Hello all,
Ok so here is the scoop... John got into the Army. He is shipping out on July 9th. He will be going to school in Fort Leonardwood Missouri. He will be in school for 7-8 weeks.
The Lord has closed all doors here in Havelock for us, with the exception of our church. I know he would NEVER close that door.
Well here are our plans....Friday my parents are coming to get Hannah-Grace. John and I are going to pack the house up Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On Monday we are getting out Uhaul truck. We will be putting out stuff in Storage till we have out new duty station.
While John is in school Hannah-Grace and I are going to be living in Clayton with my parents. We are excited about this transistion. We know that the Lord has great things a head for us.
For our Liberty Family we are going to be prayed out July 6th. We are going to help out with VBS till Tuesday afternoon. Then we have to go back to Clayton for John to ship out on Wednesday.
I will be back to Havelock to close things out for the house to the end of July. We are going to miss so many friends and "family" here in Eastern NC. God has blessed us with so many great people in our lives. With the help of the internet I will keep in touch! I PROMISE!!!
God Bless you all and we Love you and will NEVER forget you!!!!
Meredith!!
We are family!!!
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
There's something wrong with the world today.....
As I am sitting here blogging I have the Aerosmith's song "Living on the Edge" running thru my mind. I like this song. It came out when I was in High school. I never saw this song thru "Christian" eyes before.
I do think as a society that we are Living on the Edge and that there is something wrong with the world today. The first part of the song talks about this and not seeing things thru the eye's of God. I am sure his are a little watery if you think about it. America in general is in trouble. This is ALL of us, Christian and Non-Christian. I know that God wants the Non-Christians to believe in Him and that his Son Jesus died for their sins and we as Christians need to get out there and help them realize this.
Another part to this song is. "If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin, then mister your a better man than I." I use to be that mister. I am so sorry that I use to be that way. I was mislead and not educated in the way that the Lord wanted me to go. I can say that learning the Lord's way has changed me inside and out. I am very proud of what I have changed as my views on race. I do know that the way to change other's is to show them scripture about being prejudice. Like Genesis 5: 3-5 we are ALL related going back to Adam and Eve. My favorite is Galatians 3:28, this show that we are ALL ONE in Christ!!! In showing passages this educates those that are prejudice.
Also in this song is talks about the situations, aggravations, complications getting to you. We ALL have these. We need to turn to the Lord and he will take them and help us to accept them and walk thru them or he will clear them up for us.
Also it says "if Chicken Little tells that the sky is falling would your come crawling back again? I bet you would my friend." OHHH this is so 9-11! When the sky our world as Americans knew it came crashing down around us, we all RAN back to GOD!!!! Well now that it has been 6 almost 7 years we are not running to God we are running back to that EDGE again!!!
In 2 Chronicles 7: 13-16 and 21-23 says;
"When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locust to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name will HUMBLE themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from there wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes are open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place."
This is after Solomon had built the temple of the Lord. The Lord spoke this. I know that America has not HUMBLED themselves and turned from wickedness. So why would the Lord heal our land?
Now 21-23 says;
"And though this temple is now so imposing all who pass by will be appalled and say, "why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple? People will answer 'Because they have forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshipping and serving them- that is why he brought all this disaster on them."
A few things here.... Well as we know other countries look down on us they see us as aggarant, disobedient, crude, Living on the Edge and a God-less society. Why would they not? When it walks like a duck and talks like a duck it is a duck.
I know that this is not the heart of America. I am proud to be an American. I am proud of my forefathers who fought to give us our Liberties and Freedoms. I do not want the world to look at us like this. We can only change it one person at a time. Let it start with ME!!!
I am praying for American and now in the time of Celebration with the 4th of July we ALL need to pray for America, America needs to turn her eyes back to the Lord, walk away from the Edge and run to the Lord and He will heal our Land!!!
I do think as a society that we are Living on the Edge and that there is something wrong with the world today. The first part of the song talks about this and not seeing things thru the eye's of God. I am sure his are a little watery if you think about it. America in general is in trouble. This is ALL of us, Christian and Non-Christian. I know that God wants the Non-Christians to believe in Him and that his Son Jesus died for their sins and we as Christians need to get out there and help them realize this.
Another part to this song is. "If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin, then mister your a better man than I." I use to be that mister. I am so sorry that I use to be that way. I was mislead and not educated in the way that the Lord wanted me to go. I can say that learning the Lord's way has changed me inside and out. I am very proud of what I have changed as my views on race. I do know that the way to change other's is to show them scripture about being prejudice. Like Genesis 5: 3-5 we are ALL related going back to Adam and Eve. My favorite is Galatians 3:28, this show that we are ALL ONE in Christ!!! In showing passages this educates those that are prejudice.
Also in this song is talks about the situations, aggravations, complications getting to you. We ALL have these. We need to turn to the Lord and he will take them and help us to accept them and walk thru them or he will clear them up for us.
Also it says "if Chicken Little tells that the sky is falling would your come crawling back again? I bet you would my friend." OHHH this is so 9-11! When the sky our world as Americans knew it came crashing down around us, we all RAN back to GOD!!!! Well now that it has been 6 almost 7 years we are not running to God we are running back to that EDGE again!!!
In 2 Chronicles 7: 13-16 and 21-23 says;
"When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locust to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name will HUMBLE themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from there wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes are open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place."
This is after Solomon had built the temple of the Lord. The Lord spoke this. I know that America has not HUMBLED themselves and turned from wickedness. So why would the Lord heal our land?
Now 21-23 says;
"And though this temple is now so imposing all who pass by will be appalled and say, "why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple? People will answer 'Because they have forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshipping and serving them- that is why he brought all this disaster on them."
A few things here.... Well as we know other countries look down on us they see us as aggarant, disobedient, crude, Living on the Edge and a God-less society. Why would they not? When it walks like a duck and talks like a duck it is a duck.
I know that this is not the heart of America. I am proud to be an American. I am proud of my forefathers who fought to give us our Liberties and Freedoms. I do not want the world to look at us like this. We can only change it one person at a time. Let it start with ME!!!
I am praying for American and now in the time of Celebration with the 4th of July we ALL need to pray for America, America needs to turn her eyes back to the Lord, walk away from the Edge and run to the Lord and He will heal our Land!!!
Saturday, June 14, 2008
How I am bound for LIFE!!!!
I just think it is amazing how you think you know what you know is right till God touches your life! I use to be pro-choice in my ingorance. I use to think that it was ok IF the woman was raped or molested. Well God has changed my heart and mind! John and I tried for 7 years to have Hannah-Grace. We did alot of infertility. We did IVF. If you have EVER done this it is so emotional. Just trying to concieve is emotional!
Well we did IVF, I had 30 eggs (the sarcastic side of me say BACH BACH!!) John was fine. Well out of those egss I had 8 that were viable! When they added the eggs and sperm in the pietre (sp?) dish, the sperm whent to oneside and the eggs went to the other! Ok, if you EVER took Biology you know that egg and sprem are polar oppisites and they are suppose to attract to each other! Well, they had to do a proceduce called rescue ixy (sp?). This is where they take the sprem and inject it into the egg.
Well out of those 8 only 3 became embroys. Witch means 2 to 6 cells. 1 became a blastacyst witch is an 8 cell embroy. Just a futher stage of development. We had to CHOOSE what to do. Well, we know that a heart beat begins at conception. We CHOOSE to have all 4 put back in me. The odds of ANY of them taking were slim to none and slim just walked out the door.
As most of you know there was not a viable pregnancy that came from those 4 embroys. That is a heart ache that only a person who has been thru a failed IVF can even being to understand. BTW... they took a picture of our Embryos and gave them to us and John got to see them in the microscope!
I being to question myself and my marriage. Was it ment for me to be a Mom? If they can not make it happen in the "lab" how can it happen in "life". All I could do was hold that picture of the embroys and cry. I still do to this day. In prayer and daily Bible readings the Lord spoke to my heart. "I have your babies here in Heaven. You will see them again one day, you just have to hold on to your dream!"
Then he gave me the verses in 1 Samuel 1:4-20 where Hannah cried out for a child and that her womb was barren. God heard her cry and blessed her with Samuel. So John and I started our cires to the Lord. Knowing all along that it would have to be the IVF that we concieve. Well, it came time where we could try again. I was eager to try John had major reservations.
It was a very tough time in our marriage. I was very hurt that he told me he was not ready. He had been there for me to help me heal that he did not have time to heal himself. I cried and got mad and was very fleshy about it. My mother told me, "You can not do it with out him in the natural or in the lab. You have to wait till he is ready."
Well, if you know me I am NOT patient. I am not one to wait. In this time of waiting we came to terms with it would be OK if it was just he and I for the rest of our lives. We had the chance to get Baptised and rededicate our lives to the Lord. We did get Baptised as a "Family" on June 22, 2005. Well in that water God bound and loosened things, to this day I am still finding out about. I was healed from smoking (after 10 years!).
Then that Sunday Pastor Tom had spoken on Jeremiah 29: 11-13 (this is my life verse). I think something in John and I both knew it was "TIME!"! Well, time went on friends of ours who had tried longer than we had found out they were pregnant. She told me I was next. I told her no, John was suppose to deploy and then mabye when he got home. Well, his deployment was canceled.
I think I tried to "fill" my time with other things. I looked into having gastric bypass (giving John time to heal). I went to the maditory conference. They told me that I would have to take a pregnancy test and then if it was negative I would have to go on the pill till 18 months after my surgery. I laughed at them.
Well on my way home from the conference (2 hrs away) I keep seeing rainbows. I told me Mom, "WOW!! I keep seeing thease rainbows." She told me, "That means that God keeps his promises." I told her yes it does! I got home that night went over everthing with John about the surgery and he stood behind me. I told him I am exausted I am going to bed. It was like 8:30 - 9:00.
I was saying my prayers when God just keep speaking to me to take a pregancy test. OF Course I had one. I HAD STOCK in them things! I could not sleep!! So I got up and took one. Was SO tired that I left it on the back of the toliet to "read" in the morning.
Well, it was trash night. John had asked me about the test, I told him that God would not leave me alone about it so I took it. I heard him toss something in the bag. He took the trash out and come back in to get a shower and come to bed.
He was running the water when he looked at the test (he had thrown the test box in the bag!) he called to me, "Meredith, COME HERE!" I thought he was trying to be "funny". I told him, "WHAT, I am tired". He stood there with the test and asked, "What do two lines mean?"
I leaped out of the bed in one single bound! "OH MY GOODNESS!!!" I screamed and started to shake. He got dressed and left me with this test and ran to the local grocery store and bought 2 more for me to take. I took one that night and one the next morning. They were both postive right away! I was blown away. I then went to my Dr. that afternoon. I had taken 4 in 24 hours.
What I am trying to show you is that God is PRO-Life... and I am now PRO-LIFE!!! I know that every conception is from God. If God wants that child to be, he will bring the child to full term. That child does not have a voice. I want to be a voice for that child! Every Child is a miracle! It takes people doing it in a Lab to make a child, so doing it in the natural is even more amazing!!!!
Everything has to be "perfect", body tempature, secreations, ovualtion, sperm, lining of the uterus. All of this has to happen in PERFECT timing for a child to be concieved. So how with this PERFECT timing can we choose the PERFECT path for an unborn child? I am prayin that we can end aborition in the country! In a One Nation under GOD, this is not GOD's plan!!!!
Well we did IVF, I had 30 eggs (the sarcastic side of me say BACH BACH!!) John was fine. Well out of those egss I had 8 that were viable! When they added the eggs and sperm in the pietre (sp?) dish, the sperm whent to oneside and the eggs went to the other! Ok, if you EVER took Biology you know that egg and sprem are polar oppisites and they are suppose to attract to each other! Well, they had to do a proceduce called rescue ixy (sp?). This is where they take the sprem and inject it into the egg.
Well out of those 8 only 3 became embroys. Witch means 2 to 6 cells. 1 became a blastacyst witch is an 8 cell embroy. Just a futher stage of development. We had to CHOOSE what to do. Well, we know that a heart beat begins at conception. We CHOOSE to have all 4 put back in me. The odds of ANY of them taking were slim to none and slim just walked out the door.
As most of you know there was not a viable pregnancy that came from those 4 embroys. That is a heart ache that only a person who has been thru a failed IVF can even being to understand. BTW... they took a picture of our Embryos and gave them to us and John got to see them in the microscope!
I being to question myself and my marriage. Was it ment for me to be a Mom? If they can not make it happen in the "lab" how can it happen in "life". All I could do was hold that picture of the embroys and cry. I still do to this day. In prayer and daily Bible readings the Lord spoke to my heart. "I have your babies here in Heaven. You will see them again one day, you just have to hold on to your dream!"
Then he gave me the verses in 1 Samuel 1:4-20 where Hannah cried out for a child and that her womb was barren. God heard her cry and blessed her with Samuel. So John and I started our cires to the Lord. Knowing all along that it would have to be the IVF that we concieve. Well, it came time where we could try again. I was eager to try John had major reservations.
It was a very tough time in our marriage. I was very hurt that he told me he was not ready. He had been there for me to help me heal that he did not have time to heal himself. I cried and got mad and was very fleshy about it. My mother told me, "You can not do it with out him in the natural or in the lab. You have to wait till he is ready."
Well, if you know me I am NOT patient. I am not one to wait. In this time of waiting we came to terms with it would be OK if it was just he and I for the rest of our lives. We had the chance to get Baptised and rededicate our lives to the Lord. We did get Baptised as a "Family" on June 22, 2005. Well in that water God bound and loosened things, to this day I am still finding out about. I was healed from smoking (after 10 years!).
Then that Sunday Pastor Tom had spoken on Jeremiah 29: 11-13 (this is my life verse). I think something in John and I both knew it was "TIME!"! Well, time went on friends of ours who had tried longer than we had found out they were pregnant. She told me I was next. I told her no, John was suppose to deploy and then mabye when he got home. Well, his deployment was canceled.
I think I tried to "fill" my time with other things. I looked into having gastric bypass (giving John time to heal). I went to the maditory conference. They told me that I would have to take a pregnancy test and then if it was negative I would have to go on the pill till 18 months after my surgery. I laughed at them.
Well on my way home from the conference (2 hrs away) I keep seeing rainbows. I told me Mom, "WOW!! I keep seeing thease rainbows." She told me, "That means that God keeps his promises." I told her yes it does! I got home that night went over everthing with John about the surgery and he stood behind me. I told him I am exausted I am going to bed. It was like 8:30 - 9:00.
I was saying my prayers when God just keep speaking to me to take a pregancy test. OF Course I had one. I HAD STOCK in them things! I could not sleep!! So I got up and took one. Was SO tired that I left it on the back of the toliet to "read" in the morning.
Well, it was trash night. John had asked me about the test, I told him that God would not leave me alone about it so I took it. I heard him toss something in the bag. He took the trash out and come back in to get a shower and come to bed.
He was running the water when he looked at the test (he had thrown the test box in the bag!) he called to me, "Meredith, COME HERE!" I thought he was trying to be "funny". I told him, "WHAT, I am tired". He stood there with the test and asked, "What do two lines mean?"
I leaped out of the bed in one single bound! "OH MY GOODNESS!!!" I screamed and started to shake. He got dressed and left me with this test and ran to the local grocery store and bought 2 more for me to take. I took one that night and one the next morning. They were both postive right away! I was blown away. I then went to my Dr. that afternoon. I had taken 4 in 24 hours.
What I am trying to show you is that God is PRO-Life... and I am now PRO-LIFE!!! I know that every conception is from God. If God wants that child to be, he will bring the child to full term. That child does not have a voice. I want to be a voice for that child! Every Child is a miracle! It takes people doing it in a Lab to make a child, so doing it in the natural is even more amazing!!!!
Everything has to be "perfect", body tempature, secreations, ovualtion, sperm, lining of the uterus. All of this has to happen in PERFECT timing for a child to be concieved. So how with this PERFECT timing can we choose the PERFECT path for an unborn child? I am prayin that we can end aborition in the country! In a One Nation under GOD, this is not GOD's plan!!!!
Thursday, June 12, 2008
My very first "offical" blog on here.....
Hello,
Well let me see what I can say and do. I am on a few people's blogs. I am in awe of what they do and say so I thought that I would start my own. I am not really sure what I all I need to write and say. I have a few on my myspace that I am going to bring over here.
I have alot going on right now in my life. Then again I feel like I am sitting here doing nothing. Well my hubby just put in his paperwork to join the Army. He pasted all the medical stuff and so now we are waiting to see if they will take him.
I have given our request to the Lord and feel that this is a move that he is wanting us to make. I know that my future is in the hands of the Lord. I do not worry causeHe has my future. So I will be posting in a few days about this new adventure that we are going on. I am excited and yet sad about leaving the life that we know here in Havelock.
Today (6-12-08) was a neat day. I got on line last night determined to find a dear friend of mine that I had not talked to in almost 7 years!! I knew her married name and her maiden name. Well I found her address and phone number in less than 10 mins. I did not have to pay for this information eaither. God knew I had been thinking about her lately and I wanted to get ahold of her! Well I called this morning and she was not there so I left a message. I then called back this afternoon when I thought that she might be home and sure enough she was!!! It was like we had not missed a day. We caught up with kids, family and just like we had not lost touch! God is so awesome. She and her hubby are really involed in thier church in Al. Just like John and I are here. If we get stationed in AL then we will be like 5 mins from them. WOW!! That would be so neat!
Well let me see what I can say and do. I am on a few people's blogs. I am in awe of what they do and say so I thought that I would start my own. I am not really sure what I all I need to write and say. I have a few on my myspace that I am going to bring over here.
I have alot going on right now in my life. Then again I feel like I am sitting here doing nothing. Well my hubby just put in his paperwork to join the Army. He pasted all the medical stuff and so now we are waiting to see if they will take him.
I have given our request to the Lord and feel that this is a move that he is wanting us to make. I know that my future is in the hands of the Lord. I do not worry causeHe has my future. So I will be posting in a few days about this new adventure that we are going on. I am excited and yet sad about leaving the life that we know here in Havelock.
Today (6-12-08) was a neat day. I got on line last night determined to find a dear friend of mine that I had not talked to in almost 7 years!! I knew her married name and her maiden name. Well I found her address and phone number in less than 10 mins. I did not have to pay for this information eaither. God knew I had been thinking about her lately and I wanted to get ahold of her! Well I called this morning and she was not there so I left a message. I then called back this afternoon when I thought that she might be home and sure enough she was!!! It was like we had not missed a day. We caught up with kids, family and just like we had not lost touch! God is so awesome. She and her hubby are really involed in thier church in Al. Just like John and I are here. If we get stationed in AL then we will be like 5 mins from them. WOW!! That would be so neat!
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