Glance Back

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. February had been one heck of a month. So many things have happened I thought I would list them here so ya'll could feel sorry for me :P Just kidding. But I would appreciate your prayers.

1) My mom, along with homeschooling the four of us, helping my Dad with his home businesses, counseling other moms and wives, running Awana and babysitting now has a part time job! (I know sometimes I wonder if she's really wonder woman in disguise) She also has arthiritis so if ya'll would please keep her in prayer that God would give her the strength to get through her days.

2) A friend we know has a teenage son who got involved with the wrong crowd who was involved with the wrong gang who got involved in stealing a car. He says that he didn't know the car was stolen when the gang asked him and his friends to help them strip it. When he did find out it was too late and he and his friend's fingerprints were now all over this car. So someone got the bright idea to burn the car. Someone had some gasoline and they poured it all over the car then struck a match to it. THE THING BLEW UP! So the guy we knew got really badly burned and was taken to the hospital. The police found him there and took him to jail. Right now he's under house arrest waiting to go to court. It's really sad because when we knew him he had just made a commitment to Christ, but a couple of things have happened since then and he admitted that he had started to walk away from Christ. He's 18 years old and was going to be going in for a job interview the next day, but now he's in a realling big mess. My parents are trying to help the family get legal help and we'll see how that goes.

3) Things are getting very tight in my family with the economy and all. My dad quit his job a couple years back and started his own businesses. Things haven't been going too well with everything that's been happening, so could ya'll pray for him? I know he's feeling a little discouraged. But Praise God I can actually say that I am not worried at all. I trust both of my Father's to get us through.

4) Awana has been going really well. God has really been using it more then ever this year to show me areas in my life that I need to work on. It's just something about teaching. You always end up learning way more then you thought you had to (yeah I've got a loooong way to go in the area of patience let me tell you). I have 10 girls as I've mentioned before, and just getting them to get motivated is a challenge. I've told my mom that next year I think I'd like to be in a boys classroom (I used to be in one when we had fewer men teachers) I can handle the jumping and running up the walls and gross booger stories, it's the gossiping and the rumors I have trouble with :)

So that's been my life for right now. I have to go, but hopefully I can get on tonight to post another poem.

Forever and Always,
-Me

P.S.
This a video I took at our Valentine's Day party for the Awana girls. It was such a blast! We sprayed our hair pink and put glitter in it, played a few games and contests and just had an awesome time.