You Know, It’s Sunday… A Mother’s Day Sunday

It’s raining, and the house is quiet -  everyone is still sleeping.

I think back to what I’d consider easier days, when there were no money issues, or worries about where life was going to take us – there wasn’t a reason to worry about those things then – we just thought things would always be the same…   Time flew by,  the kids were little, and my life was filled with elementary events and keeping a big house in order.   I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t want to go back to that.   I was younger,  I had more energy, I was fit, my kids were toddlers and their problems were little ones…

Now my kids are older – my daughter turns 15 this week, and my son has been driving for 5 months.  My kids are bigger than me.   A second girl this year at their schools committed suicide this past week.   I can’t imagine the heartache that family feels, or if what that girl felt was any different than what my kids have felt at times….   I told my son ‘please don’t ever feel that THAT is an option when life gets bad’ and he replied   ‘oh mom, don’t worry, I like myself too much’.   

Thank you Lord!

I love my kids.  I am so grateful that God blessed me with motherhood.  I couldn’t imagine my life without them.   After church we are heading to my moms, to wish her a happy day.  I am taking her picture frames back to her – she dropped them off to me ‘gold’  and hoped I could update the finishes for her

I wish I’d have taken a before photo.  They are so pretty in person , I can’t wait to give them to her.  I used, if you can believe, CeCe Smoky Mountain Gray which is like a blue gray, and did a little crackling, added some silver tones, and a dark wax

I’m actually going to finish a piece of furniture in a similar combo this week, I love it so much

I love my mom.  I hope we can be to my kids, what my parents have been to us.

To all you Mom’s out there,  God bless you!   Happy Mother’s Day!

You Know, It’s Sunday…

You Know, It’s Sunday…Come To Jesus

Heard this song today at church –   Come to Jesus by Josh Blakesley.    I like that the song is short and the message is simple

… Let go your ev’ry fear.
There is only mercy here.

Come to Jesus,
hope that frees us,
life that breathes in us.
Come to Jesus,
and believe that he is love.

I  couldn’t find Josh’s version on youtube,  but found this neat sight,

where you can find all kinds of downloadable christian music  – my song was $1.29

Come to Jesus

People of the God of ages,
welcome to your brand new day.
Leave the world and all its trappings,
come into amazing grace.
Let go your ev’ry fear.
There is only mercy here.

Come to Jesus,
hope that frees us,
life that breathes in us.
Come to Jesus,
and believe that he is love.
Oh, come.

All who walk alone in shadow,
all who stand with faith assured,
those who follow with abandon,
those who long for something more,
these are the gifts we bring,
our lives, the offering.

Welcome pauper, rich man, leper,
hungry exiled, joyful, poor,
come you pris’ner, free man, sinner,
come to the Lord.
Come to the Lord.

You Know It’s Sunday, A Snowy Sunday…