Responding to the A.P.B

Howdy, everyone! Forgive me for not keeping you updated on my leisurely, mundane, care-free life...NOT! Camp, pastor changes, and working lots of overtime has kept me very busy the last month. I just don't know HOW in the WORLD those of you with a quiver full of children are such faithful bloggers. You make the childless one look SO bad! You see, by the time I finish reading everyone else's new posts, and sometimes responding, it's WAY past my bedtime and my brain is not functioning enough to post.

Anyway, this Sunday was the first real Sunday with Brother Horton (may of us were away at camp the previous Sunday), and WOOWEE did he feed our souls with fresh manna from above! I cried through both services as God's word and his Spirit ministered so deeply to my heart. Jesus is the Great Shepherd that knows where the greenest, most nutritious grass (spiritual Barleygreen!!) is to nourish and strengthen our souls. God is using him to really CHALLENGE us to reach our full potential in Christ. If there was ever a time that I want to have the favor of God upon my life, it is now. God is preparing his true sheep for a great battle that we still have yet to fight. A scripture caught my eye this morning in 2 Timothy 2:4 "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life: that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." To entangle, means to perplex or distract. How easily we can become distracted from the things of God, when we are not fervently fighting (not just defensively, but OFFENSIVELY) for the unity and purity of the church on our knees in prayer. If a real soldier in combat lost his focus in the heat of the battle, he would be an EASY target for the enemy and would, no doubt, also endanger his fellow soldiers. God help me to stay FOCUSED on Christ, that he may be pleased with this soldier!

I am so excited! I finally figured out how to post pictures...and it's SO EASY! This is me and my sweetie at the Assembly 2001 (haven't used the digital in a long time - Mike claims it's outdated and is waiting to get a new one). I love and appreciate all my fellow bloggies *SMILE*