Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Don't Be Afraid

Good afternoon precious blog readers! Praying that you are doing well on this the last day of January, 2023. On Sunday at church we sang an awesome song. Don't Be Afraid. As we were singing it, I thought, "Wow, this could be our theme song right now with all that we have going on in our family. The words just completely felt like this song was meant just for us. 

Don't Be Afraid lyrics:
1. When deep water curls around you and fear replaces faith.
When the floods would seem to overwhelm God's promises of grace .
When the fires seem overtaking and all seems torn and tossed.
Trust His Word. O truly listen, hear Him say, "All is NOT lost."
Chorus:
Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. I have redeemed you, you are mine; Don't be afraid.
Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. You are a precious child to Me; DON'T BE AFRAID!
2. I am with you through the water.
I am with you through the flood.
They will NEVER overwhelm you.
I have bought you with my blood.
Even though you walk through fire.
I'LL GO WITH YOU ALL THE WAY!
I'M YOUR SAVIOR, TRULY LISTEN, HEAR ME SAY, THESE WORDS I SAY:
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. I have redeemed you, you are mine; Don't be afraid.
Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. You are a precious child to Me; DON'T BE AFRAID!

I especially LOVE this second verse. God is truly with us through the water, and with us through the flood. He promises they will NEVER overwhelm us because He has bought us with His blood. Even though we walk through fire, he is with us all the way. You see we are NOT promised that there won't be fire or floods, but God will NEVER leave us nor forsake us! For this promise, I am so very thankful!

A bit of an update here. We had a wonderful Christmas season. Jonathan came home for a visit! We haven't seen him in over a year! It was AWESOME!! We had our 2nd annual gingerbread house making day, which was amazing!! Check it out!


























The whole group! What am amazing blessing!!! 

Love this picture so very much! 

We had a charcuterie board brunch!  



Glenn and I and the grands! 


We had a wonderful Christmas eve candlelight service at church, too. What a blessing!



















We ended up using our gingerbread house for target practice. That was fun!


The sunrise was super beautiful on this particular winter morning!
Check out the travel mug Nicole got me! It truly warmed my heart!

We celebrated Rosie's 12th birthday with a special girls day out with Annie, Rosie's niece and best friend!






Happy 12th birthday Rosie girl! We sure do love you!
Last Saturday, I started back with beach body on demand and an old favorite workout series, 9 week control freak. I LOVE it and this is my 3rd time going through it!
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So in pictures, this wraps up what has been happening here on the brighter side of things. We sure do covet your prayers with all of the school drama that we have going on right now. We trust the Lord and know that He is in control.

Until next time! Please keep in touch, oh and by the way....we LOVE comments! Make a comment and let us know you stopped by, kay??

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