frustrated!

I hate that everything that is so HUGE in my heart can't come out on paper.
I hate that I don't communicate as well as I think I do.

I'm ready...

I was sitting there carefully reviewing each picture. Each picture that had a face that told a heartbreaking true story. They were stories of hopeless days and sleepless nights.
I am not the same. How can I be? I am not looking back. It's time to stop talking and move. Move my passion into reality. I can't do it without the Lord's help and guidance. It's a big mountain...yes. He will be glorified. And as I sit here with tears rolling down, again I see each face. I'm coming...I'm ready.

If we are free...

"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by the yoke of slavery." Galatians 5:1


"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."
2 Corinthians 3:7

My hope...

The application is half-way done.

I love answered prayers....

Scary times at Brina's...

So Allie and I loaded up the Montero and headed to Cowtown for the afternoon. Allie was having a play date with Ellie and I with Brina. So when we pull into the 76137...Allie could hardly wait to get out and see Ellie. As I walk in the house...Allie immediately runs towards the back door to hang with Ellie. As Im getting them situated and watching the two get reacquainted...I feel what seems like thousands of tingles on my toes. I look down and there are literally HUNDREDS of fire ants all over my feet. I start to FREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I start to run around like a mad woman and if the neighbors could only see...it would probably look like I was doing some weird Ethiopian rain dance...crazy. Allie looked at me like I was an idiot and as I sit here nursing my toes with Neosporin...I feel like one.

Only the steadfast wins the crown...

"Hold on, my heart, in your believing-
Only the steadfast wins the crown;
He who, when stormy winds are heaving,
Parts with his anchor, will go down;
Be he who Jesus holds through all,
Will stand, though Heaven and earth should fall.
Hold on! An end will come to sorrow;
Hope from the dust will conquering rise;
The storm foretells a summer's morrow;
The Cross points on to Paradise;
The Father reigns! So cease all doubt;
Hold on, my heart. Hold on, hold out".

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