Take Time to Enjoy the Simple things of life.....

 Like.......

Peter

Ruthie,Mary, Grace and Joe

fishing

Hannah and me

Joe Mary and Peter

Ruger

Ruthie, me, Dad, Grace and Seth

Seth and me haha! =)

Me,Ruthie and Dad

Hannah and me

My calf :)

Seth and Mary

• Dandelions
• Butterflies
• Playing  games with little siblings
• Planting the garden
• Walking like a mile in your brother's HUGE boots (like 3 feet long and weighing about 25lb.), carrying a table on your head. =)
• Walking a goat on a chain like a mile right beside the highway...
• Pulling weeds
• Fishing
• Bonfires
• Singing
• Walking and talking
• Laughing!
• Sleeping =)
• Coffee
• The grass running from the wind......
• A beautiful sunset
• Rain
• Sunshine
• Working with your dad occasionally
• Puppies
• New born calves
• Hanging out laundry
• Swinging
• Working
• The Lake
• Swimming
• Watermelon
• Picnics

Mary and Grace

barbecue with the Kellingtons

Grace =)

All this is just to say, that if you take the time to enjoy simple little pleasures of life, you will mostly likely be an all together happier person!  I am speaking from experience, peoples!

How to be perfectly miserable

• Think about yourself
• Talk about yourself
• Use "I" as often as possible
• Mirror yourself continually in the opinion of others
• Listen greedily to what people have to say about you
• Expect to be appreciated
• Be suspicious
• Be jealous and envious
• Be sensitive to slights
• Never forgive a criticism
• Trust no one but yourself
• Insist on consideration and respect
• Demand agreement with your own views on everything
• Sulk if people are not grateful to you for favors shown them
• Never forget a service you may have rendered
• Be on the look out for a good time for yourself
• Shirk your duties if you can
• Do as little as possible for others
• Love yourself supremely
• Be selfish 

This recipe is guaranteed to be infallible.   -Author Unknown

Give Me Your Eyes

-Give Me Your Eyes-

Looked down from a broken sky

Traced out by the city lights

My world from a mile high

Best seat in the house tonight

Touched down on the cold black tar

Hold on for the sudden stop

Breathe in the familiar shock

Of confusion and chaos

All those people.. going somewhere

All those people going somewhere

Why have i never cared?

Give me your eyes for just one second

Give me your eyes so i can see

Everything that i keep missing

Give me your love for humanity

Give me your arms for the broken hearted

The ones that are far beyond my reach?

Give me your heart for the one's forgotten

Give me your eyes so i can see

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Step out on a busy street

See a girl and our eyes meet

Does her best to smile at me

To hide what's underneath

There's a man just to her right

Black suit and a bright red tie

Too ashamed to tell his wife

He's out of work he's buying time

All those people going somewhere

Why have i never cared?

Give me your eyes for just one second

Give me your eyes so i can see

Everything that i keep missing

Give me your love for humanity

Give me your arms for the broken hearted

The ones that are far beyond my reach?

Give me your heart for the one's forgotten

Give me your eyes so i can see

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

I've been there a million times

A couple of million eyes just moving past me by

I swear i never thought that i was wrong

Well i want a second glance

So give me a second chance

To see the way you see the people all alone

Every thing that I keep missing...

Give me your eyes for just one second         

Give me your eyes so i can see                

Everything that i keep missing

Give me your love for humanity

Give me your arms for the broken hearted

The ones that are far beyond my reach?

Give me your heart for the one's forgotten

Give me your eyes so i can see

Give me your eyes for just one second

Give me your eyes so i can see

Everything that i keep missing

That i keep missing

Give me your arms for the broken hearted

The ones that are far beyond my reach?

Give me your heart for the one's forgotten

Give me your eyes so i can see

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

-Brandon Heath-

"Sticks and stones may break my bones; but words cannot hurt me"
Recently, it was brought to my attention that that saying is a total lie!! It really struck me hard, because it's so easy to let whatever I think just slip out and not even think twice about how it might affect the person I'm speaking to.  Words can affect a person's soul for eternity!!!  Imagine!! One little comment can affect where a soul will spend eternity!!   I catch my self (or rather, God catches me) entirely way too often, becoming impatient or irritated with someone, just flying off the handle and hurling terrible, mean and hurtful things at people. Most of the time, we think before we talk, but we do not think enough, and take the time to bring every thought captive to Christ's mind, before we let the words spill out.
"Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" 2 Cor. 10:5
"Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips." Psalm 141:3

Praying

         Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.    James 5:16~God Answers Prayer~I know not by what methods rare,But this I know, God answers prayer.I know that He has given His word,Which tells me prayer is always heard.And will be answered, soon or late;And so I pray, and calmly wait.
I know not if the blessing soughtWill come in just the way I thought,But leave my prayers with Him alone,Whose will is wiser than my own.Assured that he will grant my quest,Or send some answer far more blessed.

 The word prayer is mentioned 109 times in The Bible.... it's so important! We must continually lift each other up in prayer... sometimes that's the only way we're able to help a person.  Only recently, I began to truly meet and commune with God through prayer... to truly feel his presence through it.  It's so amazing!    





Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation:the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.  Matthew 26:41  

Bible School =)

Anika and me 

Seth, me and Wesley =)

Anika is a really amazing girl... she got saved on Sunday!! Thankyou Jesus!

Amy is an awesome friend, she's so much fun
  and a huge blessing and encouragement!
I'm so thankful that God lets us make friends like her!=) 

Bonnie, Amy and me

Signing books is a really cool 'tradition' I think...
 and it's really neat to look back
and read them when you miss your friends =)

Grace and Joelle =) 

 For some reason, this was the game everyone was playing all week.... at or away from Bible School... 

it was fun. =)

Bonnie

gathered in the kitchen.. watching volley ball

Listening to Josiah =)
This is in the middle of the night! Most of the students
 stayed at church all night to pray... during a little break, 
Josiah preached a short sermon. =)

Sanford, Josiah and Seth
Both Sanford and Seth got saved that night!! Josiah was encouraging them and explaining things to them. =) 

food line

Wesley and our good friend Joel =)

Annie, Ivanna and Grace..
They are amazing friends!

Terry and Wesley

Kathleen and me
She also got saved during the week!!
Thankyou Jesus! =)

Lorene and me
She's a really really sweet friend
and a huge inspiration to me!

Grace with an adorable little baby... Sean

Milton and Marvin =)
and on the left is someone I do not know......

 .... My friends. =)  Milton was our chorus director... And Marvin was kind of the director of the whole Bible School...   They are really cool!  Truly God is in them and working through them so greatly!   They are both such a big blessing!

This week of  Bible School was absolutely amazing!  God met with us, and I have never experienced anything  like it in my life!  On Wednesday  night , Don Davis preached a very firy and convicting sermon and right afterward,  quite a few of the students went upstairs to pray... specifically for three boys who were not saved... while we were praying two of them got saved!! Isn't that incredible?  God is so awesome!  Well we just kept praying, and eventually  about twenty of us decided to stay at the church all night and pray.  That was another  miracle,  a friend had been asking God for one other person to stay up all night and pray with her, and he sent her like twenty! =)  Anyways, we were praying that our friend, who was at home and not saved, would not be able to sleep until he had made peace with Jesus.  While we were praying, he woke up and couldn't sleep until he had!! He stayed up praying most of the night!  There were at least seven convertions that week!!  And not to mention at least five or six people who rededicated their lives to the Savior.  I know that every heart was touched and changed by God... he worked so much in every single heart! Everyone's walk with him grew tremendously deeper and we each grew so much closer to HIM!  He has changed my life in many areas for his glory.  And I know that the same happened with every person who was there.   Well, you could and still can see the changes taking place!  He is not done working!!! Since Bible School, at least three people who we had been really praying hard for, have gotten saved! And he is still working! God please, don't EVER let us lose the fire and passion you have instilled in us!! Help us to be faithful in PRAYER! And to be willing to let you use us however you want to!  Thank you so much for letting me go to this school Father!!! You have given me so much through these people, and through this experience.  Please help me to continue to put into use in my life the things you are teaching me.  I LOVE YOU LORD. ♥