Trusting Him

There are so many reasons I love being a stay at home mom but one of my favorites it the fact that we now can have so much fun exploring together. I love watching her see, feel and touch things for the first time. She lately has started pointing at things and I find it so cute!

 

 

This morning as we were out on our "car riding walk" which is really me pushing her in her little red car from Nana around our yard we spotted a robin using our nest to make her nest. 

 

Seeing things like this really do just make me stop, be still and watch. There's nothing that signifies spring like a mother bird making her nest. Watching her fly away and gather twigs and pieces of grass made me remember a year ago how we were desperately trying to find a place to make our nest before Pippa made her arrival.

Pippa will be a year in a matter of weeks and around this time last year I was feeling very different and so we're my overly-sized swollen feet due to pregnancy. 

Very Ready to pop! 

 Thinking back it was a very stressful time. With an unexpected job change while I could deliver at anytime was enough to make any lady go into labor! :) I remember ladies asking me if the nursery was ready and I would just laugh because I would be happy to just have a room called the nursery! By the way, all you need is diapers, milk and a magical sleeping swing found at target from your grandma and you can make it anywhere! Oh and maybe a onsie...or two or ten and a washing machine...yeah that would be nice to have. :)

God had a plan in all of it and I am so thankful that even then we could trust that His ways were indeed higher than our ways. You see many times in our lives it's not usually until we are in the midst of crazy circumstances do we GET the privilege of learning to trust Him.

I remember many people telling me "bless your heart" during our time of readjustment and I was tempted many many many times to get very down but Josh and I had to choose to put our trust in the one who was greater than what we knew. 

I now tell people that if God could help us find a job, get moved, have a baby all at the same time then well we will never question his provision! Many times when we begin to panic about teeny problems we remind each other that God is in control.

Almost a year later and I never understood the blessing that having Pippa would bring. 

Pippa with her tree we planted last fall.

Girl loves sunshine!

Notice Annie chillin in the back!

I think when she's 16 I should explain to her that driving with your feet isn't safe..

 

God is so good to us and I don't know why we ever doubt His goodness.

How long has it been since you have been forced to trust Him with a situation? I challenge you to see your circumstances from God's perspective and use it to grow! I can testify that not only is He good but that He cares and He loves us. Worship Him through simple trust in His unfailing love. 

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not on thy own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your path. Proverbs 3:5-6 

Pippa Walks

Last weekend Pawpaw and Nana came to visit us and Pippa took her first real steps! We are so proud of her. I cannot believe she is walking. Where did the time go? She is learning now that walking is faster than crawling and I just love to see the look of pride on her face when she realizes what she is doing. We are so blessed!

Baby Nap time thoughts..

My Bible study gals and I recently finished a study about how we treat others and about handling how others treat us. The main points that I learned through this study is that is all comes down to me. People are going to say and do things that I really don't understand. The only person I can control is myself and the Lord is wanting us to learn true forgiveness and unconditional love through these difficult situations.

Luke 6:32-36 says

"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' love those who love them. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' do that. And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even 'sinners' lend to 'sinners' expecting to be repaid in full. But LOVE your enemies, DO GOOD to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.: 

Another thing that has been on my mind lately is the impact that our words have. They have potential to either build or tear down people. Many times I have been amazed at how naturally is comes to put other people down even at church! Oh how awful to tear down your own family of believers. I pray that my words would be edifying!

The song "Words" by Hawk Nelson seem to play on a continual loop in my head these last few days and so far I'm not sick of it! As you listen to this song may you consider the words that we will exchange with others today and I hope it gets stuck in your head because it's a constant reminder for me to be very careful what I say and to build others up!

May my words point the world back to you, Lord.

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I was inspired by the orginal Abeka Bible Memory verse cards that I used as a child to make a new updated cutesy version. I plan to print them and get them laminated. Even though Pippa is only 10 months, I am already preparing tools to help her understand the truth of God's word. Someone suggested that I sell these cards but after honestly thinking it over I think the Lord would rather they just be given away.

God has blessed me so much and He always provides and if they can help you put more truth into lives then they are yours!


All I ask is that you share this page to others so more mom's can have them and that you teach your kids scripture! 

God bless! 

Amy 

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13 more days!

13 more days till Christmas and not only is that exciting but these next few weeks I will be with family in our own little Tennessee home. God is so good to me.

Our Healer

     As I think about the last few days, I am overwhelmed. I am overwhelmed at what happened, what could've happened and how God miraculously answered the prayers of his children. I was telling someone earlier that there were times when Satan was on me so bad that it was all I could do to not throw up. I am so amazed at the progress of my sister and the miracle of my nephew being born. I just know God has huge plans for this little life. God already has used his life to show doctors nurses and people that God is real and He does listen to prayer. It is evident that God was in every aspect of this weekend though. I think about how He worked out so many little and big things and that gives me an overwhelming peace. Over the last few days several songs and Bible verses came to mind but the song "Healer" seems to ring so loud in my head today. This song is no longer just a "good" praise song. It is the anthem of an impossible situation that God healed for us! I get chills just thinking of how God showed Himself to me and my family this weekend! I'm not glad that this happened this weekend but the spiritual side affects for me have put me on fire for God.  I am pumped to tell others that doubt that HE IS GOOD, HE IS TRUE, HE IS EMMANUEL, HE IS FAITHFUL, HE IS LOVE, HE IS SOVEREIGN, HE IS OMNIPOTENT, HE IS OMNISCIENT, HE IS OMNIPRESENT! HE IS MY LORD! HE IS OUR HEALER!



You hold my very moment  
You calm my raging seas  
You walk with me through fire  
And heal all my disease 
I trust in You, I trust in You
 
I believe You're my healer  
I believe You are all I need I believe
And I believe You're my portion  
I believe You're more than enough for me  
Jesus You're all I need 

Nothing is impossible for you
You hold my world in your hands.

Worry in the night

Only a crazy person would be up at 3:30am worrying about what's out of my hands. I don't know about you but Satan many times attacks me in the middle of the night with worry. It seems like every small difficulty I'm facing in my life is magnified and thrown in my face at night by the deceiver and father of lies. the worst part of all this is I begin to believe those lies and the more thought I give those lies, the worse it gets and the more miserable I feel. For me God's Word is most like a sword in the night. Many times the only way for me to overcome these satanic attacks is to literally quote scripture as Jesus did to Satan in the wilderness.

Scriptures I'm throwing at Satan tonight are ....

Matthew 6:25-27  “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?  Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?

 Matthew 11:28-30  Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

 Luke 12:25 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his  span of life?

John 14:27 Peace I leave with you;my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you.Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

I believe God delights when we use His word to counter Satans lies. When I quote scripture in the night I am reassured that God loves me, God sees me, God knows me, God is working on my behalf and that He cares for me. His word is literally right now at this moment alive and powerful to me. I am resting in what He says in His word and I consider Satan put in His place when I choose to CLAIM what God has said. God's word is TRUTH and if I believe it is TRUTH I will rest in it.

Jesus, I am resting Your peace now.