Oh~ I Am Just SO....Excited!

Tonight two of my grandbabies are coming. It is their birthday month and we are celebrating. I will share sweet pictures tomorrow. This is Keaton's cake and Josilyn's is still a work in progress. I am at my height in Grandma glory. 

Hannah made homemade fondant flowers to decorate Josilyn's cake~ I will show the finished project later. I will post her homemade fondant recipe too~it is here on my blog somewhere but it taste much better than the store bought and is so inexpensive to make. (Just a little sticky!)

There is much to do~ so I best be off and running~ have a blessed day!

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Do You Need Some "Eagle" Thinking Today?

Isaiah 40:31

King James Version (KJV)

 ³¹But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.




During storms the eagles love to come out and brave the elements~ not like little birds who run for cover. Life is stormy~ the older you get the more storms you witness. Girlfriend~ is that not the truth?

 I hear my Grandma's sayings more and more being whispered in my ears from memories of days gone by. Never have they made more sense than they do today. Guess it is because I am now a Grandma. (that still shocks me!)

We have two choices when life gets stormy. We can run for cover or we can mount up like eagles and brave the storm.

Can we just think here for a minute? Eagle mentality works because it does what God created it to do. It operates in confidence in it's God-provided skills. It waits upon the Lord. Being patient they trust God's timing in adversities.

Lately I have had several huge storms hit one after another. I mean knock me down flat on my face kind of trials~like never before. My wind has been knocked out of me and I needed a time of resting and maybe even solitude. All the while I have been praying~ fasting and spending time up in my Lord's lap. I have cried more tears in the past couple of months than I have cried in my entire lifetime. God has placed me in a position where I can do nothing but rest in Him. And resting in Him is just what I have been doing for about a month.

After some much needed rest~ pampering from my great husband and much time in prayer and my Bible reading I feel like I can once again mount up like an eagle. Are you discouraged today? Are you facing a trial? Are you weary and worn? If so ~ let me tell you to rest in Jesus.

But there comes a time when we have to get moving again~ we must mount up like an eagle. I don't want to take cover like a little finch every time the sky turns black. No~ thank you.

I have lived in tornado alley all my life and I have never been afraid of storms. I refuse to be afraid of life's storms either. The big ~bad ~mean storms in our lives do not take God by surprise.  God can and will help us mount up. So today let's get those running shoes on and mount up to face whatever may come our way.