Forever........

........Friends!

"A man who has friends must himself be friendly, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."  Proverbs 18:24 NKJV.  I just cannot say enough about the people that God has placed in my life through the years.  Yes it is true that I have been blessed with an awesome family, and for that I am eternally grateful........but today (actually I have been pondering this for days and am just now getting to writing it) I am focusing on friends.  I love this verse from Proverbs mostly because through the years God has placed so many friends in my life who completely depict this kind of a friend.  I have many friends in different aspects of my life, and I find that so refreshing the way God chooses to put certain ones in certain areas of our lives.  There are friends who go waaaay back that I still keep in contact with, and there are those who have come into my life in recent years.  There is one thing that I really love about a true friend, and that is one whom you may have been friends with much earlier in life, and you haven't been in touch with for years........and then through some interesting way (God's plan, for sure), you meet up again years later, and you pick up right where you left off just like you had never missed a beat!  This has happened to me just recently, and just totally LOVE it, and I love her dearly too!  It has been SO neat catching up and then starting all over again during a new season in our lives!  I also can't say enough about my friends from church........have to put a plug in for my church now, Avalon Church of Christ!  It is SO awesome to be a part of such a loving church family, and I am SO grateful to be a member there and have a family of friends of like precious faith.  I have been very blessed through the years to be a part of other churches through relocations, and I can honestly say that I have dear friends from all of them!  I feel like I am kind of rambling now but I have just had these thoughts of friendship running through my head all of this week, and then God led me to the verse in Proverbs, so I knew that I just had to write these thoughts down.  It really is true that to have a friend, we have to be a friend........and there really are friends who are just like family to us!  I am so truly grateful for all of the friends that God has placed in my life through the years, and I just want to thank Him again for those blessings........for that is what they truly are!  I will leave you with this link to seal my thoughts.  Hope that you enjoy because a friend is a friend forever if the Lord's the Lord of them!  <3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ped1jYLFtkA

In The Beginning................

........Who would have ever thought it??  Me, a blogger........not me, never in a million years!!!!  Well, guess what??  I have decided to give this a try!  I have actually been thinking about it for a long time.  My life has taken so many turns lately that I can hardy keep up with it myself, much less for anyone else to know what is going on!  The Lord has done many things for me in my lifetime, and especially now in this season of my life, He is working in wondrous ways........and I want to be sure and keep track of all of it.  So I thought, what better way to do this than to blog about it........that way I can keep a journal of everything and share it with my family and friends if I want to.  I love playing on the computer so it was kind of fun getting started and setting this up!  I never thought when computers first came out that I would be very good at it, but now I actually think that I am quite computer savvy........well, maybe!  ;-)  I got a new Smartphone last month, and my daughter actually said to me, "welcome to the world, Mom"........so see, I am coming along with all of this technology!  Then my son said to me the other night that I should try my hand at a blog, so with all of that, I decided that it was time!  I will be sharing mostly the things that the Lord is doing for me, and of course, I will have to talk about my family........after all, it is a rite of passage for a grandmother, or for me, a "Mimi!"  ;-)  I love taking pictures and I love scrapbooking, so I am sure that there will be plenty of that to go around also!  In any case, I hope that someone out there will follow me, and maybe even receive a blessing from God by reading about what He is doing in my life.  I am looking forward to sharing with you all, and hope to hear back from some of you!  In the meantime, I will leave you with a picture of my sweet little kitty cat, Abbie, whom I dearly love (she loves the computer also), and these words from God:  "The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you; The Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace."  Numbers 6:24-26 NKJV