Clear Eyes and Big Smile

Hubby is fine and eye sight is restored this morning.... His eyes are very very sore and tired and he needed a pain pill last night....He never takes pain pills...... However he is ok this morning and he has learned such a wonderful lesson.........GOGGLES !!!!!!!!! He must wear goggles ! Bless his heart..... He was so scared yesterday and I had to keep him calm.......... It was a non toxic chemical and the web site and the Oklahoma Poison Center also stated that it did not contain any caustic material. BUT that does not help when you are looking out of your eyes and it looks like you are looking through water! OMG........ I think that I would be in a bit of state!
Thank you ladies that prayed...... I know you did............ I am blessed with each of you in my life!


got to go and do some work.............. blessing to you my sweet bloggers!

Got To Do This!

Just wanted to share with you ladies ....... I am a terrible terrible person! I am, I really am! I do not take care of my self and never have....... I have either been too busy or too tired.... I have made excuses for years! Sooooooooo I have made a commitment to myself and I pray that I can keep it. As most of you know we had a pool put in this summer and it has been a God send to me. I am a water person and have been all my life. I love to swim but over the past 10 years or so there has not been time or that is what I have been telling myself....... We will have to close the pool this week as the weather has turned and winter is headed our way........ so sad, the short 4 weeks that we were able to get in the pool I have noticed a great improvement in my stress level and have lost several inches from my arms and legs............. But, so sad............ pool goes away this week.

BUT ... just 4 miles from my house is the ECU University and it has an indoor pool.......... So beginning tomorrow morning at 9:00 AM I will be diving into a heated pool for one hour open swim and then from 10-11:00 AM I will be in an Adult Aquatic class. That is two hours on Monday and Wednesday and one hour Tuesday and Thursday. I am so excited. I have been praying about this and asking the Lord to help me help myself.
Mom and Dad are fine out here for a few hours each morning and if not they are only a phone call away.

I have gone and done all my life and never took time out for Denise, you know what that is like, there are a lot of you out there just like me. We women are caregivers and we sometimes take that charge to a fault and forget that we too need some TLC. It is so hard to slow down and my sweet hubby is telling me all the time that I need to do that! How in the world do we stop a destructive behavior such as this........ I do not know but I am determined to try...... I have prayed and asked my Father to keep me on track and let me know that it is ok to take time out for me..........I have been reading some articles on line about care givers and how they neglect themselves and that is dangerous. So I shall begin.

Share with me some of the ways that you ladies take time for you....... I would be very interested to know and if you do not take time out for you......... then you need to pray and ask God to give you a window of time just for you! You are so worth it...... you really really are.

Have a blessed week girls.................

My Word !

REV. 12:11

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

My word is of a great value according to the word of God. The word of God tells us in this scripture that with the word of MY testimony and the Blood that Christ shed on Calvary will overcome him (the devil).

It has been something that I have been a bit fearful of all of my Christian life. I have been fearful of religious critics of the world and I have been fearful of what others would think of me if they knew my past. I have kept too my self far too long the truth of the mercy that God poured out on my in 1977. It is the spirit of religion that has kept me for years to fear the reproach of men instead of looking to the Father. I have ever been a people person and I hate when others do not like me and I try too hard to make sure that all people love me. That is not a good thing because it always sets each of us for hurt. It has taken me so many years to understand the power of my testimony. Oh I have always spoke the name of Jesus and always since that day pointed others to Christ, but it is in the power of MY testimony that I over come the wicked traps of the enemy.

There was something that I understood early in my Christian life, Christ came to save those that are lost. HE touches and saves the prostitute on the street and the drug addict in the gutters, HE reaches out to the uttermost

and saves the lost. We that have been snatched up out the gutters of sin and we have HIS voice to speak life to others.

My testimony is that of a broken women who has suffered through too many bad relationships too many bad marriages too many tears in the middle of the night.......... I have HIS voice to speak to the women who have been broken by divorce and abusive. I have HIS voice to speak to those women who walk with their heads hung low and that need to know that HE can wash away their sin of the past and HE can wash them white as snow. HE can be a lifter of their heads.......... That is my word and my testimony. My word spoken with the anointing of the Holy Spirit will touch others where they live. I can look in her eyes and tell her with AutHoriTy that Jesus can heal her heart and give her a new song to sing. Every time I speak my testimony my ears hears the truth of the word and my faith grows. The word tell us that Hearing the word of God builds faith.

Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Our voice our word, our testimony of what God has accomplished in our life is words of life to others.

I have told the Lord recently that I need HIM to open my mouth to the words that I need to be speaking to set free the captive women in the sound of my voice. I have prayed that I would open my mouth and speak the truth

to those around me and those that are here in the blog world that need my testimony to know that it is Jesus now and Jesus tomorrow and Jesus of their yesterdays......... It is Jesus that heals their heart and Jesus that wipes away the reproach of the past and places them in the kingdom of God as a son or daughter of the most high.

What is your word? What is the word that you need to speak to heal a broken heart, what has God saved you from. If we go back and read the scripture that I began this post with:

REV. 12:11

And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

Again, what is your word? What has Christ saved you from? To those whom much is forgiven much is required....... Luke 12;48 But he that knew not, and did not commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask more.

There is much required of me.

I have been asked to write my Testimony. She speaks around out great nation and she wants to publish it and make it available for women at her Conferences. I need to pray and ask the Father to help me with this.........

Just when we think that we might be collecting dust on a shelf..........God taps us on the shoulder.

Have a blessed Day

PRAISE REPORT

I have a PRAISE REPORT !!!!!!!!! GOD IS GOOD AND GREATLY TO BE PRAISED...

Just got call from Kathy........... Sandy was moved to different hospital in order to test her heart on a different machine. Today's test shows that the hole is there but she is not in any danger. Surgeon said that she needs to recover from the C-Section delivery a week ago before he goes and cuts her open again. They have her blood pressure in control and she is going home tomorrow!
She is to rest rest rest and recover from this for about 6 weeks and then they will go in and do surgery on the heart. Surgeon said that it has been there for 29 years and there is no need to put her body through a second trauma now.

I thank God for the gift of wise Doctors today......... I thank God that Sandy is going home to hold that little boy in her arms. I thank God that David is a kind and compassionate husband for Sandy and he has been a rock for her these past few days............. I thank God that HE hears and HIS eyes turned toward Sandy when we as the body of Christ offered up a prayer on Sandy's behalf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you sisters in Christ........... You are loved !

Just Waiting

We are waiting on word from Sandy. Now you ladies that do not know, Sandy has just moved to Pennsylvania from California. We are in Oklahoma. I wish that I could be right there but I can pray. I bought her mother , Kathy , my sister a plane ticket Monday and Kathy arrived in Pittsburgh last night at 6:30. Dad spoke with Sandy and the Doctors did run further tests yesterday. Dr's are confident that they will be able to repair the hole with ease. They have assured David that she will be just fine and there should be no complications.

We do not know when the surgery will take place and we are waiting to hear.

Ladies, your response to my prayer request is overwhelming and you have blessed my heart beyond measure. I am going to get a little notebook and print out each and every comment and send them to Sandy when she is home and recovering. What a gift that God has given us ladies here in the blog world. The gift of Friendship is something not to be taken lightly. I do love each and every one of you ladies.

I will post as soon as I know the surgery date.