Saturday, February 16, 2013 at 05:02PM There are so many creative and talented IG’rs (InstaGrammers) out there and I am awed at the beauty captured in a two inch square photo. I view these stunning photos on my little iphone and I know it is but a glimpse of the real beauty and but a small representation of image captured. Some of the captions on these photos have been, “This doesn’t come close to portraying the true beauty.”
Friday, February 8, 2013 at 01:48PM God made us so wonderfully, so uniquely and so beautifully complex! He gave us the pleasure of emotions, which can definitely be complex. Emotions allow us to feel, to be joyful, to connect with others, to be compassionate, to love. They also give opportunities to feel anger, hurt, rejection, jealousy, fear and depression. Our emotions...
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 10:44PM Super Bowl Sunday has always been a big day in our family. Maybe because our family enjoys football so much! Even though our team, the Chargers, is not playing this Sunday, we will still have a football party with good food, good snacks and with lots of cheering & loud boisterous noise! It will be fun!
Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 02:13PM New Year’s is a great time for naturally reflecting on the year we have just come through and focusing on the New Year we are entering. Looking back, I see a year that has been filled with God’s faithful guidance, amazing grace and everlasting love.
It has been a great year for our family. We celebrated as our son, Brenden, married Serena! It was a beautiful wedding on the beach! We celebrated the birth of our new granddaughter, Sophia, born to Clair and Sonny. Now, we are blessed with three beautiful granddaughters – Emma, Layla and Sophia! Our oldest son, Drew, has continued his education at Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He studies online and it is very extensive and time consuming. Our youngest son, Cameron, attends Azusa Pacific University and is busy with his studies and football. We are blessed with a wonderful family! I am so thankful for all my children, my son in law, my daughter in law, my grandchildren, and of course, my wonderful husband!
It has been a great year for our church. We have seen many lives encouraged, helped and strengthened. We have seen many people come to know Jesus as their Savior and receive his love. Tom and I have enjoyed teaching LIFE 101, the foundation class for new believers. We began our “Committed to the Cause” campaign drive for raising finances for the new campus. We have been moving forward with the building plans for the new campus. The completed plans are beautiful!
I am forever grateful for the people God has entrusted me to do life with! We have a fantastic team of leaders that I am privileged to work side by side with. My life is continually enriched by the lives of amazing people in our church, friends and family.
I am so thankful for God’s faithfulness in 2011 and I look forward to 2012 with great faith and expectation. I believe it will be a great year! A year of seeing God’s people flourish! We will flourish in spiritual growth, flourish in families, flourish in careers, flourish in relationships, flourish in reaching the world with God’s love, flourish in walking out the Vision God has placed in our hearts!
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 04:15PM We have been learning about flourishing in God’s love at Women byDesign. Just to be sensitive to the many ways God will speak to our hearts during the day, reminding us how much he loves us, speaking tenderly & gently to us, bringing correction when needed, giving encouragement & hope, truly brings an awareness of His presence in our lives. Sunday, we sang a song and one of the lines went, “I was worth every nail”. At first my head said...