Happy Sunday!!

It has been a really beautiful day. Still a little cold but the sunshine made it much more bearable than the last week. Rosie is still house bound though. It's just too cold to go for walks. A little tippy toe out the back door is about all I can stand until it gets a little warmer. She is sitting here looking out the window like she wants to get out there so bad. Maybe tomorrow.

Good sermon at church this morning. Pator Buddy said something that really struck me. He said "I don't know about you but I know where I'm going when I die. I'm going to Heaven." I thought, how awesome it must be to feel so confident that you have lived in such a way that when you go to meet our Lord he can look at you and say "Well done my true and faithful servant, you have served me well." I want him to be able to say that to me too. I know that I have not lived a true and faithful life but it is comforting to know that my past can be forgiven. My now and my future can also be forgiven but I have to work to serve God better from now on. I know I will stumble some everyday but I believe that if I keep trying God will keep picking me up and putting me back on the right path. Believing in God, having faith, and serving Him well. Those are the things I have to keep in my mind at all times.

I'm reading a book right now by Beverly LaHaye and Terri Blackstock called Seasons Under Heaven. At one point in the book one Mother is saying to another Mother about her children "God gave them to us and we have the option of either hiding them in the ground or investing them." By hiding them in the ground she meant ignoring them, staying too busy to spend time with them, not teaching them and training them correctly, sometimes feeling like they cramp your style and interfere with your goals. Then she goes on to say "think of it, we've got these little human beings in our hands, and it's our job to raise them up in the way God wants them, so that when he comes back for them, we can say we invested them wisely. God may take my child back today but if he does, I'll know that I gave him all I had. I invested him wisely. And if he grows to be an adult, I've prepared him to be a godly man."  Wow!! What I would give to be able to go back and raise my kids again. And to be able to hear God say to me, Well Done." And to know without a doubt, just like Pastor Buddy, that I'm going to Heaven. And that I raised my kids for Heaven too.  I can't go back and do it over. All I can do is pray that my kids will get to know God, learn to trust Him and live to serve Him. And if you are a parent of young children, my prayer for you is that you will invest your children wisely.

Until next time....toodleooo ;-)