I thank you for stopping by. I have had a few emails and phone calls concerning my Testimony and I thank you all and am very blessed that you were blessed by what I have shared. My prayer again is to always be an encouragement and a blessing to all who stop by to visit. My prayer too is to let others know we are all still works in progress and that all I am is of the Lord
there is nothing in me worthy to be praised. May He always recieve the Glory and Honor due His name. I want to let you all know I will not be blogging until Tuesday or so next week so may you be blessed and cant wait to see what He will allow me to share next.
"THE THINGS WHICH ARE IMPOSSIBLE FOR MAN ARE POSSIBLE WITH GOD."
LUKE 18:27
Welcome Friend's !! This is a blog in which I pray to Encourage Women to live authentically by being transparent, renewed, and transformed by the Word of God. Thanks for stopping by may you come away refreshed and renewed every time. God Bless
Friday, May 2, 2008
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Testimony
Well I have to say I have been blessed all the responses I am getting from you mom's! I thank you for your interest in my life. A few of you are curious to know my testimony and I have to admit I do not feel led to give full length testimony on line for all to view, however I will give you the little version! Ok here it goes I grew up in a home without God, my father was a Catholic and my mother was a Baptist and both had very bad memories and made a deal they would let my sister and I decide what God was to us. So we grew up with nothing at all and when I was 13 my
friend I had at the time had his mom explain to me WHO God IS and why I needed Him in my life so I always looked up to a God and sorta Knew there was a God just not detail so there on couch I accepted the Lord as my Savior and well......... that was pretty much it for a long time.
My folks shortly after moved us my 10th grade year to Reno for the worst year of my life and then to Vegas my Jr. year in High School where I dropped out shortly there after to work for a living. I very soon there after got into the wrong crowd the rebellious stage in my life I guess it was anger from being ripped away from my High School and life in California to come to Nevada
yuck I thought. I was for sure a California girl in everyway and it was huge ajustment for me.
well by this time I am 17 and found a relationship I thought for sure this was the missing link in my life (not knowing the REAL REASON FOR THE MISSING LINK WAS A RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST) so I was 17 and he was 23 he was bad news he smoked,drank, and did drugs
wow he was bad news. Well I was crazy and thought ok I can change him well I sure have learned from those crazy mistakes (PRAISE GOD). By this time we are having intimate time together and no protection and low and behold I to my surprise became prego with my first child
at the age of 19 thinking oh now this should really change him right?? Wrong it was worse he still partied and had no cares in this world his drugs came before baby still I decided to marry him which lasted one year to be exact. During this time I struggled with a life long eating disorder which would take its toll very soon and looking to God for help yet not really understanding if He is real why is all this happening to me. So I now am 20 with a new baby and an eating disorder and a very unhealthy relationship and now find that I am prego with #2 oh great I was at a loss
and did not want this pregnancy I had found out my husband poked holes in the condom to get me pregnant so I would be stuck so to speak. Well yes I kept that baby who is my son Ian and I
cant imagine life without him we both were very sick for a while though because of my eating disorder which is why I didn't want to be prego again for a long time. OK so now I am 21ish with
two babies and failing marriage in which I left when Lish was 2 1/2 and Ian 1. Well I was blessed to not be alone at all I went right into a relationship with Greg my hubby now who indeed is a blessing to me. We met through mutual friends of my yes..... ex he was however an outsider who happened to be a roommate of a friend of a friend sorta thing. He was great with my kiddo's which was important to me and we became very serious and moved in together yes un-married
with two kiddo's already that was the start of trouble already. I after about one year in a half
and divorce was final decided that we needed to be married or stop playing house so we were married in Oct. 1997 and one month later found out I was expecting my 3rd Greg's first biological child. In the mean time we lived next door to Christian's who invited me to church
well I was filled with joy and took kiddo's for a long time by myself Greg had no part of it
During this time I dededicated my life to Christ and was on fire for the Lord and I guess my
honey saw something that made him want to go. So by Jan. 1998 we were both in church.Now alot happened between wish I had time to share it all I do not though. At this time we lost everything we had and this is when finally Greg gave himself to the Lord and now we were both on fire for God. Many adjustments had to be made that were not easy but we thankfully were now both walking and serving in our church in which we served for 6 years before coming to Calvary Chapel where we have been since the middle of 2004. Ok so that is it for now I will share as I am led to by God until then hope I didnt bore you to death no just kidding. May the Lord Bless you Mom's and bring you peace and may we all give Him praise for our different testimonies. God Bless you until next time hugs and kisses your sister in Christ, Cindy
"FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD." ROMANS 6:23 (AMEN)
friend I had at the time had his mom explain to me WHO God IS and why I needed Him in my life so I always looked up to a God and sorta Knew there was a God just not detail so there on couch I accepted the Lord as my Savior and well......... that was pretty much it for a long time.
My folks shortly after moved us my 10th grade year to Reno for the worst year of my life and then to Vegas my Jr. year in High School where I dropped out shortly there after to work for a living. I very soon there after got into the wrong crowd the rebellious stage in my life I guess it was anger from being ripped away from my High School and life in California to come to Nevada
yuck I thought. I was for sure a California girl in everyway and it was huge ajustment for me.
well by this time I am 17 and found a relationship I thought for sure this was the missing link in my life (not knowing the REAL REASON FOR THE MISSING LINK WAS A RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST) so I was 17 and he was 23 he was bad news he smoked,drank, and did drugs
wow he was bad news. Well I was crazy and thought ok I can change him well I sure have learned from those crazy mistakes (PRAISE GOD). By this time we are having intimate time together and no protection and low and behold I to my surprise became prego with my first child
at the age of 19 thinking oh now this should really change him right?? Wrong it was worse he still partied and had no cares in this world his drugs came before baby still I decided to marry him which lasted one year to be exact. During this time I struggled with a life long eating disorder which would take its toll very soon and looking to God for help yet not really understanding if He is real why is all this happening to me. So I now am 20 with a new baby and an eating disorder and a very unhealthy relationship and now find that I am prego with #2 oh great I was at a loss
and did not want this pregnancy I had found out my husband poked holes in the condom to get me pregnant so I would be stuck so to speak. Well yes I kept that baby who is my son Ian and I
cant imagine life without him we both were very sick for a while though because of my eating disorder which is why I didn't want to be prego again for a long time. OK so now I am 21ish with
two babies and failing marriage in which I left when Lish was 2 1/2 and Ian 1. Well I was blessed to not be alone at all I went right into a relationship with Greg my hubby now who indeed is a blessing to me. We met through mutual friends of my yes..... ex he was however an outsider who happened to be a roommate of a friend of a friend sorta thing. He was great with my kiddo's which was important to me and we became very serious and moved in together yes un-married
with two kiddo's already that was the start of trouble already. I after about one year in a half
and divorce was final decided that we needed to be married or stop playing house so we were married in Oct. 1997 and one month later found out I was expecting my 3rd Greg's first biological child. In the mean time we lived next door to Christian's who invited me to church
well I was filled with joy and took kiddo's for a long time by myself Greg had no part of it
During this time I dededicated my life to Christ and was on fire for the Lord and I guess my
honey saw something that made him want to go. So by Jan. 1998 we were both in church.Now alot happened between wish I had time to share it all I do not though. At this time we lost everything we had and this is when finally Greg gave himself to the Lord and now we were both on fire for God. Many adjustments had to be made that were not easy but we thankfully were now both walking and serving in our church in which we served for 6 years before coming to Calvary Chapel where we have been since the middle of 2004. Ok so that is it for now I will share as I am led to by God until then hope I didnt bore you to death no just kidding. May the Lord Bless you Mom's and bring you peace and may we all give Him praise for our different testimonies. God Bless you until next time hugs and kisses your sister in Christ, Cindy
"FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, BUT THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD." ROMANS 6:23 (AMEN)
Thanks for thinking we are young!!!
How sweet you are to think we started really young actually not really you see my oldest is 14 and I am now 34 so the math on that is I was 20 when I had her so that is not to bad at all!!! Then #2 came at 21 then #3 when I was 24
and every 2 Years I was having the rest of the gang. So I was prego for literally 10 years straight it seemed like.
My husband is 35 and together we share 5 of the 7 kiddo's my first two are from a first marriage. I pray I get my mom's genes she looks about 39 and she is 57 she looks like my sis and always has it is great so hopefully I will
reap the same thing I can only pray lol!!! I can tell you all I have given up on trying to get tan it is VERY BAD for our skin and ages us pretty fast so I always try to remember my sun block it can give you 10 years so how awesome is that ladies I know tans look great but younger skin looks better you decide.
MOM'S SPEAK KIND WORDS, AND YOU WILL HEAR KIND ECHOES.
"PLEASANT WORDS ARE LIKE HONEYCOMB, SWEETNESS TO THE SOUL AND HEALTH TO THE BONES. PROVERBS 16:24
and every 2 Years I was having the rest of the gang. So I was prego for literally 10 years straight it seemed like.
My husband is 35 and together we share 5 of the 7 kiddo's my first two are from a first marriage. I pray I get my mom's genes she looks about 39 and she is 57 she looks like my sis and always has it is great so hopefully I will
reap the same thing I can only pray lol!!! I can tell you all I have given up on trying to get tan it is VERY BAD for our skin and ages us pretty fast so I always try to remember my sun block it can give you 10 years so how awesome is that ladies I know tans look great but younger skin looks better you decide.
MOM'S SPEAK KIND WORDS, AND YOU WILL HEAR KIND ECHOES.
"PLEASANT WORDS ARE LIKE HONEYCOMB, SWEETNESS TO THE SOUL AND HEALTH TO THE BONES. PROVERBS 16:24
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Good Afternoon Mom's April 30th 2008
HELLO MOM'S,
Can you believe it is the last day of April time goes by so fast the older we get doesn't it??? If
only our kiddo's realized that and stopped trying to grow up so fast be a kid while you still can
Amen to that. So I dont know about you guys but I am NOT looking forward to it getting any hotter than this week if we could freeze this temp. that would be so awesome. Praise the Lord for air conditioners that work. I pray you are all doing well my prayers go out to you all thanks
for stopping by to check out this site my prayer is that you find something on this site to bless your day and give you encouragement May God Bless you and give you peace.
WHEN A MOTHER SPEAKS TRUTH TO HER CHILD SHE IS SPEAKING REALITY. TRUTH IS NOT PRETEND, MAKE-BELIEVE, OR FANTASY. WHEN A MOTHER SPEAKS TRUTH
SHE IS SPEAKING THE HEART OF GOD INTO THE HEART OF HER CHILDREN.
WRITTEN BY: ROB LESSIN
..."IF YOU CONTINUE IN MY WORD, YOU REALLY ARE MY DISCIPLES. YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE." JOHN 8:31-32
MAY WE TEACH OUR CHILDREN HIS TRUTH DAILY AS WE ARE TRUTHFUL IN OUR OWN LIVES GOD BLESS YOU
Can you believe it is the last day of April time goes by so fast the older we get doesn't it??? If
only our kiddo's realized that and stopped trying to grow up so fast be a kid while you still can
Amen to that. So I dont know about you guys but I am NOT looking forward to it getting any hotter than this week if we could freeze this temp. that would be so awesome. Praise the Lord for air conditioners that work. I pray you are all doing well my prayers go out to you all thanks
for stopping by to check out this site my prayer is that you find something on this site to bless your day and give you encouragement May God Bless you and give you peace.
WHEN A MOTHER SPEAKS TRUTH TO HER CHILD SHE IS SPEAKING REALITY. TRUTH IS NOT PRETEND, MAKE-BELIEVE, OR FANTASY. WHEN A MOTHER SPEAKS TRUTH
SHE IS SPEAKING THE HEART OF GOD INTO THE HEART OF HER CHILDREN.
WRITTEN BY: ROB LESSIN
..."IF YOU CONTINUE IN MY WORD, YOU REALLY ARE MY DISCIPLES. YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE." JOHN 8:31-32
MAY WE TEACH OUR CHILDREN HIS TRUTH DAILY AS WE ARE TRUTHFUL IN OUR OWN LIVES GOD BLESS YOU
Monday, April 28, 2008
DID WE PLAN ON A BIG FAMILY?????
WELL WHAT A QUESTION LET'S SEE NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! If someone were to tell Greg and I we would be homeschooling parents of 7 I think we would have past out lol!! In all seriousness I only have a younger sister and Greg has no siblings at all so this is very new for the both of us!In both sides of our families this is unheard of. Greg and I
were both raised in non-Christian homes which makes it even more challenging we really have to rely on the Lord for all we do and have made MANY mistakes along the way and will continue to make some I am sure,however with GOD all things are possible even raising a big family. Is it easy no we make many sacrifices yet who doesn't we trust in God to provide because we know He loves our kids even more than we do. We also believe the scripture that asures us He will not give us more than we can handle. WE all have a different story and thats what makes us so unique we all have challenges no matter the number of kiddo's we have been blessed with I do believe that we should all thank God for those blessings in our life and raise them in the ways of the Lord to the best of our abilities and when we fail humble ourselves and start again. I pray for each of our families big or small and I pray we will seek the Lord in how to raise our children for His Glory and in His ways not ours or others but what is best for our family and only God knows whats best for our precious families may God guide you in raising your kiddo's and may you be obedient to that calling amen!!
MOM'S BEFORE YOU FACE THE CHALLENGES OF YOUR DAY, FACE THE DAY WITH GOD, HE WILL HELP YOU TO MEET EACH OF THOSE CHALLENGES.
" I WILL INSTRUCT YOU AND TEACH YOU IN THE WAY YOU SHOULD GO; I WILL GUIDE YOU WITH MY EYE." PSALM 32:8
were both raised in non-Christian homes which makes it even more challenging we really have to rely on the Lord for all we do and have made MANY mistakes along the way and will continue to make some I am sure,however with GOD all things are possible even raising a big family. Is it easy no we make many sacrifices yet who doesn't we trust in God to provide because we know He loves our kids even more than we do. We also believe the scripture that asures us He will not give us more than we can handle. WE all have a different story and thats what makes us so unique we all have challenges no matter the number of kiddo's we have been blessed with I do believe that we should all thank God for those blessings in our life and raise them in the ways of the Lord to the best of our abilities and when we fail humble ourselves and start again. I pray for each of our families big or small and I pray we will seek the Lord in how to raise our children for His Glory and in His ways not ours or others but what is best for our family and only God knows whats best for our precious families may God guide you in raising your kiddo's and may you be obedient to that calling amen!!
MOM'S BEFORE YOU FACE THE CHALLENGES OF YOUR DAY, FACE THE DAY WITH GOD, HE WILL HELP YOU TO MEET EACH OF THOSE CHALLENGES.
" I WILL INSTRUCT YOU AND TEACH YOU IN THE WAY YOU SHOULD GO; I WILL GUIDE YOU WITH MY EYE." PSALM 32:8
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