Home again, home again!

I love being on the go and being busy but sometimes enough is enough! So this weekend we stayed home! and it was awesome! here are some fun pictures from a low key weekend

What to do when it is raining...got to hastings and terrorize them! LOL just kidding but gotta love the train set they have and all the books!

Okay so sometimes I feel like JW is this size...

 But really he is this kid, the one who can hold his own granola bar and have a reaction to Elmo. People tell you they grow up fast but you really don't get it until you realize, they do grow up fast!

Now this is my life..... I have a husband, a boy and four male dogs, which means I am constantly ignored. Not is the mean way but in the way that guys can not multi task, eye contact is key, just in case you haven't clued into that yet! So we are at Outback, JW is watching Toy story on my phone, yes we are those people judge away! and guess who else is watching Toy Story!! Yep stevie, both glued to the tiny tv on the table! anyways I enjoyed a nice quiet dinner by myself ;)

organic or not organic!

WARNING! totally rambling about what has been on my heart and mind!

really...really! so here's my thought, to each who come to know the Lord I'm beginning to think that that person has to know the Lord and grow in the Lord where they are at. So in Africa, you become a believer and that doesn't mean you need shoes or clean water or HIV education. It means you follow hard after the Lord in your situation. Right? Let's try to think less humanitarian and more Gospel minded...have we gotten caught up in making a way to present the gospel that we now provide a service and not even mention Jesus. What if we are suppose to serve the Lord where we are at? The Lord said he will redeem us from sin but not necesarily our situation. Do we set unrealistic conditions on someone that has just begun their relaionship with the Lord? Do we want them to know Jesus or to be western?

So I live in America, where they pump our food full of poison, daily kill animals in shelters and let's not even talk about what they do to our meat. Of course it would be easy to become a humanitarian and fight against the man but in doing so I have lost sight of the real reason I live in America. To follow hard after the Lord where I am at

so yes, this leads me to organic food! We could afford to spend the money on the food and eat all the healthy stamped label crap but what will it cost. I don't mean dollar signs I mean souls. Could the extra money spent a month go toward supporting another missionary? Let's be real probably 5 more missionaries. That stuff is expensive! help the homeless, provide for a widow. what if as a believer, a wife, a mom my place is knowing that the food isn't the best for us and could potentially harm us but it doesn't really matter. What matters is for every person to hear about Jesus, so Jesus will return for His bride! organics don't seem so important when I think like that. Has the enemy taken my fear of cancer, obesity, disease and tricked me into wasting money on organic food?

It will be hard making the non organic choice especially since I have done the research but with Christ all things are possible. Right? Right!

even as I write this I am saying well I will still buy organic meat or butter or etc. But enough is enough, I think I have put more of an importance on food than on the gospel. Sorry enemy, the vail has fallen off and my eyes have been opened to your schemes.

PS! don't let my conviction be yours, get with the Lord and he will give you your own :)

So I'm a mom!

So I'm a wife, I love being a wife, I enjoy being a wife, I get the greatest joy out of being a wife but if I make my identity a wife then I fail!

So I'm a mom! I love being a mom! It's hard yet rewarding, challenging yet so natural. I'm absolutely in love with being a mom but if I make my identity a mom I fail!

So I'm an employee! I love my job! I love being busy, I love working! I love accomplishing things and being stressed! love it but if I make my identity an employee I fail!

Being a wife, a mom, an employee are only possible when finding and clinging to my identity in Christ!

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light; for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. - 1 Peter 2:9-10

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. -  Galations 2:20

AND!!!!! some pictures from the 4th!

JW ready to get the party started at Granny and PawPaw's house!

I believe the face says it all....Fireworks are pretty but way too loud!