Happy New Year!!!

Hope you and mom have a cozy new years...I can picture it now...you rubbing mom's feet as she stretches her toes out at you from her spot on the couch...mom dozing off telling you to turn down the tv because it's toooo loudddd...then you getting the glasses of sparkly pored just in time to gently wake mom up to toast in the new year...smooch...finally lets go to bed....

nightie night my little mama and daddy...

I love you

ox B

Thanks!

Ha-Ha and thanks for picking up the cream cheese for me dad...you're the best and I love you very much!!! You totally cracked the kids up today on speaker phone...me too! Can't wait to see you guys tomorrow...

ox

b

- The beach is sandy.

- Cover your feet.


. . . no . . . wait, that's not it . . . Ah . . . Oh Ya . . .


- I want some candy.

- After you eat.




Dad

Songs.

Hay, Brand'

Here are the songs:

Tune - "Stolen Moments"
CD -"The Blues And The Abstract Truth"
Artist - Oliver Nelson

Tune - "One Way Out"
CD - "Eat A Peach"
Band - The Allman Brothers Band"


Love Ya, and See Ya Later -


Dad

Luke 2 got me thinking about Matt 2...

Luke 2
The Birth of Jesus
1In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3And everyone went to his own town to register.
4So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

The Escape to Egypt

13When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him." 14So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my son."
16When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. 17Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: 18"A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more."

my thoughts:

Nothing can stand in the way of God's plan...Nothing....but...it's not always easy that's for sure...we know that huh dad...we may also have to bob and weave a few of the devil's body blows and sucker punches...but if we stick to the plan and believe in the promise...it WILL happen...also the thought comes to me that when you are following Gods plan looking for His direction you can't allow yourself to be influenced by circumstance...saying to yourself "well maybe because this happened God doesn't want me to do this" or "surely He didn't plan this to happen so it must be a sign"...Stay connected to God the whole way through so you can see beyond the circumstance

to God's true plan...

". . . The Holy Child" - Luke 1:35(b)

Beautiful thoughts, honey.

I believe that the Holy Spirit really came upon Mary, and Something overshadowed her - if someone would have asked Michael the angel, "what is This that is directly above Mary?" Michael would have said, "It is the POWER of The Most High." And, at this time - Mary conceived.


I'm reading Luke, too - baby.




Dad.

Luke...

Luke 1:39-45 from the Message

Mary didn't waste a minute. She got up and traveled to a town in Judah in the hill country, straight to Zachariah's house, and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby in her womb leaped. She was filled with the Holy Spirit, and sang out exuberantly,

You're so blessed among women,

and the babe in your womb, also blessed!

And why am I so blessed that

the mother of my Lord visits me?

The moment the sound of your

greeting entered my ears,

The babe in my womb

skipped like a lamb for sheer joy.

Blessed woman, who believed what God said,

believed every word would come true!

I love so many things about these scriptures...I love all the responses most...the responses to our Lord Jesus Savior of ALL...but I'm choosing to bring out this one... Blesses woman, who believed what God said, believed every word would come true! What would have happened if Mary would have doubted? I'm sure God chose Mary because He knew she would not but I guess my thought makes me think of how many times we doubt and things in our life just don't happen only because we have chosen not to believe...and when she believed is this when conception happened? I know there isn't a way to know for sure but these are the things that run through my mind as I read this story...I remember one time when Robin Garvin spoke on this passage she said she wondered of every Jewish girl waited in excited anticipation of being "the one" chosen to carry the Messiah...I love this thought...anywho...just some thoughts on the subject...love you dad...

ox

b