Off Facebook but now to Random Emails

I don't begin to understand it because I have to consult to figure out how to link things up but if you get random emails from the blog sorry just delete if you don't want to read. Somehow my technology expert tied my email contacts into my blog when he was trying to unlink it from facebook.
For those of you who asked me to link it to facebook I am taking it off because it is too public on there with pictures and stuff. Now I think you can only see it if you are linked through my email contacts or something like that according to my technical expert.
If you get emails and don't want them and its too much trouble to hit "delete" email me and he says he can take that contact off. We'll see my technical expert does nothing easily.

by the way my technical expert aka as bro

White Christmas

It's snowing again!!! Well its coming out snow and hitting the ground as a wet mush that forms puddles that when I step in gets my shoes wet that gets my socks wet that gets my feet wet that somehow manages to make my hands cold and so there you have it - I'm cold and in my office bored. Funny since yesterday was so crazy I was going crazy.

This is nothing on the wonderful snow that overtook Plainview last week. I don't know what Abilene was like - what I know is I left early wednesday afternoon from work and it was 72 degrees by the time I got to Snyder it was 35 and Post the snow started and I slid right on into Plainview. By morning there were drifts higher than my waste in our backyard and most stuff was about mid calf or higher on me. Oh and did I mention it was -3 degrees Christmas Eve morning? My nieces spent the night wed. night and of course wanted to play in it so I bundle them all up and well Karlee (3 1/2) made it for about 10 minutes but Brooke (18 months) who looks like the boy in Christmas Story and was walking around the house saying "hot" made it about 3 seconds the length of time it took for the wind to hit her face. This picture is not her crying it was how cold and windy it was. Also, I must say I had to borrow clothes off the parents and boots so no comments on what I have on.

Growing up I always dreamed of a White Christmas. After all that is what Bing Crosby and Elvis and all that other music my mom listened to after Thanksgiving on her 8 track adapter in the car sang about. I remember two. One we were in Tennessee at my grandparents and I told my cousin from Dallas all I wanted for Christmas was snow. He laughed and said that wasn't going to happen but guess what we got a good ole snow that night. The other time I was older and after we opened gifts we went to the movies. We came out and there was probably already a good 4 inches of snow on the ground. I love it. And then this year - wow I love White Christmases especially now I get to enjoy playing with the girls. So it was a fun time. Of course those two girls are so spoiled that the presents were piled in front of the fire place so no fire which would have made it perfect but I guess that equals no asthma attack either!! Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and will have a Happy New Year!!

Song I heard on radio today

I have heard this song before but today for some reason I listened to the first lyrics and it could not describe more accurately how I feel. Maybe some day I'll feel the same about the lyrics to the 2nd verse - actually when I think about it trust in the unseen is all that is keeping me going - If you haven't heard this song Never alone by Barlow Girl take a few minutes and listen to it

http://www.jango.com/music/BarlowGirl?l=0

I waited for you today
But you didn't show
No no
I needed you today
But where did you go
You told me to call
Said you'd be there
And though I haven't seen you
Are you still there?

(Chorus:)I cried out with no reply
And I can't feel you by my side
So I'll hold tight to what I know
You're here and I'm never alone

And though I cannot see you
And I can't explain why
Such a deep reassurance
You've placed in my life
We cannot separate
Cause you're part of me
And though you're invisible
I'll trust the unseen
(Chorus)

Faith

I often wander how Paul can write through all his trials be joyful always. I don't like trials and yet it just seems like one thing after another. I've said before I feel like the arrows are coming too fast and lately I've not been sure my shield of faith is going to hold up. I've mentioned my friend here whose young daughter was diagnosed with leukemia. She has a caring bridge sight and she posted this about faith she read that really gave me a different perspective I so desperately needed. Its a good persepective for all of us so I share it....

From My Utmost for His Highest: "The Trial of Faith"
We have the idea that God rewards us for our faith, and it may be so in the initial stages. But we do not earn anything through faith--faith brings us into the right relationship with God and gives Him the opportunity to work. Yet God frequently has to knock the bottom out of your experience as His saint to get you in direct contact with Himself.
God wants you to understand it is a life of faith, not a life of emotional enjoyment of His blessings. Faith by its very nature must be tested and tried. And the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character must be proven as trustworthy in our own minds. Faith being worked out into reality must experience times of unbroken isolation.
I must have a faith that says "I will remain true to God's character whatever He may do." The highest and greatest expression of faith in the Bible is--"Though He may slay me, yet I will trust Him." Job 13:15.