Have you ever just stopped to think about God's greatness? I have, many, many, many times. And every time I do, it is more and more amazing to me.
Just think about the stars. Little tiny specks of light in the sky, giving a picture of his love. And every time we get closer to one, when a closer picture is sent from some space craft, they just keep getting prettier, more amazing, more beautiful.
Have you ever notice how fast the stars move? About a foot per hour, or so. When you are laying awake and cannot sleep, you can watch them. And every time you just think you've studied each one in your view point, they move on and there are more. It isn't like those stick to the roof, glow in the dark kind. They are much, much, much more amazng! And I don't even the scientific stuff that makes them even more so!
God knew that on the one night I was laying awake, feeling alone, that I would be able to see the stars and feel His love through it. And He made them because of it. When I look at the stars, I see His love, unmeasurable, unimaginable, undescribeable. And if you've never felt what I feel, I can't tell you how it feels. It's too much to explain. His sweet love, his amazing grace, his patience with me, with us, and his perfect reasons, for everything.
They also reminded me that no matter what the pain we are going through, He has a perfect, amazing reason for it. And I can't describe how it feels to know that we aren't suffering for no reason! He has a reason, he will use our pain! Just to know that, no matter what, no matter what He takes, no matter what the situation, no matter how bad it hurts, all I have to do is remember that He loves me, that He doesn't want me to hurt and that this pain is there for His perfect, wonderful, amazing, brilliant, grand, sweet, lovely reason.
And I love Him. I can't even describe how much. I can't make anyone feel like this but I want to. Oh how I want to. How can I just sit here, watching while they go around blindly? How can I when they could feel like this? How? I want them to feel this way.
So many hurting people. So many, Lord. I want to show them love. They don't even know love and it hurts. I want to help them. I want to show them. I want to be their friend. Please. Please, let me help them.
His love is there for all to see. Just look at the stars...
Mandy
Our Fireworks
I took this picture at a fireworks display a few years ago.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
The Science Experiment
We learned that I am not the only one to make mistakes in the kitchen, only this time it wasn't due to cooking.
Missy and Rose (the twins) were doing something in the kitchen and it looked more interesting than what I was doing. So, naturally, I went to see what they were doing. They looked a lot like scientist with their flower aprons, bright yellow rubber gloves and sunglasses. Yep, definitely more interesting (plus, there were cookies in the kitchen!)
They continued to pour together chemicals and spout scientific stuff and look real impressive and important and knowledge able and I continued to watch and eat cookies (they were chocolate ones!) Then, they took the container holding the chemicals to the sink and started to run water into it. This is when they stopped looking so impressive. The whole thing started steaming and bubbling and looking altogether bad. Rose stood over it; touching it (the book said it should ‘eventually’ be ‘slightly’ warm, ha, ha, ha!)
Evidently, chemical steam is bad for you. Rose started coughing and sputtering (and…well, sounding all together bad.) I left the kitchen for a few moments and came back to find they hiding out side on the back porch well their science experiment calmed itself.
I was terrified! This was bad, very, very bad! My cookies might be contaminated! My perfectly wonderful cookies! My chocolate cookies! But, luckily, they weren’t! How do I know…hmm, well, they tasted fine! And I’m not dead! Yet…
So now you all know, science experiments can go badly! (And if you already knew that, then you learned that you like my posts…maybe…)
Signing off,
Mandy
Missy and Rose (the twins) were doing something in the kitchen and it looked more interesting than what I was doing. So, naturally, I went to see what they were doing. They looked a lot like scientist with their flower aprons, bright yellow rubber gloves and sunglasses. Yep, definitely more interesting (plus, there were cookies in the kitchen!)
They continued to pour together chemicals and spout scientific stuff and look real impressive and important and knowledge able and I continued to watch and eat cookies (they were chocolate ones!) Then, they took the container holding the chemicals to the sink and started to run water into it. This is when they stopped looking so impressive. The whole thing started steaming and bubbling and looking altogether bad. Rose stood over it; touching it (the book said it should ‘eventually’ be ‘slightly’ warm, ha, ha, ha!)
Evidently, chemical steam is bad for you. Rose started coughing and sputtering (and…well, sounding all together bad.) I left the kitchen for a few moments and came back to find they hiding out side on the back porch well their science experiment calmed itself.
I was terrified! This was bad, very, very bad! My cookies might be contaminated! My perfectly wonderful cookies! My chocolate cookies! But, luckily, they weren’t! How do I know…hmm, well, they tasted fine! And I’m not dead! Yet…
So now you all know, science experiments can go badly! (And if you already knew that, then you learned that you like my posts…maybe…)
Signing off,
Mandy
Monday, October 17, 2011
Snow!
It's snowing!!!! Yay! I love snow and it snowing! So far it is just little flakes, but it is pretty all the same!
Jesus, thank you for the snow I've been asking for!
Who doesn't like snow? (Well, besides my Uncle Bruce...) I love snow. I'll probably be tired of it by the end of the winter but right now, it's beautiful! The Lord has made amazing things and one of the most beautiful ones I know of is snow!
Snow, A poem by Me!
I have never seen the sea,
So how am I to know?
The sea is far, far away,
But I can see the snow!
I see the snow as it stretches away,
Across a once green plain,
I have seen it when enchanted!
And all it had to do was quietly remain!
The sea enchants by rolling,
In high and mighty waves!
But my snow does not those things,
It just lays amoung the mountian caves.
The sea is big and mighty!
It crashes, roars and cries!
It steals away the sailor,
In its beautifully ugly lies.
But not my cold but lovely snow,
It shimmers in the sunlight.
It is hundreds of glistening stars,
Not unlike the stars at night.
Mandy
Jesus, thank you for the snow I've been asking for!
Who doesn't like snow? (Well, besides my Uncle Bruce...) I love snow. I'll probably be tired of it by the end of the winter but right now, it's beautiful! The Lord has made amazing things and one of the most beautiful ones I know of is snow!
Snow, A poem by Me!
I have never seen the sea,
So how am I to know?
The sea is far, far away,
But I can see the snow!
I see the snow as it stretches away,
Across a once green plain,
I have seen it when enchanted!
And all it had to do was quietly remain!
The sea enchants by rolling,
In high and mighty waves!
But my snow does not those things,
It just lays amoung the mountian caves.
The sea is big and mighty!
It crashes, roars and cries!
It steals away the sailor,
In its beautifully ugly lies.
But not my cold but lovely snow,
It shimmers in the sunlight.
It is hundreds of glistening stars,
Not unlike the stars at night.
Mandy
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Our Mystery (An Edgemont Adventure)
Well, here is another Edgemont adventure. I guess it is sort of taking forever. Sorry about that.
Every kid wants a mystery of their own. I know we always have. Well, we finally get one and it lasted a total of ten minutes! (I’m holding to the theory that we’re just really good detectives.)
We spent the day painting as we did every day for the last week and a half. Afternoon came and we were busily painting the living room in the Edgemont house when Melissa noticed that the pantry in the kitchen, which was right off the living room, looked like a closed in staircase. We opened the pantry door and found that the shelves even looked like they used to be the first few steps of a staircase. Then Peter remembered that one of the closets had what looked like a hatch.
Naturally, this was much more exciting than painting so we took a break to check this out (what kid wouldn’t, I ask you?) Peter got the first look (it being his hatch) and came to report that there was an attic, a very LARGE attic. As big as any one of the houses’ levels and with a high ceiling! It even had a brick chimney!
“An attic?” you ask. Everyone knows that attics have cool old stuff, especially large attics that haven’t been explored in years. Sadly, this one did not. We didn’t even get to go into it but we took great joy in telling the owner of the house that she had an entire new level that she didn’t know she had! That was nice!
But the best part was this: We didn’t have to paint the attic!!! We just got to discover it! Just like Columbus…only on a much smaller level. (Note the ‘much’.)
So now you know. We’re brilliant detectives! If you ever lose your attic, you know who to call!
Well, that is all I can think to add at the moment so I will wish you Buenos noches!
Yours truly,
Mandy
Every kid wants a mystery of their own. I know we always have. Well, we finally get one and it lasted a total of ten minutes! (I’m holding to the theory that we’re just really good detectives.)
We spent the day painting as we did every day for the last week and a half. Afternoon came and we were busily painting the living room in the Edgemont house when Melissa noticed that the pantry in the kitchen, which was right off the living room, looked like a closed in staircase. We opened the pantry door and found that the shelves even looked like they used to be the first few steps of a staircase. Then Peter remembered that one of the closets had what looked like a hatch.
Naturally, this was much more exciting than painting so we took a break to check this out (what kid wouldn’t, I ask you?) Peter got the first look (it being his hatch) and came to report that there was an attic, a very LARGE attic. As big as any one of the houses’ levels and with a high ceiling! It even had a brick chimney!
“An attic?” you ask. Everyone knows that attics have cool old stuff, especially large attics that haven’t been explored in years. Sadly, this one did not. We didn’t even get to go into it but we took great joy in telling the owner of the house that she had an entire new level that she didn’t know she had! That was nice!
But the best part was this: We didn’t have to paint the attic!!! We just got to discover it! Just like Columbus…only on a much smaller level. (Note the ‘much’.)
So now you know. We’re brilliant detectives! If you ever lose your attic, you know who to call!
Well, that is all I can think to add at the moment so I will wish you Buenos noches!
Yours truly,
Mandy
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Let Go
We run as far as we can. We walk when we can no longer run. We crawl when all of our energy to stand is gone. But after we stop crawling, when there is nothing more, what do we do then? When every ounce of energy is gone and we lay crumpled on the ground, being crushed by the weight, what then? After we’ve fallen to our knees, after we’ve cried for help, and you’re just laying there. We’re crying, “I can’t take this weight anymore! Make it go away!”
What then….what then?
You run while you can. You walk when you can’t run anymore. You crawl when there is no energy to stand. And when you can’t crawl, you finally see that all you can do is let go because truly, you should have in the beginning. How far did you think you could go on your own? Jesus whispered all along, “Let me take the weight. I’m here, I want to help. Trust me.”
You thought you could do it by yourself but you were wrong. You thought that you were strong enough but then you find that you aren’t. It’s just too much.
Don’t run. Don’t walk. Don’t crawl.
What then, Lord? If we aren’t to run or walk or crawl what are we to do!?
“Let me carry you. If you trust me, lay your life in my hands. Let go of control. You never really had it. You were trying to run all by yourself but you don’t have to. Let me carry you. Let me help with that burden. I know how hard it is! I felt how heavy it is. Let me take it. Let me help you up. I’ll take you across the finish line. Trust Me to run for you.”
People say all the time that you don’t ever give up. You just keep going. You don’t stop; you get back up when you stumble. But sometimes, we’re trying to get back up on our own, trying to hold the burden of grief or pain by ourselves. We say, “Okay, God, you saved me, now I’m going to do it by myself. Have a great day!” And try to run alone.
We can’t do it alone! You will fail. You are going to end up stumbling and falling and not being able to get back up again. It’s too hard for us by ourselves. So give Jesus control. It’s not too hard for Him!
Let go.
P.S. I pray God blesses each and every one of you and that I've said the right things.
What then….what then?
You run while you can. You walk when you can’t run anymore. You crawl when there is no energy to stand. And when you can’t crawl, you finally see that all you can do is let go because truly, you should have in the beginning. How far did you think you could go on your own? Jesus whispered all along, “Let me take the weight. I’m here, I want to help. Trust me.”
You thought you could do it by yourself but you were wrong. You thought that you were strong enough but then you find that you aren’t. It’s just too much.
Don’t run. Don’t walk. Don’t crawl.
What then, Lord? If we aren’t to run or walk or crawl what are we to do!?
“Let me carry you. If you trust me, lay your life in my hands. Let go of control. You never really had it. You were trying to run all by yourself but you don’t have to. Let me carry you. Let me help with that burden. I know how hard it is! I felt how heavy it is. Let me take it. Let me help you up. I’ll take you across the finish line. Trust Me to run for you.”
People say all the time that you don’t ever give up. You just keep going. You don’t stop; you get back up when you stumble. But sometimes, we’re trying to get back up on our own, trying to hold the burden of grief or pain by ourselves. We say, “Okay, God, you saved me, now I’m going to do it by myself. Have a great day!” And try to run alone.
We can’t do it alone! You will fail. You are going to end up stumbling and falling and not being able to get back up again. It’s too hard for us by ourselves. So give Jesus control. It’s not too hard for Him!
Let go.
P.S. I pray God blesses each and every one of you and that I've said the right things.
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