Pray

For Emily she is going to be in surgery tomorrow morning starting at 7:30 and lasting 4 hours. Please take a moment if you are reading this and say a heartfelt prayer for this little girl and her family. They are all as you can imagine going through a tough time, thankfuly they have the Lord as their strength.

Thanks,
Kelli

2 Angels in Need

My heart is full of sadness and yet so much hope all at once. I have come across two little angels who are suffering. They are 9 and 7 years old and both little girls who are in love with Jesus, praise God. Candace Joy is the 7 year old and was diagnosed with gram positive cocci infection which is an extremely serious and painful disease. She has had 13 surgerys starting on the 8th and her last one being yesterday and she still has more to come. Please visit her site to learn more about this little girl.

Emily Starrs is the 9 year old and she was diagnosed with cancer. She is scheduled for surgery on Tuesday the 28th. She has her own blog that you must look at and her mother also has one as well. Please keep her close in prayers.

Both of these girls are little seeds of joy and have a faith that is stronger than some half their age. They are adorable and by what the mothers say of them amazing and a joy to be around.

Also go to Amy over at Dandelion Seeds for current updates and prayer request and a list for you to sign up to devote a specific time to be in prayer for them.

Joyfully in Him,
Kelli

The end of the Beginning

Three days in a row I have gotten up at 5:45 and read for an hour or more in the word of God. This morning I finished Genesis and it was so awesome to journey through it and for once get the whole picture of the beginning of His plan. I really enjoyed reading about Joseph's life. It is the first time that I have been so intrigued and drawn to the bible in a story way. All day long all I could think about was what was going to happen in chapter.......which of course I already knew bits and pieces of the stories but I had never put all of the pieces together all at once and been able to see the whole picture. It is a big difference.

I am so excited to start a new journey through Exodus tomorrow morning. I can't wait to see what God has to reveal to me through Exodus. One of the things that I am most looking forward to in each book and through each chapter is seeing God's soveriegnty and faithfulness more clearly and personally.

"Expresso" left this morning to suprise a close friend of ours. I am so excited for them to be able to dwell in eachothers presence for a while and talk together.

Devotion

I have started a new reading plan with some advice from my husband. I have wanted and been attempting to read through the Old Testament for the last few months now and have notice very little progress and I wasn't obtaining much from it either. So my husband suggested that I was reading it to slowly and I realized that I was not soaking it in prayer as well. I have made a schedule for my reading and I started it this morning. I am thouroughly excited about this journey for I long to know God deeper than I do now. Every morning I plan to read up to 25 chapters in each book unless they don't contain that many and then I will have to combine from the next chapter. This morning it took me about one hour. At first my thought was that is to long maybe I should cut it down to 15 chapters but then I caught myself, see that is about all of my "me" or "alone time" until my "T-rex" arises from his slumber. For a split second I almost deflated my time with the Lord because it took all of my time in the morning, it leaves no time for my selfish and meaningless other desires. I have decided to either get up earlier to do those or to do them only if I have time after my 25 or so chapters delving into God's word and alone time with Him.

I have had to check my motives for why I want to read through the Old Testament. I think initially I wanted to just read through it to say I had and to beable to join in conversations I could not do before but and I know that is why my first attempt at to do this was not fruitful or satisfying to my soul. This morning when I dived into His word I soaked it in prayer first and then slowly and excitedly journeyed through the Creation, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abram and Sarai, Lot, Sodom and Gomorrah, and left reluctantly with Abraham and Abimelech in chapter 20. The journey left me desiring more and understanding more of my Lord.

So I am devoting my alone time in the morning to the Lord. [Acts 2:42 "They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer."] I desire to be devoted to the Lord each morning as the Jews were in Acts to the apostles' teachings, to fellowship with eachother and to prayer. Devoted is a strong word because it means to give all of your energy, time, and your mind to the object of your devotion. It means that you will be faithful in your attempts, that you will fullfil what you said you would, and that even when it gets tough or even seems impossible at times you will persevere and be loyal in the end. I am devoted to my husband in our marriage and in the same way that I am devoted to him I want to be devoted to the Lord in my alone time with Him. This is something that I have desired for awhile now to be devoted but I warn you it takes discipline and desire. Getting up early is not easy for me but it is the only time I have to be completely alone and able to fully submerge myself in His word and in communion with Him with no interuptions.

“And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts” (1 Chronicles 28:9).

Frugal Prayers

I saved a bunch of money at...........................Albertsons today! I was so excited when the cashier told me I saved 6.49 that is actually a lot when it comes to shopping. I love being frugal it is fun and rewarding in many ways.

I have a prayer request for a little girl who is in critical condition right now. She is only 7 years old it is a very sad story, her name is Candace Joy, please pray for her.

Click Here to read about her.


You know there are alot of areas in our lives that we should be frugal or spairingly in but in the area of prayer never! Prayer is communing with the Lord for ourselves or in regards to someone else that should never be done spairingly but in abundance and consistently. So pray today, tomorrow, next week, daily for every single person that you know leaving no one out.


~kelli

So.....(for lack of a better title)

I am so tired right now, my mind is exhausted from an overload of thinking. I am almost done with my first Womens bible lesson on Proverbs 31:11.

Tomorrow we are all going to a circus. I can't say I am all to excited about it though. I do not care for them but my little "Superman" is extremely excited so I am happy for him. I am excited about going garage saleing in the morning! I am hunting an entertainment center, 18-24 month old baby boy clothes, and little pink girly newborn clothes. I haven't been in so long, I hope I find something.

Well, I need to go to bed I have a busy day with the family tomorrow!

Red Pepper Banana Pancakes

Every Tuesday night is Banana Pancake night for my boys and I. It is a little tradition we started last semester. Last night while I was making them I reached up into my spice cabinet for some Ground Cinnamon and accidently grabbed the Red Pepper instead. I didn't notice until I had sprinkled some in my mix! Luckily I was able to save the pancakes from being poured down the drain. In the background we listed to Jack Johnson's song Banana Pancakes while we were making them. "Superman" loves that song.........interestingly enough his favorite part in the song is the Hawaiian part which is mine too.