Heaven's newest resident

At 1:15 AM February 12, my mother, Barbara

Sanders, entered into Heaven's gates to meet

her Savior face to face. It's been a long road

for her. A hard road many times. But the

reward is well worth the journey.

My sister, Robin, drove through a rain, then

snow storm all night Sunday night, from

North Carolina. My brother traveled from

Detroit in that same storm, this time just

snow. My son, Nathan, and his wife, Crystal,

as well, from Grand Rapids. God got them

all here safely. Monday night into Tuesday

we had a terrible ice storm. My brother and

son are safely home and my sister will probably

leave this weekend. 

The Lord allowed her to see one last birthday.

On February 1,  she turned 82 years of age.

We will miss her, but as Christians we know that

our loved ones are not "lost".  We know exactly

where they are and what's more, we know -we

are ASSURED - that we will be reunited with

them once again.  

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

So you see, it is never a farewell for Christians. 

It is, "I'll see you again someday."

Until then, Mom.

Are you ready?  Have you accepted Christ

as your Savior?

 

A late birthday

I finally got an address to send my granddaughter,

Bri's birthday card. It's only two days late.

Today. When she receives it, it will be a little

later than that, but better late than never, I guess.

I heard we had a chance of freezing drizzle today,

but it looks like they've moved that on to tonight

which works for me since Cody and Pam are

traveling back from Indy today.  They've been

on a weekend jaunt  to an anime convention.

From the pictures he's been posting, it looks

like they are having a great time.

 

Isaiah 43:19

See, I am doing a new thing!
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland.

Happy Sunday!

Last valentine

I really like this one. I copied it from a

picture on pinterest. It was so clear

that I didn't need a pattern. Pretty

cool, huh?!

This next picture is from facebook, but I 

was on my tablet so I just photographed it.

It never comes out well, but you can read it

and is it ever hilarious.  I know someone

I'd like to name a cockroach after...

Meerkats are one of my favourite animals.

The wind has pretty much died down thankfully.

I have a headache this morning, though, which

is undoubtedly from the weather.  All the warmer

temps were just a tease from mother nature.

1 Corinthians 13:1

 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels,

but do not have love, I am only a resounding

gong or a clanging cymbal.

Happy Saturday!

Valentine loaded hoop

I wish they would have more of these swaps

because I like doing the hoops and getting

them-so far I only have one (thanks, Karen!)

But I thought it would be cool to have a

whole wall full of them. So here is mine

for a Valentine swap. I haven't received

mine back yet.

I put a bunch of tulle behind it so they

can use it for other things as well.

It has been so windy since last night AND...

dusting of snow.  AND... cold.  AND...

Cody and Pam went on a weekend to Indy

so I have to go over and walk their dog, 

Bailey, several times a day.  Yuk.  If B'Elanna

wasn't such a jerk I'd just bring Bailey over

here but she will grown and lunge at her.

Bailey is bigger but she just backs off.  She

is a very calm and sweet dog.  Unlike mine.

Romans 8:28

 And we know that in all things God works for the good

of those who love him, who have been called

according to his purpose.

Happy Friday!

full of hearts

This card was fun to make. Very confusing,

but fun. I like how it turned out. When you

first see all those holes, though, it's kind

of hard to make out which goes where.

More rain today and then cold again tomorrow,

but they have promised that it won't be as

cold as last week.  I'm going to hold them to

that.  I know where you are.....LOL.

Tonight is coffee chat and Pam and I will have

dinner before.  That's always fun.

Proverbs 12:25

 Anxiety weighs down the heart,
    but a kind word cheers it up.

Be sure to offer a kind word.

Happy Thursday!

 

Happy Valentine's day!

It just dawned on me that if I was going to

send out Valentine cards I probably should

get to it pretty quickly. Here's the next

to last one in the set .

This year is already rolling by quickly.  Not

quickly enough, though.  I want warm weather.

Sometime in the night we got a huge rainstorm

complete with thunder.  I was going to get up

and look out the window to see what was

going on but I fell back to sleep.  It's still raining

this morning.  They had predicted freezing rain,

though, and I don't see any evidence of that.

At least not now.

 

Philippians 4:11-13

 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content

whatever the circumstances.  I know what it is to be in need, and I know

what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any

and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

Happy Wednesday!

Valentime card

No, I didn't accidentally spell “valentine”

wrong. This is a pretty cute card and

a nice play on words.

This is a bookmark I saw so I decided to try it.

I don't like it, but everyone's taste is different,

I guess.  This is the outside:

Inside:

The object is to be able to take notes as you

are reading a book, which, now that I think of

it, doesn't make a lot of sense unless it is a school

book.  needless to say, I won't be making more.  Plus,

the pattern called for the inside pages to be  11 3/4 long

and I had to adjust that since obviously regular

paper isn't that long.  Dumb.

Psalm 19:1

 The heavens declare the glory of God;
    the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

There is a video by Lou Giglio that mashes up

star and whale sounds.  If you want to listen to 

that and not all the stuff he is saying beforehand,

you can skip to the middle of the video, but it is

really amazing.  He puts the music of stars and

whales to the song "How great is our God"

by  Chris Tomlin and it sounds like the pulsars

are doing the drums.  It is astounding!  Well 

worth looking up on you tube.

Happy Tuesday!