Stay at Home

Guest post of the week by Deangelo Spencer

Being a stay at home mom means it’s really important to me to keep my home in tip top shape. I spend literally all of my time here so I want to make sure it’s exactly how I like it since it’s like my office and my place to call home rolled into one! My son loves his room and it’s where I spent the most money and effort making it perfect but you know, I can’t wait to get to the rest of the house. I’ve done the smart mom stuff and gone to http://www.texaselectricityproviders.com to check my rates and I’ve even got a guy lined up to come in next week and install under-cabinet lighting but I actually need to PAINT those cabinets to make the kitchen look up to date. I’ve got my husband on the hook to buy some better furniture and you know, pretty soon I hope that we’ll be able to afford to have that garage put in. Everything in due time – for now this place is just fine.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings!

Over the years I have been blessed with some amazing friends. I am so grateful and so thankful for the the friendships we have. Call me biased but I believe I have some of the greatest :)

When you hit a speed bump in your life, you quickly learn who your true friends are and who aren't, you quickly learn how amazing your friends truly are. They are apart of our family--a true support system to Cort and I. We would be lost without them.

We are thankful for them, each and everyone. God blessed us with amazing friends.

Virginia Beach Aquarium

Here are some of our souvenir pictures from our vacation.

Bad Memory

Thanks to Jonathon Woods

Last night I almost forgot to shut the oven off before I came to bed. I got all the way upstairs, laid down, and finally remembered by the time I just about drifted to sleep. I firmly believe that forgetfulness is a sign of old age and that makes me rather worried because I’m only in my mid-forties. Furthermore, if it were just the one oven incident I would not be worrying so much but it has happened multiple times in the last month. I forgot to close the garage door a couple of weeks ago and a Raccoon got in and destroyed the majority of our pool furniture. The other night I came inside and remembered that I had left all the groceries from the store just sitting out in the car. However, I am starting to see a bright spot in all this forgetfulness, a good friend of mine sent me an email telling me about memory exercises people can do in order to restore memory and he also told me about Directv. Hopefully, I don’t leave the oven on again and burn the entire house down.

A PRAYER FOR TODAY

Father in Heaven, I receive Your truth today and hold on to Your promises. I ask that You ignite my heart with Your holy fire so that I can pursue Your perfect plan for my life. Make my thoughts and words agreeable to Your will as I meditate on Your Word. In Jesus’ name, amen.
— Joel & Victoria Osteen

Delight

I can't even begin to tell you just how often God speaks directly to me through several of the daily devotionals I receive. This one is yet again, another example...

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE

“Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart”

(Psalm 37:4, AMP)

TODAY’S WORD from Joel and Victoria

Are you believing God for something that seems to be taking a long time? In the natural, you may have every reason to give up on what God has placed in your heart. At times, you may be tempted to get discouraged, but remember, God knows exactly where you are. He knows the desires He’s placed within you. He knows even the hidden dreams — what the scripture calls the secret petitions of your heart. Those are the things that you haven’t told anyone about. Maybe you thought they would never work out, or you’ve buried them because they didn’t happen on your timetable. But God still has a way to bring them to pass.

Be encouraged today because God is working behind the scenes on your behalf. Delight yourself in Him — find joy in serving Him and make your heart moldable in His hands. Don’t settle for mediocrity because God knows what’s in you, and His plan is to finish the work He began in you!

Sharing The Help book with my daughter

Guest post written by Karen Reeves

I was so glad when my daughter got to high school and I decided that it was okay now for her to read some of my favorite books. Now we actually do quite a bit of switching books back and forth that we've found and especially like. She definitely gets the reading gene from me. That's for sure.

Well I finished up with the book The Help about a month ago and I just thought that it was so outstanding! I really loved it and told her that she needed to start reading it immediately. Well she actually just started but is trying to finish before the movie comes out. I was looking up info about the upcoming moving online and when I was doing that I saw the site Mobilebroadband4g.com. I showed it to my daughter and we decided that would probably be a good thing for us to use.

I think that she has it in her to finish The Help book before we go and see the movie. I told her that she has to!