a hard post

I just received an email from my mom that my aunt Sharon passed away this morning… Well she was my fathers aunt but growing up we always called her aunt Sharon..

I have the most wonderful memory’s of Sharon from when i was growing up. We really only seen dads side of the family on holidays, Christmas and thanksgiving. We would all gather at his moms house.

Sharon ALWAYS had a smile for us! she always made you fill so welcomed. I remember all the gifts she ever gave us or cards were full of fun and humor! Her cards would always make us laugh.

When my brother and i grow up and out we all stopped gathering at grandmas house so i have not seen Sharon in .. 10 years? wow.. But i still remember her smile, her laugh and how at ease she would make you fill.

She lost her battle to cancer and the fight is over now. Sharon can rest now with the lord our god and know no more pain or hurt.

Sharon you have made it threw the trial and are finally home! the lord will show you nothing but joy and happiness now, but those of us who are still waiting to go home will miss you here. I knew you so little but you make a great impact on my mind and heart.

with all my love.. and a little sadness.. praise be to the lord who has taken Sharon from her pain.

The commandments

Exodus 20:1-17 The Ten Commandments

1 And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

Matthew 6:7-13 The Lord’s Prayer

7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do:
for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth
what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
9 After this manner therefore pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, and the power,
and the glory, for ever. Amen.

Why make your own to do list when someoen can make it for you!!!

Over at “The MotherLoad” i found her spring cleaning section! woot. so i will start working on this to day!!!

I WILL be starting in my kitchen! ..ack! good think i actualy keep that room up lol since i spend so much time there… im.. you know avoiding the bathroom one blah!

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Yesterday we spent time organizing our entertainment units and our media. Today we are going to focus on another area common to many family rooms- the bookshelves.

We have two bookshelves in our home and then another bookshelf built-in that resides in our office. I am really good about using our local library though so unless I find a book that I just have to have, I usually limit our book purchases and take advantage of the free service instead.

I worship our library, I would build a shrine to it if I could! I am a big library dork and even subscribe to our libraries blog so I can get the latest information on any books that are coming out or library events. I feel self-confident enough to admit that I am obsessed with my library.

If your home is overrun with books though, there are lots of great sites where you can share and swap books with others. This might be a great way to not add to your collection, but share the collection you already have without buying more.

PaperBack Swap

BookMooch (this site also allows for charitable donations of books to prisoners)

bookins

SwapTree

2Swap

BookCrossing

Frugal Reader

You could also donate these to Goodwill, schools, hospitals, and churches. Call around and see if anyone is interested! If all else fails, check out Freecycle or Craigslist for passing those books on.

Today’s Printable:

Spring Cleaning Your Family Room Day Two

In Case You Missed It (Previous Printables):

Spring Cleaning Introductory Page

Spring Cleaning Recipes

Spring Cleaning Your Kitchen Day One

Spring Cleaning Your Kitchen Day Two

Spring Cleaning Your Kitchen Day Three

Spring Cleaning Your Kitchen Day Four

Spring Cleaning Your Kitchen Day Five

Spring Cleaning Your Kitchen Day Six (newly updated with cabinet instructions)

Spring Cleaning Your Bathroom Day One

Spring Cleaning Your Bathroom Day Two

Spring Cleaning Your Bathroom Day Three

Spring Cleaning Your Bathroom Day Four

Spring Cleaning Your Bathroom Day Five

Spring Cleaning Your Bathroom Day Six

Spring Cleaning Your Family Room Day One

Sound Off: Are you a book collector? Do you use any websites for sharing your books or keep a virtual bookshelf anywhere?

Proverbs 4:23

Above all else guard your heart for it is the well spring of life~~ proverbs 4:23

For the last two days i have been running into this every where. in podcast I’m looking at and new blogs I’m stumbling across that i finally sat up to take notice. I’m not really sure why god is bringing this to me now.. although after reading and hearing about it i know that i can benefit much from looking in to this and how to guard my heart and in turn how to remove the ugly that is there.

Its about.. your words and thoughts come from your heart.. the podcast i found had a great way of describing it. that threw life we learn to filter what we say and do according to what the punishment is for doing what we are told we should not….. but just because we don’t do it dose not mean we may not want to? and that wanting comes out of our hearts…. but once its there how are we suppose to find it and get it out? how do we guard our hearts so that we don’t let the ugly inside?

how do i know if my heart is even ok now?

the guy on the podcast said that some times we know ppl and at times they will suddenly say something or do something that makes you kinda take a step back and thing… wow .. were did that come from? that is so unlike them!… this is what is in there heart. right there…. they have learned how to filter it out was is not excepted, or what is ok in the “view” they have of them selfs, or the “front” they have going.

so, i guess the trick is to listen to your self.. watch for the slip ups and then grab that moment and really look at it and think.. WHY did i do that? were is this coming from in me. so you can find it and dig it out. but i think that idea is really easer said then done.. because i don’t even know HOW we are suppose to do this! blah…

ok so this post is not to give any answers lol but to help me put it down.. and look at it and maybe it will ready me for the next thing god takes me to that will help me on this. Apearintly god has decided it is time for me to deal with my own heart and is helping me to see how… i just have not found all the information he is feeding me yet… hehe… he knows me so well that he needs to spoon feed this to me so i can take it in a little at a time to except that i .. /gulp.. have ugly in my heart that needs weeded out before i can mover forward in his plans for me.

wish me luck in on learning!! as i wish you well in yours

god bless

and here i thought you had to go on faith alone, or the few things that you have felt or seen to help “prove” it all to you… but i discovered that you don’t.

JESUS CHRIST was a real living breathing man on this earth! He live and teached and died .. It is all documented by many historical sources out side of the bible. Many of the people that recorded this were roman historians that did not like Christianity and STILL recorded that he existed! They all talk of his body’s disappearance after his encasement in the tomb, but hint that he “feinted” on the cross and recovered in the tomb…

I am almost ashamed to say that this was the final thing for me. Even though i had come back to god months earlier and have been readying my bible and praying and filling god direct my study s to give me the answers that were needed that day…. i forgot that the bible IS HISTORY.. it is the only historically documented religion that if anything in the bible is found historically wrong the whole religion could crumble. JESUS WAS A REAL MAN!

HOW in the face or proof that he excisted.. that the men in the bible that wrote those books excisted.. how can you say its wrong? fake? that god is not real? how when there is proof to be had!

jesus was sent to us by god to fix us, to die so we could be forgiven and once again enter the kingdom of heaven! DO NOT TAKE MY WORD ON IT! go look it up! look up.. “proof of jesus Christ” there is pages of information! “proof the bible is real” …. it made me stop and sigh… here… here it was finally .. there was no way for satan to whisper in my ear.. what if.. what if your wrong and none of it is true! … HA SATAN TAKE THAT! I KNOW NOW!

roman christian hateing historians have documented that Jesus lived and died exactly as the bible tells us. I am sure there is other historical proof to all the fortelling of Jesus’s coming and not just those in the bible.

this was the last of my “faith” that i needed. God is the one and only.