It's all so Sweet

Sweet Blessings
Days go by so quickly the older you get(don't you think?), unlike when I was a child and it seemed like my birthday and Christmas took forever to arrive! But now that I'm so old (almost 24), the days go by so fast and each day is so wonderful when I look at my husband and two sweet little boys and realize how incredibly blessed I am. I wish that I could somehow bottle up these precious moments that are going to vanish ever so quickly and keep them forever. By God's grace I hope to savor these days that he's given me with my husband and children. I never ever thought my heart could be so overwhelmed with love for them. I shake my head now at the memory, but I remember thinking once when I was a nanny in college, will I be able to love my kids? How silly...I just thought that God had given me such a love for other people's kids, I felt afraid that I wouldn't be able to love my own. Little did I know...
God is so wonderfully good, upon a wretch like me he has bestowed such bountiful blessings.

Sweet Days of Waiting on the Lord
We are going through another season of trusting the Lord and walking by faith in a more intense way then we have in awhile. We are being stretched and it's good, life is too often lived by sight and our faith is weak, but praise God for his faithfulness to us! Life has been full and busy here at our home. We are preparing to move to Hawaii soon to join our friends in church planting, but there are some big details that we are waiting to be taken care of first. So we're not sure when the move will take place, but we hope it will be mid to late March. The biggest thing is selling our mobile home. We had a potential buyer but it doesn't seem like that is going to work out now. Please pray that God would provide another buyer and work out all the details involved. Pray that our faith and trust in the Lord would increase and that we would daily grow more in love with our Lord.
So, once we sell our place we'll be able to buy the tickets and hopefully all the other little details will fall into place. We are confidant that God is calling us out there, so it's just a matter of faith and trust on our part to look to the Lord to lead and guide us. If anyone would like more specific details on our move to Hawaii or the church plant, please email me and I'd love to pass on more info to you.

Chocolate, Sweets and Other Not so Healthy ThingsI suppose everything is okay in moderation, except when one consistently craves it! I go through phases with food, and sometimes I'm totally fine without eating dessert or chocolate for long periods of time, but then there are times when I want something sweet every day, or twice a day! It's frustrating to me because I end up driving myself crazy in my mind. I can tell I've given in to the desire too much because in order to get my chocolate or sweet "fix" it has to be a fair amount or something stronger than usual (like a rich chocolate). I think and think about eating it, then I do, than I'm like, ugh, why did I do that? I realize I've been trying to fight my craving in my own strength and I need to really pray and look to God to help me.. but there is a part of me that really doesn't want victory just because I really like my sweet treats. So where does that leave me? I realize that I need to have a greater desire, a greater pleasure, so how do I quit? Does this craving have anything to do with that time of the month? Does anyone know? It's hard going cold turkey, so I think that it would be good to have some sweet yet healthy alternatives. I bought some organic chocolate coolies today, they're like Oreos but they're called Newman-Os or something like that, and they taste okay, almost like an Oreo but they're sweetened differently. Now, I don't think that a great pleasure than chocolate is some other healthy sweet, I just think that might help, but I believe that a great pleasure might be how great it will be to eat more healthy or to feel more healthy. I don't know, and I rationalize so much too like, I don't eat potato chips or processed food or any other "junk" period, I just like chocolate stuff! UGh! Okay, well, I need to end this because this is becoming venting rant and I don't know what profit it is to me or anyone! I would gladly welcome anything thoughts, advice and suggestions about whatever if it would be beneficial to me. Thank you so much for listening.