BIG BEAR GETAWAY

These are just a few of our Big Bear pictures. We had a wonderful time and we all wished we had more time. We plan to do it again next year. Great memories.

FEELING DRY

I'm feeling as spiritually dry as the old tree trunk. (I hope it's not dead!)

It's been almost a month since I've last been in church and I feel it so bad. Today it felt so good to be at church in the park and with my spiritual family, Gloria, Irma, Sandy, Julie. I actually could feel the joy of the Holy Spirit welling up in me.

I've backslidden so much. No Bible reading. No prayer. It sure does make a difference. That saying is so true, "A week without prayer makes one weak." Same can be said for "A week with out the Word makes one weak."

I recommited myself to the Lord today, with my time, tithe and talents. And I meant it. There's that verse in the Bible that says, When I am faithless, He is still faithful." Thank you Lord for your abundant, amazing Grace. I hate to think where I'd be without you. Your love is amazing. I am your daughter and I love you.

NEW IDOL! LORD HELP ME!!

I'm back to reading again. I get so involved when I read. I think I exchanged TV idolatry for reading idolatry. What's bad when I read, like TV, is that I tune this world out. When I'm reading, do not disturb me! I'm reading!! How dare you interrupt this crucial moment in my reading world! You want to talk with me, wait until I finish this particular chapter, then I can talk. (with TV, it's wait until the commercial break, then I can talk). Now this kind of scenerio is great if I was single, but I've got a husband and grandkids that love to talk to me. How rude and foolish I am.

But, I do notice that when I'm reading Christian material I'm not obsessive with my concentration as with a "worldly" novel. I realized that yesterday. I was reading and Frank wanted to talk about something. I put my bookmark in place, closed the book, and listened. Hmmm. That is so interesting to me. I'll have to some more testing on this observation.

My new read and it's so good is "Battling Unbelief" by John Piper (Multunomah Press). You can visit his website at http://www.desiringgod.org/ or com, I'm not sure. You can listen to his sermons, great prices on resource materials etc. He's a little deep sometimes and I have to think about what he said but I'm in need of some deeper thought sometimes. He did a study on the book of Romans with his church, verse by verse, and it took them, I think he said 8 years to complete. One can listen to his studies and they are so thought provoking. He is a right on, true to the Word pastor.

Well, I've got to sign off now. Must start packing for Big Bear. Talk later about BB and my journey in becoming idol less and have more of the Real One in my life. I thank God for his AMAZING GRACE. Even in my faithlessness, he is still faithful. What an awesome God is that!!!

Now my heart starts sing the song...There is none like you, no one else can touch my heart like You do, I can search for all eternity, Lord, and find, there is none like You...

The sun has risen, the crows are cawing and the planes are reviving their engines (they take off at 7 AM sharp), I can hear them.

Wow, I can't believe how happy I feel right now. It's not Big Bear or the book I'm reading, it's God. A little touch of heaven here on earth.

Today I pray that I can live in the Spirit and not in the flesh. I pray that I can be a servant to my family this week, that I can live for God and God alone, because there is none like Him!!

Enough of my ramblings.

I THINK I GOT IT

I was trying to get pictures from Frank's picture. I had to log off and go onto Frank's pictures and email them to myself to get them to my pictures.

So the third time should be a charm. These should be pictures of our Big Bear trip last year.

TRY AGAIN....

I'm going to Frank's pictures looking for some grandkids at Big Bear last year. I'm just randomly picking codes that should be pictures. he's supposed to have albums with Big Bear shots but can't seem to find them. I'll try again....

This isn't it either. This is a picture of the kids that went on a mission trip to Alaska with Frank. This Batmobile was at a roadstop near Anchorage.

Better give up. Wasting my time and yours. :(

WHAT THE!!!!

This is not a picture of Larissa or Gina or Timothy. Where did this come from???

GETTING READY TO GO

Had the kids over tonight to discuss our weekend in Big Bear. Whew! Get's a little crazy in my small house when everyone wants to talk at once and everyone has a different opinion. But I think we have it settled. Leave at noon on Friday to be in Big Bear by 3 PM. Look forward to a relaxing time with the family. The cabin is huge so we shouldn't step on each other. I just want everyone to have a good time. This will be the test, if we can all get along. I tend to want to "control" and mother everyone which isn't good. I end up getting stressed.

We went to Big Bear last year with Timothy & Larissa and had a great time. This time around we will have a flushing toilet! No more rustic cabins for me. If the toilet doesn't flush I don't to stay. Don't want to wake up to the pitter-patter of rats between the walls. Ugh!! and Ugh!!

I'm going to try and put some pictures of last year. If you don't see pictures in this post then I couldn't do it. I don't remember how from last post.