Me and my new baby!

Ok I got a new baby today...a guitar. I'm bound and determined to learn how to play.
The pictures crappy but here is a picture:



Just as an add on to this post: This is the first time I've ever picked up a guitar in my life! Let me just tell you that after like 30 minutes of playing with it last night my fingers are dying. And then I tried for like an hour today to play one chord! It's hard! Like anything, it takes time and practice but I sure hope my fingers get tough or else I won't be playing guitar lol. It might not sound pretty but I'm working on my joyful noise!

Answered prayer

Just wanted to thank you all for the prayers for Ike. He has improved and they have taken him out of the induced coma. He is still in ICU but things are looking up. Continued prayers would be greatly appreciated! Thanks sisters!! Lori

Thank you, Lord

Greetings, sisters.

It doesn't take long for us to get back to the daily routines and realize that the Emmaus weekend certainly is a mountain top experience. What matters, though, is that we realize that He is still with us in the slide down the mountain to the plateau and will be with us even if we enter the valley. It's in those valleys that we grow!

Prayer request: Please lift Shirley in your prayers. She's my dear sister in Christ who is struggling for her life. She is not afraid of dying because she knows whose she is, but I pray for peace, NO PAIN (as she is in a great deal of it), and courage to carry out God's will for her. This is not an easy road for her. I know. I watched my husband travel a very similar road....or is it a valley?

Even in the midst of our hardest moments, we can still find joy knowing that He is who He is, and WE are His!

Praise be to God.
DeColores,
Mitch

Woohoo! How Awesome is this!

I subscribe to a daily email devotional and this was the devotional for this morning:

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you; I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid (John 14:27).

I wonder how many Christians have really come to understand the great fact that peace is our inheritance. Peace is what Jesus has left us. It is fundamental and cannot be taken away from us by any circumstance. That is what He means by, "I do not give to you as the world gives."

How does the world give peace? If you were troubled and you went to a doctor who was not a Christian and asked him, "What can I do to gain peace?" what would he tell you?

"Take a trip. Go to Hawaii. Get away from it all." In other words, "Change your circumstances. Go to a place where nothing bothers you, where everything is peaceful around you. Then you can be at peace."

But Jesus says, "I give peace right in the midst of trouble, right in the midst of distress and turmoil and heartache and pressure. I can impart peace to your heart right there, and not as the world gives." Why? Because we can return to that basic relationship we have--"You in Me, and I in you." Out of that comes the guarantee that He is working out His purposes. He will bring us to the end of the trouble. He will still the storm and quiet the waves. We rest in the boat, content, knowing, "No water can swallow the ship, where lies the Master of ocean and earth and sky." That is peace.

"Peace I leave with you. [Therefore]," the Lord adds, "do not let your hearts be troubled." That is addressed to you! It means you do not have to be upset and anxious, weary and worried. "Do not let your hearts be troubled." How? By returning to that place of rest. Return to the phone booth and rest there in the confidence that Superman is within and will work the situation out for you and will accomplish His purpose through you.

You have made me rich, Father, with the inheritance of peace. Thank You that whatever I am going through, regardless of how difficult it is, I can have peace, because You are in me, and I am in You.

God is good...all the time! It's amazing how he works through so many and that he provides just what you need at just the right time.

Woohoo! and God bless!
Brandee

Prayer Request

Could you all please include Ike in your prayers. He is in the hospital with pneominia and they have him in a chemical induced coma. The word I received today is they were not sure he would make it. If you could also add his two sisters -
Thank you sisters.
ysiC,
Lori

I have a...TRUE STORY!

I hope that you're are all basking in the love and doing great! I cannot begin to express what this past weekend has meant to me. Words wouldn't do it justice.

I do, however, have to share how the Lord has been moving in my life since I've been back in the "real world".

After having the tiring, yet ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL weekend that we all had, I had to get right back into the swing of things Monday morning with an 8:30 am meeting (which I ended up 10 minutes late for, but was shown some grace and even thanked for coming in earlier than my usual work hours). Monday evening, I decided that although I had numerous tasks to catch up on (ie. SLEEP, laundry, dishes...) that I would instead take my darling daughter out back to play for a little while. As I stood pushing her on the swing, the breeze surrounding us felt so wonderful and we were engrossed in laughter. Then, it hit me! The whole yard was shaded except for one sunny patch...right where we were. We were in the light!! HE was shining his light on us! I couldn't resist running for my camera to capture the beauty of the sun glowing through the trees.

Tuesday proved to be yet another great day. I had the day off and I got to snuggle with my daughter in our pjs for quite awhile and just spend the day together.

But wait! It get's so much better...

This morning, as I departed the elevator on the 2nd floor of my office building and headed for a routine task, I looked down the hall and saw the most wonderful sight...my new and dear friend...none other than Adrienne Russell! As Brandee likes to put it, "WOOHOO!"

Love to you all!

Gabrielle

Greetings!

Greetings my sisters! Woohoo!
I hope that this day finds all of you well and that the spirit of God still burns in your heart as it does mine. I miss you all greatly already (yes I know it's not been even 24 hours yet). The sun rose a little brighter out my bedroom window this morning as I pray that it did yours. I set up this blog with everyone (at least those with email addresses) as publishers. That means that all of us can share our prayers and our praises here for everyone to read. I hope that this blog can help all of us to continue growing in the sisterhood that we began this weekend. Talk to you all soon!

Decolores
Woohoo!
ysiC,
Brandee Teer