The Adams Family visit with Grandma!
We're having a great visit and it will be over waaaay too soon!
So off to enjoy more of it!

I've been especially blessed...

..these past couple of days!Last night my dh brought me home a dozen red roses...earlier in the day my sweet friend mailed me an e-card. Another friend said that she was blessed by my friendship, and the evening before a dear sister came over to encourage me. Blessings come in all different packages. I'm so grateful for every single one of them! THANK YOU FRIENDS!

For a challenge...

Part 2. What humility isn't....Dads determinations page.

For a challenge....

Go to the Dad's determinations page and be challenged....Humility part 1

A lesson I learned long ago...

 About 15 years ago I read a story by Rod and Staff. The dad was telling the little boy~who was about to go pick blackberries (or some berry!); "Son, now when you go to gather fruit, stay in one place until they are all gone around you, before moving on to another spot".
  Do you know that I use that same principle now? The kids and I gathered acorns yesterday ...and it took a bit of discipline on my part but that is exactly how I gathered them..I sat in one spot and didnt move from that place until I had gathered every acorn in my reach.
  That is a pretty good example of how we should live the Christian life I think. Not be content until we have reached out in some way to everyone within our reach. Whether it be with the gospel, a helping hand or even just a smile or word of encouragement.
  Im so grateful for technology (though we need to use it wisely) and things like this THC, where I have more of an opportunity to encourage, and be encouraged by others that would normally be 'beyond' my reach.
  May the Lord bless you in your 'outreach' today.

Sola

There are so many people who are hurting. As much as we would like to offer encouragement...often there is nothing we can do or say. I have learned myself that the only one way to deal with this life's tragedy and grief, and injustice is;

• 1 Sola scriptura ("by Scripture alone")
• 2 Sola fide ("by faith alone")
• 3 Sola gratia ("by grace alone")
• 4 Solus Christus or Solo Christo ("Christ alone" or "through Christ alone")
• 5 Soli Deo gloria ("glory to God alone")
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• Though we can and should offer prayers and encouragement to those who are hurting, yes we can pray for ourselves as well...it is only the Lord who is able to carry one through...really carry them through. So if you are in that place~ my encouragement to you is that ; You will get through Sola gratia...By Grace alone, Solo Christo, through Christ alone. And that , I have found...is enough.