Praying for strong lungs and bright blue eyes

The type of news

you know the kind

your heart stops beating

and your head starts spinning

that helpless feeling

the paralizying emotions

they invade your body

producing tears and fears

bringing you to your knees

 

Because there's nothing,

nothing you can do

 

BUT PRAY. 

Fierce

bold

big prayers

for health

for strength

for mercy

for hope

for love

to feel His loving hand

always

Prayers to one of my beautiful friends and her baby boy who has decided that he wants to meet the world a bit early.  Prayers for strong lungs and big bright blue eyes.  So that he can introduce Mommy and Daddy to a whole new world of love.



 So far, so good:)  Baby Murphy is doing great!  2/25/13 5lbs 2oz 19 inches

Spirit-Live-Vision

PHOTO A DAY: Spirit

The nonphysical part of a person that is the seat of emotions and character; the soul.

PHOTO A DAY: Live

I totally flipped when I walked in the house to this!  Not that they're building a fort...they are sitting on top of chairs on a cushion!!  "If they fall through, they'll learn!  You have to let them live a little!"

































PHOTO A DAY: Vision





























 

LOVE

PHOTO A DAY: LOVE

Hebrews 4:1-10

New International Version (NIV)

A Sabbath-Rest for the People of God

4 Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. ² For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed.^{[a] 3} Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,

“So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’”^[b]

And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. ⁴ For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.”^{[c] 5} And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”

⁶ Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience, ⁷ God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.”^[d]

⁸ For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. ⁹ There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; ¹⁰ for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works,^[e] just as God did from his.

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Evil

PHOTO OF THE DAY: EVIL

During this photo a day challenge, I have started to think ahead to the next day or even a few days out.  What can I take a picture of that represents the word they have asked for?  What does the word mean to me?  How can illustrate it in one or even a few photos?

I've been thinking of something to represent evil for a few days now.  I didn't have any ideas that weren't, well, EVIL.  For example, I thought, I could take a picture of X...they are EVIL!  Next I thought, I could take a picture of the gas price posted at the local gas station. But, I was too lazy to stop the car, get out of my car (because my windshields are too dirty to take a photo through) and then snap the picture. 

I tried to think of other things on my drive in this morning that were evil and decided that I would stop at a gas station on my way home if I couldn't come up with anything better.

Well, one of my co-workers answered the call and I didn't even dial his number!  I walked into my office to this cute little surprise!!

"Awww, how cute!  What a nice friend.  He knows how much I love potato chips! How thoughtful!"

NOT!!

He knows that I gave up potato chips for lent!  He knows that they will sit on my desk for the next month and taunt me every second of the freaking day.

TEMPTATION.

I confronted him as soon as he walked in the office:

Mr. Doerner, you are most certainly going to hell.

Fake confused look: What?

Don't play dumb.  I know you bought the effing chips and displayed them ever so beautifully next to my computer!

As he follows me to my office: Laura, I would have searched for Wavy Lays if I would have been the prankster.

BOLOGNIE!! I know you did it.   I know they don't sell Wavy Lays downstairs or you would have bought them! I'm going to get you back.

 (ALSO EVIL-REVENGE)

If you were wondering how my lent sacrifices are going after week one: I want chips more than Facebook.  I haven't really craved for a soda and I'm enjoying my added slice of giving back each day.

I will fight this temptation and leave this bag of chips on my desk until Easter...I can't guarantee that I won't seek revenge;)

Deuteronomy 9:13-21

New International Version (NIV)

¹³ And the Lord said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are a stiff-necked people indeed! ¹⁴ Let me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. And I will make you into a nation stronger and more numerous than they.”
¹⁵ So I turned and went down from the mountain while it was ablaze with fire. And the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands. ¹⁶ When I looked, I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God; you had made for yourselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the Lord had commanded you. ¹⁷ So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, breaking them to pieces before your eyes.
¹⁸ Then once again I fell prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and so arousing his anger. ¹⁹ I feared the anger and wrath of the Lord, for he was angry enough with you to destroy you. But again the Lord listened to me. ²⁰ And the Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I prayed for Aaron too. ²¹ Also I took that sinful thing of yours, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust and threw the dust into a stream that flowed down the mountain.

 

Wonder

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder!

PHOTO OF THE DAY: WONDER

Nobody can do wonder like the monsters! 

The excitement in their eyes; the wonder is always present and perfect and innocent.

Somewhere, somehow as we age and live and make mistakes and grow, we lose it. 

I find wonder again in them.

Psalm 45

New International Version (NIV)

For the director of music. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil.^[b] A wedding song.

¹ My heart is stirred by a noble theme
as I recite my verses for the king;
my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.

² You are the most excellent of men
and your lips have been anointed with grace,
since God has blessed you forever.

³ Gird your sword on your side, you mighty one;
clothe yourself with splendor and majesty.
⁴ In your majesty ride forth victoriously
in the cause of truth, humility and justice;
let your right hand achieve awesome deeds.
⁵ Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s enemies;
let the nations fall beneath your feet.
⁶ Your throne, O God,^[c] will last for ever and ever;
a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.
⁷ You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions
by anointing you with the oil of joy.
⁸ All your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia;
from palaces adorned with ivory
the music of the strings makes you glad.
⁹ Daughters of kings are among your honored women;
at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir.

¹⁰ Listen, daughter, and pay careful attention:
Forget your people and your father’s house.
¹¹ Let the king be enthralled by your beauty;
honor him, for he is your lord.
¹² The city of Tyre will come with a gift,^[d]
people of wealth will seek your favor.
¹³ All glorious is the princess within her chamber;
her gown is interwoven with gold.
¹⁴ In embroidered garments she is led to the king;
her virgin companions follow her—
those brought to be with her.
¹⁵ Led in with joy and gladness,
they enter the palace of the king.

¹⁶ Your sons will take the place of your fathers;
you will make them princes throughout the land.

¹⁷ I will perpetuate your memory through all generations;
therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever.

 

World

PHOTO A DAY: World

My world describing the world:)

Deuteronomy 8:11-18

New International Version (NIV)

¹¹ Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. ¹² Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, ¹³ and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, ¹⁴ then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. ¹⁵ He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock. ¹⁶ He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you. ¹⁷ You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” ¹⁸ But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

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Settle

Photo of the day: settle

The younger two monsters would LOVE to have mommy all to them self!

"It's not fair! He got to sit on your lap last time!"

Today, they settled. For half. Half of my lap, half of my hugs, half of my tickles!

Settle

Thanks for the photo, Kelly!

 

Romans 8:10-14

New International Version (NIV)

¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life^[a] because of righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of^[b] his Spirit who lives in you.
¹² Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. ¹³ For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
¹⁴ For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.