Fall & Harvest :-)

Have a great Day! Fall is upon us here in the Midwest (I know everywhere really) and the change of colors is just awesome! I miss the Rocky Mountains every year around this time but I will always enjoy where the Lord allows these eyes to see him and his wonders!

Wow it is always amazing to me what God does and how the season is continually changing! The seasons colors, the ages of time in every aspect of Life - His creation. I miss my dear friends who are miles away and I enjoy the ones I am able to be with now. I think of the girls and how they give me pleasure. I enjoy the moments my sweet love and I get to share with each passing moment to etch it upon my heart and my memory. I love the crisp cool air when it is brisk and yet I love it when I lift my chin and feel the faint breeze blow across my face and the other moments it blows my dark auburn hair around my face. Winter used to be my favorite season of all times because of growing up in the Rockies and LOVING SNOW however as time goes by I enjoy them all more each year. Always ready for the newness of each season as I live it and await the excitement of another day to breathe, the Lord willing, before return home to Heaven permanently.

This year 16 years ago I remember awaiting the elections of Nov and a special little girls taking her first steps, wow that was amazing and exciting and now her steps are taking her in many other directions. Where her future will take her, how to prepare and so forth. Who would have ever thought that 21 years ago Kent and I would be embarking on a fall with many new memories that would be so found?

Seasons of Fall; the rich colors of reds, oranges, yellows, golds, browns and faint splashes of green kindle in my heart the warmth of changes through the years and how new life will come. :-) Now because of my friends walk to submit her life last week. two others have decided to follow and be obedient to Christ and yield their lives because her obedience caused them to say - I too want Jesus Christ to be my Lord and Savior, I no longer want to wait. Three new lives on a day of a fall will turn over a new "leaf" by dying to themselves and become a new creation! I love IT!!!!! All in the middle of "HARVEST" season.

Remember, ". . . the Harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. . " (Mt 9:37 & Gospels) This year it has been a FULL harvest and for that I love seeing it in the newness that comes with FALL & HARVEST here in MO Town USA! Bring on the Harvest it warms my soul deeply and kindles the fresh breeze I LOVE!!!! :-)

Awed.

"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by FAITH in the Son of God, who LOVED me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the GRACE of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!" Gal 2:20-21

This week I watched a wonderful sister in Christ yield her life to Jesus in full submission to be immersed in Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and Savior and it has made me think deeply that Christ is the KEY for everything especially when people let you down. :-( We can NOT lead others to Jesus when we are FAKE in any sense of the word. People will let us down but JESUS Christ will NEVER ever let us down and for that I am truly grateful. Christ needs to live in me and boy do I have a lot of surrendering to do as well as just serving.

Thank You Lord, Abba Father God because you are my everything, my life! I praise you for LOVING me so deeply and honestly!

Time

Time is so "quick". Last Friday I had a very unique experience and late Thursday evening it was a connection.

I'd been having dizzy spells lately and long story short; after two weeks went into the maternity ward and had some tests run. While there I was taken care of by two nurses; one named Jim and the other Helen. This was amazing because in the coarse of my nurse Jim and I talking about my health, I inquired of his family. Kent just smiled and then later after Kent left, I started putting some connections together, we both had four children he had four boys and We have (currently :-) at the temporary moment) four girls, we both knew Myas' boyfriends family due to Chaz and his youngest son, Jacob graduating together, Then when he asked what Kent does for a living we discovered he knew a very dear family from our church and had the highest respect for them- Arnold and Dorothy Hughes. He mentioned that he was excited that his youngest son Jacob had graduated Last may from High school while I was saying we coming upon that milestone for the first time in about one and a half years. My other connection was inquiring of the other nurse assigned to tag team with him to care for us. Helen - I remembered that name from the end of July 2001 :-( -Yes she was the same one. The nurse who was a pillar during a very dark and hard time for me - Helen cared for me when Jordan went directly went to heaven. Why do I bring up all of this? T - I - M - E. This very kind nurse Jim took very good care of HaSa and me, and since he shared about his love for his four boys and his JACOB who just graduated with Chaz I remember them both. So When Mya came downstairs with the news of one of Chaz's classmates passing and sharing with me a few small details - God brought back nurse Jim and my conversation. Chaz's classmates name was Jacob, but not the one Mya thought but another. However, while she kept saying how we needed to pray for that family I remembered more things Jim had shared and there were too many similarities. My heart dropped because that next morning during our family worship/devotion/prayer time, Mya shared with all of us this young man, then Kent said that at his meeting the night before another individual had asked for prayer for another boy. I asked Kent, "It wouldn't have been Arnold Hughes who asked for that prayer would it?" where Kent's reply was - "yes".

My heart was touched deeply. Because at the very time nurse Jim was taking care of some tests for HaSa and me his son was going through an accident. Time is so short. I remembered how Helen cared for me in 2001. I remembered the call we had March 16th 2006 praying that Mya would live. I remembered how sincere Jim was in saying that my health was excellent and HaSa was doing excellent giving comfort to the unknowns of health a week ago Friday 3 Oct. Time - So now after my daily reading in Thess. - I pray that the gentle nurse Jim and his family know they will see their Jacob again and that many are praying for them. I will always remember my only two encounter nurses from the maternity ward at Heartland in 2001 and now 2008. They were both there for me and now through TIME I pray the Lord's blessing even in the Hard time in a loss of a child. Nurse Jim and his family could use your prayers TODAY and the upcoming days so that through TIME God will comfort them.

T - I - M - E goes by so fast. Pray.

Convicted

Wow isn't it amazing when God brings something he wants done to you how one can avoid it possibly even run away from it? Yikes the last time I had a conviction like this one well . . . I learned a lot about myself!

Could you pray for me please. Thanks a ton!

Ana-Maria

In his hands

I know . . . I know TRUST and OBEY.

John said it best when he said, "He must increase and I must decrease." Also when Paul asked for his thorn to be removed and the Lord let him know that "His (Jesus Christs) grace is sufficient" because when we are weak we lean on him. I like to be fun loving, have a good time and a bit on the dizzy side but not literally ;-/. It is so weird to have a very healthy physical yet be dealing with dizziness. I can still laugh with and at my situation and tell people on the light side that "I always wanted to be blonder (no offense to those of you I LOVE WHO ARE!!) and dizzy." ;-p

But every time I am literally spinning and off a bit . . . I pray - thanking him for a reason to lean more fervently on him! The tests for almost four hours on Friday were a relief that HaSa and I are both healthy and for that I am truly THANKFUL. I can Praise HIM for two lives who lean fully on His promises never to leave or forsake us. I praise him that we have another moment to breathe and testify to His goodness in all circumstances. I cherish the thought that our hearts still beat strong for HIM literally and spiritually~!!!

We are all in HIS hands at ALL TIMES! Have a great moment with Him - for he LOVES you deeply.

For I will praise him with every step that I take and every breath available - for both of us while we rest our heads upon his chest while being held in his arms.