"...He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminance. For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight- if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister."
Colossians 1:15-23

Preeminence: surpassing power; superiority
Fullness: abundance
Reconcile: to adjust or settle, Reconciliation: renewal of friendship
Before: in presence of ; in time preceding; in front.
Consist: to be in a fixed state; to be comprised; to be made up; to be compatible; to agree

Jesus over everything. He shed His blood for All of us. He is the glue that holds ALL things and everyone together!
Christians are held in His hand. We were created for Him. His word should be our foundation.
Unbelievers...Well the Lord shed his blood for them also, they just haven't made the choice to believe.
Satan wants to distort what is thruth, to cause confusion and to distract.

Good words aren't enough it has to produce something in the heart. The heart shows the truth that is inside.
We ALL need God's power to stand/live.
Our power is useless with out Him and will only bring us down.
Jesus is all God in relation to creation...
He holds everything together. He is our glue without Him we would fall/come apart. he needs to be our center in everything even our relationships.
Jesus is the head of the church, those who are in leadership are accountable to Him.
Is He the head in your life, is He the sustainer. Its not just spoken it is shown in our lives daily it is put in action. He should be the one we wake up to, the one we walk with, the one we talk to before we go to sleep. he should flow through us as the blood flows through our veins. he is fully in control there is nothing else taht can or should take His place.
We were evil in our hearts yet He still died for us. he sees us blameless. he did this because of His deep love for us.

That is what I did for Bible Study.

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Perilous Times and Perilous Men

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving,      unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors,      headstong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was."
2 Timothy 3:1-9

And that was written way before our time!

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The Comfort of Christ's Coming

"But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words."
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

His timing is better then our timing and we don't know the time or the hour of His return but we know it will be soon and we need to make sure we are ready.

I feel relief. We had started a new school program this year and from day one I was stressed out and woke up with bad headaches every day. I was not happy with what we had started and got to the point that I wanted to through my kids in the public school and give up.  Well yesterday I felt strongly that I needed to withdraw the boys out of this program and so I spoke with a friend who had also tried the program and pulled her younger children out. And she answered some questions for me and I sent in the withdraw form. Got a call from one teacher and she was very nice about the whole thing and understood. Then in the evening got an email from the other teacher saying she hated to see us go.

I feel good about the whole thing. Last night got out the 3rd grade curriculum we had gotten at the beginning of the year and some other curriculum we had on hand and made a schedule that we will start on Monday with.

Found out also that a home school curriculum store is in the process of moving into our area!!! So Praise the Lord, He takes care of all of our needs!!! I can't wait till they have their grand opening!

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This is a photo of many of when we went to Winchester Bay. This was at the Umpqua Museum. Little was not a happy camper because she want to go to the sand.

This is her after...

Such a moody little thing.

They had a wonderful time as always playing with their cousins. They all live at the coast now and are finally out of the desert!!!

The Bay was breath taking!! Can't wait to go back!! My heart is on the coast.

Today is a pretty good one, even though my husband just came home from work with a terrible cold.  Woke up alright, read Colossians in my bible, made the kids pancakes and then started in on school work. Thomas hadn't done any school work yesterday so we had to do two days of work today...Not so bad and he didn't complain. That makes me happy! Jonas is finishing up his last two subjects right now and then he will be done for the day.

It is raining out and you can smell the smoke from the neighbors fire places...Now it feels like Fall!!! I told my guy that I wanted to open up all the window and doors to let it all in the house! I LOVE Autumn!!

Have lots to do today:

Clean up living room and dining room

Clean kitchen/dishes

Wash laundry- not a whole lot so that isn't bad.

Make some cookies for hubby to take to the men's retreat.

Clean bathroom

I had to fix my daughter's hair because her brother decided to cut it the other day...just had to even out the back but the top front...well that is just going to have to grow out. He even cut his bangs AGAIN!!!

Made some awesome chili yesterday in my crock pot...It has sweet corn and salsa in it. I can't really tell the recipe because I didn't follow directions I just through things in. It was really good!

Sorry again to everyone I haven't said hi to in a while...with this blog and a few others it is hard to keep up. One of these days I will get to you.  Have a wonderful Thursday and a blessed weekend.

Do you realize that Christmas is just around the corner!?! It will be here quickly.

So I thought if you are having a hard time finding something for that someone you might be interested in seeing what I have...

Photography, Poster, shoes, skateboards, magnets, key chains, note cards for all occasions, aprons among others at:
http://www. zazzle. com/momasart*

Photography, posters, cards at:
http://liquidsunshine. imagekind. com/myphotos

Baby blankets and handbags at:
http://www. sleeplessstitch. etsy. com

So there you go just a few things that I have up for sale.
These aren't just for Christmas, you can get items for other occasions also if you would like.


Have a fabulous day!
Christina

Sorry the links didn't work before...Now they do, I made sure. :)

The Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad.

You know I haven't thought of that in a long time it seems. The Lord did make this day just as He made the days before and those we haven't seen that are ahead. He has control of everything around us. So there is no need for worry. hmmm. So true.

Things have been going well. I'm starting to see what my boys need to work on more in their work and I am starting to figure out how my Middle T works. Right now I am not doing so good because it is almost 10:00am and we haven't started school work yet...Bad momma

Today is the last day of warm/hot weather...WOO HOO, not that summer has been horrible, it's just that a few weeks ago Fall weather showed a small part of it's self and I actually got all excited about wearing sweaters...probably only because I wanted to hide my extra weight I have ganed in them... Yup, I confess, the lemon meringue pie has been my down fall and laziness in the work out department. I need to start the work outs again and keep them up and then get the kids involved cause then I can use it for the kid's P.E.

Been keeping up with the dishes but when it comes to the laundry, well, it's folded but it is still sitting in the living room.

My friend had her baby on Monday and I got to go see the little guy last night! He is gorgeous!! 

I loved his little grunts and squeaks...*sigh* No can't have anymore babies and the Lord has taken that urge and feeling of wanting another one from me. But I do miss being pregnant and having a little one around...No I don't miss the giving birth. I love that there are so many new babies in our church because I can love and cuddle on them and spoil them then give them back.

Ok procrastinated enough but I wanted to put up a better post so you all know that I am doing a whole lot better.  Good Day to you!!

Had a virus, bug or whatever you want to call it in our computer and had to start all over again. So I didn't get to answer comments or anything for a few days. Thank you educatingmummy for the comment you left me. Things are a lot better. I had a migraine headache for 5 days so I think that might have had a lot to do with how I was feeling towards school. I am so grateful to have people around that can help me get my foot back on the ground again.

The kids have been doing good with their school work and I have been good to talk to the teachers when I have needed some help. I talked to T's teacher the other day because we were struggling with language and reading. I told her that I had the TYCTR in100 easy lessons and that I  wanted to use that to see if it would help him and she was totally cool with it!!! I am so glad.

The Lord is good!

Ok well I really need to get off the computer and get the kids going on their school work. We have art and P.E. today on top of the other work so here we go!

I'm so glad it's Friday!!

Christina

I seriously have no patience when it comes to teaching my children something be it new or old. I get so frustrated with them and have to stop everything because I can't get myself out of the rut.  I'm ready to put them in school!! I just want to sit down and cry because my heart isn't in it as I had thought it would be before I even had children. I have both views fighting in my head, the good of homeschooling and the good of sending them to school. I also know the not so good views of both.

So I sit here in the middle of the fight going on inside my head and I feel beaten by both.

Is it guilt for feeling like I am giving up?

Is it fear of what they might have to deal with in school?

I have checked out the elementry school that they would attend for our area and I am really impressed by their High test scores. And have friends that send their children there and they say it is a wonderful school.

This is all just to stressful on me anymore.

I know I will probably get people telling me to do this and that...I have tried everything...I feel at my wits end today.
It is definately Monday...