Christmas in November

Christmas Dinner....YUMMY!!

Looks like Christmas Morning

Abby Opening Presents

Cleaning Up After Opening Presents

This past weekend my family celebrated Christmas because my sister and her husband are up from Connecticut. It was a good time for the most part and it kind of put me in the Christmas mood. Not enough to want to listen to Christmas music, decorate or put up a tree. But in the mood to except that Christmas is almost here....

For Andrea

I have this friend who name is Andrea and last week she got her first deer. Yup, that is right folks, she shot and killed her first deer...

Well I just wanted to congratulate her on this accomplishment not that I condone killing of God's little animals or big in some case. But I know it meant a lot to her to get it...

So I thought I would just share that with all of you...Really I just wanted to show off this AWESOME picture I drew for her...

We Believe

For those of you who know me; know I love Good Charlotte. I find their music really speaks to me and I can relate to it a lot. I have recently rediscovered one of their songs called we believe (which is the video above). I was listening to it and then I decided to look up the lyrics and part of the song really stuck out for me;

We are all the same
Human in all our ways and all our pains
(So let it be)
There’s a love that could fall down like rain
(Let us see)
Let forgiveness wash away the pain
(What we need)
And no one really knows what they are searching for
(We believe)
This world is crying for so much more

We believe(x6)
In this love

We believe(x5)
In this love

So this world is too much for you to take
Just lay it down and follow me
I’ll be everything you need
In everyway

The last part of that really makes me think. How many times have I just been so frustrated with the world and everything in it and just get so worked up about everything and want to give up. And I sometimes I just sit there and think "woe is me" but then I remember what an amazing God I have. So then I have to lay all my worries and fears down to him and in a sense get back on the horse and follow him.

The last two lines that I have from the lyrics reminds me of Matthew 6:25 - 34, where it talks about how God takes care of the birds of the air, and how much more important are you, so why worry, he will take care of you. And how the wild grass is dressed, he will dress you even better. It ends with saying so don't worry about tomorrow, tomorrow will worry about itself.

So "when the world is too much for you to take, just lay it down and follow me [Him]" and remember "I'll be [he is] everything you need, in EVERYWAY!!"