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Friday, June 8, 2012
Time Flies!! The Roller Coaster Quilt!
Wow! How time flies! I can't believe that another year of school is finished. Wesley turned 5...Alaina will be 8...and I will have two grade school children! As I look back and reflect on the past year..the roller coaster we all had...I see God in every twist and turn.
My school year at KMS had some major ups and downs...some really difficult students made me question my profession. After 10 years...you'd think I'd have seen it all. I know it was all God, though....making me rely on Him and seeing who I really was as a teacher and professional. Thanks for the stomach wrenching turn God. I needed it. A song that I clung to was Losing by Tenth Avenue North. http://youtu.be/Y7D9UNM78-Y
Our home, financial situation made me totally and desperately rely on God and prayer to make it through. Some how...with the help of wonderful family and friends...we did. God is our provider and he sustained us for the 8 months of hardship...as well as continues to give us strength today. I give thanks to those who helped us every day! I give God all the PRAISE, HONOR, and GLORY for getting us out of the hardship. I know that it was all part of His plan. He needed us to see what was important.
Pastor Ricky once said in a sermon that God's plan is like a beautiful quilt. God gets to see all the beauty of the ups and downs of our lives, the gorgeous picture of it all. We only get to see the back of the quilt, all the threads and the mess, one piece at a time. Thank the Lord...that one day..in Heaven...we'll be able to see our life's quilt and how all the things that we endured...the roller coaster ride....were not in vain...but for our beautiful life quilt sewn together by our God!
My school year at KMS had some major ups and downs...some really difficult students made me question my profession. After 10 years...you'd think I'd have seen it all. I know it was all God, though....making me rely on Him and seeing who I really was as a teacher and professional. Thanks for the stomach wrenching turn God. I needed it. A song that I clung to was Losing by Tenth Avenue North. http://youtu.be/Y7D9UNM78-Y
Our home, financial situation made me totally and desperately rely on God and prayer to make it through. Some how...with the help of wonderful family and friends...we did. God is our provider and he sustained us for the 8 months of hardship...as well as continues to give us strength today. I give thanks to those who helped us every day! I give God all the PRAISE, HONOR, and GLORY for getting us out of the hardship. I know that it was all part of His plan. He needed us to see what was important.
Pastor Ricky once said in a sermon that God's plan is like a beautiful quilt. God gets to see all the beauty of the ups and downs of our lives, the gorgeous picture of it all. We only get to see the back of the quilt, all the threads and the mess, one piece at a time. Thank the Lord...that one day..in Heaven...we'll be able to see our life's quilt and how all the things that we endured...the roller coaster ride....were not in vain...but for our beautiful life quilt sewn together by our God!
Saturday, December 31, 2011
New Year's Resolution: Are you down with JC?
Merry CHRISTmas and Happy New Year to everyone! It has been a super long time since I last sat down and wrote. My life seems to have been super busy as well as taken some funky turns in the last year. "With God, all things are possible!" Matthew 19:26
I thought I would share what I have been thinking about the past week. As you know...teachers had 2 weeks off with the students and I have had A LOT of time to think.
The most important thing I want to share with you all is my love for the Lord and my desire to please Him. I have, in the past 4 years, found Jesus. (Maybe He found me!) He makes me a better mommy, a better wife, a better friend, a better teacher...a better Becky. I have a deep hurt in my heart for all of my close family and friends that don't have the same desires, because they (you) don't know Jesus. As this year, 2011 comes to a close and we being a fresh new year in 2012...I pray that I can make a difference and share my Christ with everyone I meet. This is my New Years Resolution! Didn't He after all create us to Love Him...and share His good news? You may call me a Jesus Freak..you may not understand...but I will strive and keep trying.
Do me a favor....I ask that you start listening to your local Christian radio station or KLOVE. I am here to tell you..MUSIC...GOD GIFTED MUSIC....is AWESOME. It will come into your heart and allow feelings that you didn't know you were able to feel. This was my FIRST step in becoming a Christian...active in my faith and in my church. The music made me want to worship God. Now, in all I do, I want to please Him and give God the glory! "Whatever you do in word or deed, do in the name of Christ Jesus." Colossians 3:17
Have a very blessed New Year and keep in touch!
In Christ's Love,
BECKY
I thought I would share what I have been thinking about the past week. As you know...teachers had 2 weeks off with the students and I have had A LOT of time to think.
The most important thing I want to share with you all is my love for the Lord and my desire to please Him. I have, in the past 4 years, found Jesus. (Maybe He found me!) He makes me a better mommy, a better wife, a better friend, a better teacher...a better Becky. I have a deep hurt in my heart for all of my close family and friends that don't have the same desires, because they (you) don't know Jesus. As this year, 2011 comes to a close and we being a fresh new year in 2012...I pray that I can make a difference and share my Christ with everyone I meet. This is my New Years Resolution! Didn't He after all create us to Love Him...and share His good news? You may call me a Jesus Freak..you may not understand...but I will strive and keep trying.
Do me a favor....I ask that you start listening to your local Christian radio station or KLOVE. I am here to tell you..MUSIC...GOD GIFTED MUSIC....is AWESOME. It will come into your heart and allow feelings that you didn't know you were able to feel. This was my FIRST step in becoming a Christian...active in my faith and in my church. The music made me want to worship God. Now, in all I do, I want to please Him and give God the glory! "Whatever you do in word or deed, do in the name of Christ Jesus." Colossians 3:17
Have a very blessed New Year and keep in touch!
In Christ's Love,
BECKY
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Blessed...Let us not forget!
I am sitting here listening to a CD, Quietime, Your Turn to Unwind, that we bought today from Lifeway. It is a wonderful, soothing CD filled with slow, instrumental Christian worship songs. I also began reading Beth Moore's, A Taste of Believing in God, Experience a Fresh Explosion of Faith. It is a short 7 Chapters of how to increase your faith in Jesus and your dedication to God's purpose. I have been reading about how God says He is who He says He is!!
I am feeling very close to God and feeling the benefits of His blessings on my life. As Bob sits and shares his journal with me...I cry at the thoughts of what he and the team endured last week in Haiti. Many wonderful stories, some hardships, and much fellowship has been shared with me in the past few days. I love hearing what happened and seeing the pictures everyone has posted puts many things in perspective.
I am sitting here, with a heavy heart. There is another team going to the Dominican Republic in October and I will begin praying daily and specifically for them. My prayers became more specific as time passed with the team in Haiti and I pray that I can be just as in touch with God for the next team as I was while the team was in Haiti. Let us not forget... this makes me sad. Will this willingness in me to pray diligently for missionaries and for these poverty stricken people subside? Will I feel this emotional connection always now, forever changed? Or will it go away? I pray that it does not go away! I pray that I will continue to have this burden in my heart always...and learn to give up myself more. Let us not forget!
I am so proud of my husband. I love you so much Bob and I am so proud of you! You are forever changed and have become such an inspiration to me. To endure the hardships you did while in Haiti and already talking about WHEN you go back...so awesome! Let us not forget! Let us always do what we can...be burdened for the lost...LOVE OTHERS...love our neighbors as we are told in Matthew 22:39. The teams from FCBC show that they LOVE OTHERS! Let them all be examples for us. Even if it is doing things here in Jacksonville...Let us not forget!!!
I am feeling very close to God and feeling the benefits of His blessings on my life. As Bob sits and shares his journal with me...I cry at the thoughts of what he and the team endured last week in Haiti. Many wonderful stories, some hardships, and much fellowship has been shared with me in the past few days. I love hearing what happened and seeing the pictures everyone has posted puts many things in perspective.
I am sitting here, with a heavy heart. There is another team going to the Dominican Republic in October and I will begin praying daily and specifically for them. My prayers became more specific as time passed with the team in Haiti and I pray that I can be just as in touch with God for the next team as I was while the team was in Haiti. Let us not forget... this makes me sad. Will this willingness in me to pray diligently for missionaries and for these poverty stricken people subside? Will I feel this emotional connection always now, forever changed? Or will it go away? I pray that it does not go away! I pray that I will continue to have this burden in my heart always...and learn to give up myself more. Let us not forget!
I am so proud of my husband. I love you so much Bob and I am so proud of you! You are forever changed and have become such an inspiration to me. To endure the hardships you did while in Haiti and already talking about WHEN you go back...so awesome! Let us not forget! Let us always do what we can...be burdened for the lost...LOVE OTHERS...love our neighbors as we are told in Matthew 22:39. The teams from FCBC show that they LOVE OTHERS! Let them all be examples for us. Even if it is doing things here in Jacksonville...Let us not forget!!!
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
New Adventures and Where You Are
Wow, it's been a long time since I wrote. I have had a busy summer. It is almost over now, teachers start Aug. 15! I spent the whole summer with my two kids...some great and fun times...some very frustrating times. I guess that's how it goes with a 7 year old and a 4 year old...go go go...
Time sure flies...but I am excited for my new adventure as a 7th grade ELA teacher for Kernan Middle School. Many teachers left and there are lots of changes happening at the school. Unfortunately we lost our A status...so we may be under some pressure.
I sit here this morning with a praying heart as my hubby and the team from FCBC are now in Haiti. I can't believe that all the planning and time spent getting ready are gone and now the team is gone as well. I am such a proud wife. Bob has really felt the call of the Lord and he was so excited to have the opportunity to go on a mission trip with his best friends from the church. In Mark 16:15, God said to GO...and my hubby WENT! I am so proud of him! This time apart is brand new for both of us! Usually when one of us goes away on a trip we are in constant...I mean constant contact. We call and text a ton! Having no communication with Bob is driving me crazy! I love him so much!!
As I sat in the sanctuary on Sunday, hearing Pastor John commission the team as missionaries....I began to cry and get emotional. I have been praying daily for the team as they have prepared but somehow see my prayers changed now that they are gone. More specific prayers come as I think of and realize the realness of this trip. As I stood in the church parking lot at 6:30 am yesterday saying goodbye to the love of my life...I was surprisingly not emotional...until I got in the car!! As I listened to the radio...Lifesong, by Casting Crowns....I began to sob at the realization of what was actually going on. The 12 men and women aren't just taking a trip....they aren't taking a new adventure...they are doing exactly what God told them to do...Acts 1:8 says, "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
My husband, my pastor, and many of my friends are missionaries. They are on fire for the Lord. We all should be. They are an inspiration to me! Be a missionary where you are in your life. We all can't go away...but we all can step up in our own town or city or neighborhood or workplace. Whenever and where ever we can!!
Please pray for Bob, Ricky, Joe, Jeremy, Diane, Harry, Peggy, Jack, Jessica, Chris, Kirsten, and Tom!
Pray for me as a wife that's going crazy by no contact with my hubby. Pray the bad weather stays away from Haiti.
Blessings to all and Happy New Adventures!
Time sure flies...but I am excited for my new adventure as a 7th grade ELA teacher for Kernan Middle School. Many teachers left and there are lots of changes happening at the school. Unfortunately we lost our A status...so we may be under some pressure.
I sit here this morning with a praying heart as my hubby and the team from FCBC are now in Haiti. I can't believe that all the planning and time spent getting ready are gone and now the team is gone as well. I am such a proud wife. Bob has really felt the call of the Lord and he was so excited to have the opportunity to go on a mission trip with his best friends from the church. In Mark 16:15, God said to GO...and my hubby WENT! I am so proud of him! This time apart is brand new for both of us! Usually when one of us goes away on a trip we are in constant...I mean constant contact. We call and text a ton! Having no communication with Bob is driving me crazy! I love him so much!!
As I sat in the sanctuary on Sunday, hearing Pastor John commission the team as missionaries....I began to cry and get emotional. I have been praying daily for the team as they have prepared but somehow see my prayers changed now that they are gone. More specific prayers come as I think of and realize the realness of this trip. As I stood in the church parking lot at 6:30 am yesterday saying goodbye to the love of my life...I was surprisingly not emotional...until I got in the car!! As I listened to the radio...Lifesong, by Casting Crowns....I began to sob at the realization of what was actually going on. The 12 men and women aren't just taking a trip....they aren't taking a new adventure...they are doing exactly what God told them to do...Acts 1:8 says, "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."
My husband, my pastor, and many of my friends are missionaries. They are on fire for the Lord. We all should be. They are an inspiration to me! Be a missionary where you are in your life. We all can't go away...but we all can step up in our own town or city or neighborhood or workplace. Whenever and where ever we can!!
Please pray for Bob, Ricky, Joe, Jeremy, Diane, Harry, Peggy, Jack, Jessica, Chris, Kirsten, and Tom!
Pray for me as a wife that's going crazy by no contact with my hubby. Pray the bad weather stays away from Haiti.
Blessings to all and Happy New Adventures!
Saturday, June 11, 2011
No more teachers...no more books
School is out for the students and teachers only have 2 more work days. Gotta pack up my room...again...not sure yet what I am doing next year at Kernan...just glad to be there! I am very blessed. I had a great year with some pretty cool kids and some pretty cool colleagues! Now I can focus on organizing my home life! My house is an unorganized mess! Piles here and there...can't find stuff...drives me crazy!!
Looking forward to lazy mornings...pool time...the beach...hanging out friends I need to catch up with!
Blessings everyone!
Looking forward to lazy mornings...pool time...the beach...hanging out friends I need to catch up with!
Blessings everyone!
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Birthday Blessings
Hi all! I am feeling so blessed and wanted to share! It is only 1:00 in the afternoon of my birthday and I am feeling the love. Thanks to everyone that has sent me birthday wishes...I love you all! The abundance of messages brought tears to my eyes and feelings of love to my heart!!
I have had a fun-filled day already. First, I was awakened this morning to coffee and gifts in bed and kids singing! Bob had to got to work! Then, I took the kids, with Nana, Bumpa, GG, and Melissa, to the Easter egg hunt, games, story time, and lunch at Coastal Baptist Church. It was great. So much fun and we were able to fellowship with other believers! Now I am awaiting Elaine's arrival so we can celebrate her birthday, which is tomorrow, and color some eggs and sit by the pool and catch up! Later, Bob and I are going to dinner at PF Changs. I am being showered with gifts from my family and friends too. As I am typing I received a large package from Brian! What an awesome birthday! And...I get to celebrate my Savior too! Happy Easter everyone! Love and Blessings,
BECKY
I have had a fun-filled day already. First, I was awakened this morning to coffee and gifts in bed and kids singing! Bob had to got to work! Then, I took the kids, with Nana, Bumpa, GG, and Melissa, to the Easter egg hunt, games, story time, and lunch at Coastal Baptist Church. It was great. So much fun and we were able to fellowship with other believers! Now I am awaiting Elaine's arrival so we can celebrate her birthday, which is tomorrow, and color some eggs and sit by the pool and catch up! Later, Bob and I are going to dinner at PF Changs. I am being showered with gifts from my family and friends too. As I am typing I received a large package from Brian! What an awesome birthday! And...I get to celebrate my Savior too! Happy Easter everyone! Love and Blessings,
BECKY
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