Life on Goshen Point

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Pillows on the floor?

An altar of worship!
Yesterday the girls and I decided to kneel by the bed for our morning prayers.
We discussed the verse "Every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord!"
We enjoyed a sweet time of prayer and talked about humbling ourselves before God.
When they scurried up to their rooms I lingered by the bed looking at the precious knee prints in the pillows. Some days being a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom seems too hard, it is hard and tiring and stressful and lonely at times...but I am so thankful God has called me to invest my life, time, love and energy in my sweet girls. These moments will too soon be gone.
Thank you Father for the knee prints in the pillow reminder!

Lydia ~ my little fashion sense girl!

First and probably last season of soccer.
She enjoyed it but one day after running hard and sweating she asked her daddy

"can I just be a cheerleader?"

Lydia
April 4, 2010

Celebrating the special day God gave us our precious girls.

Olivia
April 8, 2005

Olivia loves her little cousin Blakely and
she enjoyed being in the church Passion Play this year.

Every good and perfect gift comes from above. James 1:17

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Our Blessed Life

Daddy-Daughter Date Night at Chick-Fil-A.

Olivia is so excited to be among the ranks of her friends loosing their teeth!

Chick-Fil-A Seminar
Orlando, FL

CFA is an amazing organization! We are so blessed to be a part of this family!

These are a few of the highlights from our seminar this year.

Opening worship service with North Point Community Church worship team.

Propaganda

Love this presentation of the gospel

Ethan Bortnick

Two Chellos

Poolside Dinner ~ a remarkable experience!

Really neat story about a CFA Operator who served in the military

and saved this man's life. His plane was shot down, he ejected and landed in enemy territory

in Afghanistan. They met for the first time at seminar....years after the rescue!
Very moving story...one of many featured about the great operators within the organization.

Celebration with our founder Truett Cathy...

$4 billion...debt free company!

His words of encouragement to the operators...
always tithe...God takes care of those who put Him first.

Disney

While in Orlando we couldn't pass up the great
Military Salute offer from Disney.

Memories to last a lifetime with papa and nana.

Meeting the characters.

Family is Forever

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Chinese New Year

Dragon Dance

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

I am praising the Lord this morning that I am back in the land of the living! I have never been so sick in my entire life. It actually began Saturday evening with Mark. That night around 11:00 p.m. he began violently throwing up, having stomach cramps, spiked a high fever and eventually passed out two times. It was a very scary night. We thought he had food poisoning from something he had eaten at a restaurant that day, but it wasn’t, it was a nasty virus and on Monday night around 11:00 p.m. it hit me. I begged God to deliver me…I had so much to do...tutor CC the next day, take care of the girls, visit my grandmother for her 95th birthday and the list goes on. Yet I resolved that if I must go through it I desperately needed the Lord to help me. The Lord did help me and demonstrated His love through the tender and loving hands of my husband. He held me through each gut wrenching episode of vomiting, caught me when I passed out and placed cold rags on my head, forced me to drink 7UP so I wouldn’t get dehydrated, called his mom to come get the girls and cancelled work and meeting plans to stay home and take care of me. I never want to go through this again but I’m thankful for the blessing of a husband committed to me “in sickness and in health.” This March we will celebrate 13 years of marriage. Is our marriage perfect...NO...but I love him more today than I did yesterday...more than I ever imagined 13 years ago.