Mandy

I wish you could have been at Living Water this morning. Let me back up....Mandy began coming to Living Water at the first of this year to get groceries. She had just given up drugs. In fact, she'd started going to Grace Fellowship in December. One Sunday at Grace, she was so tired of fighting her last stronghold of marijuana, she put a bag of it in the offering plate! (Can't you just see those ushers' faces?!?) And then she came to us for food. She was nervous, but when Cairl greeted her at the door with a hug (which he does for everyone!), it calmed her fears. And she's been coming ever since.
Last Tuesday, Mandy showed up at Living Water wanting to volunteer---she said she was even willing to clean toilets! So I handed her the vacuum and she spent the next hour vacuuming the whole building. The whole time she was vacuuming, she was singing hymns. After she finished, I asked her, "So when do you want to sing for chapel at Living Water?" She smiled big and said she was ready anytime! So I put her on the schedule for today.
She was nervous---you could tell. But she was also excited. Of course, she told me how Satan tried to discourage her from singing for us. (The jerk!) But she'd even invited her niece to come hear her sing. As she got up, I asked her to share her testimony of how she'd put the pot in the offering plate. (I took my camera with the intentions of taking her picture while she sang, but I got so involved in her story that I forgot to take pictures!!) I handed her the microphone----and that girl began to PREACH!!! It was awesome and amazing. The finishing words of her testimony were this: "I've been off of everything since December. I'm even going through a detox this week. And yesterday a friend called and asked me for a bottle of my pee!! I am clean enough to give my pee for a urine test!" Is that not hysterical? Then she went on to say that, of course, it was wrong to share your pee for someone else's urine test.
Please pray for Mandy. Her faith is so new. Mandy is my age and has been married 15 times! Yep---no misprint---15 times!! She's searched for love and has finally found it in Jesus. She's very vocal about how God has saved her and changed her so you know Satan is ticked. Please pray for Mandy. Wow---what a morning! Wish you could have been there.

Stretch Marks in Heaven

After a conversation I had with Ember this afternoon, I want to declare....

I believe there WILL be stretch marks in heaven!! After all, in Jesus' glorified body, the disciples could see his scars. Now I understand, they were scars that paid a price for you and me. But hear me out...we mothers paid a price to birth those babies. So there WILL be stretch marks in heaven! And C-section scars. All part of the price and the reward.

Did you know...

Did you know that if you want to see everything someone has posted in one day that you must click on the TITLE of their blog and not the name of their POST?

Did you know that you can post more than 5 pictures on one blog? After you post the first 5, just click on the photo icon and add 5 more.

Did you know you can add a statcounter and see how many people come by your blog? It will also tell you what city they are from. After signing up on statcounter, just go to "customize," then "add a gadget" and put your info from statcounter in that box and "save."

Did you know that you can add a hyperlink (see brown "statcounter" above) by highlighting the word and then clicking on the binocular-looking green icon on your header. Then just add the website you want to link to.

Did you know that when you choose a new background, you don't have to keep the colors of the fonts, etc. that they choose? You can go to "customize" and then choose "fonts & colors" and change everything, if you want to!

Did you know that I can't read some of your blogs because it's not BOLD or it's a tiny font? (Yes, I'm old.)

...just wondered if you knew.

Rigidly Righteous

In light of our discussion on holiness, I thought it was interesting when I read this in the Amplified Bible this morning:
Psalm 145:17
"The Lord is [rigidly] righteous in all His ways and gracious and merciful in all His works."

I don't want God to be any other way than rigidly righteous, do you? Otherwise, he wouldn't be God! But he pairs it here with grace and mercy. Great combination.

Book Review

If you get a chance, get this book and read it! Some of my friends were reading it and convinced me I needed to read it---so I borrowed their book! ha! I stayed up the first night until 1:30 reading---I couldn't put it down! It's a book based on conflict in the Middle East with the U.S. and Israel. The interesting thing about this (series) is that as Joel Rosenberg began writing, his story almost became prophetic! 9/11 occurred after he almost had this book finished and the scenario was in his book. That has happened several times as he's written these books. Very interesting to read. In fact, his agent asked him if he worked for the CIA because it seemed he had so much insight. It's not a boring book. I hear each book just gets better.

Baby, It's COLD Outside!

Now, you may not be impressed with the amount of snow Borger got today....

But maybe you'll be wowed by the fact that we never made it over 18 degrees today! (I know..I know..I hear laughter all the way from Canada!) This firewood may get a lot warmer tonight!!

FedEx Plane Crashes in Lubbock, TX

LUBBOCK, Texas — Officials say a FedEx cargo plane landing at a Lubbock, Texas, airport veered off the runway, crashed and caught fire, but that both crew members walked away from the plane.
Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport director James Loomis says the ATR-42 twin-turboprop aircraft landed just after 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. He says crews extinguished the fire quickly.
The plane landed in a freezing mist, but Loomis says weather was not a factor in the incident.
The crew members were being evaluated at University Medical Center in Lubbock.

Just want to keep all you former panhandle people current on our current events!