and raising from the dead unto LIFE so that we could live...
We were dead in our trespasses but when we accepted Him, were made alive...
"Living water!" Renewal...new life...

This is the scent of water.

Thought For The Day

"The idea is not that we do work for God,
but that we are so loyal to Him that He
can do His work through us."

Oswald Chambers

The Kid in Me!

Meet Jo-Jo! Jo-Jo is my "pet" monkey. As a little girl I always said that I was going to Africa

and be a missionary and have a pet monkey!

When I was in High School, my parents gave me my first Jo-Jo for Christmas. He was the cutest little fella ...white tennis shoes, all soft and cuddly and he was holding my birthstone ring.

Jo-Jo was much loved but somehow after many years he disappeared. (Don't tell Woody and Buzz or Jessie)

I always remembered him and told the Grands that I was going to get another one at Build-a-Bear.

Well, Mike took me for my 50th birthday and thank goodness it was near closing and there weren't that many people because the lady made me do all the crazy things the kids have to do!

Then I chose his clothes...tee shirt, jeans, tennis shoes and a hat...and brought him home!

He is extremely well-behaved and loves sitting in his rocking chair and he is much loved

by the Grands...me too...I've always had a soft spot for stuffed animals!

Oh yeah, he's visited the Treasures on several occassions and they love him!

Anyway....this is Jo-Jo...up close and personal!

The Scent of Water

I have finished reading the book...
but the book isn't finished with me.

It has stirred so many emotions, evoked so many thoughts that go to the very depths of my being...into my soul.

I'm finding it very difficult to put it down for I want to pick it up and read it all over again.

It stirs me...it soothes me...it wraps around me bringing me to a place of security,
actually to THE place of security which is Christ.

One can identify with most of the characters for there are parts of them in each of us.
How utterly satisfying to see so many of them come to and grow into the reality of God
and His precious love for each of them....for us.

How beautiful....