To contend for a friend

I do not know you personally, a dear friend of mine does. Your child is wounded and the news is spread out for prayers.
As a sister in Christ you are kindred in heart in more ways than you know.
My heart understands the deepest vallies a mama can find herself helplessly in and so I contend.

Many many people are and will be praying and the most amazing God prepared your heart when you posted (probably only a few hours before the news) "I see people praying" God showed you what the hours ahead were to look like and for you to rely only on the prayers lifted as you walk in this place that can take people down.

Hearts are contending for you in prayer on our knees just as he revealed to you. HOLD ON TO that.

Sweet sister in Christ, prayers are being overloaded in the presence of The Savior.

The Lord will see you through this...this we are confident.
He will use this for His glory...this you can count on.
Every prayer is being heard...this is Our God.

Speaking the word of the Lord...this is power... Savior Savior <3
Assemble in prayer...this is our call.
Victory is claimed...this by His blood.
Invite the unsaved...this is the heart.
Ownership...this is our Inheritance.
Rejoice in the storm...this...well this, is the place that we can feel Him feel us, the touch on your   
  finger tip, the drop of water on your face, with eyes lifted up in the inside of a building. This is the place He will make a mountain move.

God gave His son so that not one will be lost. He will leave His flock to go after the one that is strayed.
I am seeing the Lord do this now, and, in this very hard time He will bring salvation for Kalyb.
His desire is that not one be left behind.
 All things work for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose.

To contend for a friend...
Thank you sweet Jesus for, yes...even the storms.

Lord hold this family close, carry them when they cannot take another step. Cause Kalyb's heart to call out and recieve you...for this day and all the days of his life. This is a prayer of a mama for a mama and her son.
I love you Jesus and all is in your name,
Amen

I am His Bride

I am His bride and He has given me all that I need to prepare for the battle...Feet fit with the Gospel of Peace <3

In the fog it is hard to see

Life as we knew it is many days past...I could give months, days hours minute and seconds however it is all a blur.
In this fog it is hard to see, even though, I thought I knew what was there, I wonder did I get lost somewhere? Did I miss something? a turn, the path, the call? What? Where When and the ultimate Why?
So I reflect.

Out of a clear blue sky lightning strikes: So hard to understand how we got here, my young daughter fighting a serious illness that has changed SO much of her life:  Her plans, her goals that she has st rived  to reach, her body, her mind and her everyday joy and zest for life.
Where did this come from? who can medically help her/us find answers that we cry out for.

So I pinch myself and wonder:  am I in a dream of a TV show "House" episode. I wonder who is the technical adviser to this show? It has to be a very smart doctor. Where do I find her/him?
After one of our trips home after a hospital stay (in the beginning), I was back at work, we had gone into Borders with the people I serve, I walked in directly to a table of books. I was taken, as if it was calling me to (one) book on the table as if it were the only one there. It's title was/is "Every Patient Has a Story" I picked it up, looked quisitivly at it, turned it over and read the description on the back...TO MY SURPRISE...the author is........YES........the technical adviser to the TV show "House". I am not kidding one bit \0/ this is God (I thought to my self) as I leaped inside and could not contain my excitement :) I thought "there is something to this, what is it Lord? So, yes, I purchased the book. The book is about how doctors come to diognosis' of illnesses and how they come to narrow them down by squinting every detail of the person and the body that has been attacked. OK so if your wondering (as I am)  has this book helped? It hasn't really as far as answers, But it let me know that God is here with us in this and that He is guiding the way just as He guided me to this book, that caused me to leap with hope and a knowing that He is in control.

In this fog it IS hard to see...however, I know He knows the way, though I may not see clear, He has her in His hands. He is driving us in this fog: and one day; I know the sun will come out; a breeze will blow and we will find ourselves clearly in His way (path).

This is Life as we know it.
This is Life as we struggle
This is life that is being directed by the Creator of the universe.
All things work for the GOOD of those who love the Lord and are CALLED according to His purpose.
This is LIfE as we trust
In YOU, FATHER SON HOLY SPIRIT.

PS: A human journey, a spiritual path.

Love in Him,
Patty

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Really should be sleeping

It is late and I really should be sleeping. I have so much I want to write about but I am too sleepy to go into it at this time. Time is swift, and medically it is said that sleep is the best way to keep your ammunity fighting off all the icky things. So add sleep for health and rest for peace.
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Even Though................................................................................................................

................................................................I TRUST <3
love you Jesus.

my BIRD!

Meet Mango my bird.

I was asked by a dear friend if I would like to have her Sun Conuer. She moved away and was unable to take him with her. I thought about it for three days, the responsibility, the extra NOICE in the house, and even then I said, yes. 

 Though her discription of his temperment was clear I had no idea...a sun conure can be so persistant and LOUD! 

However he has loved on me from day one...after a few bites: I persisted as well. 

'He hates hands" but I have since got him to trust me and to step up :) "He hates men" but Mike (my son has got him to get on his shoulder too, however Mike is still not too sure of Mango yet. 

On the third day of having Mango, I had his cage outside cleaning it and letting him enjoy some of the sunshine that these birds love: he lifed his cage door ( I was unaware that he could do this) and flies into the tree :( So after an hours attempt to coaxed him to desend from the tree I finally called the lady that had cared for him for awhile and she quickly came to our rescue. She (afraid of hights climbed up a very tall ladder to the tree where Mango perched and got him to come to her. He still was not that attached to me so for her to come and rescue him was probably the better choice, or risk the chance of him flying into other trees and out of my yard: Lesson learned...lock the cage door while outside. :{)

Mango loves to do da tango, he loves to dance to music, he loves to be loved and LOVES kisses.

When he is not the center of attention and in his cage all he does is SCREEEEECH! OMG...SO I have had to resort to disipline :] I now go to his cage and give it a good wack and tell him to knock it off! and walk away...after a few times of this I tell him bad bird and put on the cover. He screeched a few times this time and then stopped. After a bit of quite I took off the cover and said "ok now your quite you can come out". Well he had his way of saying, "not so easy" He stayed behind his big fluffy toy and played pickaboo for a bit then finally came down and got on my sholder and then...gave me the cold shoulder ( he kept his face turned away for several minutes) then fianlly dicided he was done being mad at me...it was pretty funny :o)

The one thing that is going to be hard is having him out of the cage without flying to me where ever I am. He will not let me walk away without flying to me. Well that is another lesson...LOL

Daughter of Destiny by Ginny Owens

Daughter of Destiny by Ginny Owens

If You Want Me To (Album Version) by Ginny Owens

If You Want Me To (Album Version) by Ginny Owens

If You Want Me To (Album Version) by Ginny Owens

If You Want Me To (Album Version) by Ginny Owens

The face of a Rose

I went out side with the intent to take pictures of my moms rose bush that I had kept after she passed away. The day before her birthday, to my delight I encountered to most amazing moment.
I put my nose into the rose and my cheek received the welcoming kiss of my mom...the sent of the rose filled my entire being, the touch of the pebble on my face caused my spirit to recall a moment not long before she passed of the feeling of her cheek when I kissed her there.
So I closed my eyes and there she was in my heart...a moment in time not forgotten. Nor do I think it will ever be.
In that very moment I heard in my heart "I love the way this smells now...you have a gift in bringing heaven on earth and so here I am: I remember that moment too".
ahhhh what a moment in the infinity of time.
I know this may sound a bid far fetched but be it as it may...I am good with that.
For in that moment I got to be with my mom again, and to me it is worth the fetch as far as heaven can reach...heart to heart in spirit.
I love you mom, and though while you were here I did not tell you that enough, this I know to be true. However like now, you knew and I knew heart to heart in spirit.

Save a place for me and see you someday

All my love,

Pat