Just Life!!!

October has almost come and gone. Life has been crazy busy for me and I don't foresee it slowing down anytime soon. The beginning of this month was pretty normal with no trips planned. The 3rd  weekend I went to Mountain View for a farewell that was such a refreshing time. I came back that Sunday and went straight to my boss Christy's house because her and her husband were in Punta Cana for their 10th anniversary and I was taking care of her children while they were gone.

Christy's parents dropped the children off with me Sunday night. My job was to A. keep them alive and B. make sure they were dressed fed and ready to be where they needed to go at the proper times :). All went as planned and amazingly well (her children are basically perfect angles). I also worked while they were at school so that made me even more busy but that was ok. I had so much fun hanging out with them for three days! We even got the chance to have a photo shoot together!

 

I have been kept busy with cleaning and the occasional weekend trip out of town. And anticipating the arrival of a new litter of puppies in two weeks (Lord Willing). On my days off I catch up on the work on the dog kennel part of it. Today I replaced to linoleum in the whelping pen and cleaned out all the leaves. Ah I feel so successful when the barn and kennels are sparkly clean :).

 

Well that is all for now!! Hope ya'll have an amazing rest of October!! Until Next Time!

Trust? or Fear?

Trust. Something a lot of people struggle with. Maybe because they have been severely hurt by someone in their past or because someone broke their trust. Whatever the case may be I don't believe trust comes naturally to us as humans. It is something that needs to be built over time, and if ever broken it takes even longer to earn back again and that relationship will never be the same.

But there is one person who can always be trusted no matter what. He has never broken his promise and has never left anyone behind. And that is Jesus. The person that cared so much for each and every one of us that he left behind all the splendor of Heaven to rescue us from our sin by dying on the cross so that we one day can live in glory with Him. I think someone who is willing to give everything on my behalf is worthy of my faith and trust!

I am not saying this trust comes easy, because yes, sometimes it seems that God has no idea what he is doing in your life and that he is giving you the trial just to see how you will respond. But trust me that's not how God works. He has a divine plan and purpose for everything he brings your way! He knows exactly what we can handle and how much. He will never give us something that with His strength we can't get through.

I think that little phrase is something we often forget though, the whole "With His Strength". We can't do it on our own and God knows that, that is why He is there ready, able, and willing to help us. He also knows that without the trials we would never become the refined, broken, humble people that He can use to better His kingdom. God can't use a proud, selfish person to accomplish his will in their lives because if you are proud and selfish you probably think you can do life on your own without His help.

There are so many times in my life that I am so thankful that I had God to lean on. And can't imagine how people go through life without trusting in God. He has been a very faithful companion and has given me the strength, grace, and courage to go through every day. It is because of my trust in him that I can have the peace and joy inside even when things are going haywire around me.

No this trust in Him obviously does not give us a free no pain ticket in life it just gives us the guarantee that we will have the grace of God to get through all that comes our way! I love the quote "God didn't promise days without pain, sun without rain, but he did promise strength  for the day and light for the way" that is so true! He is always there whenever you need him and even when life is good he is there all the time!!!

God Bless you as you go through this week!
~Rose Mary
"God is good all the time, and all the time God is good"

Washington Trip 2016

People say they want to go on the trip of a lifetime....but I say isn't that what life is? You will never be able to walk this way again, experience this day or even this moment ever again! But yes I know I am blowing that term all out of proportion :) using it in the way that it is meant, I got to go on the trip of a lifetime! By myself nonetheless. I flew out to Washington state to visit my sister Lisa for 5 days! We had such a blast catching up on each others lives again especially since we hadn't seen each other in over 3 years.

I flew out Monday. Then Tuesday we went shopping at some of the local thrift stores (yes I overbought so not everything fit in my suitcase), Wednesday we went to the top of Mount Erie and got to see the "top" of the world (ok maybe not the top, but it was an amazing view) and we then went to the beach by the Deception Pass Bridge and even went across the bridge (such gorgeous scenery they have to enjoy on the West Coast), Thursday we went across on the ferry to Port Townsend and spent the day there on the beach and by the lighthouse and touring the town and all the little shops they have along there (if you ever get that way stop at the spice store they have on the main st it is so cute and the people are SO friendly) and we went to the beach close to her house to watch the sunset (ahhhhhh the perfect end to a perfect day), And then Friday Lisa took me to Costco because I wanted to see what it was like and then we went to this amazing bookstore that had like 10,000 books (not kidding, but they are overpriced) and then we went home and hung out for the rest of the day! Needless to say the trip was amazing and we had so much fun together and she is an amazing tour guide!

Now for some pictures..... (In advance I am not going to apologize for all the sunset pictures because they were all so beautiful I couldn't decide on only a few)

 

 

 

 

My July!

July Update.....Yes, I know August is almost over and I haven't gotten the chance to give you a recent update on my life! A lot has been going on. I love being busy so the summer months are so much fun and they go way too fast! The beginning of July was quite a whirlwind of activity. Tyler and Ruth Ann came up from the 1st-6th it was so much fun having them around for a little while again! They came late Friday and I worked Sat. morning and so I got to hang out with them Saturday afternoon and evening. Sunday they left after lunch to go hang out with Tyler's good friends. Monday I worked all day then I had off Tuesday and Wed.

Tuesday Ruth Ann and I went spur-of-the-moment pool shopping and ended up getting a pass to the pool! We went swimming then came home and had grilled bbq chicken! We had so much fun! On Wed we went to Lititz and toured the pretzel factory and went out to eat. Then we went out for ice cream and went swimming again, then it was soon time for them to leave already :( I honestly think it easier being the one leaving than being the one left behind.

Kelsey was supposed to have puppies over the fourth of July and she went a week late so we decided to take her to the vet and they told us that she had a false pregnancy. Basically they got bred when they were in heat it didn't take, but their body tells them that they are pregnant when they are not and they produce milk and everything. I pitied her so badly, but Lord Willing they will be getting bred in October!!

Dorothy, my bestest friend and I have been hanging out a lot lately because she is leaving for Thailand soon and so we are trying to cram in lots of time together. I am going to miss her like crazy. So the last time we were together she wanted to get a taste of Thai food, so we went to this random restaurant in Reading and their food was actually half decently good :) We then went to visit her tiny little nephew in the NICU I had seen pictures of him but they did not do it justice of how tiny he was. We then went to the Reading Pagoda and toured that and the woods around it to find the slab of concrete with the compass (that was wrong by the way)!! We have so much fun when we are together!

 

The Mountain View people were around for a weekend to help fix up the unit leader's new house. I got to hang out with them all weekend. We were at Green dragon Friday evening and after that they all came to my house and hung out until like 10. It was so special to have them all here and they got to meet the dogs I always talked about :).

 

On Saturday I hung out here at home until the evening then I went and met them at Melissa's house to eat supper and hang out. After supper we went to the quarry to hike and watch the sunset go down. I never realized how huge of a hole they make in the earth to crush stone! It was so good to just talk and talk with these people again!

 

 

After we watched the sunset go down we headed back to Melissa's house and we sat around and sang and ate ice cream. That night I slept over at one of the girl's house and then went to church with them in the morning, and went to one the guy's house for lunch and games and fun afterwards!

 

The next weekend was a farewell at Mountain View. We as a family went down to Tyler and Ruth Ann's house first to hang out with them and mom and dad never saw their house since they haven't seen it since they have been married. Tyler had been working on fixing the Tahoe since I crashed it, and it was finished so I drove it from their house to MV. It poured so hard I could hardly see to drive, but I got there safely!

 

So that was my July, August has been crazy so far will update that later :)!

Until Next Time ~ Rose Mary



Ambassador for Him!!

Ambassador.....A word we don't often think of ourselves being :). But what does ambassador mean? Someone who represents something ,or as the dictionary says "a person who acts as a representative or promoter of a specified activity." Aren't we all at one time or another an ambassador. We promote a lot of things. Our products, the company we work for, going to the gym, places we eat, or any random thing.

But what about being an ambassador for Jesus? The Kingdom of Heaven? The Bible says in
                               Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from
                               which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus
                               Christ;
If we as believers truly understand what being an ambassador really means or why we should call ourselves that, it should change the way we think, dress, talk, and our relationships with others.

Jesus calls us (His followers) to be separate from the world and the world's sinful nature. We are all born with that sinful nature and the love of the things of the flesh. But when we become a Christian our whole life should change. Our priorities should take a shift. Our main focus should be on bringing others to Christ

                             And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed
                             by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is
                             that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
                               Romans 12:2
You may say well this is just too hard there is no way I can change all this in my life. No, you can't not on your own. If you trust God and ask him for His grace and strength, with his help you can make the change in your life to become an ambassador for Him.

We as Christians should want to make it a very well known fact that we love God and want to serve Him with all our hearts. Just as an ambassador for a country waves their loyalty of their hometown high, so we should do the same for the Kingdom of Heaven. We should not be ashamed or scared of sharing the gospel with others! We should wave the flag of the Kingdom of Heaven high, and live the way Jesus did with love, truth, kindness, and integrity.

The Reason we should be an ambassador for Christ?
Because of what he sacrificed for us. He died on the cross so that we may one day live with Him. He was a willing sacrifice for us ,nobody forced Him to go to the cross for our sins. He went to the cross endured all that suffering and pain, and even had to take all the sins of the world on his shoulders, just so that we, His creation, could one day live in Heaven with Him.

Oh, but that wasn't his original plan. No, he created the first man and woman perfect. But because Eve chose to take that first bite of the apple did she doom the rest of mankind into sin. Sin wasn't God's plan for us. But because we choose to sin He had to make a way of escape. And that escape is Jesus.

When we think back on all that he did for us shouldn't that make us jump for joy at the opportunity we get to spread the good news of what he has done for us to all the people of the world. So then why do many of us heave a sigh of relief when that person quits asking "why do you wear that white thing on your head?" or "Why a dress that is so old fashioned?" Shouldn't we be happy to explain to them that we do this because God has called us woman to cover our heads and to dress in modest apparel

                              For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn:

                              but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven,

                              let her be covered.
                              1 Corinthians 11:6 King James Version
Or maybe a simpler version:
                             For if a woman does not cover her head, she might as well
                             have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for a woman to
                             have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should
                             cover her head.
                             1 Corinthians 11:6 New International Version
God calls us to fashion our way of living according to the Bible ,so we should know why we do what we do and have the scripture to back it up. But in order to bring the world to Jesus we need to be willing to face them and happily share the gospel with them, because ultimately that is why we were created, to bring honor and glory to God.

May God richly bless you, And I pray He brings you much opportunity to witness for Him in the coming week. Until Next time ~Rose Mary