tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82776372342140575412024-03-05T02:36:49.376-06:00Lady in a ShoeCarolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05411867603815132198noreply@blogger.comBlogger294125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277637234214057541.post-88065979344287776542016-07-25T23:28:00.000-05:002016-07-25T23:58:59.475-05:00Baking CookiesI texted my boys the day after the awful event and told them I didn't want them to go to work. They knew I wasn't kidding. It has been over two weeks since the ambush of the Dallas police officers. I found that tears would come at the oddest times, but with so many things going on and people around I never really let myself just break down.<br />
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All I wanted to do was to bake cookies for them, but I didn't even have time to do that. The fact that they both live far away made even less sense that I would bake for them. And why cookies when I wasn't always a cookie baker? When they were growing up I would bake cakes and pies. Cookies always seemed to take too long. For whatever reason I wanted to bake cookies for my cop sons.<br />
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Maybe it was because cookies are associated with comfort and I wanted them to feel safe and sound. I <i>needed</i> them to be safe and sound. Their wives and sisters needed them to be safe and sound. One sister had nightmares and another was so anxious she needed to be able to pray out loud, but had a room full of girl campers so she went to the bathroom and slid to the floor to be able to voice it to get rid of the fear that weighed heavy on her chest.<br />
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Last week I put a bag of snickerdoodles in the hands of one boy and a bag of chocolate chip in the hands of the other. There were tears because we knew it was more than a bag of cookies. It was the only thing I could do to make things better - except for prayer.<br />
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I don't pray for them out of fear. I didn't really even have fear after the shootings, but there was a great sense of sadness. I know they are where they are, doing what they do because it is God's will for them at this time. I pray for their safety and for the opportunities they have to show Jesus to the ones they come in contact with. They have stories of times that they have encouraged the ones that have made bad choices or needed a fresh start.<br />
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We shed tears this past week because things are not the same. They have to be more aware of their surroundings and always on guard of what is going on around them. They cherish the time with family because they don't know what the next day may hold. They will keep doing what they are called to do and I have now become a baker of cookies.<br />
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She is a little girl. She doesn't weigh enough to get the rocker to move so she looks up to me for help. Her baby is swaddled tight and she holds it close and pats the back like she has seen other mommies do. Her own clothes are not a whole lot bigger than the ones covering her little one. She knows what a momma does.</div>
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A momma rocks.<br />
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The woman has raised her kids. Sitting crisscross in the floor, she pulls the pillow hard against her chest as if she was trying to stop a bleeding heart. Putting pressure on the hurt and the fear. She buries her face muffling her sobs as she prays for her child who is wounded. And she rocks. That's what a momma does.<br />
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The young lady has birthed two babies. She is waiting for the nurse to bring her boy to hold for the first time. When he was put into her arms the grief seemed to well up from her toes as she held this little one already breathing heaven. I felt like an intruder in her grief, yet I had to stay so she would have something of her little one to hold when she left the hospital. I watched as she looked at his hands and feet and touched his cheeks. I heard as she whispered to him her sorrow. Then she began to rock that precious bundle as moans came from deep within her. Rocking and moaning. Moaning and rocking. Nothing was going to bring life back into his little eyes and the only way she could get comfort was to rock. That's what a momma does.<br />
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A momma rocks.<br />
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Three times in seven days I watched this thing that seems to be instilled in us. All three times it was a precious thing. Two times it was heartbreaking but it didn't stop being precious.<br />
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God tells us in Hosea that He allures us to the wilderness and speaks tenderly to us. He draws us to His heart and comforts us. He gives us hope. Isaiah 40:11 says that He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his
arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are
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<span class="p">Crawl right on up and and be gently held in His bosom. He comforts so we can comfort. He rocks so we can rock.</span> <br />
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We got us another girl and she is beautiful!! The way Adam and Cristin take care of her you would never know she was their first. They have been comfortable since the beginning. We feel extremely blessed!! </div>
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We all walked in a little late which didn't help the inadequacy I felt for this job we were called to.<br />
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It was, and is only God's church and we are all blessed to serve together in this special place.<br />
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There have been articles I have seen on the internet about "What your Pastor (Pastor's Wife) Wish You Really Knew" and it made me a little sad. Sure there have been times that I felt like the demands were too great, but in hindsight, I realize that they were never too great. The times I felt like I was inconvenienced were clearly just times of selfishness on my part and for that I want you to know that I am sorry. I never want you to think that your needs are not important enough to call. I am <i>only</i> supposed to be an example of the servanthood of Jesus and I truly regret the times that I have not done that.<br />
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I also want you to know that I love you. You are my family and my friends and I am forever grateful that God chose us for this place. When you hurt, I hurt. When you are happy, I am happy. When I see spiritual growth in your lives I feel like I am the most blessed for the opportunity to watch that process in your life - knowing that all that really matters is what it will be like for you when you talk with Jesus that day. I want it to be the sweetest for you.<br />
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Finally I want you to know that I thank you. Thank you for welcoming our family into your lives and loving us like you have. Thank you for trusting us with you most personal needs, knowing that we have nothing to offer but Jesus. Thank you for letting us walk with you through life and for walking with us. Thank you for encouraging me to be more holy and to desire selflessness. I don't want to let you down.<br />
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So let's set our sights on Jesus and get started on the next 10 years.<br />
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I love you,<br />
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Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05411867603815132198noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277637234214057541.post-19274213830396283252014-01-22T09:45:00.002-06:002014-01-22T09:54:22.130-06:00On PrayerSo this morning I got up, put on my socks and came to the living room to start the fire. It is freezing in here. I wanted to write for you sweet girls all the mechanics of prayer as soon as I finished my time with the Lord. In the mornings I do a short devotional and leave the deeper study for later in the day (but not every day). <br />
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So I started the fire, then turned on praise music and got my glass of water. I got a spoon out of the drawer to get a spoonful of almond butter (yum!) and noticed that the silver ware tray needed to be cleaned. I started to get it out but saw the pile of dishes left over from feeding the girls and their friends last night. A quick thought that I could knock those dishes out in no time popped right into my head.<br />
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The enemy. Already trying to keep me from the important thing. Will I ever get mature enough to not be distracted by the enemy? Sheesh.<br />
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So I came back in here and did my Bible reading (dishes still all over the cabinet, tray still in the drawer) and then pulled the blanket over my head and started praying. The prayer this morning was how to share with you about prayer life. At least this prayer was. The prayer around 1:30 am was for someone else and the prayer around<br />
4:00 am was for something else.<br />
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When I was in high school I learned about the mechanics of prayer. They taught us ACTS. Adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication. That is all great and I used that a lot at the time. If I ever got distracted I would do some of them twice. Or three times. I am easily distracted.<br />
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I was also encouraged at one time to write down my prayers. I came across a journal of prayers from when the older kids were little. Almost every prayer was confessing my impatience and unkindness and then asking for patience and kindness. Almost every one. <br />
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There are a lot of books written on prayer, but I think Jesus nailed it. Winky face. The thing is, I know you all know all those things. Example: recognize Him as the one true God, praise His holiness, pray for the return of His kingdom, ask for daily provision, etc. I know Who He is and His holiness - that is why I go to Him. He is the ONLY answer.<br />
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Sometimes when I lay over in this big chair and pull the blanket over my head, I say nothing. I feel like I am in the closet and I am just here. He is too. That is the beauty of the life of prayer. It IS your life. Whether you talk or sing or scream. Or be quiet.<br />
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It looks different for me all of the time. So many times I could tell you about when the Lord Himself put prayer into my heart to shoot right back at Him. For six weeks before Steve got sick I prayed the same thing for him at the same time every morning. It wasn't a prayer I read about anywhere, it just came to my heart. No alarm was set. The Lord woke me up because I had work to do even though I didn't know what work I was doing at the time. A few days after his diagnosis, he told me what God was showing him and it was almost <i>word for word</i> what I had been praying. It was at that moment, I knew the <i>faithfulness of God.</i> <br />
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Honestly girls, if you have a heart that draws near to Him, He will show you exactly how to pray. Many may disagree, but that is my testimony and I am sticking to it!<br />
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I love to pray scripture over us. There is a book I had quite a while back called Praying Scriptures for your Children. I will find out the author and get you that info. It helped me so much to get the practice of that in my life and has continued on all of these years.<br />
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There were times, when I felt like I was in a battle for one of my kids, that I would walk and speak those scriptures out loud to the Lord. More than one time I was so desperate I would yell it out loud to the Lord, claiming my kid back into His presence. It wasn't long after that there was brokenness in that child. Beautiful God.<br />
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Those times I was like the persistent widow in Luke 18. I may have been able to pray once and leave it with Him, but most times I just kept on, just like my kids do me until I get it done.<br />
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When you pray the scriptures, you know you are praying His will. Ultimately that is the only thing we want.<br />
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When I was thinking about writing these things to you, I thought about how I don't pray enough. Yet pray all of the time. I read a quote by Brother Lawrence that pretty much nailed it for me.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer. And in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were on my knees."</span><br />
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Can I tell you that when I read this, I cried? And then again as I just typed it? Because it is true. When I draw near to God, He and I are in constant communication. In the middle of the night, in my closet time in the morning, while I am driving down the road. I don't have to wonder which part of ACTS I am doing. Or if I got the S before the C.<br />
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He and I - we just ARE. <br />
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He is faithful enough to give you the prayer you need to pray whenever, wherever that may be.<br />
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I have to admit I went to my knees in Walmart once, overwhelmed by His grace. I didn't have to get on my knees to know the truth of the situation, but everything in my being wouldn't let me stand up. I have had to pull over on the side of the road. I walk. I lay across the chairs in church. I lay on the floor. I do dishes. Songs come on and I pray the words for the one the Lord lays on my heart. <br />
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One of my most desperate praying times came while we were painting the girls' rooms. Situations were dire, but life was happening and my heart cried with every roll of the brush.<br />
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So in all of this randomness, maybe there really aren't mechanics to our prayer. We have the guide, but I honestly believe the more you love Him, the closer your heart draws to Him, the more powerful your prayer life will be.<br />
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And now. Now even as I write this to you, I weep for you as I see each of your faces and pray that you draw near. That is the only way. Your desire for Him has to be priority. Then your conversation with Him becomes non-stop, even when no words are spoken.<br />
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That is how good He is. <br />
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Gosh, I sure love you girls.<br />
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After the big kids went home, it was just us. A Daddy, a Momma and three little girls. Hannah and Leah were ten and Rachel was nine. They jumped into this place as if it was their very own. <br />
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They love it as if they were called separately by the Lord. They care when people are sick, cry when they die, and celebrate when they come to Jesus. <br />
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It has never just been just Michael's ministry. It has always been family. In November we added Hugh to help with this work. Such a sweet blessing.<br />
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Today is Rachel's last Sunday. It has been four hundred and forty four Sundays since that first one in hot July 2005.<br />
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It hit me just a little bit ago when I was walking back into the church. This will not be where I find her when she isn't at home or playing ultimate frisbee somewhere. She won't be here anymore except to visit.<br />
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Her ministry will never be over here, but next Sunday she will walk through the doors of another place to worship. Another place to serve. We stop counting the Sundays here and start counting somewhere else.<br />
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Go with much grace and blessing, Rachie. We love you and we are so proud of your desire to be right where God wants you to be.<br />
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Next week you can start counting anew. <br />
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Happy number one.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It seems like the only time we <b>desire earnestly</b> to spend time with Jesus is when our hearts hurt. When we really need Him to step up and do something.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The shepherds <i>couldn't wait</i> to see Him. They <i>couldn't wait</i> to be in the presence of the King.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I can pretty well guarantee that every single day I get in a hurry for something. Whether it be to cook supper, clean house, get to a meeting, or get to the bathroom. Smiley face. While I'm working on one thing, my brain is already two or three steps ahead on the "to-do" list.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That really hit home to me the other day as I was pulling out of Sonic and tossed my straw paper toward the trash can, only to have it land back into my lap. I had already rolled up my window. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If only I would channel all that hurry into an earnest desire to be in the Presence. Just to be there because I can, not because I need something or the ache is just too much. Just to listen and just to talk. Maybe even to doze a little because I am just so darn comfortable being there. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">To hurry up and get there to slow down. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To breathe deep. Or maybe not deep - but just to breathe at all.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Why wouldn't I want to be in the presence of so much peace? So much comfort? Why wouldn't I want to get there as quickly as I could every morning when the sun is peeking up behind the barn?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I heard it from lips this week that all she wanted was to be home in the Word. To be writing down notes from the Word. That was where her only peace came from.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Back when the girls were little and the big kids were busy and we were going through an average of 15 gallons of milk a week, there would be times when other students would come to talk. It had been one of those days where the stress level was high and a young lady showed up at my door. Her life was so full of insecurity that she would poke a finger in her throat to try to find significance. We talked, we cried and we prayed. As I closed the door behind her that day, I pressed my forehead on the back of the door. It was just too much. I could not carry another. single. thing. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I <i>ran </i>for my Bible and then <i>ran </i>to the girls' play room and jumped up on the bed and started fanning. Fanning the open Book like I was getting a whiff of a pot of spaghetti sauce simmering on the stove. I could have been reading in Numbers for all I know. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I had to have Word. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I had to get to Peace and to Comfort. I had to get there fast.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Just like those shepherds. They had to get to the King. It didn't matter that they may not have a job when they got back. They had to get there.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I pray that today the only hurrying we do is to be in the Presence. Not out of desperation or of need, but of longing. </span><br />
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Shattered.<br />
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That word came across my phone more than once this past week.<br />
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I walk past the old organ and see the repaired ornament waiting to go on the tree. It was broken when it was pulled out of the box. When I saw the name on the bottom I took it to the "fix it spot" by Michael's chair. It was ready to go on the tree just in time to take a picture and send it to say that our Father takes our shattering and fixes it. Repairs it. Makes it beautiful. Only the fixer knows it was broken. Then we become testimony of His grace for all to see.<br />
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Homesick.<br />
<br />
I heard it in voices of girls wanting their mommas. Just to talk. Just to ask. Just to be. It doesn't matter that they have their own little ones to take care of. They never get too old or too wise to need their own. They wouldn't want them to leave Jesus, but they sure would take an afternoon just to feel arms.<br />
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Pushing my grocery cart around the corners was a little difficult because it was so heavy. A sweet lady asked if I was feeding an army. Almost. My kids are coming home. Then unexpected tears came from out of the blue as I take a wide turn around the aluminum foil at the end of the aisle. So why am I crying in HEB? <br />
<br />
My kids are coming home. <br />
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It is so exciting this year to celebrate arms full of baby after several years of emptiness. We will celebrate a brand new marriage. We will celebrate a new job and God's provision. <br />
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At the same time we will try to make the obvious not quite so obvious. We will ask the Lord to fill up empty spaces and be quick to hug and quick to laugh. We will cry together and be giddy together.<br />
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We rejoice because He is enough in our weariness. She told me that with tears rolling down her cheeks. He is enough momma. He came as a baby to die as a man and come back as a Savior. So that He could be enough when the absence hurts.<br />
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So we will celebrate and we will grieve. We will grieve and we will celebrate.<br />
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A whole basket full of emotion. <br />
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This weary group will rejoice.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the song Hannah wrote and sang for her daddy at her wedding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Apple Casual"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Three screaming baby girls echo through the house<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Apple Casual"; font-size: 16.0pt;">One
song from you and It’d be quieter than a mouse<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Apple Casual"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Thank
you for everything that you’ve done for me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can’t express my love, My cup overflows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Apple Casual"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Like
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<span style="font-family: "Apple Casual"; font-size: 16.0pt;">I
just wanted to stop a minute and say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Apple Casual"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Now
that we’re growing up, life is getting hard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Apple Casual"; font-size: 16.0pt;">You’re
always there to say just stop and take it to the Lord<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Apple Casual"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Thank
you for leading us down the path you do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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great reason why I’d like to say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Apple Casual"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Daddy,
I love you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Apple Casual"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Daddy,
I love you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Apple Casual"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Thank
you for leading us down the path you do<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Apple Casual"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Another
great reason why I’d like to say<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Apple Casual"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Daddy,
I love you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Apple Casual"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Daddy,
I love you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Averi posted several sweet pictures on her blog </div>
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Wedding morning. Sisters getting ready.</div>
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Brothers coming in to see the girls.</div>
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Dad first look at his girls.</div>
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Family prayer helped get some tears out before the ceremony.</div>
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The bride making sure no one even <i>thinks</i> about </div>
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The song got to her sisters.</div>
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There is nothing better in the whole world than having all the kids together at once. </div>
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I am super blessed.</div>
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Twins. Who would've known?</div>
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The boys closest to my heart.</div>
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Could she be any more beautiful? No.</div>
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She is crazy.</div>
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Aunt love.</div>
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Sister love.</div>
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Head over heels crazy about them.</div>
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When I was younger I wanted five boys. Their names were going to be Heath, Nick, and Jarrod from The Big Valley and Joe and Adam from Bonanza. Not sure why they were all cowboys. Maybe because that is what daddy watched. So now I have my five boys and one day I will get one more. A bonus. Who could have known how blessed I was going to be?</div>
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Breathing out loud. For them to know God's direction and timing. To rest in His will and trust in His will, knowing that He always wants the best for them. That they will listen and be obedient to what His desire is for their lives. <br />
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Breathing out loud. For her to find her identity in Jesus, trusting that He will never, <i>ever</i> abandon. That she will know her worth because of Him and stand firm because of Him. Knowing, that for the most part, she does know her worth but <i>there are days</i>.<br />
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Breathing out loud. For him to remember the strength provided in past and to hold on to that strength for the upcoming days, weeks, months. That his Father will show Himself strong to Him and bind up the broken heart. <br />
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The breath sounds that speak Yahweh from birthing throughout raising are precious to me. We start and cannot ever stop. We are needed. Needed to keep speaking them, breathing them before the Lord. <br />
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The words screamed off of her blog page. I don't think it was a proclamation to the world as much as an attempt to convince herself that she, indeed, is worthy.<br />
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Just yesterday, hearing "I feel worthless" from one who keeps trying, yet failing in another's eyes.<br />
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And then a couple of weeks back, being taught <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rachel.howard.330" target="_blank">by a little one</a> that sometimes we listen to the wrong voice and sometimes that voice is loud and powerful, but it is still the wrong voice.<br />
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Sometimes that voice is a great and strong wind and it tears your heart and breaks it in pieces and you question why you aren't good enough. Pretty enough. Smart enough.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I%20Kings%2019:11&version=ESV" target="_blank">But the LORD is not in this wind</a>.<br />
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Other times the voice is an earthquake that shakes your very core. Everything you thought was true was not and you question why others receive their blessing but you can't find yours? You experience loss and can't find answers so you take the blame, believing you are not spiritual enough. Wealthy enough. Fun enough.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I%20Kings%2019:11&version=ESV" target="_blank">But the LORD is not in this earthquake.</a><br />
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Then there are times the voice is a fire and rips through and destroys all your dreams and leaves you devastated and lost. You believe you could have prevented it if you had only been strong enough. Bold enough. Wise enough.<br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I%20Kings%2019:11&version=ESV" target="_blank">But the LORD is not in this fire.</a><br />
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She was listening to the lies from the enemy. They were loud and jarring and hurtful lies.<br />
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Then after the fire came a <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I%20kings%2019:12&version=ESV" target="_blank">GENTLE WHISPER</a>. <br />
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There came a gentle whisper and a question: "What are you doing here?" She was not made to live in a cave, defeated by the lies of the enemy. She was made to come out to His voice.<br />
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That's how He loves her. He pulls her close to His chest so that she can hear the WHISPER. He quiets her with His love. <br />
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She is worthy, not because of anything she is or isn't.<br />
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She is just plain worthy.<br />
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The shoulders shake, the head hurts from tears dried up but still wanting release.<br />
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To the sweet momma who does not know where her daughter is, to the one feeling abandoned. To the one who knows God's will for her life but is still a bit apprehensive. To the one who wonders if she can get through sleepless nights and how it is all supposed to work.<br />
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He came to bind up the brokenhearted.<br />
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Those words have been read probably thousands of times, but yesterday they popped off of the page. So did the pink ink in the margin explaining the meaning of each word.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Bind up: to wrap around; cover; envelope; compress; stop</span><br />
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I remembered a time in Snyder when I was coming out of the doctor's office and a young lady was walking up to the window. She had a blood soaked towel wrapped around the bottom part of her leg. She told the girl at the window that she needed to see a doctor. I looked down and saw that the towel had slipped and was no longer covering the wound. Just by looking at the gash in her leg I could see every time her heart would beat, the blood pumping out and soaking the towel underneath. She was told to go to the ER, but she had been dropped off and would have to walk. There was no way she would make it so I loaded her up in my car and drove her over after I pulled up the towel and told her to press hard. <br />
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This is what came to mind when I saw the word "compress". <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That is what He came for. </span><br />
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He came to press hard on the wound to stop the gushing of life with every heart beat. To stop the pain so you can take <i>your next breath.</i><br />
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Even the pressing hurts, but it brings the healing. It stops the life from draining. It brings in the next breath when you didn't think it could happen.<br />
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I cannot think of a safer place to be than to be enveloped, wrapped up, and covered by Him as He begins the pressing process of healing.<br />
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Hold them close, Jesus, hold them real close.<br />
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Steven and Cary are married!! We had such a sweet weekend with all of the family. Cary was probably the most laid-back brides I have ever been around. There were babies and kids everywhere - enough to get anyone a little stressed - but not Cary.</div>
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The whole weekend was fun.</div>
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Congratulations Steven and Cary!! We love you!!</div>
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<br />Carolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05411867603815132198noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8277637234214057541.post-40771222761135571262013-09-08T01:39:00.000-05:002013-09-08T08:58:13.947-05:00Three Girls - EighteenIt has been a quiet weekend because the girls have gone camping. On Monday, Leah and Hannah will turn 19 so we went out to do our annual pictures while they were all three still 18. I knew this would be the last time we do this that they will all have the same last name. I have to admit, they didn't always love going out and doing the pictures. When we were out doing these, they started talking about getting back together every year, no matter where they lived. <br />
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Things are changing at our house. <br />
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When Michael and I married we had three kids and that was enough for us. For a little bit. We were ecstatic when we found out we were going to have twins. Kayla <i>sure</i> was. Then before we ever really slept, we found out we had another one coming. Might as well have one little one for every big one, right? <br />
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Two years old.</div>
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Three years old.</div>
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Hannah and Leah got chicken pox one week and Rachel the next. I missed church for four weeks in a row.</div>
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Three years old. I love this picture.</div>
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Four years old.</div>
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First year in Stillwater - all five years old.</div>
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Thirteen.</div>
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Fifteen.</div>
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Yes, sometimes they shoot things. <br />
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They humor me and re-enact a pose from when they were two.</div>
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For the first time in 28 years, I don't have a child in school. When we decided to homeschool, I didn't really realize how much being together all the time would help them love each other so much. They became best friends.</div>
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There are those that don't necessarily think I did a great job because I didn't push college. I didn't discourage them. If they want to go, I will be their biggest encourager and their oldest cheerleader. </div>
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I <i>have</i> taught each of them how to be a godly wife and mom. They know more about the scriptural guidelines of life and marriage at 18 than I did at 35. </div>
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We schooled at home, and to some that is not marriage material. That is okay with me. It is okay with them. <br />
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This weekend has been quiet. Really quiet. When it is quiet you think more - remember more. Going through pictures, and especially videos they made on their lunch breaks, just about got me. <br />
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They haven't always loved sharing everything and spending so much time together. I am pretty sure they would tell you now that they would not have changed a thing.<br />
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Maria and Serafin are great parents. They love these girls so much and are doing an amazing job keeping up with school (making great grades), working, and parenting. They are far away from their home in Equatorial Guinea, so we try to be a home away from home. <br />
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I am so late on this post that is time to do their three month pictures, but I wanted to share are all of this precious!!<br />
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For a little over two years these dish towels were tacked up on the wall of the guest room at Kevin and Kayla's house. The mustard and gray were going to be the colors for their nursery. Month after month when no baby came, the hope never came down. </div>
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I felt relief when I would take my suitcase into the room and see them still hanging there. No matter how discouraged they became, there was still a little bit of hope.</div>
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There were days when the hope seemed almost gone. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let Your steadfast love, O LORD, be upon us, even as we </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh that I might have my request, and that God would </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? HOPE in God; for I shall again praise Him, my salvation.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Psalms 42:5</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HOPE is from Him.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Psalms 62:5</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For You, O Lord, are my HOPE, my trust, O Lord, from my youth.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I will HOPE continually and will praise You yet more and more.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You are my hiding place and my shield; I HOPE in Your Word.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blessed is she whose help is the God of Jacob, whose HOPE is in the </span></div>
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The next week or so I will be playing catch up and posting pictures taken over the last few months. I have been on the road quite a bit and have not had time to get them all posted. So here goes.</div>
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Hannah and Hugh will be getting married in about 3 months. We went out a couple of times to get some pictures. I had a hard time choosing which ones to put on here. Obviously.</div>
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Maybe desperation. It didn't bother her to be the only one standing because she was not even aware of the other 400 voices singing the same words.</div>
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And when others began to really take in those words, they, too, stood to their feet. That is when this woman with a broken heart started waving her hand in the air. Yes, she was desperate. </div>
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She needed to be heard by Him. To be seen by Him. Held by Him. </div>
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To be picked out of the crowd by Him.</div>
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I knew her heartache. </div>
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I also knew the heartache of the young wife who buried her wet face into the neck of her husband as he pulled her in tight.</div>
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I knew the heartache of another husband who wonders how long he can hang in there with this marriage, the abuse and neglect.</div>
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I knew the heartache of the grandmother far away from sick grandchild and her daughter who seems lost to her. Of the grandmother who's grandson is in enemy territory, both spiritually and physically.</div>
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I knew the heartache of the women whose daughters and grand daughters felt their own ways were better than God's, and the heartache of unwanted diagnosis.</div>
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I knew heartache of living with a spouse who constantly belittles.</div>
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That old gospel hymn became a heart cry in unison in that church we call Cowboy. In a church that prides itself in "staying comfortable" so you will keep coming back to be washed by the Word. It isn't often we stand during a song. </div>
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But this wasn't a song. It was a desperate, stand to your feet, wave your hand in the air prayer to our Father Who heals, holds, and carries.</div>
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Yesterday He saw. And He held.</div>
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Oh, how He held.</div>
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This time last year I wrote about <a href="http://www.ladyinashoe.blogspot.com/2012/05/baby-and-baby-b.html" target="_blank">Baby A and Baby B</a>. I had no idea how fast the year would go and that it would be time to write about Baby C. Technically she didn't begin her life at the same time as the other two, but she came so close that we went ahead and tagged her Baby C.</div>
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She is the one we brought home less than a year after bringing home the other two. She came to a home full of kids and laughter and a lot of noise. She didn't say a lot the first year and a half of her life, probably because there was no opportunity to do so. She would just stare. With no expression at all.</div>
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She is the one who was fed anything the other two could pick up off of the floor and push into her mouth. Although she didn't say much, she did find out that she could get the attention of the older kids with her ability to burp like a man. It was, and still is, a talent that evokes laughter from siblings every time.</div>
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She doesn't get mad easily and is pretty happy nearly all of the time. </div>
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Stress isn't a word she uses often. She sings too much to be stressed.</div>
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She loves her family and she <a href="http://www.ladyinashoe.blogspot.com/2012/06/important-thing.html" target="_blank">loves the Lord</a>. Her desire to be in His will completely blows me away at times. I have told her more than once that I want to be like her when I grow up. </div>
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For the first time in her life, she doesn't have her sisters at home with her all day and it took some getting used to. This girl who doesn't cry a lot, cried. She was a little lost there for a bit. So was her mother.</div>
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We decided that Rachel Elizabeth would be the perfect name for our </div>
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All grown up now and with school almost behind her, she is excited to see what the Lord has planned for her.</div>
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Please pray for her. She is beautiful to me.</div>
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