a little inspiration

So, I picked this painting up at a garage sale this summer for $2.50. And had a great idea to transform it into something modern.

I started by cutting the letters out of contact paper on my Cricut.

Then painted over the letters with white wall paint that we had laying around.

After the paint dried, I removed the letters.

Viola, the finished product!!!!

This isn't the final resting place. I have another place in mind. But this is the spot for the time being.














Happy day to you!!

Grace and Peace!!

So far so good

The group

The weather isn't tooo hot, yet, I hear it will get worse.

The girls all get to sleep in air conditioning which is really nice.

I almost had a melt down today after our time with the people at La Siesta, the first church we visited. I had a really bad head ache and was really tired. Also a little anxious about what was for dinner. I really had to lean on God, In my head I was begging to go home on the next plane out, but I managed to pull it together and now all is well.

With the heat I don't really have an appetite, so I was getting myself all worked up. I'm not sure when I changed from a person who could care less about germs to a person who is really terrified of them. It seems that hand washing is optional around here, there for one can get really worked up about such things. Especially considering all of those who got sick last year after eating out on separate occasions. This all was adding to my anxiety. As always everything turned out A-OKAY. Dinner was great and the fellowship was equal. Now we are home playing games and relaxing.

We have a busy day ahead tomorrow. Please pray for divine appointments with those who don't know Jesus. And for courage to speak with the people of Panama, there is a language barrier and that is really intimidating to me.

Grace and Peace from Panama!!!

On the way to Panama

So, on Sunday our pastor prayed for divine appointment for the team. Weather in the airport going through customs or just traveling on the plane and of course while on the trip. That scares me, I can do the work trips, no problem. But this is different. I am not used to the evangelizing trips. You would think that the Savior I love would be easy to share. But the USA is a little jaded to my Savior, so it scares me that I will be judged in that way in another country too.

My prayer for our team is for courage, boldness, for eye's that see and the ear's that hear, who we should talk to and what to say.

Please be praying for us. There are 14 students and 4 adults. Pray for Gods will to be accomplished, for strength for the team and for the whole team to come together as one.

Peace and Grace. I will update hopefully while we are there!!!!

Peace, and gentle spirit

1 Corinthians 4:18 Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

Wake up and smell the coffee people I am right here in your face. I think this is how God would share this verse if we were to have coffee today. I search so hard for peace in my life yet I so often I skip right over the most obvious solution, my Heavenly Father. Not anymore!

I started reading Jesus Calling today, and journaling and learning and reading more. My thought for the day, Peace only God holds the key for you. And live, gentle in spirit.

Grace and Peace

HAPPY EASTER

HE IS RISEN

I am thankful for the breath I take each day.

For the health, my family and I have.

For a God, who loves my always.

And for the Hope, I have in my Savior.

I pray a blessed day for you and your family.

Celebrate the life that we have in Christ.

Peace and blessings

Baking fun

Our attempt at Beignets.

No Cafe Du Monde that's for sure.

They of course didn't taste the same but it was fun to try. We sure did make a mess. Thanks Tasha and Anna for cleaning up.

On Friday Justin decided we needed to bake cookies,
AS A FAMILY. So I let him and Eli mix while I took pictures. Eli loves to help. I truly think we have a chef in our future.

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And as all bakers do, you MUST taste test. Especially when the baker is 2 1/2. The ccokies taste good. And it was fun to watch them bake together. It may be a long time before
Justin decides he wants a family baking night, just a guess.

Have a good Sonday.
Romans 13:8
Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.

Peace and grace

The past wekks

It's been a really long time since I posted last. We took a group of 22 high school students to Louisiana for a missions trip over their spring break from school. An 18 hour train ride from Chicago to New Orleans, a stop to the food court for what would be our first of many meals out and then an hour drive across the causeway to Folsum, LA.



We arrived at the camp pretty late so we settled in for what would be a long and challenging week. Sunday we headed to New Orleans for church at City Of Love and boy did we feel the love. Sunday night we went to Gulf Port, MS for Church and dinner with a students family. The BEST fried chicken I have ever had!!!!! Monday and Tuesday were work days at Glenwood Baptist Youth Camp, this is where we stayed.

Wednesday was the French Quarter for some BEIGNETs and sight seeing, then to the Audubon Zoo



All of the kids seemed to enjoy this, it was a nice break in the middle of the week to rebuild the momentum. Thursday and Friday we finished the work at the camp which included drywall and building bunk beds, while a group of about six went to MS again to repair a roof. On Friday the group that stayed at the camp meet up with the group in MS and did a little swimming in the gulf.
Eli's first swim in salt water and he really loved it. Up early on Saturday to clean the mess we had created in the girls room, gross, and then the hour drive back to New Orleans and back on the train to Chicago.

We have a great group of kids and a great group of parents who trust us enough to take their kids across country for a week. God really work in AMAZING ways last week. I am blessed to be a part of such great work our Lord is doing. May prayer for these kids, excuse me, young adults would be that they let God continue the work that he is doing in their life's. That they surrender completely to God and let Him use them in mighty ways.

Then Daniel praised the God of heaven ²⁰ and said:

“Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever;
wisdom and power are his.
²¹ He changes times and seasons;
he deposes kings and raises up others.
He gives wisdom to the wise
and knowledge to the discerning.
²² He reveals deep and hidden things;
he knows what lies in darkness,
and light dwells with him.
²³ I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors:
You have given me wisdom and power,
you have made known to me what we asked of you,
you have made known to us the dream of the king.”

Our daily reading was Daniel while we were gone.

Well, that is it for now. Time to catch up on all there is to do after a trip and catch up on my sleep!

Grace and Peace!

A Word

Romans 8:31-39

If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. ³⁴ Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? ³⁶ As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”^[j]

³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[k] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now read this again, but this time read is slow. Pay attention to the underlines and highlights. Tonight at BSF our lecture leader had us close our eye's and she read this to us. It's crazy how scripture changes when someone else reads it to you with your eyes closed.

I hope that this brings something new to you as it did for me tonight.

If you have questions about who this God is in your life lets talk......

God Bless, rest well in His comfort!!

thank You 4 this Word today!

nEEd i sAy mORe~?