Hope From Your Mama!

Jeremiah 29:11  "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "Plans to prosper you and NOT to harm you. Plans to give you a HOPE and a FUTURE. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the LORD. I heard it said once that this verse was really God talking to the Israelite People, so it doesn't really apply to us today... Well, I'm just glad I don't believe everything I hear...  Because I believe this verse with my whole heart. I'd like to share with you one of the many stories of why I do believe it. I had worked as a "Career Waitress" for about 15 years.  Impressed with my credentials now, aren't ya?  It was time for a change.  I applied to various jobs and decided to take a job as a Bank Teller.  I was there for about two weeks when I got a job offer at another place I had interviewe

We arrived at camp. Our Fifth Family Camp weekend at Camp Forest Springs. The stress leading up to the vacation was immense, I will tell you. The planning and packing. Noah had some sort of a sinus issue that was bothering him and we took him to the doctor the week before and they did NOT offer anything to help. I wish we ONLY had to pay them if they DID something to fix the situation or offered advice that I COULDN'T Google myself! He had been doing SO good with not hitting himself and had JUST started doing it again and crying more with this sinus thing just before we left for our vacation. I had hoped this would not be something the staff would have to deal with! I wrote a letter ahead of time to them explaining a little bit about Noah. I wanted to help them as they were to watch him in nursery while Frank and I went to our sessions. It's so hard to even imagine what other people think of our boy, as we're just so used to him. I would never want an

I have never blogged before. I like the idea of it.  I came home with soul-full of thoughts and wanted to write some of them down.  So I went to this Google site and sat down to figure out this new technical hurdle for me to jump.  With my luck I will pour out my heart and then try to hit "publish", only to receive some "failure" message.  Insert chuckle. It asked me for a title for my blog.  I guess because I have craved most of all through my life, the Hope of glory (Col 1:27),  I like the idea of Hope.  Then I thought of the verse about hope being the anchor for our soul (Heb. 6:19) (indeed it IS)... and I thought it clever that "hope anchors soul".  Just like rock smashes scissors, scissors cuts paper and paper covers rock.  HOPE is the anchor for our soul. So, here goes... Today we went to see the movie, "Tangled". Earlier in the day I found out some devastating news that a friend of mine, who has been trying to have a baby via a surro