Fall

I love this time of year. Warm days and cool nights can't be beat! I have been going going going since we started school, and now that my little Peanut is trying to walk, I am wondering where the time went! When we started school, he was just starting to crawl, now I am so sad. He is growing up so fast, and although I love this time of year, it reminds me that seasons come fast, and time keeps moving!

My oldest is driving, and my youngest is almost walking. How different but the same. They are growing, moving forward, changing faster than I can stand sometimes. I wake up in the middle of the night often, can't seem to sleep through the night myself. I sneak in to see them sleep and silently thank God for this life I have.

I am so blessed, and He is so gracious to give me these children to raise. That is my job. I don't get paid right away, somedays I want a long vacation or a temporary replacement for a day, but it is what He has called and therefore equipped me to do. Some days I wonder what some people do with their time. I guess a clean house and loads of free time are not what they think they have an abundance of.

I heard a lady on the radio this morning, who has been struggling with infertility for 10 years. Wow, I think about how different my life has been over the last ten years, and I cannot imagine waiting all those years for a baby. I was told as a teenager that I would probably have a hard time getting pregnant, and then after my 2nd baby they told me stop - no more. I thank God He saw things so different. I am so blessed, so very blessed. I love thinking about that this time of year.

I hope you enjoy your fall and your blessings today!

Since when are we NOT a Country founded on Christian Prinicples?

(Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776)
The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

Screaming

It is so interesting to type this tonight after reading my freind's Stacie post on screaming. But...

I have been telling my kids how God screams our name through the Holy Spirit to keep us from sin. Twice this week, my 2 older girls have seen this first hand. Right when they went to do something they knew they weren't supposed to, they listened to that voice and stopped.

Oh, Praise God for His mercies! I am so grateful for Him helping and guiding me in raising these kids!!