Jeremy's Birthday Party Weekend!!!

Jared and Addie







Rebekah and Jeremy







Addie











Kaelyn





Joseph






Jeremy and Joseph






Ronnie







Addie





Pawpaw and Addie









Jen






Dylan






Leigh and Addie






Addie





Jeremy






Kaelyn










Joseph





Mamaw and Addie

Today is Ronnie's Birthday!!

Happy Birthday Ronnie...

Today is Bekah's Birthday

Happy Birthday Rebekah!!

May 24, 2009

We have a wonderful family! I miss you when I don't get everyone together at one time. JAH, LMH, JCK, LAK, maybe next time...

Football Weekend!!

We had a really good weekend!! We got to see 2/3's of our children and 5/6th's of our grandchildren. We saw 3 football games, shared a good supper meal and a good lunch with family and friends. The picture is a quick snapshot of everybody. If you want a closer look at the picture just click on the picture.

How to Exasperate Your Children

Irish Calvinist ---- By Erik Raymond
Yesterday I preached on Colossians 3 and the way in which the new ‘house-table’ is to reflect the new humanity. In the midst of the study I was deeply effected by the danger of exasperating children to the point that they loose heart, as verse 21 says.

By way of application I came up with a list of 12 surefire ways to exasperate your children:

Be a hypocrite
Be a bully to them
Be harsh to them
Be Emotionally Distant from them
Show Favoritism to Other Kids
Have Unrealistic Standards
Be Mr Question your kid’s salvation guy
Be Mr Assure your kid’s salvation guy
Don’t discipline them
Discipline them without biblical instruction
Don’t teach them the Bible
Don’t connect discipline to the gospel

I ask my children's forgiveness for any of these that you feel that I did to you. There are some that I feel sure I did do and I am truly sorry.

Go to Irish Calvinist for the rest of the sermon.

I must caution you

(Excerpt from a letter of Legh Richmond to one of his children)

Take care of too frequent interaction with the world. I write with a heart full of love--but I must caution you. There is nothing more dangerous to young Christians, than indiscriminate interaction with the ungodly. In such society--it is far more likely that we would receive evil, than impart good. Prudence and prayer are then especially needful; for we may more easily conform to the world--than bring the world to conform to us. Happy are those who have the least to do with it, except in the way of absolute duty and necessity.

May no trifles ever wean your affections from the unspeakably important subjects of eternity. Idols are bewitching, dangerous things--and steal away the heart from God. The most lawful things may become idols--by fixing an unlawful degree of affection upon them. The world, even in its apparently harmless form, is a terrible snare to the young and untaught mind.

My wish and endeavor has been to cultivate intelligent pursuits, in connection with piety, with my children, as recreations; instead of allowing and encouraging the trifling and often corrupting amusements of the world.

The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.
Nahum 1:7 KJV

BIG SMILE!!! :) from a blessed mom!

This is enough to make any mom & dad feel blessed, and I truly do.

I sure do love you all!!

Happy Mother's Day

I am a very blessed mother. I have some of the best children, children-in-law, and grandchildren in the world. I got cards, flowers, phone calls and a visit. I thank God the Father from whom all blessing flow. I thank my children for their obedience to the Father. I Love You All!!

I got to be with my mother and one of my children and several of my nephews and my one of my nieces today.