Summer is Going By Way, Way, Too Fast.....

My children and I really enjoy traveling. Usually some portion of the summer is spent at amusement parks in OH, visiting my daughter and my friends in VA and laying on the beach at Ocean City, MD. This year has been a bit different and I can't quite figure out why. Is it because the "children" are older? This is the first year I had a week with no children and I went someplace I had never been before...San Diego! It was an amazing time. Mom was safe and well cared for. Micah went to VA with Shae and Beranda has worked hard the entire summer so we have hardly seen her at all. School begins so early. When I was in school, it started AFTER the Labor Day Holiday and I wish that was the case today. Soon Micah will be a grownup. I want to spend every moment I can with him. So we are off to Family Camp this week and from there, God-willing, we are off to Chicago. I have never been there either! And maybe, just maybe before school begins I will get the opportunity, once again, to inhale that wonderful salt water, see the beautiful blue water and crashing waves, hear the sea gulls calling out to each other along with the loving laughter of my children. God always makes a way. Enjoy the time you have left.

This Prayer Says So Much...

WHOEVER WROTE THIS HAS A VERY INTERESTING VIEW...SOME ARE SENDING THIS AS AN E-MAIL MESSAGE FROM BILLY GRAHAM BUT PER ANOTHER SITE, IT ORIGINATED FROM TWO OTHER SOURCES. http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/prayernation.asp

Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and
called it politics.. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and Set us free. Amen!