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Trust In The Lord {30 Days of Truth – Day 1}

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I found this on another blog.  It didn’t mention where it came from first, so if you know please tell me so I can give credit to the creator.

30 Days of Truth – Day  1

Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.

Today’s topic is something I hate about myself.  This could be a LOT of things.  But I think the most important one is my inability to TRUST in God. 

Sure I can say I trust him, but still I worry.  Still there is a small piece of me that MUST remain in control.  This is NOT how God wishes me to be.  His wish for me is that I will hand all my worries and troubles over to Him to carry.  His wish is that I will live in his Glory and Love and TRUST in him to make all my worries right. 

I struggle with submitting my life to the Lord.  I lean to my own understanding and fail to see His ways when I should many times.  This is Human nature.  It is not God’s nature.  This is why my paths are winding and unsteady, my life unsure at times.

When I do my best for follow God’s plans for my life, I find straight paths and bright days filled with lots of enjoyment.  When I do things my way, I find my life mixed up and my days unhappy.  I prefer bright sunny days filled with singing and dancing, lots of LOVE and goodness. 

Lately, I’ve been searching HOW to give up my own control of my life and allow God to take control.  I’m looking forward to the day when I can look back and know that I have done this, that I have allowed God to show His Glory through me and through my ways.  I look forward to the day when I can truly say “Yes I trust in the Lord with all my heart”.  I know I have just begun my journey but already the rewards are bigger than they seem.



Epilepsy Is Not Contagious {Epilepsy Awareness} Day 3

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As I was sitting here, trying to think of a topic to write on today, I read this on the Epilepsy Foundation of Arizona’s Facebook status: Fact of the Day: Epilepsy is never contagious.

And it’s not.  You can’t catch Epilepsy.  It just happens.  Sometimes it’s triggered by some major accident.  Sometimes just from a simple change in the body.  Some people inherit it, as my daughters and I have.

Epilepsy is NOT a disease, it is a disorder.  It is a unbalanced electrical reaction of the brain.  I describe it as computer overload.  When a computer is overloaded, it will crash and shut down.  This is the same reaction the brain gives when a seizure happens.  The brain processes and overloads, then the body shuts down or rather seizes. 

For my girls, this happens when they are learning a LOT of new things.  It can also happen when we’ve had an exhaustive weekend like this past weekend was for us.  The girls will become overly-tired and I begin to notice their body fighting to stay on track.  They will have mild jerks or twitches while awake.  They will act “spacey”.  They are excessively whiny and nothing can make them happy.  At their worst, they will fall into a convulsive seizure.

We have dealt with this disorder actively for 7 years now.  I know the signs and when I see them, I have the girls take a “rest” day.  We lay around, rock, love on each other, watch tv, read and do simple activities.  We also nap and go to bed early to allow our bodies plenty of rest.  Doing these things usually keep our seizure activity low and gets the girls back to normal within a day or two.  Homeschooling makes this easy for us to take “rest” days as needed.

Epilepsy never completely goes away.  It’s always there, even when it’s outgrown.  It could reoccur at any time but it is NOT contagious.  It doesn’t rub off on you when you bump into my child.  It doesn’t contaminate your skin when my child is seizing and you touch their drool or vomit, as the case may be.  And it is not caused by Demons as some people believe (yes there are those who actually do believe that). 

Epilepsy is a disorder that can be controled with routine, structure and most of the time with medicine.  Sometimes surgery or a special diet helps to control it (we will discuss more about those later). 
Dealing with this disorder is an everyday part of our life.  Each day we wake up is a blessing and each day we wake up without any signs of seizure is an even bigger blessing.  Seizures happen unexpectedly, so we must always be prepared for one to suddenly “pop” up.  This is our life.

On This Day In Christian History {Book Review}

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On This Day In Christian History: 365 Amazing and Inspiring Stories about Saints, Martyrs, and Heroes
Robert J. Morgan
Thomas Nelson Publishers
$12.99
Buy it at Amazon.com
Amazing stories of faith from twenty centuries of church history.

From the Roman Empire to the Reformation, St. Valentine to St. Francis, Martin Luther to Billy Graham, On this Day introduces readers to a parade of preachers, popes, martyrs, heroes, and saints from 2,000 years of Christianity.

This introduction to 365 of the most interesting men and women of faith brings a year’s worth of inspiration and spiritual challenge and offers an enjoyable glimpse into church history. Each day includes a related Scripture reading and a simple, colorful story about history-making events in the lives of people who loved God wholeheartedly.

This book tells a bit of Christian History for each day of the year.  The back of the book includes a reading guide broken down by inspirational section.  You can read this book many ways: as a day by day guide, as a inspirational devotional, or as a whole reading all the interesting facts at one time. 

The pages of this book are full of wonderful information about God’s love, reasons, miracles and much more.  Every page provides an inspiring moment from the past, linked with biblical qoutes to bring it all together.  You will walk away feeling full of God’s love and in awe of His word.

I have only read a few of the enticing pages of this book thus far, but I look forward to reading it day by day and feeling connected to the Glory of God and His inspiring truths and miracles.

Epilepsy Loss {Thankfulness post/Epilepsy Awareness} Day 2

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Today when I got online I found out extremely sad news about a friend of a friend of mine online.  For the past week I have been praying for this beautiful family, whose daughter was suffering with constant seizures that the medical team was unable to stop.  This poor sweet child went through a horendous ordeal.  In the end the gracious Lord decided to take her home to Him.  Now this sweet Angel sits beside the Throne of God, while her parents mourn her passing.

I am terribly saddened by this news of this beautiful little girl.  My own precious daughters suffer from Epilepsy, a seizure disorder. At 3 and 4 months of age, respectively, I watched them both begin their battle with this disorder.  Although I, myself, have it, I never realized the impact or effects of it until they began their own journeys. 

My oldest, thankfully, was never too bad with her seizures.  They would happen, we would increase her medicine and they would be under control.  Thankfully, by the time she was four, her fight with this disorder was pretty much under control without the medication.  This does not mean that it’s over for her, only that we can control it unmedicated at this time.

My baby has had the worst time of battling.  On the day she turned 4 months old she was placed onto medication, after being subjected to 20 different tests to see why this was happening and to make sure it was not abuse related.  Two weeks later her medicine stopped controling the seizures with no warning.  Laycie suffered 9 grand mal seizures and multiple petit mal seizures at 4 1/2 months old exactly in a 13 hour period.  It was the worst and the scariest day of my life, thus far.  The hardest thing I’ve ever had to do is sit back and watch my babies suffer with this disorder, not knowing if it will stop, not knowing if the medicine will work, not knowing if like the beloved angel mentioned above God will call them to Heaven.

Thankfully for us, God has seen fit to allow my daughters to continue upon their journey in life.  They have not yet met His purpose or fulfilled his Glory.  I am thankful, beyond measure, that He has blessed me with these three beautiful children and that He allows them to live each day.  I pray every day that this disorder will end with my daughters, that they will not have to watch their own children suffer through it and know the hardships and fear of watching their children suffer with this, as I have watched them, my mother has watched me, my grandmother watched her and my great-grandmother watched my grandfather.  I pray this is the generation that it stops with, but if it doesn’t we will deal with it as it comes.  We are blessed that it is not something worse than this that affects our life and we are THANKFUL every day to have another day to love them, to hear their sweet voice and see their beautiful smiles, to fill our hearts with love and joy, just as God intends.

Please keep the family of the sweet girl who passed away this week in your prayers.  I weep for her mother and pray she can find Peace and Glory in the knowledge that her sweet daughter is now safe in the arms of our Father, never to have to suffer with this disorder again.

Our Halloween Weekend {Hallowen Fun 2010}

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Everyone knows that this past weekend was Halloween.  Although many Christians disagree with even acknowledging Halloween, we don’t agree.  We look at this day as being a family day for us and a fun time for our children to enjoy getting candy for free.  More than that though, we enjoy fellowship with many others, Christians included.

Our children chose to dress up as Star Wars characters this year, with the exception of our seven year old daughter.  Winston wanted to be Darth Vader, Emmalee chose to be a Fairy Princess with pink wings, Justain chose Obi Wan Kenobi and little Laycie was an adorable Ewok.

We began our weekend with a trip to Front Street to visit the town’s many vendors and stores which provided candy.  This allowed us to fellowship with many of the town folk, friends and family.  It also allowed my stepson to spend family time with both my children and his Mom’s children.  It’s a great way for him to bond with both sides and see us getting along just for him.  The children truly enjoyed this first night of Halloween weekend.

Our second night of Trick or Treat was in Belle Isle at our family friend, Ms Jean’s house.  The kids had a wonderful time going around her neighborhood to collect candy.  Josh loaded all the kids onto a trailer on the back of our ATV 4-wheeler and we went on a night ride through the area.  It was a ton of fun.  We ran into a convoy of other Christians who were out Trick or Treating as well.  Such a wonderful experience for us all!
Sunday night brought more fun for us.  We took our four kids to my sister’s church for a fun night at their festival.  The kids were able to play games and win prizes and candy.  They had nachoes and cheese with sodas and Josh and I had Hobo Stew (veggie soup).  We had such a wonderful time together!  It was a much needed experience for us as a family. 
So though this weekend is not welcomed by many in the Christian community, we truly enjoyed our fellowship with others that we would not normally have.  It has brought our children and our family closer together.  I consider that to be a blessing and I look forward to having my sweet babies enjoy Halloween again next year.

On Fortune’s Wheel {Book Review}

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Cynthia Voigt
Simon Pulse Publishing
“There are some who say that the Lady Fortune
has a wheel, and all men are fixed upon it.
The wheel turns, and the men rise, or fall,
with the turning of the wheel.” – On Fortune’s Wheel

On Fortune’s Wheel tells the story of an Innkeeper’s daughter, who is swept into a dangerous world-spanning adventure through the kingdom with a handsome thief.  Through their many adventures they learn to work together and along the way, fall in love.  A tale that has enough energy and adventure for a series, this book has something for everyone.
This book was the first historical type romance I ever had the pleasure to read.  None has compared to the intrigue I felt reading it since.  It is my favorite of all romance novels and a book I read at least once a year.  It never fails to bring excitement to me.  Each time I read it, I find it more interesting.  It’s a book I will always highly recommend.

I already owned this book and did this review because it as one I truly love!  No disclaimer needed but I’m included it anyways in accordance with FTC regulations!

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