i've really been missing my dad this past week. thinking about the things we used to do together. like this one time we were home alone together and he told me that since it was just us he was going to take me out on a date to a basketball game. that was a good time. and then as a family we would go to the monroe high school to watch the football games. he would try every game to help me get the game but it really didn't work. but i loved that he always tried.
oh, then our father daughter breakfasts...i really miss those and the talks we had...we don't really have those anymore. We still should but we haven't.
everyone who has a dad that should be very very thankful for him. i really wish that my dad was home. he's one of my best friends and he is all the way in Ohio. =P
i'm praying that the house sells quickly so that i can go to Ohio with him!!
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Monday, August 2, 2010
sing to the Lord!
this post was from a while ago and for some reason i didn't end up posting. well here it is.
right before i became apart of my church choir i started to listen to the words of songs. not just Christian songs but the secular songs that i was listening to also. the words to some songs just stopped me from singing them and it disgusted me that i was singing along to a song like this. some of the "christian" songs that i was singing along to didn't have the greatest lyrics in the world either. but by listening to words in songs it helped me to actually mean the words and to sing them to the One who created the universe. when i joined the church choir those songs just were pure praises to the Lord. i was singing with all my heart, soul, and strength. it is an amazing feeling to know that you are singing to your Savior and that you mean every single word that you're singing to Him. i am so thankful that He saved me!
right before i became apart of my church choir i started to listen to the words of songs. not just Christian songs but the secular songs that i was listening to also. the words to some songs just stopped me from singing them and it disgusted me that i was singing along to a song like this. some of the "christian" songs that i was singing along to didn't have the greatest lyrics in the world either. but by listening to words in songs it helped me to actually mean the words and to sing them to the One who created the universe. when i joined the church choir those songs just were pure praises to the Lord. i was singing with all my heart, soul, and strength. it is an amazing feeling to know that you are singing to your Savior and that you mean every single word that you're singing to Him. i am so thankful that He saved me!
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
thoughts on moving
going through this process of moving is a very difficult thing. i have never gone through anything like this before. the only thing i can liken it to is moving from sharing a room with Caroline to sharing a room with Katherine and having to move all of my stuff into that room. but other than that little process i have not been through anything like this.
Moving, packing, saying good-bye are some of the hardest things i have ever had to do. if i was just moving to Marysville or something like that i won't mind as much but moving to Ohio!!! now that is completely different.
I have always just wanted to live here. i even said to my parents when i was younger that when they die they better will this house to me. I thought i would be in this house until i went to college and then come back to it after i was finished at college. But that's not how God wants it and i'll just have to be content with it.
as we are getting everything ready to move and ready to put the house on the market i have been thinking to myself that everyone should go though a process like this. Where they have to put complete trust in the Lord. I mean we should be doing that every day of our lives but for some reason we don't seem to do it until have are in that trial and need help. its sad that we do that. and i am ashamed to say that that is what i did. this moving to Ohio has made me run to Christ more and more. I don't think in my three and half years of being a Christian that i have ever been more close to Christ than now. everyone should be clinging to Christ now rather then when something like, moving across the country comes up so then you are already prepared spiritually and kind of physically for something big in your life to happen.
sorry for rambling. i just have alot lot of thoughts running around in my head that i wanted to write down and then perhaps get some feedback on so then i know if how i'm thinking is crazy or not.
Thank you for reading.
Moving, packing, saying good-bye are some of the hardest things i have ever had to do. if i was just moving to Marysville or something like that i won't mind as much but moving to Ohio!!! now that is completely different.
I have always just wanted to live here. i even said to my parents when i was younger that when they die they better will this house to me. I thought i would be in this house until i went to college and then come back to it after i was finished at college. But that's not how God wants it and i'll just have to be content with it.
as we are getting everything ready to move and ready to put the house on the market i have been thinking to myself that everyone should go though a process like this. Where they have to put complete trust in the Lord. I mean we should be doing that every day of our lives but for some reason we don't seem to do it until have are in that trial and need help. its sad that we do that. and i am ashamed to say that that is what i did. this moving to Ohio has made me run to Christ more and more. I don't think in my three and half years of being a Christian that i have ever been more close to Christ than now. everyone should be clinging to Christ now rather then when something like, moving across the country comes up so then you are already prepared spiritually and kind of physically for something big in your life to happen.
sorry for rambling. i just have alot lot of thoughts running around in my head that i wanted to write down and then perhaps get some feedback on so then i know if how i'm thinking is crazy or not.
Thank you for reading.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
praising God and being thankful
i LOVE this kind of weather!!! it's clearish sky, alittle windy and nippy but a delight to be outside! you might think that i'm weird but if you do then that probably means that you are not praising God for His creation.
i struggle with not praising the Lord for His amazing lightning, thunder and at times rain. the lightning and the thunder scare me and the rain just is boring and ruins plans. but those are such stupid excuses! we should be praising the Lord for everything He has put on this earth!
i also struggle with not praising the Lord for the bugs, reptiles, and other creepy crawly things that He has made. but, some of them are good for eating some of the other scarier things that crawl on this earth. that i should be thankful for.
I should also be thankful that i live where i live. right now i only have to deal with quarter(maybe alittle bigger) size spiders, ants, beetles, earwigs, moths, mosquitoes and more. but, all of those i can SQUISH!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!
i really don't have it all that bad. i should be praising God and thanking Him for the place where He has put me.
i struggle with not praising the Lord for His amazing lightning, thunder and at times rain. the lightning and the thunder scare me and the rain just is boring and ruins plans. but those are such stupid excuses! we should be praising the Lord for everything He has put on this earth!
i also struggle with not praising the Lord for the bugs, reptiles, and other creepy crawly things that He has made. but, some of them are good for eating some of the other scarier things that crawl on this earth. that i should be thankful for.
I should also be thankful that i live where i live. right now i only have to deal with quarter(maybe alittle bigger) size spiders, ants, beetles, earwigs, moths, mosquitoes and more. but, all of those i can SQUISH!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!
i really don't have it all that bad. i should be praising God and thanking Him for the place where He has put me.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Reading God's Word
how many times do we look out a window and say, "oh, it looks like a good day for a run, or, its so nice outside i should really do something out there." and when we actually don't follow through with it we scold ourselves for it?
well, how many times a day do you look at your Bible and say, "i really need to read that." but then just walk away and don't scold yourself for it? how our minds our set about reading our Bible every day is insane! we don't want to do it!! we are so mad that we didn't get ourselves outside but we don't care that we didn't read His word that day! i'm not saying that i haven't done that cause i have. that is the one main reason why i'm writing this. i have committed that sin, about not caring if i didn't read my Bible that day. i want you guys to see that it is a sin and to watch for it. don't be like me where i went for three months making up excuse after excuse about why i couldn't read my Bible that day. DON'T DO THAT!!!!
PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE!!!! you need to open your eyes to make you see that your time with the Lord is the most precious time you can ever get!! the only way you can share the gospel, the only way you can ward off sin is by knowing God's word!!
well, how many times a day do you look at your Bible and say, "i really need to read that." but then just walk away and don't scold yourself for it? how our minds our set about reading our Bible every day is insane! we don't want to do it!! we are so mad that we didn't get ourselves outside but we don't care that we didn't read His word that day! i'm not saying that i haven't done that cause i have. that is the one main reason why i'm writing this. i have committed that sin, about not caring if i didn't read my Bible that day. i want you guys to see that it is a sin and to watch for it. don't be like me where i went for three months making up excuse after excuse about why i couldn't read my Bible that day. DON'T DO THAT!!!!
PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE!!!! you need to open your eyes to make you see that your time with the Lord is the most precious time you can ever get!! the only way you can share the gospel, the only way you can ward off sin is by knowing God's word!!
Jacquie Porter
It is almost a year ago that i wrote my first blog post. So that means its coming up to the anniversary of Bob Porter's death. But the difference with last year and this year is that He is no longer without his wife. Jacquie Porter, Bob's wife died of cancer Sunday, January 17, 2010.
She was like a grandmother to me. She helped my walk with the Lord so much. She live out how a true Christian was supposed to act. Her funeral in this Saturday and it will be very hard....for everyone.
Though her kids four kids are Christians, grown and three are married, they still miss their parents very much. Please pray for their kids. Their names are: Heidi, Rob, Holly, and Ricky. Also pray for Bob's mom. She is still living and was great friends with her daughter-in-law; they took care of each other. Thank you for praying.
She was like a grandmother to me. She helped my walk with the Lord so much. She live out how a true Christian was supposed to act. Her funeral in this Saturday and it will be very hard....for everyone.
Though her kids four kids are Christians, grown and three are married, they still miss their parents very much. Please pray for their kids. Their names are: Heidi, Rob, Holly, and Ricky. Also pray for Bob's mom. She is still living and was great friends with her daughter-in-law; they took care of each other. Thank you for praying.
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