It snowed the day after Christmas and did not melt until Saturday.
We woke to another two or so inches on Sunday morning.
This marvelous tree is just outside of our front door. I was standing in our cozy-warm living room around 6 a.m. watching the snow drift to the ground.
{sigh}
We had a pleasant day yesterday although we had to miss church. The pastor's wife called to cancel services due to the road conditions. Bailey went to lunch with her Daddy and then to run a couple of errands. Addison took a long nap while Kennedy and I changed the sheets on the master bed and did some sewing. Kennedy is extremely cautious when she sits at the machine...and ever-mindful of the needle that is so close to her tiny hands. Then we curled up in Daddy's recliner together and colored for a while.
Bailey and Daddy returned and then it was Kennedy's turn (She was so excited!). Kennedy & Daddy went to the grocery store. Bailey and I decided to go out and play in the snow while they were gone. Addison did not get her morning nap so she was actually taking her morning and afternoon nap all together after lunch.
Bailey wanted to play in the back so we started out there. I was determined to build a snowman...or snow-lady actually. I have no memory of ever building a snowman as a child although we did live in the Texas panhandle where it snows every year. Bailey helped and she also started building a snow-fort and she slid down the snowy slide and she made snow angels and she laid on the ground and ate the snow (?). We had a snowball fight too.
I wish that I would have brought out the video camera not only to capture an afternoon in the snow with my girlies on video but to be able to remember the song of the birds overhead. Their music was so lovely.
Addison finally woke and joined Bailey and I outside. She doesn't like to play in the snow. She is very uncertain of it and will not touch it. She prefers to sit in the wagon and watch what everyone else is doing.
I built my snow-lady but then decided that I would rather have her living in the front yard...
So...we disassembled her and relocated her to the front...
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I am pleased to introduce:
Betsy
She is actually from Texas. ;0)
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A friend recently asked me if we were "ready to come back" to Texas. Here was my response to her:
"I miss the people .. friends, family .. not necessarily the place. Not that there was anything wrong with it. Home is simply where we are now. I desire to be content where we are so I can honestly say that I do not wish to return to Texas, nor do I -necessarily- wish to remain where we are. Where ever my beloved husband leads us, I shall be at his side (always prayerful for the Lord's perfect will in our lives)."
It is the truth. I do miss family and friends a great deal. Texas is the only home I have ever known. I love it dearly. However, if we always opt for what we want or what we like or what is our heart's desire, then we will leave God's best behind.
The Lord's plan is perfect. In a way that only God knows and in a timing that only He understands... God's will awaits us... We must first submit to Him in realization of our own sinfulness. Living this life without the Lord is sad and foolish. He created us to fellowship with Him and He loves us more than we can fathom. All we need is waiting for us at the cross.
There is great peace when we obey God's word. Therefore, there is great peace when I submit, out of love for the Lord and for my husband, to my husband. With the grace and guidance of the Lord, I shall be my husband's helper and shall stand at his side no matter where he leads us.
"If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures." ~~Job 36:11
"4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, 5To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed." ~~Titus 2:4-5
"22Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. 24Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. 25Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. 28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. 29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: 30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. 31For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband." ~~Ephesians 5:22-33
I am a sinful woman. Daily, I fail my husband and my children... I fail by being impatient or intolerant. I fail by being lazy or irritable. I fail by procrastinating or by some other hideous bad habit that I have acquired over the years. However, it is not my heart's desire to do this. I was just thinking the other day at how odd it is that I can be so passionate to walk precisely according to God's word in some areas in my life yet, at the same time, continue to wallow in sin in other areas of my life. {sigh} I am a work in progress. God changes my heart a little at a time.
"13Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. 17Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. 18(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." ~~Philippians 3:13-21
"But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand." ~~Isaiah 64:8
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I am so thankful that Christ died for my sins. I am so thankful that I may be in fellowship with my Creator...my Heavenly Father. I recently read the writing of a friend that reflecting on the past year and including the words from a recent sermon that she had listened to where the pastor said something like this, "This life, now,is as bad as it will ever get. As Christians we have the security of knowing that this world and this life is the worst that it will ever be for us." My friend shared: "As he put it "this world is our hell as Christians". What a blessing to know that as hard as things may be at times, it will never be any worse and we can look forward to spending eternity in the paradise that is Heaven. But how sad that many people do not have that security. As Pastor David put it "this world is heaven for the non-believer". How sad that this world with all of its trials, pain, and difficulty is the best that some people will ever experience."
May God be glorified today in my life and in yours. May you and I truly feel the love of a Savior that died in our place.
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posted by Mrs. Klause
January 7, 2008
Music: Deep In The Heart of Texas + Trust & Obey
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