one of HIS many miracles...

Matthew 8:27 is our verse for the week...I loved acting this miracle out with MK. What an AWESOME thought..."even the winds and the waves obey him" What an awesome and mighty GOD we serve! Have a great Monday. Time for lunch here in North GA...hummus for me , fruit and cheese for MK and mush for ABH.
ttfn

maybe next weekend....

Well, our weekend did not go as we planned. Abigail is a little sick....cold I guess. She didn't rest well at all Friday, slept almost all day Saturday and has the runniest nose :(. Therefore, we did not make our Aquarium outing Sat. MK and her daddy worked and played outside all day while the baby and I stayed cooped up inside Saturday and Sunday morning while MK and RLH went to church. I did watch it via web (so thankful for this provision) and it was a great lesson out of Judges 13 -How to become a spiritual champion...and it's not by eating your Wheaties :). I am hoping to get a run/walk in later today. I am thankful today for one of my favorite promises in the GOD's true and living word...
Lamentations  3:22-23
The faithful love of the Lord never ends!

His mercies never cease.
 Great is his faithfulness;
his mercies begin afresh each morning
and the most beautiful words in an old hymn " MORNING BY MORNING NEW MERCIES I SEE..."
till next post, KSH

I SPY....

FYI ....all fellow mommies out there these are the best books and they are perfect for those long waits at the Dr.'s office or anywhere. It saved us recently. We read most of the book without my 4 year old losing her patience once! Thanks Miss Abby and Aunt Sandra :)

some blessed days....

I was encouraged a couple of Sundays ago to Bless GOD/Praise GOD out of Psalm 103. I am so blessed with so many things; my Salvation, my husband, two daughters, pantry full of food, my home, my Church family, and my many Christian encouraging friends just to name a few. We should bless the LORD; HE is our Savior, our Healer, our Redeemer, our King, and our Strength. We should bless GOD for all the mercy HE has shown us. HE is worthy to be praised...He spoke Creation WOW! He is sovereign over all things WOW! He is Holy!, He is Just!, and He is all powerful DOUBLE WOW! He is the healer of sickness and our sin sickness. GOD is compassionate, loving, and kind to us....we need to use our skills, gifts, and talents to glorify HIM , and bless HIM. He brings satisfaction like no other person or thing ~not our spouses , children, or even chocolate. Those are temporary fixes-JESUS is the real satisfaction.
I just wanted to share this encouraging word.....BLESS GOD TODAY!
Speaking of blessings....we have really been blessed with some warmer temps and sunny days. We have taken advantage of them this week. We got the stroller out this week for the first time since October. I took MK to play at the park with friends a couple of days. I attempted a run (off of the treadmill) on Tuesday ....it didn't go that well but I ran/walked fast for 30 minutes. I got soooo sunburned today while reading and watching MK play " spy" out in the backyard . Tonight at bedtime she turned over and said "mommy you are hot and look like Olivia (the pig ) did when she went to the beach" :) . You have to have read the book to understand hee hee.
We really enjoyed a short visit with some of our friends last night. I call them our soul mate friends. We met them and hit it off from the start and use to dream and pray the same things re: our children, their rearing etc. and now we are living out those dreams , BLESS GOD! As usual the boys and the girls chatted all night over some gourmet coffee. We love us some Cooley's and hope to see them again soon.
Abigail is really sitting up good now so we let the sisters take their first bubble bath together they LOVED it and so did mommy and daddy watching them splash and grin at each other. BLESS GOD!
Well that's all for this week probably....we head to the GA Aquarium Saturday, so I will tell you all about it next week and I am sure post some pics too!
Here are some random shots from our week....enjoy

Have a blessed weekend, KSH

Psalm 103


Of David.


1 Praise the LORD, my soul;


all my inmost being, praise his holy name.


2 Praise the LORD, my soul,


and forget not all his benefits—


3 who forgives all your sins


and heals all your diseases,


4 who redeems your life from the pit


and crowns you with love and compassion,


5 who satisfies your desires with good things


so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.


6 The LORD works righteousness


and justice for all the oppressed.

♥HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! ♥

♥ HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY♥

and it's only been a week....

WOW WHAT A WEEK! and it's only been a week...but a lot has happened. First off sweet Abigail who sleeps about 11-12 hours all night started crying last Monday about 11 pm and didn't stop for hours. I knew something was wrong but not sure what. She wasn't running a fever. She had cut two teeth a few days before and had had a runny nose for a few days. So off we went to the Dr. She had a left ear infection. So, she had her first teeth, first sickness and first round of antibiotics at 7.5months old :( . Her big sis was almost 1 year and half before first antibiotics. OH well, thank GOD she is all better now and has been sleeping, playing, and eating fine ever since. Oh and my preemie ha ha weighed 17 lbs last week. Wednesday came and so did my mom. Yes Gigi came for a nice visit to play with her GA peaches and keep them so Rdog  & I could have a Valentine's getaway; our first overnight stay since right before I got pregnant with ABH. Thanks so much Gigi for loving on my girls. Hope you make it home safe today, we miss you already. Thursday MK had ballet and her 4 yr checkup. She is a very healthy little girl . Praise be to GOD! She was in the 56 percentile for both height and weight she was 41.5"tall and is so big now weighing in at 36lbs. Unfortunately she had to get 5 yes 5 shots
:*( the normal amount for this age is 3 but GA was out of one back in 2007 and she had to get 2nd half of her flu vaccine. She was brave but very afraid and screamed soooo loud. My heart was breaking. I had told her we would get her a toy from walmart afterwards but she kept saying she couldn't walk because legs were so sore. I can't imagine. Bless her heart; so, I carried her in the store and she was so brave she tried to walk the soreness out and she did all the way back to the DVD section and picked out Veggietales "Happy Together" a really great movie btw. She slept through the night fine with help of someTylenol. She was a little sore Friday but I encouraged her to get up and get moving and she would feel better. She and GIGI went to Waffle House for breakfast ha! Afterwards, we went to a sweet Valentine's Party. Sweet children, great group of Godly mommies, precious devotion, yummy sweets and lots of exchanged Valentines. She said she had a super duper time and her legs were feeling better :). Friday night we had a nice time at our SS class social while mom kept the baby and MK had movie/popcorn night at church. Thanks to all the TBC volunteers , I hope we raised lots of $ for missions. Finally the long awaited day arrived Saturday the beginning of our 24 hour getaway to Hotlanta! Rdog planned a fantastic and romantic night. Lots of yummy food, relaxation, and alone time. We had an awesome time. I do have to give you one detail....we worked out together at the gym at the hotel together which I loved doing btw and I ran my longest since ABH 20 straight minutes woo hoo ! I was very proud :) Can't you tell?!? whew you tired yet and it's only been a week...
I want to wish my man a HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! it's our 16th one together. I love him more today than ever! I want to wish my girls a Happy Heart Day too! I love you both to the moon and back. I hope you have a blessed day with your loved ones. I am thankful for mine and all the love they give me especially the everlasting love from my Saviour JESUS CHRIST.
I know this has been a long post but I want to leave you with a sermon I came across this morning ...
In Him, KSH

Everlasting Love


God is in love with you!


The LORD God says to every Christian believer, “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore, with loving-kindness have I draw you” (Jeremiah 31:3).
Those words are a great encouragement for every believer. God’s love for you is an eternal love. It is filled with unfailing care and mercy. He does not say, “I will love you,” but “I have loved you with an everlasting love.”
In New Testament terms the apostle John states the same wonderful truth. “We love, because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19).
How do we know such an awesome fact is true? “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for my sins” (v. 10). There has never been a time, or even a moment, when He did not love you.
Nothing but the love of God could accomplish such an amazing feat. He loved us and sent His son to be the “propitiation for our sins.” God’s holiness is satisfied, and His wrath is turned away from us because of what Jesus did for us on our behalf. God’s justice has now been satisfied because His perfect, sinless Son paid our debt in full.
God’s wrath is a settled, controlled, holy, antagonism against all sin. The Law says, “The soul that sins shall die!” “The wages of sin is death.” But a righteous and just God intervened in His sovereign grace. “By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him” (1 John 4:9). “And the witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life” (5:11, 12).
God keeps saying over and over again to us, “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving-kindness.” I love you and I have demonstrated that love once and forever in the death of My Son on your behalf.
The Holy Spirit spreads abroad through the heart this amazing love of God which is given to us and then we love Him with all our heart.
We never understand God’s love for us until He appears to us in that demonstration of His grace. By nature we are dead to the presence of God. We are in no condition to apprehend His love until God reveals Himself. We cannot see God and His love until God the Holy Spirit removes the scales off our spiritual eyes. Our heart is dead to any movement of God’s grace until the Holy Spirit changes us. Our conversion or new birth is the work of the Spirit. It is a divine operation. Man cannot do it. True knowledge of the love of God is a divine work.
God says to us, “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness.”
Does your heart swell up with gratitude of a million, “Thank you”? God says, “I have drawn you with lovingkindness.” His arms are always outstretched and reaching down to us even when we were spiritually dead and unaware of it. It is always a mighty act of grace when He comes to the confessing, believing, repenting, trusting sinner. “Oh, to grace, how great a debtor!” His love and grace is patient with us.
“No one can come to Me,” Jesus said, “unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day” (John 6:44).
Jesus said, “All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me; and the one who comes to Me I will certainly not cast out” (John 6:37). God always finishes what He begins. Our salvation is no exception. His everlasting love will see us through to the end. “All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me,” and with a double negative in the original language He says, “I will certainly not [no, never] cast out.” That everlasting love gives us confidence and assurance of eternal life with Him in heaven.
"All that the Father gives Me shall come to Me . . .” Have you come? Will you come to Him right now? With open arms His everlasting love pleads, “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believers has eternal life. I am the bread of life” (John 6:47-48).


Selah!

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ROAR LIKE A LION, PUPPY LOVE AND LOVE THAT THE LORD HEARS OUR CRY