God is in control and absolutely sovereign; He apportions grace for every need.

I have been working on a quilt that a gal who works with Chris wanted me to make as a special baby gift for a good friend of hers..... Anyway, I was eager to have a project to do, so I said I would do it. It was really fun getting the materials in the colors and theme she wanted and the quilt top went together quite fast. As I began quilting it, I began to think, wow I am spending alot of time on this and I will be giving it away to someone I don't even know....even though the gal did pay me to do it and I was enjoying the whole process. Since I just finished reading a book on the importance of how you spend your time, I thought "I should be making something like this for someone dear to me." and determined I probably wouldn't do this again anytime soon. As I continued on with the quilt, it did give me joy to know that it would be a special gift and that the new mom and baby would be excited to receive it and use it. Then....

Chris came home last Thursday night and told me that the gal at the office took him aside and said that the mom had lost the baby. She was 8 1/2 months along and at her last check up the dr. could not find a heart beat, so she was to have a c-section to deliver the stillborn baby. My heart was broken for this young mom and her husband. The next day the gal at the office was talking to Chris about the heartbreak, pain, and grief she and the parents and family were going through. Chris had a chance to share with her about Michael (our son who is in Heaven with the Lord) and even though this gal and the family are not believers she asked for some material on the loss of a child---when Chris said everything we had was from a Christian perspective, she said that's OK, she still wanted it.

I am in awe once again at God and His ways. God in His foreknowledge knew this was going to happen, and now the reason for making the quilt has become clearer--it is one way He can minister to this family. I am humbled that God would use us in this way. We are praying for this young couple that they would be open to God comforting them in their grief and that in that journey they would discover a Savior and a love like no other.

Reassurance from the Book of Daniel

This past Sunday our pastor taught Pt. 1 of an overview of the book of Daniel in preparation for a line by line study in the book of Revelation that is coming up in 2 weeks. Daniel is such an interesting book! It is so connected to Revelation and the prophecies in that book. I am digging out the Beth Moore study in Daniel that my mother-in-law gave to me so Chris and I can do further study before we get into Revelation.

Here are some of the truths that the Lord “underlined” for me as we began the study in Daniel:

~The future is in God’s hands alone.
~God is always in control.
~When God says He will do something, then it will happen.
~God is faithful to keep His Word even when it’s a warning.
~God apportions grace for every need.
~God is in control, absolutely sovereign, never shaken, and nothing can detour His plan for the ages.

These are all things that I found very comforting for personal reasons, as well as intriguing and comforting in light of our current political climate.

Valentine Thoughts

Aren't you glad that you heard God's invitation when He asked you, "Be Mine"?


But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Is America Destined for "Demographic Winter?"

An excerpt from Doug Phillips' Blog:

Should nations view children as a blessing or as a burden during economic hard times? What about families?

Within one day of taking office, the president gave his answer to the first question. He would use the anniversary of Roe v. Wade to lift the ban on overseas abortion funding. The message: in tough economic times, it is important for U.S. taxpayer dollars to be spent preventing more life from coming into this world.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was even more creative in her baby-banning agenda. In a national television interview, she made it clear that one important way to stimulate the economy was for people to stop having babies.

Pelosi defended her plan to make tax-payer subsidized child prevention an important part of the $825 billion economic stimulus package, explaining that “contraception will reduce the cost to the states and to the federal government...no apologies. No. We have to deal with the consequences of the downturn in our economy.”

Translation: We must control the population because children are a burden on the economy—especially children from lower class families. The less of these children, the less money the government will have to spend on schools and health care.

Don Feder states:
"In 30 years, worldwide, birthrates have fallen by more than 50%. In 1979, the average woman on this planet had 6 children. Today, the average is 2.9 children, and falling. . . . demographers tell us that with a birthrate of 1.3, everything else being equal, a nation will lose half of its population every 45 years."

This is an important issue that Americans need to address, and hopefully take steps to encourage families to have children and welcome them into their households.
If you would like to watch an interesting and very sobering video on this topic, here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM0YO1uSZ_8

I guess what I'm trying to say is, we need to be very careful who we listen to and what philosophy we might inadvertently "buy into." For instance, this week a leading environmentalist in Great Britain stated, "Couples who have more than two children are putting an ‘irresponsible’ burden on the environment..." And he continues, "I think we will work our way towards a position that says having more than two children is irresponsible." Therefore, he is calling for the state to limit families to two children. So, we have certain politicians and economists as well as radical environmentalists advocating laws to prohibit families having more than 2 children.

As Christians, we need to look to God's view of children and family and be willing to take a stand and stop this movement of humanistic thought against children. If we don't, who will? And if we don't, the consequences will be catastrophic.

NBC Rejected this Commercial For the Super Bowl