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Sunday, April 30, 2006

Just wanted to make a quick post and ask for prayer (again). But, I shouldn't feel guilty I know this-about asking for prayer even if it is from people I don't know. We as Christians don't need to know each other to pray for one another. So, it's just been a really difficult 2 days. I dont' know if I can explain it all but let's just say I was freaked out yesterday big time. I was working at the church alone and some guy came in. I am never afraid to be there-have worked there alone for 5 years now and never worried. But yesterday was different. I wasn't harmed, but enough was done that I am a wreck inside right now. This guy told me he was s.a.t.a.n which didn't scare me because I am used to people being weird. But because of the wind blowing the door slammed and he stopped talking and told me he thinks he made that happened. Ok-so I am praying like crazy for God to protect me-and I can't explain it-I was scared, very scared by this guy, but at the same time I knew God was with me. The guy kept touching my face and I can't stand for anyone to touch my face (childhood thing) After about 1/2 hour or so he finally left when the college kids arrived-and then I just broke down. All the emotion inside me and the fear of it all just came pouring out. Anyway, please pray for me. I am so upset about this situation and it just made me think about so many things last night.
Sometimes I don't know what to do as a PW-I was actually afraid to tell my husband this happened because I knew he would want to find the guy and beat the daylights out of him. And I was thinking ok-so DH is a pastor and we have to have a certain behavior-and to what extent? Would it have been wrong if my husband found the guy and beat him up? Yes, I know legally it is wrong, but it's a natural reaction from a man to protect his wife and family. And as a PW am I supposed to just allow people to treat me any way they want because I am supposed to be show the love of Jesus to everyone?
I will stop here because I don't want to stumble anyone as a PW and don't speak for any other PW-just please pray for me!!!
Thank you :)

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Been busy

So much going on right now-lots of work around the house-cleaning out boxes still!!! I have started to bring boxes downstairs now and hopefully will bring them to the church this weekend for people to go through and pick out what they want. Today we brought down tons of stuff from the attic that my daughter doesn't need anymore. I am sure there is still more that she will never use, but I will probably have to wait to get rid of that. I can't make her rid herself of too much too soon LOL!! I also found some flannel shirts of my husband's that have been packed away for atleast a year. So I asked him if it was ok to get rid of them....now you know where she gets it from. He says "No, I can use them for working around" Uh, well, he has a bunch of other ones he can use for that!! I tell you, he won't get rid of anything!! He has t-shirts with holes under the arms and still won't get rid of them!!! Finally, I decided to just start throwing them out or using them as rags!! They are two peas in a pod!!!
I haven't had any time to scrap the past few days. I just keep looking through my new Summer Travels CD and can't wait to use it!! I think I will wait until we go on the cruise and I have good pictures for it. Mexico pictures are going to be perfect!!! Plus, I really want to get a new camera before we go too. I think we should be able to find one for a good price in the states. I have held off getting it here because it is twice as much (atleast) over here than in the states.
Just about 2 more weeks and we will be in CA!! The time is just flying by!! Much more to be done before we leave. This weekend we have some students coming over and we will work on more of the VBS decorations. I have to figure out how to make a Safari Jeep-any ideas???? Please help if you have any tips!!!!! We are doing the Prayer Safari. We have to make some animals yet which won't be hard, and I have to figure out what crafts to do each day. So far, I am thinking a Prayer Journal, Photo Frame, Plaque with Our Father on it, and I have to come up with two more. If anyone has done this VBS before and you have ideas let me know-my email is on the side.
The Lord is teaching me some things right now-too hard to explain at the moment. Pretty tough, but I know He will help me through it. I think the hardest part is yielding my will to His-and actually wanting Him to work this situation out in my life. There's a part of me that feels so justified and you know what-in the world's eyes, I probably am-but spiritually speaking, I am not! There is such a battle that rages on inside at times-the flesh and the spirit. I so want the spirit to win and yet I totally understand when the bible says our spirit is willing-we truely want to do what God wants us to do but our flesh is so weak I don't want it to win out. So, if you think of it, you can pray for me in this area. I want to have this victory and see the Lord glorified in it! :)

Off to look at some galleries :)
Have a blessed day in Him :)

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

I have been waiting

for Jen Wilson's Summer Travels CD to go on sale ever since I heard about her designs. I happened to find a thread at 2Peas asking to see layouts using the CD and read that it was on sale!!! I couldn't get to SBB fast enough LOL!!! I was sooo excited!!! This is such a great CD!!! It took over 3 hours to download though-and that's with ADSL! I am so thrilled and the CD is so worth the money!! You should go over to SBB and get the CD -you won't be sorry. There is so much in there you could scrap forever with this!!!! Take a look at Digital Scrapbook Previews if you want to see exactly what you get in the CD.
We are going on a week long cruise to Mexico with DH's family and this CD is so perfect for the photos!! My daughter and I had a blast looking through all the fun stuff!
My eyes are painful tonight so I am not going to write too much-I think the pollen is too much right now.
We had our women's study tonight and my eyes were so bad. Great study though-we just finished up for this year and we will begin again in Sept. We were talking about God's faithfulness and having faith!! It's so easy to believe God for everyone else and their lives, but we doubt Him so much in our own!! It's interesting how the disciples who were always with Jesus panicked on the boat when the storm came and yet the centurion had so much faith that he believed Jesus could heal his son with just His Words!! Amazing!!! I want to have that kind of faith in my walk with the Lord!! Believing that what He says, He will accomplish!!!


Ok-gotta run-I feel like I only have one eye tonight!!
Soak in the Lord's goodness :)

Monday, April 24, 2006

Hope everyone had a great weekend!! Spring is in full bloom over here and I am thrilled!!! I love the warm weather and it feels soooo good on my skin!!
We had quite a busy weekend-lots of work going on around the house-cleaning out rooms and drawers-always a thriller LOL!!! DH decided to paint which meant taking everything out of the kitchen and pulling apart things-cleaning cobwebs and all that fun stuff! I got really sick though from the paint smell. We discovered that there is ammonia in the paint-my lungs just LOVE that ---NOT!!!! So, Saturday my head was pounding and nothing was getting rid of it. I ended up going to bed at 8pm Sat and 9pm on Sunday!! It was wonderful to get so much sleep!!
Sunday we had church and it was great! I don't get to hear the message because I am teaching the kids, but we all have worship together and it's such a blessing!! Later on we had some people over for dinner and that was great-we had Mexican food!! YUM!! It's a rare treat for us here but we were able to find some tortillas and even corn ones. It is so expensive for them, but every now and then you just have to splurge!!! We don't buy clothes-just food LOL!!!
I took some photos of the kids yesterday at church-we had a blast! Made a layout today with one of them-

I used Shabby Princess's Flea Market Kit-doodle is by Lynnie Smith

I reread my post-I sound sooo boring today!! Oh well, I have writer's block LOL!!! Seriously, my mind is just racing and I actually just got off the phone with one of my best friends in the states and we talked so long-but it's such a treat!! So, I can't think straight now :) Enjoy the rest of your day-hopefully I will have a more adjective-induced blog tomorrow-hmm, is that an actual phrase??????Have a wonderfully blessed day!

Friday, April 21, 2006

Thank you

I want to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who stopped by and read my prayer request-thank you to those who prayed and those who left a comment. It means more to me than I can express!!
The couple who were robbed are hanging in there. They are such an example of trusting the Lord. Last night DH phoned them and the husband was saying how they got to share the Lord with the policeman who was there for a few hours!! Ok-that is an example to me because I would have been pacing up and down the flat freaking out!! There was a surveillance camera and the police were able to get a hold of it and saw only the back of the guy carrying the safe in a plastic bag. We don't know how in the world he could carry it because it was quite heavy. The guy had a key because he was working on the flat and the owners(sorry, I just don't want to use their names) -well, I will call the husband D and wife E. Anway, D gave 2 keys away while the guys were working-not unusual here-we have to do it all the time at the church. D was going to change the locks this week but never got around to it. Hopefully someone will recognize this person and turn him in. This was D and E's life savings. They were going to invest some of it and now it is gone. Also, their passports and other important papers are gone. E's jewelry also. So, continue to pray -pray the person will get caught and perhaps a miracle that they can recover most of the stolen property.

Today my daughter and I spent CLEANING!!! YUCK!!! My head is aching so bad right now because of all the chemicals. We had to take apart the kitchen-move the cupboards, stove and sink so we could clean behind all those places. Plus, DH decided he was going to paint the kitchen!! Ok-you have to know him. He was going to do this for like 3 years now and we are having company over on Sun after church so he said now he is motivated!! The kitchen is pretty tiny so it's not like it's a big chore-but just inconvenient. The pipes go along the wall so you can't just normally paint the wall. Plus, there is a radiator up against the one wall. He didn't end up getting to it today-but will tomorrow. I will have to leave the house because the paint odor kills my lungs. He painted just the entry way and I am already a bit dilusional LOL!!
So, the good part about cleaning today was we did it while listening to music. Usually I have to endure my daughter's music-it's Christian, but too loud for me. Today she put the tame stuff on for me-I was so blessed!!! I got so emotional listening to some of the songs. Just really hit me!! Chris Tomlin sings a song "Unfailing Love" and it made me think about who God is and how He loves me!! He's God-and yet He loves me. WOW!! Does it ever just hit you-the God of this universe-the One that placed each and every star where it is-the One who created all things-He loves us!! He listens to us-He cares about us!! So, I decided to do a layout with the song. I think if you click on it you can see it bigger and read the words.
Thank you again for praying for our friends. I know they appreciate it so much!!

Ponder the fact that Jesus loves you and His love is unfailing!!!!

I used Kelly Shults "Bliss Kit"

Thursday, April 20, 2006

PLEASE PRAY

To those of you who read this and pray, I am asking that you would please pray for a couple in our church. DH just received a phone call from the husband saying that they were robbed. This couple has just recently moved back to Hungary. They are 69 and 70 yrs. old. During the war, they fled as two single people not knowing one another and met at a refugee camp. Through the years, they married, worked so hard and raised a family. He became a businessman and just in the last year sensed God was calling them to return to their homeland. They just recently had their flat built and we were there for dinner last night. Everything looked so pretty and they were excited and talking to my husband about where and how they can help out in the church. They both are so remarkable-I was actually going to write about them tonight anyway-but now this! Please, pray and intercede-their safe was stolen and all her jewelry. This was their life savings!! It was a lot of money and the robbers hit a gold mine! We believe that since they just recently had many different workers building their flat that it is someone like that. Their flat isn't convenient to the public so in an hour while this couple was gone today is when it happened. We are so distraught for them.
Did you ever watch a movie from the olden days-this couple reminds me of something out of a movie-we actually encouraged them to write their story-even last night as they sit together her hand is placed on his-they are so beautiful inside and out. I asked God-why them-why not me? Why not someone else? What is the good that He will bring from this? I don't know-
Please pray also that the police will be honest. Here they don't have a great reputation. Bribes are big here and it takes nothing to have them look the other way. Pray the person (s) will be convicted and people will talk and the guilty will be caught. Pray that whoever did this will miraculously realize what they have done and repent!! Please, with man things are impossible, but with God, ALL things are possible.
Oh thank you-thank you Jesus that we have the power of prayer-it's all in His hands.
Thank you friends who read this and pray-God uses even these technical gadgets for His glory-all around the globe we can write and request prayer and people are praying! AMAZING!!!
On our way to church now-if I can I will write later tonight :)

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

3 Boxes down...

a gazillion more to go!! Yes, we made it into the attic today to get a few boxes down and start deciphering what is in there. I tell you...it's so hard to go through things with my daughter at times. I want to throw out, she wants to keep. Of course what I think she should keep, she wants to get rid of. Ok-so her sister gave her a frame a few years ago and it's scratched up-yes, it's cute, but do you really need to pack it to take back to America with you>????? She won, it's in the "To Pack" box. Boooks, books, and more books!! She has so many but we are going to keep most of them here with us. It's too much weight to bring back anyway. Plus, she will not have a place to live except the college dorm so we can't bring too much.
Oh, I think I might cry thinking about that. My little girl, all grown up and we will be back in Hungary and she will be in CA. No home to go to during the holidays!! Ah, it hurts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have some terrific friends who will take her in and one in particular will be surrogate Mom to her. I love my friend dearly and she is really crafty and makes tons of stuff for our youth girls and sends them over. We are going to stay with her part of the time this summer so they can get to know each other better too.
I did a layout with Gina's sketch and I really like how it turned out. The little boy is from our church and he is so adorable. He has the greatest personality too!! We had a little egg hunt for the kids after church and they had a blast!!! It was so much fun!

I used Kelly Shults Spring Chick kit. It's so cute and I had fun using it! I also got a couple more kits over the weekend from Kelly's site.

So I think that will be it for a bit with treating myself!! I really like my new kits though! Hopefully I will do them justice with some nice layouts.

I haven't been doing my Blessing Board this week. Too much going on in the day but I will restart it as soon as I can. Maybe I will make it easier on myself and do it once a week while we are so busy packing stuff up. I have to clean the whole house spotless in a month too!! I know, it sounds like I must be such a slob if it takes that long to clean it -lol-but no, I am not that bad!!! Just don't ask my husband~ha ha!!!! No, seriously, I have to go through every piece of paper, and all kinds of stuff to make sure everything is in its place and in order before I leave. I just have a fear that when I go away, if something happens to me I don't want people to go through my things and try and figure out what is what or have things in such disarray!! I have had this fear for years!! Once, about 16 years ago, my husband and I went away for a few days and came back to our house having been robbed. It was horrible-especially being that it was a family member on drugs!! Anyway, it was one of those rare spur of the moment things where my husband came home and said-hey let's get away for a few day. So, I scurried about the house and packed quickly-leaving clothing on my bed and also my daughter's room was a bit messy since we had to be fast. Well, once we were back home and called the police, the policeman says-oh yeah, I see your house was ransacked!!! Yikes, I felt awful and said-well, actually Sir, all the clothes on the beds were left there by me!!! I felt so ashamed!!! So, there's my pathetic story of the day!!!

I added a link in case you want to email me. I finally figured it out!!!

Have a blessed day my friends :)

Monday, April 17, 2006

Easter Monday

That is what it is called here in Hungary. It is a national holiday today. What happens is boys come over to your house and spray the girl with perfume and then you invite them in for a red foiled chocolate egg. Soooooo.....this morning one of the boys from church comes over with some perfume to spray my daughter and another girl that was spending the weekend. I did manage a couple photos (will make a layout and post this week) but for the rest of the day I was done in!! He sprayed so much perfume that my lungs just swelled up and I coughed for so long and was worn out the rest of the day! Oh the fun of asthma and allergies!!

Did you notice the new blog header? Well, I decided that I needed one to keep up for most of the summer since I will be in the states all summer and won't have my PSP with me to change it around each month. I really love Kimberly's designs!! I treated myself to a couple of goodies this weekend with her 50% off sale.





I got the cute Eastery add-on for Amalie but I can't find the preview! I think I deleted it by accident. Anyway, it's really cute!
Kelly Shults had a sale (I think it ends today) so I treated myself to a couple of kits over there too!! I will post them tomorrow because tonight I have about had it with trying to upload these kits. Blogger was taking forever!!! Took me so long and I am exhausted!!!!! Head on over to her store today if you haven't seen her work. It's terrific!
I think I will check out some inspiration now so I can get a couple pages scrapped this week. I have soooo much work to do!!!! We leave for CA in a month and I have to get my house prepared to be gone for so long. Procrastination is my middle name :)

Ok-have a blessed evening/day/whatever time zone you are in :)

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Happy Easter!

Just wanted to stop by and say Happy Easter to everyone and I pray it is a blessed day!! Rejoice in the Lord always, again I say rejoice!!
HE IS RISEN!!! AMEN :)







paper-Nancy J Rowitz,
lily-Theresa Hernandez
He's Risen (recolored) Kimberly Giarusso

Friday, April 14, 2006

Good Friday and more photos

Just a quick hello and wanted to post a layout about what Good Friday means to me. We had our Good Friday church service tonight and it was so blessed. We were once again reminded of the sacrifice Jesus made on our behalf. Everything He did was for us!
It's really late here and I have to get to bed-lots to do tomorrow and I really want to share my heart on my blog tomorrow so hopefully I will have time.
Please be warned that I have more photos from the Passion movie and some of you may not want to look at them. The song I used is one of my favorites and I wanted to do a layout around the song.

Today, reflect on what Jesus did for you-don't take the day for granted. Stop and think about what this day represents and truely know the love of Christ!


Again, if you don't want to see the photos, please don't scroll any further.
Have a blessed day!





used Dianne Rigdon's paper from "Love" kit

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Warning!!!

I wanted to start out by warning anyone reading today's entry that my layout will be quite graphic and some of you may choose not to look at it. It has a photo depicting Jesus from the Passion movie. I will post another warning after my writing before I post the picture.
I renewed my subscription to SBB today! YEAH!! And as I sit here, my hair is air drying LOL-(you have to read the post from a couple days ago to get it) It is so worth it!! Plus, it was only $10.00 this time. Last year I paid more but it was on sale today!! Yippee!!! I just love the site and all they offer to their customers!
I am excited to take some good photos this weekend. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we will be able to have the Church egg hunt outside Sunday. Last year we had to have it indoors and it wasn't as much fun. It is rainy and dreary here the past few days-we need some sun!!!
Went into the attic today and got summer summery clothes out. Maybe that will help move Spring along! Next week we have to go through EVERYTHING that is up there-so much junk get thrown up there~I have to figure out what is what and then throw stuff out!!!

I have just been reflecting so much today on the sacrifice Jesus made. I was reading different scriptures and it brought everything back into perspective for me. Think about this: have you ever gone and plucked your eyebrows or had the leg shaving treatment? (sorry, I don't know what the right term is) I have not done it, but I do have an occasional one hair growing from my leg somehow at times and I need to pull it out. It hurts!!! I have heard horror stories from women who get the hair from their legs off with wax. OUCH!!
I was reading from Isaiah and how they plucked the beard off of Jesus!!! Can you imagine the pain He endured! And through all that He went through, Isaiah says-that He opened not His mouth! They were beating Him, punching Him, spitting upon Him and mocking Him-and He never said a word!
How quick I am to answer back at an accusation or something untrue that I hear people say about me or my family. How I want to be more like Jesus!! Only by His grace!!!! I can't handle people not liking me or being mean-I don't know how I would endure such persecution. What I go through is nothing compared to so many! My husband was telling me that the soldiers would play a game. And they blindfolded Jesus and one of the soldiers would punch Him and then they would make Him try to guess which one it was -of course you would not get the answer right and they beat Him more! For you and for me He went through this!!

There wasn't a song I wanted to use today-nothing except scripture could express the sentiment I wanted to get across today.
I pray that your heart will be touched in an incredible way today.

W A R N I N G....graphic photo will follow...................please do not scroll down if you don't want to see it!!!!!!!!








Dianne Rigdon's paper and Jen Wilson overlay

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Happy Wednesday

My goodness this week is just passing by so quickly!!
I was supposed to go up in the attic today and start helping my daughter prepare to pack to move back to the states and also get our spring/summer clothing out....you guessed it....didn't happen. It's winter weather again and if I go to the attic it is so cold and there are no lights up there either. Plus, I have to crouch down the whole time I am up there because there are beams that always get in the way of my head! LOL

So, still have to go grocery shopping for our Easter dinner. We invited a couple college students over for the weekend who didn't have any plans. That will be fun for my daughter too. We may even go see a movie on Monday if we can find a good one in English. We have to travel to Budapest though because they don't show English ones here. It's a holiday here on Monday-the guys go to the girls houses (the one's they like) and spray them with the most putrifying perfume imaginable. Then, the girl is supposed to invite the guy in for cakes and give him a red foiled chocolate egg. My dd can't stand being home on this day so we told her we will go see a movie.

I wanted to give a link to a really cute Easter idea. It's the Resurrection Eggs. We had someone mail us the plastic eggs and we just fill them ourselves with the items. We'll use it for Sunday School on Easter. We did it a couple of years ago with the kids and they loved it!!! I know you can buy them already prepared, but we like doing it this way. Here is a link for the eggs. When we lived in the states, I used to have a Tea Party for my daughter and her friends every Easter vacation. One year, I made a scavenger hunt out of these items. I divided the girls into 2 teams and gave them the list of items they had to go and find. It was good because while they were out hunting, I could straighten up from the Tea and then when they returned we would talk about the items.

I did a layout today with the song Nothing But The Blood Of Jesus. There are more verses than what I wrote but I couldn't fit them all in the right way so I just put the first verse and chorus. I was thinking about what song to use today and started thinking about Jesus when He was in the Garden of Gethsemane. The pain and the agony He endured. So much so that He asked His Father if there were any other way...and there wasn't. The only way there would be to make atonement for our sins was through the shedding of His blood. It was true then and it remains true to this day. There is NO other way! I thought about Jesus's next words...nevertheless, not My will, but Yours be done. Wow!!!! It's just so amazing to me!!!!! Sometimes the things we are asked to bear in our lives seem so overwhelming, so tragic even and maybe unfair. We want God to take these things from us-to find another way...have you ever found yourself praying to just really know Him better-and along comes some difficult trial or situation. He wants us to be able to say..not my will, but Yours be done. Jesus did ALL of this for us. To be loved by someone that much is incredible!!

I pray your day is filled with all His blessings!




I used Jen Wilson's
Everyday Bliss kit

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

I found a new Digi Scrap site the other day. It's called Liddy's Loft. You MUST go check out the site. It appears to be quite new, but I love the look of the site and also the kits they have. Everything looks adorable! The neat thing is that they not only sell Scrapbook items, but Shabby home decor too!!! How can you not be excited about that!!!! Of course it does me no good since I couldn't have it shipped overseas-the freight would be way more than the items! So, go on over and take a look. I think you will be quite pleased!
My subscription to SBB is going to expire this month so I have to renew. I think I may be verging on pathetic because my hair dryer burned out the other day and so I was thinking "new hairdryer this month or SBB renewal" ha ha!! You guessed it, my hair is air blowing!! Is that such a phrase? I can't remember my English all that well!!! Not really, but since I live in Europe I use it as an excuse for my poor grammar these days!!

We were talking the last few days about going back to Sicily next summer. We went and met our relatives last summer and didn't even think about taking pictures of the town except for the relative's house. Of course we had an excuse-we drove all night for 16 hours and were quite out of it when we arrived. So, I think we need to return and take some great photos...I don't even have to twist DH's arm because he LOVES Sicily too!! It's probably my favorite place that I have ever been to. If you ever have the opportunity to go to Italy......GO!!!

I decided to do a layout with some songs that reflect the week of Easter in my heart. Events leading up to Jesus's death and resurrection. Today, I used a song that really tears at my heart. When I think of Jesus humbling Himself and washing the feet of the disciples it makes me love Him all the more! Jesus always led by example! Not just words!! How many leaders lead by words only and not example these days. I so want to follow in His example. My pride gets in the way too much at times. I don't ever want to think I am better than someone or unapproachable to the hurting, the poor, the weak. He is our Humble King.

I pray you have a wonderful day-filled with joy :)

Paper is from Iron Orchid Designs
Josie Cielo and Sally Griswold

Monday, April 10, 2006

Top Ten

I wanted to get this posted tonight since I was able to finish it. I had so much fun coloring in the flowers!! It was like coloring. Anyway, this is from Keely's Top Ten Blog List. It's a challenge she started so we could either make a list or a layout with our list. I think each week the Top Ten will be something new. It's fun so go on over to this blog and check it out. I figured if I had to write some bad habits I might as well make it look a little cute :)
I used Khristy Shmidt paper and Angie Brigg's doodles.

Tagged

Keely tagged me the other day and I am just getting around to answering.
this is what I am supposed to do:
I am supposed to write about someone I admire

There are many people living and not living that I admire dearly, but I have decided that since this is associated with digi-scrapping I would highlight someone in the digi community in hopes that others can get to know her as I have.
I will choose Melissa. I have never met her in person but I have grown to admire her for these reasons:


She is a young mother and wife
Moved away from America (including family, friends, security) to serve the Lord
Loves the Lord and you can just see in her blog writings how much she desires to know and trust in the Lord for everything.
She is creative and loves to scrapbook-I have noticed she's been on a couple of Creative Teams lately
When I read Melissa's blog I "see" her. I see someone who is real, tender-hearted and caring.

I have to choose 4 people to tag so I will choose Lisa, Barb, Mechelle and Janet. I have never done this before so hopefully I will pass it on the right way :)

Lots going on-getting prepared for Easter. We have some work to do at the church-painting and cleaning so that it looks nice by Sunday. It's the end of the month for us so it's a bit tight, but it will work out.

I will work on my BB later on today-it's an odd time of day for me to be writing on my blog-but I had to do it while I was thinking about it or I might forget LOL-getting old you know :)


Oh-I just remembered-I MUST go to a crop today-SBB has a subscriber's chat and I am always missing it because I mess up with the time zone thing. So, I think it is at 3pm. I will have to check. Last week I remembered the chat when it was over. Oh well, I might get it together one of these days!

Oh again-I wanted to make a special layout this week with some songs for Easter-maybe I will do that instead of the BB this week. I will work on it today and add it tonight sometime.

Have a blessed Monday!!!

Friday, April 07, 2006

Got Water???

Well, we do!!! The river is overflowing with 9 meters of water already!! We have sandbags all around the area where the restaurants are and the Island is blocked off to vehicles. Fortunately, the water hasn't crossed the street so we are safe so far. My husband said it should start to decrease tomorrow so we will see. He got a few photos so I will try to upload them later on.
I am sure you have heard about the new "discovery"!! The gospel of Judas!!! Hmmm, well, of course I have an opinion-it goes against everything I read in my bible-both old and new testaments!! It will bring up debate I am sure-but what doesn't these days!! For people looking for a reason not to believe the Bible in its entirety, it's just one more piece of "evidence" for them. I don't debate the Bible with people. I know what I believe, I know why I believe and noone will ever be able to tell me any differently. It doesn't matter what they come up with next. So, it will be interesting to hear the talk-if there is much. Funny how it came out in the news right as we are focusing our attention on the death of Jesus!

I have 7 college kids on their way to my house in a few minutes so I can't type much tonight. Love these kids!! They are so fun and it's so awesome for my daughter to have them come over on some weekends. She has such a blast doing all the goofy teen stuff with them-mostly laughing over things I don't even understand-that's when I head up to my room and put on Little House on the Praire and fall asleep!!!!

Here's my BB for the day-after reading the news, I just thought about this verse in Isaiah 40:8-things change, people will change, our lives will go through many changes, but one thing remains-God's Word!! It never changes!!
Have a wonderful and blessed day today, tonight, whatever time zone you are in :)
Shine On :)


Gina Miller BYOBB cork board, Sweet Pea Kit by Colleen Lynch, Doodles by Suzanne Walker

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Our poor kitty had to go back to the vet today-a year after having taken her to get fixed we find out the vet didn't do it right. So, the poor thing had to have another operation today! It's so sad to watch her like this. She is quite the drama queen anyway so this doesn't help much!!! Hopefully she will feel better tomorrow! The other cat had to go in for a virus-fortunately it's really inexpensive to take them to the vets-and of course we weren't going to pay them for the 2nd operation!!! Such excitement huh!

We may be under water tomorrow or the next day. The Danube is overflowing and we are already seeing the city covered with sandbags. The one bridge in town is closed and over by the island is closed too. We are due for a few days of rain starting tonight so hopefully we won't wake up to a flood on our street!!! DH is going to take some pictures tomorrow so if they turn out decent I will post some.
I have a couple more links to share with you-but it will have to wait until tomorrow. I don't have the energy to open different screens and find them all-I know, I am lazy but I can't help it tonight!

That's all for tonight-not much in the blogging mood tonight but wanted to post my BB.
Shine on :)




Tuesday, April 04, 2006

In Memory

Today marks the one year anniversary for our dear friends son who passed away. He was the cutest, most boyish boy I have ever met. He was only 11 years old when he died. It was a freak accident on a jungle gym. This event rocked my world in ways I couldn't imagine. We had stayed with this family in their guest house the summer before when we were back in CA. Every morning Johnny would come over (very early) and want to see if my husband was up. He was such a guitar player and my husband would play guitar with him. Johnny had so much life in him. The day he died, there on his bed lay his guitar and a Praise and Worship book that he used for practice. When we were told of his death I couldn't understand God and His ways. It shook the core of all I believed in all these years. I had to prepare to teach at a women's conference that weekend and the theme was about God's Love. It was such a struggle for me to even study for this because at the time I didn't understand a loving God taking away such a precious child who had so much to offer. Why did He want him in Heaven rather than here on the earth. And how could I possibly teach other's on God's love when I struggled with it myself at the time. I realized I would never have the answers to my questions. But by faith I had to believe -I had to believe that when God says ALL things work together for good-that even through this tragedy God would work out good. How He would, or even when he would, I don't know. But that is where faith comes in. Trusting that which you don't understand and that which you can't see with your eyes.
My heart aches and cries for the loss of this little one. You see, because of medical reasons I could never have a baby. And the Lord blessed us with adopting our daughter. Years later, we heard about Johnny's situation and we wanted to adopt him. He looked like everything I had imagined that a child of my own would look like. He was only about 2 and just so cute, so blond and so boy. But, it wasn't meant to be. Instead the Lord chose one of my best friend's family to adopt him. It was such a trial for me and I was jealous, angry at times and even then questioned the will of God. But, my friend and I always could talk so openly and cry openly together. Through the years that followed, I saw how perfect God's will was and they were truely the right family for him. And then, last year, this happened. I haven't been able to see my friend since Johnny passed away. But, we will see each other next month and over tea we will remember and we will cry and mourn together.

I put this song and video on my blog today. If you are reading this then I would just ask that you take a few minutes, (I am so sorry for those on dial-up but I wanted this video today) please watch the video. Listen to the lyrics. Whatever you think about Jesus, if you don't believe in Him, if you doubt Him, please listen anyway. Put aside your doubts for the next few moments and allow this song and the video to touch your heart. If you are a Christian, then also listen and allow the Lord to minister to you through this. Allow Him to show you that He is who He says He is ~ and all you may be holding onto in your life, all the pain and the questions, give them over to Him. Life isn't easy-Christian or not a Christian, the bible says it rains on the just and the unjust. In this world Jesus says, We will have tribulation, but be of good cheer because He has overcome the world. There is a real burden in my heart today that someone who is reading this needs the touch of Jesus. I wouldn't say this if I didn't believe it.
I made this layout for the day. It was just so simple and beautiful to me. I bought the April DM Magazine and this kit was in it. I love this paper that was in the kit!!! The moment I saw it I knew it was the one to use for the lyrics of this song. ( I think Michelle Coleman made this paperand the design comes on it already) The song is called "Cry Out To Jesus" by Third Day. I pray you enjoy it :)

Have a blessed day and if you have children, give them a big hug today :)

Monday, April 03, 2006

I Made the TOP 10!!!

I am soooo excited about this!! Can you believe it??? After all these years, I finally won something. Ok-I will admit, it wasn't today, but a day ago that I was in the top 10-!
Do I have you in such suspense that you just can't stand it anymore....are you biting your nails, tapping your fingers on the computer desk, shaking your leg a kilometer a minute??? Just say it Margie PUHLEAZE just say it-tell us your wonderful news....top 10 hmmm.....what could it be?? No, it's not the Digi Blog thing (bottom 10 on that LOL) not top 10 wives or even top 10 pastor's wives....spill it already..................................I made the top 10 list at 2Peas. What's that you say...you didn't know there was a contest? Well, there wasn't. But I decided to make up my own little contest and I was the winner at one point and slowly declined in rank. I was one of the top 10 OLDER people who responded to the question "How Old Are You?". Yep, that's right, all 11 people above me were younger than me. And for awhile I was one of the 10 oldest posters :)
Do you think at this point I have completely lost my mind? You are right!!!!!! LOL!!!!! I have not been feeling good for over a week now. I didn't want to blog and just say-yep, another sicko day..so I didn't. But, today I tell you-still sick. My coughing has just been horrid and it is weakening me throughout the day. I think it's turned into bronchitis which doesn't mix too well with the asthma.
We had a busy Saturday. My daughter sings in a choir and they had a concert on Sat afternoon. We had students here for the weekend and had to cook for lots of hungry boys! It was fun though. We worked on props for the VBS and they helped clean the church. Today I did a bunch of stuff for VBS. I have to translate all the bible verses from English to Hungarian. That is initially what I used my PSP for. I never knew that the investment would open a whole new world for me with Digi-scrapping!!

Here's my BB for today. I am always amazed at what God shows me each day!! He is so faithful!!
Have a beautiful day!